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Currently, the use of wireless networks is very common in the field of networked robotics and can be considered as a key issue for capable multi robot systems with a high grade of mobility. Nevertheless, this mobility requests for special features of the communication infrastructure, which leads to the integration of mobile robots into wireless ad-hoc networks. Since the late nineties, more than 80 ad-hoc routing protocols were developed and nowadays some of them are implemented and ready to use in real world applications. A comparison of four ad-hoc routing protocols (AODV, DSR, OLSR, and BATMAN) showed shortfalls of the default parameter settings not allowing a reliable teleoperation of mobile robots while using AODV, OLSR, or BATMAN. This work is focused on the parameter tuning of the routing protocols to use them in wireless ad-hoc networks of mobile robots. The time required for route reestablishing, as well as the packet loss during rerouting is investigated in hardware tests of a network with dynamic network topology consisting of mobile robots. It could be demonstrated, that an appropriate parameter setting of OLSR and BATMAN allow the teleoperation of mobile robots in outdoor environments via a wireless ad-hoc network. Finally a small application is presented to show the interaction of the different protocol layers in order to provide a communication network for services and applications to increase the capabilities of networked mobile robots.
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Zeiger, F., Krämer, N., Sauer, M., Schilling, K. (2009). Mobile Robot Teleoperation via Wireless Multihop Networks - Parameter Tuning of Protocols and Real World Application Scenarios. In: Cetto, J.A., Ferrier, JL., Filipe, J. (eds) Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00271-7_10
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