Self-organizing mobile ad hoc networks

Principal Investigator:  Roger Mailler Mailing address: AI Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493 AIC Program:  Intelligent Operations Management Group

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.

• 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]