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When Wireless Sensor Networks Meet Robots

Authors:
Giuseppe Amato
Mathias Broxvallx
Stefano Chessa
Mauro Dragone
Claudio Gennaro
Claudio Vairo

Keywords: Robots; Wireless Sensor Networks.

Abstract:
Enabling integrated robots and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications is an important and extended challenge for both robotics and WSN research & development and a key enabler for a range of advanced hybrid applications, such as environmental monitoring and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). This paper describes a work-in-progress WSN/robots communication framework that is being purposefully built to facilitate the constructions of robotic ecologies, i.e. networks of heterogeneous computational nodes interfaced with sensors, effectors and mobile robot devices. This paper discusses a number of requirements characterizing this type of systems and illustrates how they are being addressed in the design of the new communication framework.

Pages: 35 to 40

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: November 18, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2163-9027

ISBN: 978-1-61208-231-8

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012