MOTEL—A Mobile Robotic-Assisted Wireless Sensor Networks Testbed

Abstract

We present MOTEL: a robotic-assisted mobile wireless sensor network testbed. It is able to deploy and conduct mobile WSN experiments, where sensor nodes are piggybacked on mobile robots. The system consists of two main components: Multi-Robot Architecture for Coordinated Mobility (MuRobA) and Flexible WSN Runtime Management Software Architecture (FLEXOR). The first controls the mobility of the robots and the second controls the sensor nodes without the use of a backchannel. In this demonstration, we show the general architectures and usage of both components. Most importantly, we show the deployment and usage of MOTEL as whole, which can be conducted in any indoor environment in only few hours.