Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks

Mobile robots and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have enabled great potentials and a large space for ubiquitous and pervasive applications. Robotics and WSNs have mostly been considered as separate research fields and little work has investigated the mar

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Anis Koubâa Abdelmajid Khelil Editors

Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks

Studies in Computational Intelligence Volume 507

Series Editor J. Kacprzyk, Warsaw, Poland

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/7092

Anis Koubâa Abdelmajid Khelil •

Editors

Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks

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Editors Anis Koubâa Prince Sultan University Riyadh Saudi Arabia

ISSN 1860-949X ISBN 978-3-642-39300-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-39301-3

Abdelmajid Khelil DEEDS Group, CS Department TU Darmstadt Darmstadt Germany

ISSN 1860-9503 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-39301-3 (eBook)

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Preface

Mobile robots and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have enabled great potentials and a large space for ubiquitous and pervasive applications. Robotics and WSNs have mostly been considered as separate research fields and little work has investigated the marriage between these two technologies. However, these two technologies share several features, enable common cyber-physical applications, and provide complementary support to each other. The primary objective of the book is to provide a reference