Wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs) are formed by a distributed group of acoustic‐
sensing devices featuring audio playing and recording capabilities. Current mobile …

Sound localization is a vast field of research and advancement which is used in many useful
applications to facilitate communication, radars, medical aid, and speech enhancement to …

Now in its third edition, this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary
field of mobile robotics, which lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computational …

Microsoft Kinect sensor has been widely used in many applications since the launch of its
first version. Recently, Microsoft released a new version of Kinect sensor with improved …

The paper introduces DILOC, a distributed, iterative algorithm to locate M sensors (with
unknown locations) in R m, m ges 1, with respect to a minimal number of m+ 1 anchors with …

In fingerprint-based positioning methods, the received signal strength (RSS) vectors from
access points are measured at reference points and saved in a database. Then, this dataset …

Micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are promising to play more and more important
roles in both civilian and military activities. Currently, the navigation of UAVs is critically …

Fifth-generation (5G) networks providing much higher bandwidth and faster data rates will
allow connecting vast number of stationary and mobile devices, sensors, agents, users …

Robots in swarms take advantage of localization infrastructure, such as a motion capture
system or global positioning system (GPS) sensors to obtain their global position, which can …

An ability to detect, classify, and locate complex acoustic events can be a powerful tool to
help smart systems build context-awareness, eg, to make rich inferences about human …