Data collection process is one of the important aspects in the design consideration for future analysis in wireless sensor networks. Energy consumption by parent node increases due to continuous forwarding of sensed data from their respective child nodes especially in the tree based topology. Once the energy in the parent nodes was completely drained off, some of the child nodes get isolated/ p...

The development of autonomous mobile robots is continuously gaining importance particularly in the military for surveillance as well as in industry for inspection and material handling tasks. Another emerging market with enormous potential is mobile robots for entertainment. A fundamental requirement for autonomous mobile robots in most of its applications is the ability to navigate from a poin...

This paper focuses on coalescing sensor networks and mobile robots to provide a significant leap forward in technology by maintaining a self-organizing, ad hoc wireless network for environmental monitoring, military applications and rescue operations. Low-power sensor nodes are used to detect an event and guide mobile robots to such locations. These robots are used to transport resources within...

Deploying large numbers of mobile robots which can interact with each other produces swarm intelligent behavior. However, mobile robots are normally running with finite energy resource, supplied from finite battery. The limitation of energy resource required human intervention for recharging the batteries. The sharing information among the mobile robots would be one of the potentials to overcom...

This survey provides the basis for developing research in the area of mobile manipulator performance measurement, an area that has relatively few research articles when compared to other mobile manipulator research areas. The survey provides a literature review of mobile manipulator research with examples of experimental applications. The survey also provides an extensive list of planning and c...

Mobile robots that consist of a mobile platform with one or many manipulators mounted on it are of great interest in a number of applications. Combination of platform and manipulator causes robot operates in extended work space. The analysis of these systems includes kinematics redundancy that makes more complicated problem. However, it gives more feasibility to robotic systems because of the e...

Mobile robots offering services like transportation tasks enter various areas of our daily work-life. In this paper we present a concept for monitoring indoor environments using intelligent mobile robots. The basic components in this concept are the autonomously or semiautonomously acting mobile robots, which should unburden the staff in their everyday duties. The paper describes both the syste...

A control strategy for coordinated path following of multiple mobile robots is presented in this paper. A virtual vehicle concept is combined with a path following approach to achieve formation tasks. Our formation controller is proposed for the kinematic model of unicycle-type mobile robots. It is designed in such a way that the path derivative is employed as an additional control input to syn...

Software agents are very different from mobile robots. For instance, they exist in a world quite unlike the world robots exist in. Also, software agents are not embodied. We investigate how these two differences reflect on agent design principles like situatedness and embodiment. We find that the insights gained from designing mobile robots cannot be applied directly to software agent design. S...