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Information Surfing For Model-Driven Radiation Mapping, Andres Cortez, Herbert G. Tanner
Information Surfing For Model-Driven Radiation Mapping, Andres Cortez, Herbert G. Tanner
Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications
In this report we develop a control scheme to coordinate a group of mobile sensors for radiation mapping of a given planar polygon region. The control algorithm is based on the concept of information surfing, where navigation is done by means of following information gradients, taking into account sensing performance as well as inter-robot communication range limitations. The control scheme provably steers mobile sensors to locations at which they maximize the information content of their measurement data, and the asymptotic properties of our information metric with respect to time ensures that no local information metric extremum traps the sensors indefinitely. …