A wireless charging system that supports a large sensor network not only needs to provide real-time services but also consider the cost of construction in order meet actual applications and considerations. The energy transfer between mobile devices is extremely difficult, especially at distances, while close distances wireless, fast-charging, automatic, high-precision landing would be required....

This chapter discusses the development of a short range acoustic communication channel model and its properties for the design and evaluation of MAC (Medium Access Control) and routing protocols, to support network enabled Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV). The growth of underwater operations has required data communication between various heterogeneous underwater and surface based communica...

Internet of Things promotes the use of physical intelligent connecting objects to automatize processes and tasks in multiple areas of society. There are numerous intelligent objects with different sensors and communication mechanisms. Today, road vehicles contain many advanced sensors that allow the collection of great amounts of parameters. With an appropriate communication mechanism, vehicles...

Simulation is a necessary step to allow the experiment of new multi-vehicle scenarios. In this context, new tools are needed to test and validate the feasibility of the mission, the local and temporal behavior of the vehicles’ controllers and the efficiency of the algorithms used. That’s why we propose Thetis, a real-time multi-vehicles hybrid simulator for heterogeneous vehicles. This simulato...

Many pressing issues associated with control of cooperative intelligent systems involve challenges that arise from the difficulty of coordinating multiple task objectives in highly dynamic, unstructured environments. This chapter presents a multi-objective cooperative control methodology for a team of autonomous surface vehicles deployed with the purpose of protecting a waterway against hostile...

Traffic Density provides an indication of the level of service being provided to the road users. Hence, there is a need to study the traffic flow characteristics with specific reference to density in detail. When the length and speed of the vehicles in a traffic stream vary significantly, the concept of occupancy, rather than density, is more appropriate to describe traffic concentration. When ...

In this paper we first present an extension of the macroscopic traffic flow model METANET to multi-class flows. The resulting multi-class model takes into account the differences between, e.g., fast vehicles (cars) and slow vehicles (trucks) including their possibly different free-flow speeds and critical densities. Next, we show how this model can be used in a model-based predictive control ap...