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IJWMC
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Small-world effects in wireless agent sensor networks
Coverage, fault tolerance and power consumption constraints make optimal placement of mobile sensors or other mobile agents a hard problem. We have developed a model for describin...
Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. James
ICRA
2010
IEEE
161views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
DisCoverage: A new paradigm for multi-robot exploration
— The main aspect in multi-robot exploration is the efficient coordination of a group of robots. Inspired by previous results on the coverage problem, we propose a novel, fronti...
A. Dominik Haumann, Kim D. Listmann, Volker Willer...
ICCD
2002
IEEE
113views Hardware» more  ICCD 2002»
14 years 6 months ago
System-Architectures for Sensor Networks Issues, Alternatives, and Directions
Our goal is to identify the key architectural and design issues related to Sensor Networks (SNs), evaluate the proposed solutions, and to outline the most challenging research dir...
Jessica Feng, Farinaz Koushanfar, Miodrag Potkonja...
ICDCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Link-Centric Probabilistic Coverage Model for Transceiver-Free Object Detection in Wireless Networks
Abstract--Sensing coverage is essential for most applications in wireless networks. In traditional coverage problem study, the disk coverage model has been widely applied because o...
Dian Zhang, Yunhuai Liu, Lionel M. Ni
ICRA
2005
IEEE
143views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Tactile Sensing of Edge Direction of an Object with a Soft Fingertip Contact
— We propose a new method of tactile sensing for a fingertip of robotic hand. Using a simple fingertip with soft surface cover and a six-axis force/torque sensor, developed is ...
Kouji Murakami, Tsutomu Hasegawa