Radio signal strength tracking and control for robotic networks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8031, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Yu, Paul L ^a   Twigg, Jeffrey N ^a   Sadler, Brian M ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

networking; radio signal strength; robotics; small scale fading

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; COLLABORATIVE AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; CONTROL LAWS; FADING MODELS; GRADIENT ESTIMATION; LINK QUALITY; NETWORKING; RADIO SIGNAL STRENGTH; RADIO SIGNALS; RADIO SOURCES; RAYLEIGH; ROBOTIC NETWORKS; SMALL-SCALE-FADING; SPATIAL DIVERSITY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; FADING (RADIO); FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; MOBILE AGENTS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIO ASTRONOMY; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 79957997578     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.885093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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