Autonomous networked robots for the establishment of wireless communication in uncertain emergency response scenarios

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1171-1175

  Timotheou, Stelios ^a   Loukas, Georgios ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomous robots; Disaster management; Emergency response; Minimum spanning tree; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; DISASTER AREAS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EXPECTED SHORTFALL; MINIMUM SPANNING TREES; MODIFIED ALGORITHMS; NETWORKED ROBOT; TWO WAY COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISASTER PREVENTION; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; GRAPH THEORY; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; ROBOTS; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 72949084378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1529282.1529542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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