wireless sensor networks(wsn) have unique properties that distinguished them from other wireless networks and have special challenges. not-chargeable, not-changeable and limited power supplies of sensor nodes is the most important challenge of this networks, and if the power supply of node expired, a part of data maybe lost. because of the importance of covers in wireless sensors, in this work ...

Advances in wireless communication and embedded computing technologies can have significant impacts in structural sensing, monitoring and control. Prior research efforts have demonstrated the benefits of low-cost wireless sensing systems for structural monitoring. This paper discusses the possibilities of extending the functionalities of wireless sensors for structural control applications. By ...

Weakly electric fish emit an AC electric field into the water and use thousands of sensors on the skin to detect field perturbations due to surrounding objects. The fish's active electrosensory system allows them to navigate and hunt, using separate neural pathways and receptors for resistive and capacitive perturbations. We have previously developed a sensing method inspired by the weakly elec...

Quorum sensing, a population density-dependent mechanism for bacterial communication and gene regulation, plays a crucial role in the symbiosis between alfalfa and its symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti. The Sin system, one of three quorum sensing systems present in S. meliloti, controls the production of the symbiotically active exopolysaccharide EPS II. Based on DNA microarray data, the Sin syst...

The use of wireless communication systems for critical applications in a shared medium presents a lot of challenges regarding its reliability and robustness. The WirelessHART protocol, although robust has a lack of active mechanisms for coexistence, becoming vulnerable for interference sources. This paper proposes an expansion of the WirelessHART coexistence mechanisms, allowing an online analy...

Active vision is identified by a closed loop linking sensing with acting. Thus, an active vision system's behaviour is directly determined by what it senses. To date however, the responses produced by active vision systems have tended to be relatively low-level, generally designed to facilitate improved sensing, by enhancing the duration or speed of object tracking, for example, or optimising t...

RECENT years have seen increased study of the role of active touch sensing in animal behavior. Touch is an important means through which animals acquire information about their surroundings. The behavioral tasks enabled by active touch, and the goals that these tasks subserve, are extraordinarily diverse. They may range from locomotion (walking, climbing, and crawling), to foraging, feeding, gr...