Towards optimally efficient field estimation with threshold-based pruning in real robotic sensor networks

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5453-5459

  Prorok, Amanda ^a   Cianci, Christopher M ^a   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL STRATEGY; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTICS; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; FIELD DATA; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; QUAD TREES; REAL ROBOT; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; USER NEED;

COMMERCE; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955823116     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509782     Document Type: Conference Paper

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