Publication - Distributed Sensor Network for Real Time Tracking

Authors: Horling, Bryan, Vincent, Regis, Mailler, Roger, Shen, Jiaying, Becker, Raphen, Rawlins, Kyle and Lesser, Victor
Title: Distributed Sensor Network for Real Time Tracking
Abstract: In this paper we describe our solution to a real-time distributed resource allocation application involving distributed situation assessment. The hardware configuration consists of a set of reconfigurable sensors at fixed locations, each having local processing and low-bandwidth communication capabilities with other sensor nodes. The objective is to track objects moving in the environment in real-time as best as possible, given uncertainty and constraints on sensor loads, communication, power consumption, action characteristics, and clock synchronization. Once the target is detected, the sensors must communicate and cooperate so that, within a given window of time, the data needed to triangulate the position of the target can be collected. Our solution to this problem decomposes the environment into a number of sectors, where individual sensor nodes in a sector are specialize dynamically to address different parts of the goal. We describe our solution to this problem in detail, including the high-level architecture and a number of the more interesting implementation challenges. Results and future direction are also covered
Keywords: ANTs, Coordination, JAF, Multi-Agent Systems, Negotiation, Organizational Design, Real Time, TAEMS
Publication: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 417 - 424
Location: Montreal
Publisher: ACM Press
Date: June 2001
Sources: PS: http://mas.cs.umass.edu/~bhorling/papers/00-49.ps.gz
HTML: http://mas.cs.umass.edu/~bhorling/papers/00-49/
PDF: /Documents/00-49.pdf
Reference: Horling, Bryan, Vincent, Regis, Mailler, Roger, Shen, Jiaying, Becker, Raphen, Rawlins, Kyle and Lesser, Victor. Distributed Sensor Network for Real Time Tracking. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, pp. 417-424. June 2001.
bibtex:
@article{Horling-199,
  author    = "Bryan Horling and Regis Vincent and Roger Mailler
               and Jiaying Shen and Raphen Becker and Kyle
               Rawlins and Victor Lesser",
  title     = "{Distributed Sensor Network for Real Time Tracking}",
  journal   = "Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on
               Autonomous Agents",
  publisher = "ACM Press",
  pages     = "417-424",
  month     = "June",
  year      = "2001",
  address   = "Montreal",
  url       = "http://mas.cs.umass.edu/paper/199",
}