This book introduces various coverage control problems for mobile sensor networks including barrier, sweep and blanket. Unlike many existing algorithms, all of the robotic sensor and actuator motion algorithms developed in the book are fully decentralized or distributed, computationally efficient, easily implementable in engineering practice and based only on information on the closest neighbours of each mobile sensor and actuator and local information about the environment. Moreover, the mobile robotic sensors have no prior information about the environment in which they operation. These various types of coverage problems have never been covered before by a single book in a systematic way.

Another topic of this book is the study of mobile robotic sensor and actuator networks. Many modern engineering applications include the use of sensor and actuator networks to provide efficient and effective monitoring and control of industrial and environmental processes. Such mobile sensor and actuator networks are able to achieve improved performance and efficient monitoring together with reduction in power consumption and production cost.

Andrey Savkin is a professor and Research Chair of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales, Australia since 2000. He received his MS from Leningrad State University, Russia and is currently a part-time PhD student at the same institution . His areas of research include, but are not limited to,  robust control and filtering, hybrid dynamical systems, communication networks, biomedical signal processing, and navigation and control of mobile robotics. Professor Savkin has co-authored several research monographs, and approximately 180 journal papers published by top international journals.