Robot-assisted sensor network deployment and data collection

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 467-472

  Wang, Yu ^a   Wu, Chang Hua ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^b KETTERING UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

COMMUNICATION CAPACITY; DATA COLLECTION; SENSOR DEVICES; UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATIONS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 34948864412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIRA.2007.382919     Document Type: Conference Paper

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