Communication-aware robotics: Exploiting motion for communication

A Muralidharan, Y Mostofi - Annual Review of Control, Robotics …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we present a comprehensive perspective on communication-aware robotics,
an area that considers realistic communication environments and aims to jointly optimize …

Path planning for cooperative routing of air-ground vehicles

SG Manyam, DW Casbeer… - 2016 American Control …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a cooperative vehicle routing problem for surveillance and reconnaissance
missions with communication constraints between the vehicles. We propose a framework …

Communication-aware motion planning in mobile networks

A Ghaffarkhah, Y Mostofi - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this technical note, we propose a communication-aware motion planning framework to
increase the probability that a robot maintains its connectivity to a fixed station, while …

To go or not to go: On energy-aware and communication-aware robotic operation

Y Yan, Y Mostofi - IEEE Transactions on Control of Network …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the scenario where a mobile robot needs to visit a number of points of interest
(POIs) in a workspace, gathers its generated bits of information, and successfully transmits …

Motion-communication co-optimization with cooperative load transfer in mobile robotics: An optimal control perspective

U Ali, H Cai, Y Mostofi, Y Wardi - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the co-optimization of motion and communication in mobile robotic
networks operating under energy constraints. More specifically, we consider a team of …

Detecting colluding sybil attackers in robotic networks using backscatters

Y Huang, W Wang, T Jiang… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the openness of wireless medium, robotic networks that consist of many miniaturized
robots are susceptible to Sybil attackers, who can fabricate myriads of fictitious robots. Such …

A UAV-collaborative sensing method for efficient monitoring of disaster sites

A Kanzaki, H Akagi - … Networking and Applications: Proceedings of the …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, we propose a method that achieves efficient monitoring of the entire of a
disaster site, using multiple UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) owned by different …

Human–robot collaborative site inspection under resource constraints

H Cai, Y Mostofi - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is on human-robot collaborative site inspection and target classification. We
consider the realistic case that human visual performance is imperfect (depending on the …

Optimization of Mobile Robotic Relay Operation for Minimal Average Wait Time

W Hurst, Y Mostofi - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers trajectory planning for a mobile robot which persistently relays data
between pairs of far-away communication nodes. Data accumulates stochastically at each …

Energy-aware planning of motion and communication strategies for networked mobile robots

S Rahmanpour, RM Esfanjani - Information Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the co-planning problem of motion and communication strategies for
a team of networked mobile robots. The robotic team that has limited energy budget should …