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Article

A Mobile Robots Experimental Environment with Event-Based Wireless Communication

by
María Guinaldo
1,*,
Ernesto Fábregas
1,
Gonzalo Farias
2,
Sebastián Dormido-Canto
1,
Dictino Chaos
1,
José Sánchez
1 and
Sebastián Dormido
1
1
Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control, UNED, Juan del Rosal 16, Madrid 28040, Spain
2
School of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Av. Brasil 2147, Valparaiso, Chile
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sensors 2013, 13(7), 9396-9413; https://doi.org/10.3390/s130709396
Submission received: 15 May 2013 / Revised: 12 July 2013 / Accepted: 18 July 2013 / Published: 22 July 2013
(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Spain 2013)
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Abstract

An experimental platform to communicate between a set of mobile robots through a wireless network has been developed. The mobile robots get their position through a camera which performs as sensor. The video images are processed in a PC and a Waspmote card sends the corresponding position to each robot using the ZigBee standard. A distributed control algorithm based on event-triggered communications has been designed and implemented to bring the robots into the desired formation. Each robot communicates to its neighbors only at event times. Furthermore, a simulation tool has been developed to design and perform experiments with the system. An example of usage is presented.
Keywords: distributed control systems; mobile robots; multi-agent systems; wireless communications; embedded systems distributed control systems; mobile robots; multi-agent systems; wireless communications; embedded systems

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Guinaldo, M.; Fábregas, E.; Farias, G.; Dormido-Canto, S.; Chaos, D.; Sánchez, J.; Dormido, S. A Mobile Robots Experimental Environment with Event-Based Wireless Communication. Sensors 2013, 13, 9396-9413. https://doi.org/10.3390/s130709396

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Guinaldo M, Fábregas E, Farias G, Dormido-Canto S, Chaos D, Sánchez J, Dormido S. A Mobile Robots Experimental Environment with Event-Based Wireless Communication. Sensors. 2013; 13(7):9396-9413. https://doi.org/10.3390/s130709396

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Guinaldo, María, Ernesto Fábregas, Gonzalo Farias, Sebastián Dormido-Canto, Dictino Chaos, José Sánchez, and Sebastián Dormido. 2013. "A Mobile Robots Experimental Environment with Event-Based Wireless Communication" Sensors 13, no. 7: 9396-9413. https://doi.org/10.3390/s130709396

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Guinaldo, M., Fábregas, E., Farias, G., Dormido-Canto, S., Chaos, D., Sánchez, J., & Dormido, S. (2013). A Mobile Robots Experimental Environment with Event-Based Wireless Communication. Sensors, 13(7), 9396-9413. https://doi.org/10.3390/s130709396

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