Paper Info
Title
Optimal Placement and Patrolling of Autonomous Vehicles in Visibility-Based Robot Networks.
Abstract
In communication-denied or contested environments, Line-of-Sight (LoS) communication (e.g free space optical communication using infrared or visible light) becomes one of the most reliable and efficient ways to send information between geographically scattered mobile units. In this paper, we consider the problem of planning optimal locations and trajectories for a group of autonomous vehicles to see a set of units that are dispersed in an environment with obstacles. The contributions of the paper are the following: 1) We propose centralized and distributed algorithms to verify that the vehicles and units form a connected network through LoS; 2) We present an algorithm that can maintain visibility-based connectivity, if possible, by relocating a single vehicle; and 3) We study the computational
Year
Venue
Field
2017
arXiv: Robotics
Visibility,Patrolling,Control engineering,Real-time computing,Distributed algorithm,Free-space optical communication,Engineering,Robot
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1710.07725
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Md. Mahmudur Rahman11716.00
Franklin Abodo231.46
Leonardo Bobadilla3129.53
Brian Rapp422.08