Environmental Inspection using WSANs Based on Multi-agent Coordination Method

In this paper, we focus on the problem of driving and herding a collection of autonomous actors to a given area. Then, a new method based on multi-agent coordination is proposed for solving the problem. In our proposed method, we assume that the environment is covered by sensors. When an event is occurred, sensors forward information to a sink node. Based on received information, the sink node will estimate the direction and the speed of movement of actors and announce the obtained value to the actors. The actors coordinate to reach the target location.

Authors:

• Mohammad J. Heydari
• Farnaz Derakhshan

Keywords:

• Coordination
• Environmental Inspection
• Multiagent systems
• Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs)

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