Mobility in MANET Using Robot: A Review Farkhana Muchtar 1,2(&) , Abdul Hanan Abdullah 1 , Siti Nor Zawani Ahmmad 3 , and Yugal Kumar 4 1 Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia farkhana2@live.utm.my, farkhana@gmail.com, hanan@utm.my 2 School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Gelugor, Penang, Malaysia 3 Instrumentation and Control Engineering, University Kuala Lumpur, MITEC, Persiaran Sinaran Ilmu, Bandar Seri Alam, 81750 Masai, Johor, Malaysia sitinorzawani@unikl.edu.my 4 Department of Science and Engineering and Information Technology, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan 173234, Himachal Pradesh, India yugal.kumar@juit.ac.in Abstract. Recently, MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc Network) researchers have shown increased interest towards using mobile robot technology for their testbed platforms. Despite the existence of articles that discuss the usage of mobile robot technology pertaining to MANET testbed from the perspective of MANET researcher, the discussion provided in the papers are rather lacklustre as it is not the sole purpose of those articles. Hence, this review aims to discuss MANET testbeds that were facilitated with mobile robot technology from previous undertaken researches. With the wealth of information provided in this paper, it is hoped that this paper will be the ultimate source of reference for other MANET researchers who need to choose the most suitable mobile robots with real mobility in their MANET testbeds. Keywords: Mobile Ad Hoc Network Á MANET testbed Á Mobile robot Real mobility 1 Introduction Recently, MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc Network) researchers have shown increased interest toward using mobile robot technology for their testbed platforms. As a result, many prior research papers have produced considerable amount of articles that encompasses myriad aspects of discussions on MANET testbed with real mobility as part of their review. Upon observation, similarities from all these previous articles can be deduced and it was found that all of these previous review articles comprised in their discussion section, the inclusion of either one or more of the issues mentioned below: i. reported researches on MANET technology that was used as a backbone to a communication network of multiple mobile robots e.g. CENTIBOTS [1–5], Robomote [6–10] and Mobile Multirobot Systems [11, 23]. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 P. K. Singh et al. (Eds.): FTNCT 2018, CCIS 958, pp. 304–324, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3804-5_23