A distributed surveillance task using miniature robots

  • Authors:
  • Paul E. Rybski;Maria Gini;Dean F. Hougen;Sascha A. Stoeter;Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present experimental results from a distributed surveillance task in which multiple miniature robots (called Scouts) automatically position themselves in an area and watch for motion. We discuss how the limited communication bandwidth affects how the robots accomplish their task.