@inbook{0b2d56896af94d49a6b439fd7dd6728f,
title = "Deployment and connectivity repair of a sensor net with a flying robot",
abstract = "We consider multi-robot systems that include sensor nodes and aerial or ground robots networked together. Such networks are suitable for tasks such as large-scale environmental monitoring or for command and control in emergency situations. We present a sensor network deployment method using autonomous aerial vehicles and describe in detail the algorithms used for deployment and for measuring network connectivity and provide experimental data collected from field trials. A particular focus is on determining gaps in connectivity of the deployed network and generating a plan for repair, to complete the connectivity. This project is the result of a collaboration between three robotics labs (CSIRO, USC, and Dartmouth).",
author = "Peter Corke and S. Hrabar and R. Peterson and D. Rus and S. Saripalli and Gaurav Sukhatme",
note = "Funding Information: Support for this work was provided through the Institute for Security Technology Studies. NSF awards KIA-9901589. IIS-9818299. IIS-9912193. KIA-0202789 and 0225446. ONR award N00014-01-1-0675 and DARPA Task Grant F-30602-00-2-0585. This work is also supported in part by NASA under JPI/caltech contract 1231521. by DA RPA under grants DA BT63-99-1-0015 and 5-39509-A (via UPenn) as part of the Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS) program Our thanks to our safety pilot Doug Wilson for keeping our computers from (literally) crashing.",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1007/11552246_32",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "3540288163",
series = "Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics",
pages = "333--343",
editor = "Marcelo Ang and Oussama Khatib",
booktitle = "Experimental Robotics IX",
}