Coverage control for mobile sensing networks

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 243-255

  Cortés, Jorge ^a   Martínez, Sonia ^b   Karataş, Timur ^a   Bullo, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Centroidal voronoi partitions; Coverage control; Distributed and asynchronous algorithms; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS;

ASYNCHRONOUS ALGORITHMS; CENTROIDAL VORONOI PARTITIONS; COVERAGE CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS; MOBILE SENSING NETWORKS;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 11144354539     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2004.824698     Document Type: Article

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