This paper deals with a communication infrastructure needed to allow a swarm of robots performing dust cleaning and garbage collection task in an urban area. It outlines the required communication links, analyses them regarding security, describes in details the implementation and figure out some performance test results.
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Title
Supporting distributed applications for swarm of robots within smart environments
Author(s)
Chiti, Francesco (University of Florence, Florence, Italy) Fantacci, Romano (University of Florence, Florence, Italy) Collodi, Giovanni (University of Florence, Florence, Italy) Manes, Gianfranco (University of Florence, Florence, Italy) Bencini, Luca (University of Florence, Florence, Italy) Lund, David (HW Communications Ltd, Parkfield, Lancaster, UK) Ammar, Bassem (HW Communications Ltd, Parkfield, Lancaster, UK) Katsaros, Ioannis (HW Communications Ltd, Parkfield, Lancaster, UK) Doswald, Alistair (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland) Robert, Stephan (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland) Sollberger, Peter (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Horw, Switzerland)
Date
2009-06
Published in
IWCMC '09: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: Connecting the World Wirelessly, 21-24 June 2009, Leipzig, Germany
Volume
2009, pp. 1096-1101
Publisher
Leipzig, Germany, 21-24 June 2009
Pagination
7 p.
Presented at
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Connecting the World Wirelessly - IWCMC '09, Leipzig, Germany, 2009-06-21, 2009-06-24