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LANdroids

Page history last edited by adam.neville@asu.edu 14 years, 1 month ago
  • Name

 

     LANdroids 

 

  • What is the item

 

Cheap, pocket-sized, intelligent autonomous robotic radio relay nodes, called LANdroids (Local Area Network droids), which work to establish and maintain mesh networks that support voice and data traffic in urban areas.  

 

  • What Horizon is it on

 

Fifth Horizon

This is a stub article.  Please make it better by adding to it!  Especially if you have information that suggests this is closer to deployment.  

 

 

  • Explanation of the item 

 

According to DARPA IPTO:

 

"Communications are essential to warfighters - they enable warfighters to share situational awareness and to stay coordinated with each other and command. Communications are important for voice and data and the importance for data traffic will only increase in the future. The problem is that urban settings hinder communications. Buildings, walls, vehicles, etc., create obstacles that impact the manner in which radio signals propagate. The net result is unreliable communications in these settings, which can leave warfighters, sensors, etc., without the benefit of reach back to command or each other.

 

'This program will help to solve the urban communications problem by creating intelligent autonomous robotic radio relay nodes, called LANdroids (Local Area Network droids), which work to establish and maintain mesh networks that support voice and data traffic. Through autonomous movement and intelligent control algorithms, LANdroids can mitigate many of the communications problems present in urban settings, e.g., relaying signals into shadows and making small adjustments to reduce multi-path effects.

 

"LANdroids will be pocket-sized and inexpensive. The concept of operations is that warfighters will carry several LANdroids, which they drop as needed during deployment. The LANdroids then form the mesh network and work to maintain it - establishing a communications infrastructure that supports the warfighters in that region." (1) http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/ld/ld.asp

 

 

 

  • Photos (if available)

 

Military LANdroids 

 (1) http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/ld/ld.asp 

 

  • Issues

 

 

 

 

  • Sources

 

     (1) http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/ld/ld.asp

 

 

 

This is a stub article.  Please make it better by adding to it!  

 

 

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