While I was trained as a Nuclear Fusion Scientist and spent nearly two decades working on Nuclear Fusion in USA and India, I moved to Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of ICT(DA-IICT), Gandhinagar in Gujarat in the summer of 2002 as Professor to enlarge my area of work. Considering the focus areas of DA-IICT, I felt that I could work on Robotics to help manage the remote control requirements of Nuclear Fusion Reactors. As I was going through the literature on Robotics, I started to see the scope of a group of Robots linked by communication and working in a cooperative manner. From here I stumbled upon the concept of Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) or Sensor Network.
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