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The award recognizes the best paper published annually (2006) in
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part A, Part
B, and Part C).
In 2006, more than 300 papers were considered.
Associate Professor Leow co-authored the paper with his then
student Low Kian Hsiang, and Associate Professor Marcelo Ang
from the Faculty of Engineering.
Here are some information on the paper:
Kian Hsiang Low, Wee Kheng Leow, Marcelo H. Ang, “Autonomic
mobile sensor network with self-coordinated task allocation and
execution”, IEEE Trans Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, Part C,
36(3):315-327, MAY 2006
This paper describes a distributed layered architecture for
resource-constrained multi-robot cooperation, which is utilised
in autonomic mobile sensor network coverage. In the upper layer,
a dynamic task allocation scheme self-organises the robot
coalitions to track efficiently across regions. It uses concepts
of ant behaviour to self-regulate the regional distributions of
robots in proportion to that of the moving targets to be tracked
in a non-stationary environment. As a result, the adverse
effects of task interference between robots are minimised and
network coverage is improved. In the lower task execution layer,
the robots use self-organising neural networks to coordinate
their target tracking within a region. Both layers employ self-organisation
techniques, which exhibit autonomic properties such as
self-configuring, self-optimising, self-healing, and
self-protecting. Quantitative comparisons with other tracking
strategies such as static sensor placements, potential fields,
and auction-based negotiation show that our layered approach can
provide better coverage, greater robustness to sensor failures,
and greater flexibility to respond to environmental changes.
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