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On the Cooperation between Mobile Robots and Wireless Sensor Networks

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Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks 2014

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 554))

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Employing cooperative heterogeneous systems can enrich application scenarios and achieve higher application performance. The combination of mobile robots and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a good example of such cooperation, and many recent research results have highlighted the benefits of the marriage of these two technologies. The main objectives of this chapter include: (1) providing a survey on a variety of applications with cooperating mobile robots and WSNs based on the roles they play for interaction, and (2) elaborating different cooperative interactions of robots and WSNs in our ongoing project, PLAtform for the deployment and operation of heterogeneous NETworked cooperating objects (PLANET), which is an integrated framework of heterogeneous cooperative objects for network deployment and operations.

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  1. Networked Embedded Systems Group, Faculty of Business Administration & Economics, Dept. of Computer Science & Business Information Systems (ICB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Schtzenbahn 70, 45117, Essen, Germany

    Chia-Yen Shih, Jesús Capitán & Pedro José Marrón

  2. Center for Advanced Aerospace Technologies (CATEC), C/Wilbur y Orville Wright 17-19-21 41309 La Rinconada, Seville, Spain

    Antidio Viguria & Francisco Alarcón

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    José Ramiro Martínez-de Dios & Aníbal Ollero

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Shih, CY. et al. (2014). On the Cooperation between Mobile Robots and Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Koubaa, A., Khelil, A. (eds) Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks 2014. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 554. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55029-4_4

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