Coverage optimization and spatial load balancing by robotic sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 749-754

  Cortes, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coverage optimization; Generalized Voronoi partitions; Robotic sensor networks; Servicing problems; Space partitioning

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; DELAUNAY GRAPH; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; LOAD-BALANCING; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS; PERFORMANCE FUNCTIONS; POSITION SENSORS; ROBOTIC NETWORKS; ROBOTIC SENSOR; SERVICING COSTS; SERVICING PROBLEMS; SPACE PARTITIONING; TECHNICAL NOTES; VORONOI; VORONOI PARTITION; WEIGHT ASSIGNMENT;

MICROSENSORS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTITIONS (BUILDING); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77949425359     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2040495     Document Type: Article

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