Wireless Sensor Systems for Space and Extreme Environments: A Review

Abstract

Using wireless sensor network (WSN) for building new sensing and actuating applications in space and extreme environments (SEEs) can fuel a new application paradigm if it can be adopted into a new strategy. This complementary contribution from the Guest Editors carries an important message of breaking away from conventional WSN research and developments and adopting a heterogeneous agile unconventional wireless sensing (UWS) approach deployment. For this, we urge the use of lightweight WSN known as wireless sensor systems (WSS) to develop optimized solutions for SEE. This paper also discusses some critical technologies of WSS-SEE and includes three key aspects of a new approach to examine: 1) the characterizes of SEE; 2) potential applications of UWS; and 3) heterogeneously nature of the applications. A further clarification for deployment of UWS is demonstrated using a table with six groups of typical application areas from the recent publications media. Index Terms-Wireless sensing, wireless sensor systems, WSN, space, extreme environments, unconventional wireless sensing (UWS), heterogeneous sensor systems.

Assessing Contact Graph Routing Performance and Reliability in Distributed Satellite Constellations

“…Initially, the algorithm checks if the local view of the topology expressed in the contact plan was modified or updated since the last call (Algorithm 1, lines (2) and (3)). If modified, a route list structure, holding all valid routes to each known destination, is cleared in order to force an update of the route table.…”

“…Moreover, the potential benefits of extending Internet into space have been analyzed by the community [1][2][3][4]. Nonetheless, the consideration of Internet for space missions has been limited due to fundamental environmental differences.…”

An Assistance System For Building Intelligent Spaces Based On Mapsharing Among A Mobile Robot And Distributed Sensors

“…Demonstrations of building larger-scaled intelligent spaces are also expected. For such demonstrations, the system implementation should be sophisticated using component-based implementation such as RT-middleware [18][19][20].…”

Research on Common Mode Interference of PWM Inverter Driving System

“…Meng Jin et al of Naval University of Engineering establish a high-frequency conducted interference model of PWM inverter drive system, in order to analyze the system conducted interference [12][13][14]. In this paper, through conduction separation network [15][16][17][18] of PWM drive system, distribution of common-mode interference and influence factors were studied, finally according to the improved interference model, the author has carried on the preliminary exploration on CM interference suppression method. …”