Abstract
The interaction of distributed robotics and wireless sensor networks has led to the creation of mobile sensor networks. There has been an increasing interest in building mobile sensor networks and they are the favored class of WSNs in which mobility plays a key role in the execution of an application. More and more researches focus on development of mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs) due to its favorable advantages and applications. In WSNs robotics can play a crucial role, and integrating static nodes with mobile robots enhances the capabilities of both types of devices and enables new applications. In this paper we present an overview on mobile sensor networks in robotics and vice versa and robotic sensor network applications.
Highlights
Technological advances as well as the advent of 4G communications and of pervasive and ubiquitous computing have promoted a new interest in multihop networks
The activities of the system are being supervised by a coordinator computer, while a number of explorers navigate in the environment and perform electromagnetic fields (EMFs) measurement tasks
The activities of the system are being supervised by the computer and to perform the EMF tasks a number of explorers
Summary
Technological advances as well as the advent of 4G communications and of pervasive and ubiquitous computing have promoted a new interest in multihop networks (ad hoc communications). We can say robotic sensor networks are the distributed systems in which mobile robots carry sensors around an area to sense phenomena and to produce detailed environmental assessments [8]. Robotics can be used to solve many problems to advance performances, such as responding to a particular sensor failure, node distribution, and data aggregation. The crossbow radio/processor boards usually known as motes permit many sensors scattered over a large area to wirelessly transmit their data back to the base station which is attached to the computer (Figure 3) These motes run TinyOS operating system which is an open source operating system designed for low-power wireless devices, such as those used in PANs, smart meters, ubiquitous computing, sensor networks, and smart buildings [12]. Omnidirectional sensors have no notion of direction involved in their measurements [10] (Figure 5)
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