Monitoring environmental boundaries with a robotic sensor network

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 288-296

  Susca, Sara ^a   Bullo, Francesco ^a   Martinez, Sonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary estimation; Consensus algorithms; Distributed algorithms; Interpolation; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; MOBILE AGENTS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBOTICS;

BOUNDARY ESTIMATION; ROBOTIC SENSOR NETWORK;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 40949149906     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2007.903395     Document Type: Article

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