Title: Using Autonomous Robots to Diagnose Wireless Connectivity
Abstract: Due to the proliferation of wireless devices, many wireless users treat wireless connectivity as a black box. When wireless performance does not meet expectations, it can be a frustrating experience to try and resolve wireless issues. Wireless problems are more significant for mobile robots due to strenuous requirements for sustained wireless connectivity while moving [1]. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to understand the cause of wireless problems in real environments. First, wireless signals transmitted across the wireless medium are susceptible to attenuation, interference, and reflections from the surrounding environment and other wireless devices. Second, wireless connectivity depends on decentralized cooperation across heterogeneous devices. As autonomous robots are introduced in our environments, we believe they can be a perfect tool to capture detailed snapshots about our wireless environments to help diagnose wireless connectivity issues. In this paper, we show how these insights helped us to diagnose our robot’s own motionbased wireless connectivity issues.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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