A ring of robots to fight fires
14th Nov 2006, 19:17 GMT
Computer scientists at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) have developed a new kind of software to monitor wireless sensor networks. For example, their software agents can help robots to navigate through simulated fires. Their real innovation is that their software agents are able to clone themselves, creating a ring of software around the fire. This very flexible approach to monitoring wireless sensor networks could be used in a wide variety of applications, like safeguarding containers in a warehouse -- or on boats. But read more...Here is an excerpt from the WUSTL news release.Researchers here are using wireless sensor networks that employ software agents that have been able to navigate a robot through a simulated fire and spot said ...
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