Localisation and Communication for Autonomous Deci-Zebros: Localisation and System Integration

This document describes the Bachelor Graduation Project of the Communication and System integration group of the Zebro Localisation and Communication Module. The module has been designed for a Zebro which is a six legged robot with the purpose of working in swarm-related behaviour. To make this behaviour possible a new Localisation module for...

Hardware acceleration of simulations of distributed systems

In recent years the study of complex systems gained prominence. Since it is usually difficult to use classical mathematic models to understand these systems, scientists and engineers have to resort to simulations. Currently programming languages like CUDA C and OpenCL are available to run large scale simulations on a GPU architecture....

Automatic Discovery of Distributed Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems

In recent years, large-scale systems have become mainstream at a very high pace. Typical examples of large-scale systems are MANETs, Wireless Sensor Networks, Pervasive Computing, Swarm Robotics, etc. These systems distinguish them- selves by the large number of devices they embody, and emergent behaviors they exhibit: Behavior that is globally...

Offloading mobile data traffic to Wi-Fi through MASS-ANET: Mobile assisted ad-hoc networking

Massive sales of smartphones and tablets have enabled more people to access the internet with a 3G connection than ever before. Predictions indicate an exponential growth of mobile data traffic world-wide reaching 6.3 exabytes per month by 2015, a 26-fold increase over 2010. Unfortunately, the current infrastructure will not be able to meet...