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International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems

IEA/AIE 1998: Tasks and Methods in Applied Artificial Intelligence pp 310–318Cite as

A communication protocol for clouds of mobile robots

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Mobile robots usually employ dedicated networks to share data and control in an open environment. These networks, called adhoc networks, are multi-hop wireless networks where the mobile devices communicate using a shared, low power, low bandwidth channel. Since the classical routing algorithms of the wired networks cannot be used, new communication and routing protocols are being developed. In this paper we present a new communication protocol that solves data transfer problems, like packet routing, in an ad-hoc network used to control a cloud of robots. This protocol results to be efficient in a situation where a dedicated node, called the coordinator, controls the activity of all the robots, therefore being one of the end-points of any data interchange.

This work was partially supported by CICYT grant TAP-96-1090-C04-01.

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  1. Departamento de Informática de Sistemas y Computadores (DISCA), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 46020, Valencia, Spain

    Miguel Sánchez López & Pietro Manzoni

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Angel Pasqual del Pobil José Mira Moonis Ali

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Sánchez López, M., Manzoni, P. (1998). A communication protocol for clouds of mobile robots. In: Pasqual del Pobil, A., Mira, J., Ali, M. (eds) Tasks and Methods in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1416. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64574-8_417

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