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SUMMARY | ||
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There has been a dramatic shift in sensor networks towards the study of motile and mobile systems. Consider the classic target application of such a network – monitoring. Whether it's a forest fire, a platoon of soldiers, or a cosmic phenomenon, the overriding approach involves cheap nodes deployed throughout the area of interest. However, static sensor nodes suffer from numerous drawbacks. The pragmatic issues of network deployment, coverage holes, and sub-optimal density lend great credence to the addition of mobility. Implementing these modern sensor networks requires a different design philosophy from traditional robotics. By convention, this field emphasizes the capability of a single robot; in contrast, mobile sensor nets leverage teams of coordinated entities. Estrin, et.al. conclude that two key requirements emerge: "support for very large numbers of unattended autonomous nodes and adaptivity to environment and task dynamics." In designing mobile sensor network devices, we discover that the former is actually an implicit benefit while the latter imposes significant design challenges. Ragobot is the latest mobile sensor node to meet these constraints. Ragobot is smaller than most fully-navigable robots. and is more heavily instrumented (video capture, audio capture, processing, and playback, IR collision avoidance, IR cliff detection, RFID read/write, inertial navigation, and more) and mechanically advanced (capable of 34.9 degree vertical climb) than its smaller counterparts. | ||
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• Aghera, Parixit (Alum) • Dixit, Advait (Alum) • Friedman, Jonathan (Ph.D. Student) • Kansal, Aman (Alum) • Lee, David (Alum) • Tsigkogiannis, Ilias (Alum) • Wong, Sophia (Alum) |
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Ilias Tsigkogiannis,
Rahul Balani,
James M Carwana,
Jonathan Friedman,
David C Lee,
Simon Han,
Roy S Shea,
Ramkumar Rengaswamy,
Michael Petralia,
Laura Corman,
Eric Wittenmeier,
Eddie Kohler,
Mani B Srivastava,
"Dynamically Configurable Robotic Sensor Networks,"
The 2nd international conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2005)
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November 2005.
(TR-UCLA-NESL-200511-01)
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Laura Corman,
Michael Petralia,
Eric Wittenmeier,
Jonathan Friedman,
David C Lee,
Mani B Srivastava,
"RagoDOCS: An Autonomous Dynamically Operated Charging System for Small Mobile Robots,"
Summer @ CENS Research Review
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August 2005.
(TR-UCLA-NESL-200508-02)
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Jonathan Friedman,
David C Lee,
Ilias Tsigkogiannis,
Sophia Wong,
Dennis Chao,
David Levin,
William J Kaiser,
Mani B Srivastava,
"RAGOBOT: A New Platform for Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks,"
Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2005)
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June 2005.
(TR-UCLA-NESL-200506-05)
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Jonathan Friedman,
David C Lee,
Parixit L Aghera,
Advait Dixit,
Sophia Wong,
Aman Kansal,
William J Kaiser,
Mani B Srivastava,
"RAGOBOT: A New Hardware Platform for Research in Wireless Mobile Networks,"
IPSN
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April 2005.
(TR-UCLA-NESL-200511-04)
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Jonathan Friedman,
"Ragobot (Rev. B) Photo Overview,"
February 2005.
(TR-UCLA-NESL-200503-03)
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