Publications:Pheromone-based coordination strategy to static sensors on the ground and unmanned aerial vehicles carried sensors
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| Title | Pheromone-based coordination strategy to static sensors on the ground and unmanned aerial vehicles carried sensors |
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| Author | Edison Pignaton de Freitas and Tales Heimfarth and Carlos Eduardo Pereira and Armando Morado Ferreira and Flávio Rech Wagner and Tony Larsson |
| Year | 2010 |
| PublicationType | Conference Paper |
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| HostPublication | Ground-Air multi-sensor interoperability, integration, and networking for persistent ISR : 6-9 April 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.852478 |
| Conference | Ground/Air Multi-Sensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR, Orlando, Florida, United States, 6 - 9 April, 2010 |
| Diva url | http://hh.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=1&pid=diva2:390288 |
| Abstract | A current trend that is gaining strength in the wireless sensor network area is the use of heterogeneous sensor nodes in one coordinated overall network, needed to fulfill the requirements of sophisticated emerging applications, such as area surveillance systems. One of the main concerns when developing such sensor networks is how to provide coordination among the heterogeneous nodes, in order to enable them to efficiently respond the user needs. This study presents an investigation of strategies to coordinate a set of static sensor nodes on the ground cooperating with wirelessly connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) carrying a variety of sensors, in order to provide efficient surveillance over an area of interest. The sensor nodes on the ground are set to issue alarms on the occurrence of a given event of interest, e.g. entrance of a non-authorized vehicle in the area, while the UAVs receive the issued alarms and have to decide which of them is the most suitable to handle the issued alarm. A bio-inspired coordination strategy based on the concept of pheromones is presented. As a complement of this strategy, a utility-based decision making approach is proposed. |
