Supporting distributed applications for swarm of robots within smart environments

Chiti, Francesco; Fantacci, Romano; Collodi, Giovanni; Manes, Gianfranco; Bencini, Luca; Lund, David; Ammar, Bassem; Katsaros, Ioannis; Doswald, Alistair; Robert, Stephan; Sollberger, Peter

doi:10.1145/1582379.1582619

Supporting distributed applications for swarm of robots within smart environments

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 Management and Engineering Vaud, HES-SO // University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland) ; Robert, Stephan (School of Management and Engineering Vaud, HES-SO // University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland) ; Sollberger, Peter (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Horw, Switzerland)

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.

Keywords:

wireless sensor networks ; mobile sink ; swarm of robots ; communication protocols ; security

Conference Type:

full paper

Faculty:

Ingénierie et Architecture

School:

HEIG-VD

Institute:

IICT - Institut des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication

Publisher:

Leipzig, Germany, 21-24 June 2009

Date:

2009-06
Leipzig, Germany
21-24 June 2009

Pagination:

7 p.

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

Numeration (vol. no.):

2009, pp. 1096-1101

DOI:

10.1145/1582379.1582619

ISBN:

9781605585697

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