Self-organizing mobile ad hoc networks
We address the problem of controlling large numbers of small mobile robots that form a multi-hop ad hoc communication network. We employ learning, optimization, and distributed coordination techniques to enable the robots to self-organize in order to maximize network performance.
Publications
The following are in reverse chronological order of publication.
Brian P. Gerkey and Roger Mailler and Benoit Morisset. Commbots: Distributed control of mobile communication relays, in Proc. of the AAAI Workshop on Auction Mechanisms for Robot Coordination (AuctionBots), Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 51-57, Jul 2006. [PDF, Details]
