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Mission-Oriented Sensor Networks and Systems: Art and Science

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In this chapter, we present a literature survey of an emerging, cutting-edge, and multidisciplinary field of research at the intersection of Robotics and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) which we refer to as Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks (RWSN). We define an RWSN as an autonomous networked multi-robot system that aims to achieve certain sensing goals while meeting and maintaining certain communication performance requirements, through cooperative control, learning, and adaptation. While both of the component areas, i.e., robotics and WSN, are very well known and well explored, there exist a whole set of new opportunities and research directions at the intersection of these two fields, which are relatively or even completely unexplored. One such example would be the use of a set of robotic routers to set up a temporary communication path between a sender and a receiver that uses the controlled mobility to the advantage of packet routing. We find that there exist only a limited number of articles to be directly categorized as RWSN-related works whereas there exist a range of articles in the robotics and the WSN literature that are also relevant to this new field of research. To connect the dots, we first identify the core problems and research trends related to RWSN such as connectivity, localization, routing, and robust flow of information. Next, we classify the existing research on RWSN as well as the relevant state of the arts from robotics and WSN community according to the problems and trends identified in the first step. Lastly, we analyze what is missing in the existing literature and identify topics that require more research attention in the future.

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    Pradipta Ghosh & Bhaskar Krishnamachari

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Ghosh, P., Gasparri, A., Jin, J., Krishnamachari, B. (2019). Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Ammari, H. (eds) Mission-Oriented Sensor Networks and Systems: Art and Science. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 164. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92384-0_16

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