DocumentCode :
141623
Title :
Using mobile robotic agents to increase service availability and extend network lifetime on WSRNs
Author :
Caliskanelli, Ipek ; Soares Indrusiak, Leandro
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of York, York, UK
fYear :
2014
fDate :
27-30 July 2014
Firstpage :
388
Lastpage :
393
Abstract :
Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks (WSRNs) are heterogeneous collections of sensor nodes and robotic vehicles that communicate wirelessly. In the last decade many research studies have attempted to address the challenging trade-offs of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) that arise due to their resource limitations, however, much work is still to be done. A recent trend is to merge different subclasses of cyber-physical systems together to achieve the desired performance goals by benefiting from their heterogeneity. This paper presents a bio-inspired robot guidance technique that is used to improve network coverage, increase service availability and minimise energy consumption of WSNs using robotic agents on vehicles. We explore the performance consequences of the Pheromone Signalling-based Load Balancing (PS) Robot Guidance on an abstract level simulator which provides a system perspective. The effectiveness of the algorithm is evaluated with different network topologies and investigated on various scenarios. Simulated experimental results on mesh and sparse topologies validate that robot guidance based on PS increases network lifetime.
Keywords :
energy consumption; mobile robots; multi-agent systems; resource allocation; signalling; telecommunication network reliability; wireless sensor networks; PS robot guidance; WSRN; abstract level simulator; bioinspired robot guidance technique; cyber-physical systems; energy consumption minimisation; heterogeneous collections; mesh topologies; mobile robotic agents; network coverage; network lifetime; network topologies; pheromone signalling-based load balancing robot guidance; resource limitations; robotic vehicles; sensor nodes; service availability; sparse topologies; wireless sensor and robot networks; Availability; Load management; Mesh networks; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Wireless sensor networks;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 2014 12th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Porto Alegre
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/INDIN.2014.6945544
Filename :
6945544
Link To Document :
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