Using mobile robots to harvest data from sensor fields

IEEE Wireless Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-28

  Tekdas, Onur ^a   Isler, Volkan ^a   Lim, Jong Hyun ^b   Terzis, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MULES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; SENSING NODES; SENSOR FIELDS;

ENERGY CONSERVATION; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 63449111312     PISSN: 15361284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2009.4804365     Document Type: Article

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