AAAI
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
NSF and NASA sponsored a workshop to discuss harvesting solar power in space. One solution considered was the use of a swarm of robots to form a solar reflector. How can these rob...
LCN
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
Sensor networks are designed especially for deployment in adverse and nonaccessible areas without a fixed infrastructure. Therefore, energy conservation plays a crucial role for t...
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
Our energy production increasingly depends on renewable energy sources, which impose new challenges for distributed and decentralized systems. One problem is that the availability...