Distributed intelligent sensor agent system for environment mapping

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 95-110

  Abielmona, Rami ^a   Petriu, Emil M ^b   Whalen, Thomas E ^c  

^a Larus Technologies Corp   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environment monitoring; Intelligent sensor agent; Robotic sensor; Sensor models; Sensor network

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENT MAPPING; ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; INTELLIGENT SENSOR AGENT; INTELLIGENT SENSOR AGENTS; LOW-STORAGE; MAPPING METHOD; MOTION MAPPING; ROBOTIC AGENTS; ROBOTIC SENSOR; SENSOR MODELS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

INTELLIGENT CONTROL; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MAPPING; MOBILE AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SMART SENSORS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 79952446357     PISSN: 18685137     EISSN: 18685145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-010-0010-6     Document Type: Article

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