TY - GEN
T1 - Distributed algorithm for robotic network self-deployment in indoor environments usingwireless signal strength
AU - Miyagusuku, Renato
AU - Yamashita, Atsushi
AU - Asama, Hajime
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Mobile robots with wireless capabilities can enable network connectivity over large areas by retransmitting wireless signals from a ground station. Our goal is, for such robotic networks, to enhance current teleoperated robots’ ability to perform reconnaissance or assist human first responders on victims’ search and rescue operations. On these missions, uninterrupted communications between teleoperated robots and their human operators are essential. In order to maximize the teleoperated robots’ working area, the robotic network has to deploy itself, in an unknown and potentially hazardous environment, spreading as much as possiblewithout losing network connectivity. In this paper, we consider an urban search and rescue setting; and present a distributed algorithm that allows simple mobile robots to self-deploy and create robotic networks, without the need of advanced self-localization capabilities nor prior knowledge of the environment.
AB - Mobile robots with wireless capabilities can enable network connectivity over large areas by retransmitting wireless signals from a ground station. Our goal is, for such robotic networks, to enhance current teleoperated robots’ ability to perform reconnaissance or assist human first responders on victims’ search and rescue operations. On these missions, uninterrupted communications between teleoperated robots and their human operators are essential. In order to maximize the teleoperated robots’ working area, the robotic network has to deploy itself, in an unknown and potentially hazardous environment, spreading as much as possiblewithout losing network connectivity. In this paper, we consider an urban search and rescue setting; and present a distributed algorithm that allows simple mobile robots to self-deploy and create robotic networks, without the need of advanced self-localization capabilities nor prior knowledge of the environment.
KW - Multi-agent systems
KW - Networked robotics
KW - Wireless signal strength
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84945932234&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-08338-4_107
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-08338-4_107
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84945932234
SN - 9783319083377
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 1491
EP - 1502
BT - Intelligent Autonomous Systems - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference IAS, 2014
A2 - Yamaguchi, Hiroaki
A2 - Michael, Nathan
A2 - Berns, Karsten
A2 - Menegatti, Emanuele
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IAS 2014
Y2 - 15 July 2014 through 18 July 2014
ER -