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AROBOTS
2002
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An Incremental Self-Deployment Algorithm for Mobile Sensor Networks
This paper describes an incremental deployment algorithm for mobile sensor networks. A mobile sensor network is a distributed collection of nodes, each of which has sensing, compu...
Andrew Howard, Maja J. Mataric, Gaurav S. Sukhatme
TPDS
2008
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Managing the Mobility of a Mobile Sensor Network Using Network Dynamics
It has been discussed in the literature that the mobility of a mobile sensor network (MSN) can be used to improve its sensing coverage. How the mobility can efficiently be managed ...
Ke Ma, Yanyong Zhang, Wade Trappe
IJCSA
2007
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Purposeful Deployment via Self-Organizing Flocking Coalition in Sensor Networks
This paper presents a deployment strategy via self organizing flocking coalitions for mobile sensor network coverage. The concepts of our approach are inspired by the flocking phe...
Yee Ming Chen, Shu-Hao Chang
AUTOMATICA
2006
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Optimal sensor placement and motion coordination for target tracking
This work studies optimal sensor placement and motion coordination strategies for mobile sensor networks. For a target tracking application with range sensors, we investigate the ...
Sonia Martínez, Francesco Bullo
FLAIRS
2004
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A Surveillance System based on Multiple Mobile Sensors
A methodology for surveillance of multiple targets through a distributed mobile sensor network is proposed in this paper. We examine coordination among sensors that monitor a rect...
K. Madhava Krishna, Henry Hexmoor, Subbarao Pasupu...
AAAI
2004
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Task Allocation via Self-Organizing Swarm Coalitions in Distributed Mobile Sensor Network
This paper presents a task allocation scheme via selforganizing swarm coalitions for distributed mobile sensor network coverage. Our approach uses the concepts of ant behavior to ...
Kian Hsiang Low, Wee Kheng Leow, Marcelo H. Ang Jr...
DCOSS
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
An Information Theoretic Framework for Field Monitoring Using Autonomously Mobile Sensors
We consider a mobile sensor network monitoring a spatio-temporal field. Given limited caches at the sensor nodes, the goal is to develop a distributed cache management algorithm to...
Hany Morcos, George Atia, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim ...
MOBIDE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
GPS-Free node localization in mobile wireless sensor networks
An important problem in mobile ad-hoc wireless sensor networks is the localization of individual nodes, i.e., each node’s awareness of its position relative to the network. In t...
Hüseyin Akcan, Vassil Kriakov, Hervé B...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Energy Saving Target Tracking Using Mobile Sensor Networks
Abstract Minimizing the energy consumption of target tracking using a mobile sensor network is proved to be NPcomplete. Based on proximity graph, an approximately optimal solution ...
Yingying Li, Yun-Hui Liu
CDC
2008
IEEE
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An information-driven framework for motion planning in robotic sensor networks: Complexity and experiments
Abstract— A geometric optimization based approach to deploy a mobile sensor network for the purpose of detecting and capturing mobile targets in the plane is presented in [1]. Th...
Rafael Fierro, Silvia Ferrari, Chenghui Cai