Showing papers on "Kismet published in 2008"

The huggable robot probo: design of the robotic head

Abstract: Probo is a social robot intended to be used with children in a hospital environment. Its operational goals are to provide children with information, moral support and comfort in a possible difficult time. This paper reports on the early stages in the development of the expressive huggable robot Probo with potential applications for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Robot-Assisted Therapy (RAT). Drawing on research in social communication, the robot-head, capable of displaying basic emotions, is designed and the design is compared with that of other social robots such as Kismet, Eddie and iCat. Some design criteria and their influence on the actual design are highlighted. This leads to a 17 Degrees of Freedom (DOF) modular non-anthropomorphic soft actuated robotic head.

Kismet Hacking

Abstract: Kismet is the industry standard for examining wireless network traffic, and is used by over 250,000 security professionals, wireless networking enthusiasts, and WarDriving hobbyists. Unlike other wireless networking books that have been published in recent years that geared towards Windows users, Kismet Hacking is geared to those individuals that use the Linux operating system. People who use Linux and want to use wireless tools need to use Kismet. Now with the introduction of Kismet NewCore, they have a book that will answer all their questions about using this great tool. This book continues in the successful vein of books for wireless users such as WarDriving: Drive, Detect Defend. *Wardrive Running Kismet from the BackTrack Live CD *Build and Integrate Drones with your Kismet Server *Map Your Data with GPSMap, KisMap, WiGLE and GpsDrive

Chapter 8 – Kismet Drones

Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on building drones for Kismet, various ways that they can be used, and how to integrate them with Kismet server. Kismet supports an installation of remote, dumb sensors called drones. Drones sniff data from the air and send it down to the server. Kismet can handle several of these and they don't need to be powerful systems. A drone needs a compatible network device that can support monitor mode, a device resembling a CPU that can run a very basic Linux and the drone software, and a backhaul method to get the captured data to the server. A Kismet drone can be run on any type of system, from full, modern PC to small-embedded computers, and everything in between. Kismet is built with x86 systems in mind, but ARM, MIPS, and other processors are possible to use as well. Configurations for drones in Kismet can be set up from the Kismet.conf file on laptop/workstation to use source=kismet_drone, :3501,drone. Currently, drones are a pull-type connection. When the server starts, it connects to all the drones listed as source= lines and requests data to be sent, and if the drone is functional, it does so. The current architecture of Kismet does not support dynamically adding sources beyond the startup of the server. This means that if a drone goes down, one has to restart the whole server to bring it back up.