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Overview

Andreas Willig is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and has contributed extensively to research in computer science and engineering. Their publication record spans core fields such as computer networks, aerospace engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering, with a strong focus on topics intersecting robotics and communications.

Their recent scholarly work covers various areas of interest, including opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), UAV applications and optimization, robotic path planning algorithms, distributed control multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning in robotics, and robotics and sensor-based localization.

Notable publications authored or coauthored by Andreas Willig include:

  • "An Information-Motivated Exploration Agent to Locate Stationary Persons with Wireless Transmitters in Unknown Environments," 2021, Sensors
  • "A beginner's guide to infrastructure-less networking concepts," 2023, IET Networks
  • "Guest Editorial: Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems-New Trends in Computing and Communications," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • "DCP and VarDis: An ad-hoc protocol stack for dynamic swarms and formations of drones," 2024, Computer Communications
  • "Sensorless and Coordination-Free Lane Switching on a Drone Road Segment-A Simulation Study," 2022, Drones

Andreas Willig frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Samuel Pell
  • Anna Förster
  • Zhouyu Qu
  • Daniel Barry
  • Graeme Woodward

Their work is regularly published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, Sensors, Computer Communications, and IET Networks. These outlets reflect the broad scope of their research interests from preprint repositories to peer-reviewed journals in engineering and computer science.

Main fields of study represented in their portfolio are:

  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

Their subfields of study include:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Andreas Willig's research covers significant topics such as:

  • Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
  • Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
  • UAV Applications and Optimization
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization

Best Publications

  • Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks

    Holger Karl;Andreas Willig

  • Recent and Emerging Topics in Wireless Industrial Communications: A Selection

    A. Willig

  • Wireless Technology in Industrial Networks

    A. Willig;K. Matheus;A. Wolisz

  • Measurements of a wireless link in an industrial environment using an IEEE 802.11-compliant physical layer

    A. Willig;M. Kubisch;C. Hoene;A. Wolisz

  • TWIST: a scalable and reconfigurable testbed for wireless indoor experiments with sensor networks

    Vlado Handziski;Andreas Köpke;Andreas Willig;Adam Wolisz

  • A short survey of wireless sensor networks

    Holger Karl;Andreas Willig;Adam Wolisz

  • The Triangle Metric: Fast Link Quality Estimation for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

    Carlo Alberto Boano;Marco Antonio Zuniga;Thiemo Voigt;Andreas Willig

  • Polling-based MAC protocols for improving real-time performance in a wireless PROFIBUS

    A. Willig

  • Chaotic maps as parsimonious bit error models of wireless channels

    A. Kopke;A. Willig;H. Karl

  • A new class of packet- and bit-level models for wireless channels

    A. Willig

  • Ring stability of the PROFIBUS token-passing protocol over error-prone links

    A. Willig;A. Wolisz

  • An architecture for wireless extension of PROFIBUS

    A. Willig

  • Data Transport Reliability in Wireless Sensor Networks. A Survey of Issues and Solutions

    Andreas Willig;Holger Karl

  • Guest Editorial Special Section on Wireless Technologies in Factory and Industrial Automation—Part II

    Daniele Miorandi;Elisabeth Uhlemann;Stefano Vitturi;Andreas Willig

  • Mitigating the effects of RF interference through RSSI-Based error recovery

    Jan-Hinrich Hauer;Andreas Willig;Adam Wolisz

  • Redundancy concepts to increase transmission reliability in wireless industrial LANs

    A. Willig

  • Wireless sensor networks: concept, challenges and approaches

    Andreas Willig

  • Retransmission strategies for cyclic polling over wireless channels in the presence of interference

    Giovanni Gamba;Federico Tramarin;Andreas Willig

  • A Short Introduction to Queueing Theory

    Andreas Willig

  • The Triangle Metric: Fast Link Quality Estimationfor Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (Invited Paper)

    Carlo Alberto Boano;Marco Zuniga;Thiemo Voigt;Andreas Willig

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Wolisz
Adam Wolisz Technical University of Berlin
Holger Karl
Holger Karl Hasso Plattner Institute
Kay Römer
Kay Römer Graz University of Technology
thiemo voigt
thiemo voigt Uppsala University
James Gross
James Gross Royal Institute of Technology
Jan M. Rabaey
Jan M. Rabaey University of California, Berkeley
Ryuji Kohno
Ryuji Kohno Yokohama National University

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