A Remote Integrated Testbed for Cooperating Objects

Testbeds are gaining increasing relevance in research domains and also in industrial applications. However, very few books devoted to testbeds have been published. To the best of my knowledge no book on this topic has been published. This book is particularly interesting for the growing community of testbed developers. I believe the book is also very interesting for researchers in robot-WSN cooperation.
This book provides detailed description of a system that can be considered the first testbed that allows full peer-to-peer interoperability between heterogeneous robots and ubiquitous systems such as Wireless Sensor Networks, camera networks and pervasive computing systems. The system architecture includes modules that allows full bidirectional communication between robots and WSN. One robot can
The book describes the current state of the art in development of testbeds integrating Cooperating Object technologies. It describes in detail the testbed specification and design using requirements extracted from surveys among experts in robotics and ubiquitous systems in academia and industry. The book also describes the testbed novel architecture and its hardware and software components. Moreover, it includes details on user support tools to facilitate its use such as remote use using a virtual private network and sets of functionalities of interest for members from the robotics, WSN and robot-WSN communities. Finally, the book illustrates its capabilities and potentialities describing the implementation of some of the experiments that have been performed. Examples from the robotics, WSN and robot-WSN communities are described.

List of contents

Introduction.- Testbeds for Cooperating Objects.- CONET Integrated Testbed Architecture.- Usability Tools.- CONET Integrated Testbed Experiments.-Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Alberto de San Bernabe, Adrian Jimenez-Gonzalez, Jose Ramiro Martinez-de Dios, Anibal Ollero
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2013
• EAN: 9783319013718
• ISBN: 978-3-31-901371-8
• No. of pages: 79
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 10 mm x 246 mm
• Weight: 160 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 79 p. 31 illus., 28 illus. in color.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering; SpringerBriefs in Cooperating Objects
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; C, Robotics, Automation, Information Retrieval, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Application software, Communications Engineering, Networks, Physics and Astronomy, Internet searching, Control, Robotics, Automation, Robotics and Automation