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Communicating Sensor Technology Multi-Agent Systems Looking for Bin Laden
Communicating Sensor Technology There's an interesting article over on New Scientist entitled Silent Sensors Lie in Wait for Bin Laden. It discusses how a myriad of sensors scattered around Afghanistan gather sensorial information (surprisingly...) and communicate together and with satellites to pass the data back in a consistent way. This is a nice example of a multi-agent system. Although in this case, inter-communication is not critical, it's very similar to terrain mapping technology. Basically, loads of tennis ball like sensors are scattered around, and they self organise to formulate a representation of the landscape. The self-organisation in this case is needed to allow the system to cope with randomly scattered agents (sensors in this case). It also potentially simplifies the interpretation of the data when it is received at the head-quaters. Very interesting and promising technology indeed. | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Thursday 22 November, 05:55 Reply