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Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2012

Session Number:A4L-C

Session:

Number:255

Performance evaluation of sensor node deployment strategy for maintaining wireless sensor network communication connectivity

Kei Sawai,  Shigeaki Tanabe,  Ryuta Kunimoto,  Yuta Koike,  Tsuyoshi Suzuki,  

pp.255-258

Publication Date:

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.1.255

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We propose a wireless sensor networks construction method with maintaining the communication connectivity by utilizing a mobile rescue robot. Recent studies concerning with a reducing of disaster damage are focused on gathering disaster area information in underground spaces. Since the underground space has some risks of secondary disasters, a lot of rescue workers were injured or killed in the past. Because of this background, gathering information by utilizing the rescue robot is discussed in wide area. However, the fixed-point observation that is important to reduce the disaster damage and to construct a communication infrastructure for tele-operation of the rescue robot has not been discussed deeply. Thus we have been discussed about the gathering information method by utilizing wireless sensor networks that is constructed by the rescue robot. In this paper, we evaluated the proposed method in field operation test, which is confirmed the availability of performance.

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