Autonomous Mobile Networks
Autonomous Mobile Networks are distributed ad-hoc networks of nodes that can
sense, actuate, compute and communicate with each other using
point-to-point multi-hop communication. The nodes in such networks
include static sensors, mobile sensors, robots, and humans. Such
systems combine the most advanced concepts in perception, communication
and control to create computational systems capable of large-scale
interaction with the environment, extending the individual capabilities
of each network component to encompass a much wider area and range of
data.
In this talk we discuss communication, control and information processing
in networked robots. Due to the absence of any networking infrastructure
the nodes must cooperate to accomplish communication, global control
and distributed information aggregation. We present distributed algorithms
for routing messages that use mobility to guarantee message delivery,
distributed algorithms for aggregating maps and using the maps to
guide navigation, and some recent results on information diffusion.