%0 Journal Article %T Controlled Mobility Sensor Networks for Target Tracking Using Ant Colony Optimization %+ Laboratoire Modélisation et Sûreté des Systèmes (LM2S) %+ Laboratoire d'Optimisation des Systèmes Industriels (LOSI) %+ Laboratoire Hippolyte Fizeau (FIZEAU) %A Mourad-Chehade, Farah %A Chehade, Hicham %A Snoussi, Hichem %A Yalaoui, Farouk %A Amodeo, Lionel %A Richard, Cédric %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1536-1233 %J IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing %I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers %V 11 %N 8 %P 1261-1273 %8 2012-08 %D 2012 %R 10.1109/TMC.2011.154 %K Ant colony %K controlled mobility %K interval analysis %K network coverage %K state estimation %K target tracking %Z Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processingJournal articles %X In mobile sensor networks, it is important to manage the mobility of the nodes in order to improve the performances of the network. This paper addresses the problem of single target tracking in controlled mobility sensor networks. The proposed method consists of estimating the current position of a single target. Estimated positions are then used to predict the following location of the target. Once an area of interest is defined, the proposed approach consists of moving the mobile nodes in order to cover it in an optimal way. It thus defines a strategy for choosing the set of new sensors locations. Each node is then assigned one position within the set in the way to minimize the total traveled distance by the nodes. While the estimation and the prediction phases are performed using the interval theory, relocating nodes employs the ant colony optimization algorithm. Simulations results corroborate the efficiency of the proposed method compared to the target tracking methods considered for networks with static nodes. %G English %L hal-02307406 %U https://utt.hal.science/hal-02307406 %~ INSU %~ UNICE %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-TROYES %~ OCA %~ FIZEAU %~ UNIV-COTEDAZUR %~ UTT %~ UTT-LIST3N %~ LOSI %~ LM2S-UTT