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Newsletter issue #16
2012's first newsletter contains on the SPINE2 framework, co-operative Air Traffic Management, the makeSende project and SCHNEIDER's member profile.
Call for Papers: CONET 2012
The Third International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects is organized again by CONET and will be co-located with CPSWeek 2012. Submission deadline is January 30th, 2012.
EWSN 2012/CONET Master and PhD Thesis Awards
*** Extended deadline for applications: December 31st, 2011 *** The Chairs of the 9th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2012) and the CONET Consortium are pleased to announce the Master and PhD Thesis Award...
VSTL
| Testbed Name | Vehicle Swarm Technology Laboratory (VSTL) | |
| Operational Status | Stable and running | |
| Institution | Boeing Phantom Works | |
| Public Website | http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/brief/pw.html | |
| Contact Person Name | John Vian | |
| Contact Person E-mail | john.vian AT boeing.com | |
| Technology Focus | Wireless Sensor Networks, Autonomous Robots, Integration and demonstration of complex coupled systems | |
| Deployment Scenario | Indoor continuous space (e.g.: sport hall) | |
| Deployment Pattern | air and ground mobile vehicle nodes | |
| Mobility Support | Fixed nodes, Mobile nodes | |
| Total Number of Supported Nodes | 20 | |
| Horizontal Node Spacing | 16 by 32 meters open floor | |
| Vertical Node Spacing | 6.5 meter ceiling | |
| Variability of Supported SUT Platforms | Multiple - heterogeneous SUT | |
| Primary SUT Platform | Zigbee and BT (on quadrotor, co-axial helicopter, singe-blade helicopter, tracked ground vehicle, wheeled ground vehicle, wall-climbing robot, and fixed-wing airplanes) | |
| Number of Nodes from the Primary SUT Platform | over 20 mobile vehicles | |
| Additional SUT Platform | BTnode | |
| Number of Nodes from the Additional SUT Platform | ||
| SUT Sensors | Temperature, Visible light, Sound, Ultrasound, Cameras, GPS, Robostix/Gumstix and PICs for on-board interface to multiple sensor types. | |
| SUT Actuators | LED, Ultrasound, Position (node mobility), electric motors and manipulators | |
| Power Supply of SUT Nodes | Battery, Power over USB, Mains powered, fuel cell | |
| Control/Monitoring Plane Separation | Out-of-band (the control/monitoring plane uses separate medium/channel from the SUT) | |
| Control/Monitoring Plane Communication Technologies | 802.15.4, Bluetooth, WLAN, USB, Ethernet, Serial (RS-232), firewire, 915Mhz data, 2.4Ghz and 5.8 Ghz cameras | |
| Control/Monitoring Plane Architecture | Hierarchical and distributed (connection via set of secondary nodes / micro-servers which are then connected to the main "controlling" entity/server | |
| Control/Monitoring Plane Gateway Platforms | BTnode, Laptop PC, Desktop PC, standard wireless routers | |
| Job Execution Model | Batch (automatic execution of jobs without user intervention), Interactive (direct user control over the job execution process) | |
| Job Concurrency | Concurrency per platform type (concurrent jobs have to use different SUT node platforms), Concurrency per node ID (concurrent jobs have to use different sets of node IDs), Concurrency per comm channel (concurrent jobs have to use different sets of communication channels) | |
| Job Registration and Scheduling Interface | Web UI, GUI client, Programmable Client APIs | |
| Authentication and Authorization Architecture | Basic HTTP authorization, UPD and custom server app | |
| Job Control Interface | Custom RPC/RMI in Java, Custom RPC/RMI in Python, Custom RPC/RMI in C++, Custom shell script / ssh command automation | |
| SUT Node Control Services | Power cycling, Resetting, Image programming, Image erasing, Data collection, Data injection, Power consumption monitoring, systems health monitoring | |
| SUT Data Access | Direct raw access to the serial/secondary channel output of the SUT nodes, Direct raw access to the serial/secondary channel input of the SUT nodes, Indirect access to serial/secondary channel via client library APIs, Indirect access to serial/secondary channel via "shell" abstraction, Indirect access to serial/secondary channel via data persistence on the server | |
| SUT Data Persistence | File-system storage in raw text format | |
| Time Stamping Services | Distributed time-stamping using time synchronized control/monitoring plane (time stamping at the micro-server/secondary node level that are globally synchronized using a service like NTP or FTSP) | |
| Integration with Simulators and Emulators | Integration of simulated nodes in the testbed run (e.g.: emulation of interaction between real and simulated nodes), Integration of testbed nodes in a simulation run (e.g.: use of real comm interfaces from the testbed nodes while simulating the SW stack in a simulator), virtual enviroment game engine | |
| Remote Use Policy | Free access for (project) partners | |