Decentralized estimation and control of graph connectivity for mobile sensor networks

Automatica

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 390-396

  Yang, P ^a   Freeman, R A ^a   Gordon, G J ^b   Lynch, K M ^a   Srinivasa, S S ^c   Sukthankar, R ^c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^c INTEL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous mobile robots; Connectivity; Decentralized control; Graph theory; Numerical algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC CONNECTIVITY; AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; CLEAN UP; CONNECTIVITY; DECENTRALIZED ESTIMATION; GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY; GRAPH CONNECTIVITY; HOPCOUNT; METAMORPHIC ROBOTS; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; ROBOT TEAMS; TEAM MEMBERS; TIME VARYING;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; GRAPH THEORY; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; OIL SPILLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 74149084751     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2009.11.012     Document Type: Article

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