Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Making Complex Articulated Agents Dance
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Peer-it: Stick-on solutions for networks of things
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Building flexible manufacturing systems based on peer-its
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems - Embedded System Design in Intelligent Industrial Automation
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Miniaturized, wirelessly networked embedded systems combined with Peer-to-Peer computing principles have started to pervade into objects of everyday use, like tools, appliances or the environment, thus implementing ensembles of autonomous, interacting "networked things". With the development of the Peer-it framework, integrating a self-contained, miniaturized, universal and scalable embedded systems hardware platform, basically containing sensors, actuators, computing and wireless communication facilities, and a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) based software architecture, we have proposed a "stick-on" solution for the implementation of networks of things (NoTs). The Peer-it design and miniaturization ultimately aim to yield a "smart label", ready to be sticked on to literally every "thing" as a NoT enabler. The paper addresses the issue of spatial awareness of objects within NoTs, and proposes abstractions of space based on (i) topology, (ii) distance and (iii) orientation. Experiments are conducted to investigate on the ability of objects in a NoT to self-organize based on their spatial orientation.