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The utilization of nonmobile, distributed sensor and communication devices by a team of mobile robots offers performance advantages in terms of speed, energy, robustness and communication requirements. Models of mobile robots with on-board sensors, a communication protocol and the S-Net system are established. Algorithms are defined for the S-Net which perform cooperative computation and provide information about the environment. Behaviors include robots going to or surrounding a temperature source. The simulation experiments show that the S-Net performs well, and is particularly robust with respect to noise in the environment. System cost versus performance is studied, and guidelines are formulated for which the S-Net system out-performs the non-S-Net system.
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Chen, Y., Henderson, T.C. (2001). S-NETS: Smart Sensor Networks. In: Rus, D., Singh, S. (eds) Experimental Robotics VII. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 271. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45118-8_9
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