AAAI
2006
13 years 5 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
13 years 9 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
13 years 10 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...