Decentralised Coordination of Mobile Sensors Using the Max-Sum Algorithm
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Author(s)
Stranders, Ruben
Farinelli, Alessandro
Rogers, Alex
Jennings, Nick
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce an on-line, decentralised coordination algorithm for monitoring and predicting the state of spatial phenomena by a team of mobile sensors. These sensors have their application domain in disaster response, where strict time constraints prohibit path planning in advance. The algorithm enables sensors to coordinate their movements with their direct neighbours to maximise the collective information gain, while predicting measurements at unobserved locations using a Gaussian process. It builds upon the max-sum message passing algorithm for decentralised coordination, for which we present two new generic pruning techniques that result in speed-up of up to 92% for 5 sensors. We empirically evaluate our algorithm against several on-line adaptive coordination mechanisms, and report a reduction in root mean squared error up to 50% compared to a greedy strategy.
Date Issued
2009
Citation
2009, pp.299-304
Start Page
299
End Page
304
Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/267268/
Source
Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Computer Science
Publication Status
Unpublished