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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2016 Energy-efficient data aggregation is important for underwater acoustic sensor networks due to its energy constrained character. In this paper, we propose a kind of energy-efficient data aggregation scheme to reduce communication cost and to prolong ...
Deqing Wang, Ru Xu, Xiaoyi Hu, Wei Su
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Environmental-friendly underwater acoustic communication and networks [PDF]
, 2012 Intense harvesting of ocean resources extended exploitation activities to previously unexplored open ocean areas, to greater ocean depths and to remote polar regions. Such activities include, but are not limited to, energy, geology and fisheries.
Jesus, S. M.
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A Deployment Algorithm of Heterogeneous Underwater Sensor Network Based on Acoustic and Magnetic Joint Sensing Model [PDF]
, 2016 In underwater target detection, because the acoustic environment of the shallow sea is extremely complex, the acoustic detection is becoming more and more difficult.
ZHANG Ju-Wei, Wang Ya-le, WANG Yu
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Hard‐Magnetic Soft Millirobots in Underactuated Systems
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review provides a comprehensive overview of hard‐magnetic soft millirobots in underactuated systems. It examines key advances in structural design, physics‐informed modeling, and control strategies, while highlighting the interplay among these domains.
Qiong Wang +4 more
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A Review on Sensor Technologies, Control Approaches, and Emerging Challenges in Soft Robotics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review provides an introspective of sensors and controllers in soft robotics. Initially describing the current sensing methods, then moving on to the control methods utilized, and finally ending with challenges and future directions in soft robotics focusing on the material innovations, sensor fusion, and embedded intelligence for sensors and ...
Ean Lovett +5 more
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Mobile target localization based on iterative tracing for underwater wireless sensor networks
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2020 In underwater wireless sensor networks, sensor position information has important value in network protocols and collaborative detection. However, many challenges were introduced in positioning sensor nodes due to the complexity of the underwater ...
Ruolin Guo +3 more
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Tumbling Magnetic Microrobots for Targeted In Vivo Drug Delivery in the GI Tract
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.We introduce a microrobot design and integrated system for on‐demand targeted drug release in the gastrointestinal tract. The microrobot has an embedded magnet for actuation with external magnetic fields and is visualized in real time using ultrasound. It has two drug release ports sealed with a thermally sensitive wax. Local heating of the wax using a
Aaron C. Davis +7 more
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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi +4 more
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Multimodal Acoustic-RF Adaptive Routing Protocols for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
IEEE Access, 2019 In multi-function underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs), multiple applications share the same physical infrastructure to fully exploit network resources. Under such scenarios, diverse packets coexist in the same network which require differentiated
Hanjiang Luo +5 more
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Information-carrying based routing protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper, we tackle one fundamental problem in Underwater Sensor Networks (UASNs), routing. Aiming at many challenges to the Routing protocol design of UASNs, which are bought by the features of UASNs, such as low bandwidth, high latency, dynamics ...
Yu HB(于海斌) +4 more
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