Leveraging RSSI for robotic repair of disconnected wireless sensor networks

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3659-3664

  Luthy, Kyle A ^a   Grant, Edward ^a   Henderson, Thomas C ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

NODE CHARACTERISTICS; ROBOTIC REPAIR; SIGNAL STRENGTH;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 36348953980     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.364039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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