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This paper presents a novel approach to mobile robot exploration. In this approach, mobile robots send their local maps to the central controller and coordinate with each other using a wireless sensor network (WSN). Different from existing rendezvous point-based exploration strategies, the use of a WSN as the communication media allows quick and cost-effective exploration and mapping of an unknown environment. Overall, this paper introduces WSN-aided mobile robot exploration strategy and shows comparative performance evaluations using the Player/Stage simulation platform. Here, our main goal is to present potential advantages of WSN-aided mobile robot exploration for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM).
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Tuna, G., Gulez, K., Gungor, V.C., Mumcu, T.V. (2012). Exploration Strategy Related Design Considerations of WSN-Aided Mobile Robot Exploration Teams. In: Huang, DS., Gan, Y., Gupta, P., Gromiha, M.M. (eds) Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications. With Aspects of Artificial Intelligence. ICIC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6839. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25944-9_69
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