Abstract:
One of the main appeals of mobile sensors is the variety of
environments in which they can operate as an autonomous
network. Different environments, however, present different
challenges, especially in terms of inter-sensor communication. In
sparse environments, it may not be possible to maintain full
connectivity at all times, setting off the need for agents to
communicate opportunistically when they are close to each other. This,
in turn, suggests that communication needs be taken into account in
the design of agents' trajectories. In this paper, we introduce a
notion of tour and meeting point as an abstraction of trajectories
designed for both sensing and communication, and we study the
tradeoffs involved between motion to sense and sample and motion to
communicate and interact.
Michel Charpentier <
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