TY - JOUR
T1 - Energy-Efficient Anti-Flocking Control for Mobile Sensor Networks on Uneven Terrains
AU - Ganganath, Nuwan
AU - Yuan, Wanmai
AU - Fernando, Tyrone
AU - Iu, Herbert H.C.
AU - Cheng, Chi Tsun
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received February 16, 2018; revised March 13, 2018; accepted March 14, 2018. Date of publication April 3, 2018; date of current version November 23, 2018. This work was supported in part by the Endeavour Research Fellowship from the Australian Government and in part by the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University under Projects RUWM and G-YBXK. This brief was recommended by Associate Editor Y. Xia. (Corresponding author: Nuwan Ganganath.) N. Ganganath, T. Fernando, and H. H. C. Iu are with the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]).
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PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Anti-flocking controlled mobile sensor networks (MSNs) have demonstrated impressive dynamic area coverage performances. Even though MSNs are often utilized in outdoor environments that consist of uneven terrains, existing anti-flocking control protocols are designed for flat terrain navigation. Thus, they tend to maneuver mobile sensory units along shortest paths between navigation goals in an area of interest. Even though navigating along shortest paths can be both time- and energy-efficient on flat terrains, such motions can often result in excessive energy consumptions on uneven terrains. This brief proposes an energy-efficient anti-flocking control protocol for MSNs based on a terrain adaptation force and a navigation goal selection method. The proposed control protocol encourages mobile sensory units to follow terrain contours whenever feasible. Test results show that the proposed control protocol is a promising energy-efficient solution for MSNs operating on uneven terrains.
AB - Anti-flocking controlled mobile sensor networks (MSNs) have demonstrated impressive dynamic area coverage performances. Even though MSNs are often utilized in outdoor environments that consist of uneven terrains, existing anti-flocking control protocols are designed for flat terrain navigation. Thus, they tend to maneuver mobile sensory units along shortest paths between navigation goals in an area of interest. Even though navigating along shortest paths can be both time- and energy-efficient on flat terrains, such motions can often result in excessive energy consumptions on uneven terrains. This brief proposes an energy-efficient anti-flocking control protocol for MSNs based on a terrain adaptation force and a navigation goal selection method. The proposed control protocol encourages mobile sensory units to follow terrain contours whenever feasible. Test results show that the proposed control protocol is a promising energy-efficient solution for MSNs operating on uneven terrains.
KW - Anti-flocking
KW - distributed motion control
KW - energy-efficient
KW - mobile sensor networks
KW - uneven terrains
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U2 - 10.1109/TCSII.2018.2822324
DO - 10.1109/TCSII.2018.2822324
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85053295272
SN - 1549-7747
VL - 65
SP - 2022
EP - 2026
JO - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
JF - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
IS - 12
M1 - 8329992
ER -