8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)

Research Article

Bio-inspired and Voronoi-based Algorithms for Self-positioning of Autonomous Vehicles in Noisy Environments

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.bict.2014.257917,
        author={jianmin zou and Stephen Gundry and Janusz Kusyk and Cem Sahin and Umit Uyar},
        title={Bio-inspired and Voronoi-based Algorithms for Self-positioning of Autonomous Vehicles in Noisy Environments},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={BICT},
        year={2015},
        month={2},
        keywords={genetic algorithms self-organizing networks topology con trol voronoi tessellation manets},
        doi={10.4108/icst.bict.2014.257917}
    }
    
  • jianmin zou
    Stephen Gundry
    Janusz Kusyk
    Cem Sahin
    Umit Uyar
    Year: 2015
    Bio-inspired and Voronoi-based Algorithms for Self-positioning of Autonomous Vehicles in Noisy Environments
    BICT
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.bict.2014.257917
jianmin zou,*, Stephen Gundry1, Janusz Kusyk2, Cem Sahin3, Umit Uyar1
  • 1: City College of New York
  • 2: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • 3: BAE Systems - AIT
*Contact email: jzou@ccny.cuny.edu

Abstract

Many topology control methods for autonomous mobile vehicles assume exact knowledge of the locations of neighboring nodes to make meaningful movement decisions. We present our node-spreading Voronoi algorithm (NSVA) and node-spreading Voronoi-based genetic algorithm (NSVGA), for self-positioning autonomous nodes in noisy environments. The performance of NSVA and NSVGA were evaluated in simulation experiments by measuring the network area coverage, average distance traveled and number of disconnected nodes. Experimental results show that both NSVA and NSVGA can adequately cover the deployment area despite errors in neighbor location information. NSVGA can tolerate location errors and maintain network connectivity better than NSVA at the cost of increased movement.