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Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Visibility-based Pursuit-evasion with Limited Field of View
International Journal of Robotics Research
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Autonomous Robots
Tracking multiple targets using binary proximity sensors
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
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International Journal of Robotics Research
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International Journal of Robotics Research
Optimal Movement of Mobile Sensors for Barrier Coverage of a Planar Region
COCOA 2008 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications
Target Counting under Minimal Sensing: Complexity and Approximations
Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks
Multi-robot task allocation through vacancy chain scheduling
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Task allocation via self-organizing swarm coalitions in distributed mobile sensor network
AAAI'04 Proceedings of the 19th national conference on Artifical intelligence
Optimal movement of mobile sensors for barrier coverage of a planar region
Theoretical Computer Science
Multi-agent robot systems as distributed autonomous systems
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Adaptive triangular mesh generation of self-configuring robot swarms
ICRA'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Robotics and Automation
Tracking point or diffusing targets using mobile sensor networks under sensing noises
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Energy-quality tradeoffs for target tracking in wireless sensor networks
IPSN'03 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
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IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Interrobot transformations in 3-D
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Multi-robot area patrol under frequency constraints
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Multiple-Target Tracking With Binary Proximity Sensors
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Tracking an omnidirectional evader with a differential drive robot
Autonomous Robots
A cell decomposition approach to visibility-based pursuit evasion among obstacles
International Journal of Robotics Research
Dynamic target tracking and observing in a mobile sensor network
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Journal of Field Robotics
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This paper addresses the problem of tracking multiple targets using a network of communicating robots and stationary sensors. We introduce a iRegion-based Approach which controls robot deployment at two levels. A icoarse deployment controller distributes robots across regions using a topological map which maintains urgency estimates for each region, and a itarget-following controller attempts to maximize the number of tracked targets within a region. A behavior-based system is presented implementing the iRegion-Based Approach, which is fully distributed and scalable. We compared the iRegion-based Approach to a ‘naive’ local-following strategy in three environments with varying degree of occlusion. The experimental results showed that the iRegion-based Approach performs better than the naive strategy when the environment has significant occlusion. Second, we performed experiments (the environment was held constant) in which two techniques for computing urgency estimates were compared. Last, different combinations of mobile sensors and stationary sensors were compared in a given environment.