Welcome to ARRI's Distributed Intelligence & Autonomy Lab (DIAL) webpage.

The mission of the research group is to study distributed autonomous systems for environmental monitoring applications in poorly structured environments. Thanks to powerful lab capabilities (including ground and aerial mobile platforms and sensor motes), a wide variety of experiments are currently being performed to test innovative control algorithms in real-world scenarios.

 

Publications

V. Giordano, P. Ballal, F.L. Lewis, B. Turchiano,  J.B. Zhang, “Supervisory control of mobile sensor networks: math formulation, simulation, implementation,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, Volume 36,  Issue 4,  Aug. 2006 Page(s):806 - 819

V. Giordano, F.L. Lewis, P. Ballal, and B. Turchiano, “Supervisory controller for task management and resource dispatching in mobile wireless sensor networks,” in Cutting Edge Robotics, ed. V. Kordic, 2005.

Tiwari, A., Ballal, P., and Lewis, F. L. 2007. Energy-efficient wireless sensor network design and implementation for condition-based maintenance, ACM Trans. Sens. Netw. 3, 1, Article 1 (March 2007), 23 pages. DOI = 10.1145/1210669.1210670

P. Ballal., A. Trivedi.,  V. Giordano., J. Mireles Jr.,  F. Lewis, "Matrix-based deadlock free dynamic resource assignment in multi-robot systems with multiple missions: Theory and implementation", submitted to Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 2007

P. Ballal, F. Lewis, J. Mireles Jr., K. Sreenath, "Deadlock avoidance for free choice multi-reentrant flow lines: Critical siphons and critical subsystems", submitted to IEEE SMC part A, 2007.

Das A.N., Popa D.O., Ballal P., Lewis F.L., “Data-logging and Supervisory Control in Wireless Sensor Networks”, in ACIS Int’l Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing,  2007, to appear.

P. Dang., P. Ballal., F. Lewis., D. Popa., "Real Time Relative and Absolute Dynamic Localization of Air-Ground Wireless Sensor Networks.," Submitted to the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 2007.

P. Ballal, F. Lewis, J. Mireles Jr., K. Sreenath, "Deadlock avoidance for free choice multi-reentrant flow lines: Critical siphons and critical subsystems", Proc. Mediterranean Conf. Control & Automation, Athens, Greece, June 2007.

 

P. Ballal, V. Giordano, F. Lewis, "Deadlock free dynamic resource assignment in multi-robot systems with multiple missions: a matrix-based approach", Proc. Mediterranean Conf. Control & Automation, Ancona, Italy, June 2006.

P. Ballal, V. Giordano, P. Dang, S. Gorthi, F. Lewis, "A LabView based test-bed with off-the-shelf components for research in mobile sensor networks," Proc. ISIC,  Munich, Germany, October 2006.

V. Giordano, F.L. Lewis, B. Turchiano, P. Ballal, V. Yeshala, “Matrix computational framework for discrete event control of wireless sensor networks with some mobile agents,” Proc. Mediterranean Conf. Control & Automation, Limassol, Cyprus, June 2005. This paper won an award at MED 05. 

D. Popa, F. Lewis, “Deployment of WSN in Adaptive Sampling Applications”', to appear in  Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications, Yingshu Li editor, 2006.

 

D. Popa, A. Sanderson, et.al., “Optimal Sampling using Singular Value Decomposition of the Parameter Variance Space”, in Proc. of IEEE IROS ’05 conference, Edmonton, Canada, August 2005.

 

D. Popa, K. Sreenath, F. Lewis, “Robotic Deployment for Environmental Sampling Applications”, in Proc. Of  IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, Budapest, Hungary, June 2005.

 

D. Popa, A. Sanderson, et. al., “Adaptive Sampling Algorithms for Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles”, in Proc. of 2004 Workshop on Underwater Vehicles, Sebasco Estates, ME, June 2004.

 

D. Popa, C. Helm, H. Stephanou, “Robotic Deployment of Sensor Networks using Potential Fields”, in Proc. of IEEE Int’l Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 2004.

 

Koushil Sreenath, Vincenzo Giordano, Frank Lewis, "Avoiding shared resource conflicts in mobile sensor networks with multiple missions", Submitted to the IEE Proceedings on Control Theory and Applications 2006.

M.F. Mysorewala, D.O. Popa, V. Giordano, F.L. Lewis "Deployment Algorithms and In-Door Experimental Vehicles for studying Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks" submitted to IEEE SWAN 2006 Conf.

M.F. Mysorewala, D.O. Popa, V. Giordano, F.L. Lewis, "Deployment Algorithms and In-Door Experimental Vehicles for Studying Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks", in Proceedings of 2nd ACIS International Workshop on Self-Assembling Wireless Networks (SAWN), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2006.

D. O. Popa, M. F. Mysorewala, F. L. Lewis, "EKF-based Adaptive Sampling with Mobile Robotic Sensor Nodes", to appear in Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Beijing, China, Oct 2006.

D. O. Popa, M. F. Mysorewala, and F. L. Lewis, "Adaptive Sampling using Nonlinear EKF with Mobile Robotic Wireless Sensor Nodes", to appear in Proceedings of  the Ninth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, Dec 2006.

D.O. Popa, M.F. Mysorewala, F.L. Lewis, "Deployment Algorithms and In-Door Experimental Vehicles for Studying Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks", in ACIS Int’l Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2007.