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Toward complete area coverage of a reconfigurable tiling robot by following obstacle shape
Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2021 Complete area coverage is a crucial factor for a floor cleaning robot. Self-reconfigurable tiling robots have been introduced over robots with a fixed shape for floor cleaning since they improve the area coverage by the flexibility of shape-shifting in ...
S. Samarakoon +3 more
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Coverage Aware Scheduling Strategies for 3D Wireless Video Sensor Nodes to Enhance Network Lifetime
IEEE Access, 2021 High-density wireless video sensor nodes (VSNs) having limited battery power are deployed randomly in the disaster-hit area for capturing visual data, but its local processing and transmission consume high energy.
Kishalay Bairagi +2 more
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Drone Small Cells in the Clouds: Design, Deployment and Performance Analysis [PDF]
, 2015 The use of drone small cells (DSCs) which are aerial wireless base stations that can be mounted on flying devices such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), is emerging as an effective technique for providing wireless services to ground users in a variety ...
Bennis, Mehdi +3 more
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Multi-UAV Coverage through Two-Step Auction in Dynamic Environments
Drones, 2022 The cooperation of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (Multi-UAV) can effectively solve the area coverage problem. However, developing an online multi-UAV coverage approach remains a challenge due to energy constraints and environmental dynamics.
Yihao Sun +5 more
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Moving Target Tracking through Distributed Clustering in Directional Sensor Networks
Sensors, 2014 The problem of moving target tracking in directional sensor networks (DSNs) introduces new research challenges, including optimal selection of sensing and communication sectors of the directional sensor nodes, determination of the precise location of the
Asma Enayet +4 more
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Local Coverage Optimization Strategy Based on Voronoi for Directional Sensor Networks
Sensors, 2016 In this paper, we study the area coverage of directional sensor networks (DSNs) with random node distribution. The coverage of DSNs depends on the sensor’s locations, the sensing radiuses, and the working directions, as well as the angle of view (AoV ...
Guanglin Zhang +4 more
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Energies, 2019 As autonomous tiling devices begin to perform floor cleaning, agriculture harvesting, surface painting tasks, with minimal or no human intervention, a new challenge arises: these devices also need to be energy efficient and be constantly aware of the ...
Arunmozhi Manimuthu +5 more
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Frontiers in Energy Research, 2021 With the rapid development of renewable energy, the scale of China’s power grid with renewable energy has become much bigger than ever; as a result, we are facing severe challenges in the inspection and maintenance work of power grids that use renewable ...
Yao Yao +11 more
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Efficient Multi-Robot Coverage of a Known Environment
, 2018 This paper addresses the complete area coverage problem of a known environment by multiple-robots. Complete area coverage is the problem of moving an end-effector over all available space while avoiding existing obstacles.
Benson, Kelly +4 more
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Energies, 2019 The efficiency of energy usage applied to robots that implement autonomous duties such as floor cleaning depends crucially on the adopted path planning strategies.
Anh Vu Le +5 more
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