Mobility Diversity-Assisted Wireless Communication for Mobile Robots

Mobile robots that wish to communicate wirelessly often suffer from fading channels. They need to devise an energy-efficient strategy to search for a high-channel-gain position in a near vicinity from which to begin communications. Such a strategy has recently been introduced through the mobility diversity with multithreshold algorithm (MDMTA). In this paper, we establish the theoretical framework for a generalized version of the MDMTA. This allows improved wireless communications in fading channels for mobile robots via intelligent robotic motion with low mechanical energy expenditure.

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