6/7/2006
11:00am-12:00pm
ECOT 831
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Motion-Enabled Sensor Nets
Oklahoma State University
The emergence of small, affordable, highly-autonomous mobile devices equipped
with sensing, control, communication, and computing capabilities is paving the
way for the deployment of motion-enabled sensor networks in a wide range of
high-performance applications. Examples include environmental monitoring
systems, disaster relief operations, homeland security, autonomous sampling
networks for oceanographic applications, and health monitoring of highway
systems and other civil infrastructure. Currently available coordination
schemes are still largely ad-hoc, and have not yet explored the fundamental
limits in terms of achievable performance, energy consumption and operational
time in dynamic environments.
In this talk, I will summarize some methodologies and tools that are being
developed at the MARHES Lab, Oklahoma State University, to facilitate the
design of coordination algorithms for motion-enabled sensor nets. Additionally,
I will show some recent experimental results that verify and validate the
proposed methodologies.
Rafael Fierro is an Assistant Professor of
the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University
(OSU). His research interests include hierarchical hybrid and networked
embedded systems, optimization-based cooperative control, and robotics. He is
the recipient of a 2004 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Hosted by Gregory Grudic.
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