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A Distributed Cooperative Architecture (DCA) for applications of Ambient Intelligence is presented. The proposed cooperative system is composed by several static cameras and by a team of multi-sensor mobile robots. The nodes of the robotic network can act with some degree of autonomy and can cooperate to perform general purpose complex tasks such as distributed people tracking. The paper describes the system architecture and illustrates the feasibility of the proposed approach through preliminary experimental results.
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This research was supported by the National Operational Program (PON) for Research and Competitiveness 2007–2013, project BAITAH “methodology and instruments of Building Automation and Information Technology for pervasive model of treatment and Aids for domestic Health-care”, code PON01_00980.
The authors thank Arturo Argentieri for technical support in the setup of the system presented in this work.
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Petitti, A. et al. (2014). A Distributed Cooperative Architecture for Robotic Networks with Application to Ambient Intelligence. In: Mazzeo, P., Spagnolo, P., Moeslund, T. (eds) Activity Monitoring by Multiple Distributed Sensing. AMMDS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8703. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13323-2_1
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