Autonomous mobile radios for enhancing wireless communications through wireless tethering in tunnel-like environments

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• Personal Author:
  Moore KL ; Weiss M
• Description:
  An autonomous Mobile Radio (AMR) in a wireless network is a mobile robot with wireless communication capability whose mission is to achieve a network communications goal through control of its position. Wireless tethering is an AMR behavior for ensuring the quality of wireless links between an AMR and other nodes. We discuss the particular problem of autonomously penetrating a tunnel environment using wirelessly tethered AMRs. Using a realistic, experimentally-derived radio signal propagation model in an underground environment, we present a method of implementing tethering using a consensus variable protocol for motion control as well as a method of estimating the coverage range. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergencies Mining Occupational Health Radio Waves Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Emergency-equipment Emergency-response Equipment-design Mining-industry Models Radio-waves Robotics Safety-equipment Safety-measures Tunneling Underground-mining Work-environment Workers

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• ISBN:
  9783902661531
• Publisher:
  Colorado School of Mines
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  31-36
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045153
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the 2009 IFAC Workshop on Networked Robotics, October 6-8, 2009, Golden, Colorado. Moore KL, ed. Golden, CO: Colorado School of Mines, 2009 Oct; :31-36
• Editor(s):
  Moore KL
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  Colorado School of Mines
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080901
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the 2009 IFAC Workshop on Networked Robotics, October 6-8, 2009
• End Date:
  20100831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5946e9f1a5f9e3f65a97de7dc00d3842bfbaeb0c9e56a95d32bd226ecfb39535c26fa9b3af4600daf35f31dfb9de41bf7b1f0b47b063976c0165e6e3d923884c
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/200672/cdc_200672_DS1.pdf
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