Wireless sensor network-assisted, autonomous mapping with information-theoretic utility

Rollout Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Network-Assisted Target Search

“…The main goal for the searcher is to make contact with the target, for example to acquire payload information from the sensor node, which has observed an event of interest (assuming a payload too large to be forwarded through the WSN due to energy constraints), or to retrieve the target outright. Joint applications of autonomous platforms and wireless sensor networks are emerging in fields as diverse as target search, surveillance and mapping [8]- [12], using either range-based or range-free node localization methods.…”