Ad-hoc wireless network coverage with networked robots that cannot localize

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3878-3885

  Correll, Nikolaus ^a   Bachrach, Jonathan ^b   Vickery, Daniel ^a   Rus, Daniela ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION MODELS; COMMUNICATION SUPPORT; CONFIGURATION SPACE; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; KINEMATIC SIMULATIONS; MACROSCOPIC MODEL; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORKED ROBOT; RANDOM WALK; REACTIVE ALGORITHMS; USER-SPECIFIED CONSTRAINTS; WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS; WIRELESS NETWORK ACCESS;

COMMUNICATION; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); INFORMATION THEORY; KINEMATICS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MOBILE AGENTS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSOR NETWORKS; WAVE FUNCTIONS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 70350400421     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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