Addressing health disorders at the early stage during mass casualty is one of the important issues to be thrown light nowadays. If mass casualty occurs in remote locations where proper health care equipments or analysis of medical information is not available, a special team must be appointed to monitor and control it. When an emergency occurs, especially in mass casualty incidents, lots of vic...

The distributed coordination and control of a team of autonomous mobile robots is a problem widely studied in a variety of fields, such as engineering, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics. Generally, in these areas, the problem is studied mostly from an empirical point of view. Recently, the study of what can be computed by such team of robots has become increasingly popular in t...

Relative localisation of mobile robots can provide useful information to applications, from formation control, to joint exploration and inspection. One way to obtain relative localisation is to measure distances between the multiple robots. In this scope, distance estimates based on RF ranging data can be beneficial for small/inexpensive communicating robots that have no other means of measurin...

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present a mobile agents model for distributed classification of Big Data. The great challenge is to optimize the communication costs between the processing elements (PEs) in the parallel and distributed computational models by the way to ensure the scalability and the efficiency of this method. Additionally, the proposed distributed method integrates a new ...

Research on the cooperation of multiple mobile robots has to address three main problems: (i) how to appropriately divide the functionality of the system into multiple robots, (ii) how to manage the dynamic configuration of the system in order to realise co-operative behaviours, and (iii) how to achieve coordination and learning for a team of mobile robots. This paper addresses these issues usi...

Given the increasing role of mobile computing and mobile information access, knowledge about these technologies is an important qualification for future computer scientists. Another important qualification is the ability to work as a team. In our lab course, we offer the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in both areas through the distributed, collaborative development of a mobile game. Th...

In distributed applications based on mobile agents, coordination and synchronization of the actions executed by a team of mobile agents are difficult tasks. The main difficulty comes from the fact that coordination requires the agents to interact with each other in spite of their dynamically changing locations. In this paper we present a mechanism for coordinating mobile agents which handles th...

This paper presents a new platform with a team of lab-scale networked mobile robotic manipulators (SumoMote) which merges a mobile manipulator with wireless mobile sensor networks. Many existing platforms built for mobile manipulation are big and expensive. Our SumoMote is built small and inexpensive for applications where quantity is more important than size. The hardware and software of the S...

The effectiveness of mobile robots has always been affected by the amount of time they can spend in the field. Most mobile robots today are equipped with rechargeable batteries which allow a robot to recharge in the field without extended interruption of its work. Mobile recharging units are crucial for a team of robots to effectively perform their assigned tasks over long periods of time. Mobi...