Coverage control for mobile sensing networks

Jorge Cortés, Sonia Martínez, Timur Karatas and Francesco Bullo
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 20 (2) (2004), 243-255

Abstract:

This paper presents control and coordination algorithms for groups of vehicles. The focus is on autonomous vehicle networks performing distributed sensing tasks where each vehicle plays the role of a mobile tunable sensor. The paper proposes gradient descent algorithms for a class of utility functions which encode optimal coverage and sensing policies. The resulting closed-loop behavior is adaptive, distributed, asynchronous, and verifiably correct.

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Bib-tex entry:

@article{JC-SM-TK-FB:04,
author = {J. Cort\'es and S. Mart{\'\i}nez and T. Karatas and F. Bullo},
title = {Coverage control for mobile sensing networks},
journal= {IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation},
volume = 20,
number = 2,
year = 2004,
pages = {243--255}
}