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Conference Proceeding: Integration of aerial robots and wireless sensor and actuator networks. The AWARE project
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ABSTRACT: This paper and video are devoted to the last experiments and demonstration of the AWARE project (European Commission, FP6) carried out in Utrera, near Seville (Spain) May, 2009. The project has developed and validated in field experiments a platform providing the functionalities required for the cooperation of aerial robots with ground sensor-actuator wireless networks, including static and mobile nodes carried by people and vehicles. The project demonstrated the self-deployment, self-configuration and self-repairing of the network by using autonomous helicopters that transported and deployed sensor nodes and loads. These features are highly relevant in natural and urban environments without pre-existing infrastructure or where the infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed. Two validation scenarios have been considered: Disaster Management/Civil Security and Filming.Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010 IEEE International Conference on; 06/2010 -
Conference Proceeding: AWARE: Platform for Autonomous self-deploying and operation of Wireless sensor-actuator networks cooperating with unmanned AeRial vehiclEs
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ABSTRACT: This paper presents the AWARE platform that seeks to enable the cooperation of autonomous aerial vehicles with ground wireless sensor-actuator networks comprising both static and mobile nodes carried by vehicles or people. Particularly, the paper presents the middleware, the wireless sensor network, the node deployment by means of an autonomous helicopter, and the surveillance and tracking functionalities of the platform. Furthermore, the paper presents the first general experiments of the AWARE project that took place in March 2007 with the assistance of the Seville fire brigades.Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, 2007. SSRR 2007. IEEE International Workshop on; 10/2007
