A swarm engineering approach to mobile sensor network design towards collaborative phototaxis with a slowly moving light source

2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 179-189

  Bourgeous, William ^a   Rounds, Shelley ^a   Chen, YangQuan ^a,b  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus; Cooperative; Moving source; Phototaxis; Sensor networks; Swarm engineering; Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; AGENT-BASED MODEL (ABM); EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; GENERAL ENGINEERING (GE); INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; INTELLIGENT METHODS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS (MAS); MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; NETLOGO; ROBOT PLATFORM; SWARM ENGINEERING; SWARM ROBOTICS; SWARM-BASED APPROACH; TECHNICAL CONFERENCES;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTERS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHATRONICS; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 44849138069     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2007-34320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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