Robotic Routers Onur Tekdas Volkan Isler Mobile robots equipped with wireless networkingcapabilities can act as robotic routers and provide networkconnectivity to mobile users. Robotic routers provide costefficient solutions for deployment of a wireless network in alarge environment with limited number of users. In this paper, we present motion planning algorithms forrobotic routers to maintain the connectivity of a single user toa base station. We consider two motion models for the user. In the first model, we assume that the target’s motion is knownin advance. In the second model, user moves in an adversarial fashion and tries to break the connectivity. Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute cs-08-01
Robotic Routers
Onur Tekdas
Volkan Isler
Mobile robots equipped with wireless networkingcapabilities can act as robotic routers and provide networkconnectivity to mobile users. Robotic routers provide costefficient solutions for deployment of a wireless network in alarge environment with limited number of users. In this paper, we present motion planning algorithms forrobotic routers to maintain the connectivity of a single user toa base station. We consider two motion models for the user. In the first model, we assume that the target’s motion is knownin advance. In the second model, user moves in an adversarial fashion and tries to break the connectivity.
Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
cs-08-01