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We provide an overview of the GNATs project. This project is aimed at using tens to thousands of inexpensive networked devices embedded in the environment to support mobile robot applications. We provide motivation for building these types of systems, introduce a development platform we have developed, review some of our and others’ previous work on using embedded networks to support robots, and outline directions for this line of research.
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O’Hara, K.J., Walker, D.B., Balch, T.R. (2005). The Gnats — Low-Cost Embedded Networks for Supporting Mobile Robots. In: Parker, L.E., Schneider, F.E., Schultz, A.C. (eds) Multi-Robot Systems. From Swarms to Intelligent Automata Volume III. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3389-3_24
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