A review: Can robots reshape K-12 STEM education?

ME Karim, S Lemaignan… - 2015 IEEE international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Can robots in classroom reshape K-12 STEM education, and foster new ways of learning?
To sketch an answer, this article reviews, side-by-side, existing literature on robot-based …

A survey of movement strategies for improving network coverage in wireless sensor networks

B Wang, HB Lim, D Ma - Computer Communications, 2009 - Elsevier
The emerging technology of wireless sensor network (WSN) is expected to provide a broad
range of applications, such as battlefield surveillance, environmental monitoring, smart …

Kilobot: A low cost scalable robot system for collective behaviors

M Rubenstein, C Ahler, R Nagpal - 2012 IEEE international …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In current robotics research there is a vast body of work on algorithms and control methods
for groups of decentralized cooperating robots, called a swarm or collective. These …

[PDF][PDF] The player/stage project: Tools for multi-robot and distributed sensor systems

B Gerkey, RT Vaughan, A Howard - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2003 - Citeseer
This paper describes the Player/Stage software tools applied to multi-robot, distributed-robot
and sensor network systems. Player is a robot device server that provides network …

A survey of applications of wireless sensors and wireless sensor networks

T Arampatzis, J Lygeros… - Proceedings of the 2005 …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless sensors and wireless sensor networks have come to the forefront of the scientific
community recently. This is the consequence of engineering increasingly smaller sized …

Movement-assisted sensor deployment

G Wang, G Cao, TF La Porta - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adequate coverage is very important for sensor networks to fulfill the issued sensing tasks.
In many working environments, it is necessary to make use of mobile sensors, which can …

Kilobot: A low cost robot with scalable operations designed for collective behaviors

M Rubenstein, C Ahler, N Hoff, A Cabrera… - Robotics and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In current robotics research there is a vast body of work on algorithms and control methods
for groups of decentralized cooperating robots, called a swarm or collective. These …

Decentralized, adaptive coverage control for networked robots

M Schwager, D Rus, JJ Slotine - The International Journal of …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
A decentralized, adaptive control law is presented to drive a network of mobile robots to an
optimal sensing configuration. The control law is adaptive in that it uses sensor …

Connecting the physical world with pervasive networks

D Estrin, D Culler, K Pister… - IEEE pervasive …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connecting the physical world with pervasive networks Page 1 1536-1268/02/$17.00 © 2002
IEEE PERVASIVE computing 59 REACHING WEISER’S VISION Connecting the Physical …

Time synchronization for wireless sensor networks

J Elson, D Estrin - Parallel and Distributed Processing …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time synchronization is a critical piece of infrastructure for any distributed system.
Distributed, wireless sensor networks make extensive use of synchronized time, but often …