Design and implementation of mobile robot for nodes replacement in wireless sensor networks

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 393-410

  Sheu, Jang Ping ^a   Hsieh, Kun Ying ^b   Cheng, Po Wen ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mobile robot; Mobile sensor; Navigation algorithms; Sensor networks; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; SIGNAL THEORY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

MOBILE SENSORS; NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS; SENSOR NODES; UNRELIABLE SENSORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 41549145311     PISSN: 10162364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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