a mobile sensor network system for monitoring of unfriendly environments移动传感器网络系统监控的不友好的环境.pdfVIP

Sensors 2008, 8, 7259-7274; DOI: 10.3390/s8117259 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article A Mobile Sensor Network System for Monitoring of Unfriendly Environments Guangming Song *, Yaoxin Zhou, Fei Ding and Aiguo Song School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, P.R. China; E-Mails: bluesensor@; robotsensor@126.com; a.g.song@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-Mail: mikesong@ Received: 15 October 2008; in revised form: 7 November 2008 / Accepted: 13 November 2008 / Published: 14 November 2008 Abstract: Observing microclimate changes is one of the most popular applications of wireless sensor networks. However, some target environments are often too dangerous or inaccessible to humans or large robots and there are many challenges for deploying and maintaining wireless sensor networks in those unfriendly environments. This paper presents a mobile sensor network system for solving this problem. The system architecture, the mobile node design, the basic behaviors and advanced network capabilities have been investigated respectively. A wheel-based robotic node architecture is proposed here that can add controlled mobility to wireless sensor networks. A testbed including some prototype nodes has also been created for validating the basic functions of the proposed mobile sensor network system. Motion performance tests have been