Remote Control of Robots for Setting Up Mobility Scenarios during Wireless Experiments in the IBBT w-iLab.t

  • Pieter Becue
  • Bart Jooris
  • Vincent Sercu
  • Stefan Bouckaert
  • Ingrid Moerman
  • Piet Demeester
Part of the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering book series (LNICST, volume 44)

Abstract

The w-iLab.t is a large-scale generic wireless experimentation facility. Two locations are equipped with in total over 260 wireless nodes. In the w-iLab.t Zwijnaarde location mobile nodes are hosted. The mobile nodes are mounted on top of robots, of which the movement can be fully controlled by the experimenter. Due to a high accuracy positioning algorithm, the exact position of the robots is known at all time during the experiments. This enables us to provide repeatable and controlled mobile experiments to our users.

Keywords

mobile robots experimentation wireless positioning testbed 

References

  1. 1.
    IBBT iLab.t Technology center, http://ilabt.ibbt.be
  2. 2.
    Rakotoarivelo, T., Ott, M., Seskar, I., Jourjon, G.: OMF - a Control and Management Framework for Networking Testbeds. In: SOSP Workshop (ROADS 2009) (2009)Google Scholar

Copyright information

© ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2012

Authors and Affiliations

  • Pieter Becue
    • 1
  • Bart Jooris
    • 1
  • Vincent Sercu
    • 1
  • Stefan Bouckaert
    • 1
  • Ingrid Moerman
    • 1
  • Piet Demeester
    • 1
  1. 1.IBBT - Ghent UniversityGhentBelgium

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