Chapter 9
Coordination in Sensor, Actuator, and Robot Networks
1Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, P.R. China
2Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
3School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
Abstract
This chapter surveys the existing representative work in both sensor-actuator and actuator-actuator coordination. Sensor-actuator coordination deals with establishing data paths between sensors and actuators, and can be used for sensor deployment. Actuator-actuator coordination includes robot coordination for sensor placement, dynamic task allocation, selecting best robot to respond to reported event, robot dispersion, boundary coverage, and fault-tolerant response. In the coordinated actuator movement problem, actuators are moved to desired locations to save energy in long-term communication tasks where the traffic is sufficiently regular and large in volume to warrant nodes expending energy for moving. A recent study on coordination among flying robots is introduced in the end.
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