— Search and rescue of people in emergency situations, e.g. lost hikers, stranded climbers, or injured skiers has been difficult due to lack of information about their location ...
Context-aware computing describes the situation where a wearable / mobile computer is aware of its user’s state and surroundings and modifies its behavior based on this informat...
Andreas Krause, Daniel P. Siewiorek, Asim Smailagi...
Context–Aware Composition is a technique to overcome the complexity of wireless discovery, device selection, and establishing connections to other computers in an environment wh...
Kent Lyons, Roy Want, David Munday, Jiasheng He, S...
— Autonomous robot systems have to manage their energy wisely in order to complete their missions. Typical approaches seek to conserve energy by energy-efficient motion or senso...
Keith J. O'Hara, Ripal Nathuji, Himanshu Raj, Kars...
This paper addresses the problem of tracking multiple targets using a network of communicating robots and stationary sensors. We introduce a Region-based Approach which controls r...