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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2010
Mark L. Quilling, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prasanta Bose, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ken Payne, Littleton, CO (US);
Andrew Zimdars, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark L. Quilling, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prasanta Bose, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ken Payne, Littleton, CO (US);
Andrew Zimdars, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A distributed coordination and control protocol may enable a set of mobile, self-organizing, robotic relay nodes to adaptively seek positions in such an environment that establishes a network, meeting desired coverage in terms of connected warfighters. Distributed coordination of robotic relay nodes may allow the network to dynamically adapt as positions of warfighters change and/or the network demands change. An algorithm is provided that may be scalable to a large number of robots and may be robust to random deployment of robots, robot platform failures, channel dynamics, and changing warfighter positions.