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IJRR
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Sensor-Based Exploration: Incremental Construction of the Hierarchical Generalized Voronoi Graph
This paper prescribes an incremental procedure to construct roadmaps of unknown environments. Recall that a roadmap is a geometric structure that a robot uses to plan a path betwe...
Howie Choset, Sean Walker, Kunnayut Eiamsa-Ard, Jo...
TSMC
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Particle Swarm Optimization in Wireless-Sensor Networks: A Brief Survey
—Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are networks of autonomous nodes used for monitoring an environment. Developers of WSNs face challenges that arise from communication link failur...
Raghavendra V. Kulkarni, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy
CDC
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Distributed statistical estimation of the number of nodes in sensor networks
The distributed estimation of the number of active sensors in a network can be important for estimation and organization purposes. We propose a design methodology based on the foll...
Damiano Varagnolo, Gianluigi Pillonetto, Luca Sche...
TPDS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Algorithms for Fault-Tolerant Topology in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
This paper addresses fault-tolerant topology control in a heterogeneous wireless sensor network consisting of several resource-rich supernodes, used for data relaying, and a large...
Mihaela Cardei, Shuhui Yang, Jie Wu
IJCAI
1993
13 years 9 months ago
Using Local Information in a Non-Local Way for Mapping Graph-Like Worlds
This paper describes a technique whereby an autonomous agent such as a mobile robot can explore an unknown environment and make a topologicalmapofit. It is assumedthat the environ...
Gregory Dudek, Paul Freedman, Souad Hadjres