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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Mobile sensor network"”.
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A comparison of geostatistcal interpolation methods for the characterization of background radiation collected on a mobile sensor network in a cloud computing environment
… bombs as well as broader nuclear proliferation. Mobile Sensor Networks deployed in major metropolitan areas have been proposed to address this security and proliferation challenge. However, these networks generate large amounts of data that cannot be processed on stand-alone computers. This …
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Radiation source detection from mobile sensor networks using principal component analysis
… radioactive materials are moving. The concept of mobile sensor networks is put forward to solve this problem. In this thesis, a small mobile sensor network is established using commercially available radiation detectors and cell phones. A spectrum decomposition and reconstruction method based on …
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Parasitic mobility for sensate media
Distributed sensor networks offer many new capabilities for monitoring environments with applicability to medical, industrial, military, anthropological, and experiential fields. By making such systems mobile, we increase the application-space for the distributed sensor network mainly by providing …
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Communication-aware motion planning in mobile networks
… progress has been made in the area of networked robotic systems and mobile sensor networks. The vision of a mobile sensor network cooperatively learning and adapting in harsh unknown environments to achieve a common goal is closer than ever. In addition to sensing, communication plays a …
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Traffic prediction and navigation using historical and current information
… conditions by stochastic modeling of road networks. Our system consists of a data collecting system, a data management system, and a path planning system. First, the data collecting system gathers real-time travel time data using a mobile sensor network system, CarTel. GPS sensor units …
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Is IPv6 a Better Choice to Handle Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks?
With the technological advances in the wireless sensor networks, there is increasing interest to connect them to the Internet to share real-time measurements from WSN nodes to “anyone, anywhere, any time.” IETF (Internet Control Message Protocol) has proposed standards that will enable IPv6-based …
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Analysis of a custom android app designed to utilize cloud infrastructure in support of mobile sensor networks
Mobile sensor networks offer unique advantages over their stationary counterparts in the area of anomalous radioactive source localization. Being mobile, the same number of sensors are capable of covering a much larger area than an equivalent number of stationary sensors. We have developed and …
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Implementation and simulation of mobile sensor networks for nuclear radiation detection
… parts of radiation detection. The concept of mobile radiation sensor networks, which utilize multiple mobile radiation detectors, has been proposed to solve these problems. This work mainly focuses on developing and testing methodologies for anomaly detection and radioactive source …
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Design Distributed Control and Learning Algorithms for a Team of UAVs for Optimal Field Coverage
… that studies how we can use a finite set of sensors, such as camera, to optimally cover a field with arbitrary shape that can either be static or dynamically change over time. The problem arises in a wide range of applications, notably wildfires and oil spill tracking, military surveillance, …
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A centralized localization algorithm for prolonging the lifetime of wireless sensor networks using particle swarm optimization in the existence of obstacles
… the need for the development of wireless sensor network (WSN). These wireless sensor nodes has been used in many applications at many areas. One of the main issues in WSN is the energy availability, which is always a constraint. In a previous research, a relocating algorithm for mobile …
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Mobile radiation sensor networks for source detection in a fluctuating background using geo-tagged count rate data
Mobile radiation sensor networks integrated with geographic information system provide an attractive option for the real-time anomalous radiation source detection. In order to obtain an accurate alarm of the presence of an anomalous radiation source, continuous measurements of the temporal and …
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Estimation and stability of nonlinear control systems under intermittent information with applications to multi-agent robotics
… First, we develop a stochastic hybrid model of mobile networks able to capture a large variety of heterogeneous multi-agent problems and phenomena. This model is applied to a case study where a heterogeneous mobile sensor network cooperatively detects and tracks mobile targets based on …
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Radiation network within a virtual environment
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