Ad Hoc Communications for Wireless Robots in Indoor Environments

The mobility and convenience that wireless networks provide has contributed to the increased number of people using them however, the required infrastructure cannot be provided in all scenarios(Luu, O Brien, Baran, 2007). An ad-hoc wireless network is a collection of mobile elements that form a temporary network without 

Ad hoe networks formed by mobile robots equipped whieh ean conununication among themselves through wireless transmission eapabilities is mainly determined by the communieation technology and the specific scenario. 

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The mobility of wireless networks has been widely investigated. However, mostofthese papers focus more on random rather than controlled mobility (Jardosh, 2003). Controlled mobility is now a research area of mobile ad hoc networks (Bracka, et al., 2005). In the following research, the network commimication has been addressed from different perspectives, without following any of these characteristics of mobility would be expected to have in our proposed scenarios. 

The experimental data collection was conducted in the building ofthe College ofTelematics atthe University of Colima, Mexico. The building has two floors, four standard classroom, four auditorium-type classrooms, and seven laboratories. Because Colima is prone to extreme seismicity, present-day constructions are reinforced concrete structures, as is the case of this building. As a first test scenario. 

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