By Anis Koubaa, Abdelmajid Khelil

This e-book is the second one quantity on Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks. the first target of this e-book is to supply an up to date reference for state-of-the-art stories and learn tendencies concerning cellular robots and instant sensor networks, and specifically for the coupling among them.

Indeed, cellular robots and instant sensor networks have enabled nice potentials and a wide area for ubiquitous and pervasive purposes. Robotics and instant sensor networks have regularly been regarded as separate study fields and little paintings has investigated the wedding among those applied sciences. besides the fact that, those applied sciences proportion a number of beneficial properties, let universal cyber-physical functions and supply complementary help to one another. The ebook comprises ten chapters, equipped into 4 parts.

The first a part of the ebook provides 3 chapters with regards to localization of cellular robots utilizing instant sensor networks. chapters offered new suggestions established prolonged Kalman filter out and Particle clear out for localizing the robots utilizing diversity measurements with the sensor community. The 3rd bankruptcy provides a survey on mobility-assisted localization recommendations in instant sensor networks.

The moment a part of the ebook offers with cooperative robots and sensor networks purposes. One bankruptcy provides a finished review of significant purposes coupling among robots and sensor networks and gives real-world examples in their cooperation. different chapters current purposes for underwater robots and sensor networks.