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The \textsc{Mutual Visibility} is a well-known problem in the context of mobile robots. For a set of $n$ robots disposed in the Euclidean plane, it asks for moving the robots without collisions so as to achieve a placement ensuring that no…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Serafino Cicerone , Alessia Di Fonso , Gabriele Di Stefano , Alfredo Navarra

We consider the problem of constructing a maximum independent set with mobile myopic luminous robots on a grid network whose size is finite but unknown to the robots. In this setting, the robots enter the grid network one-by-one from a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Sayaka Kamei , Sébastien Tixeuil

We study the \textit{min-sum uniform coverage} problem for a swarm of $n$ mobile robots on a given finite line segment and on a circle having finite positive radius, where the circle is given as an input. The robots must coordinate their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Animesh Maiti , Abhinav Chakraborty , Bibhuti Das , Subhash Bhagat , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

We consider a strong variant of the crash fault-tolerant gathering problem called stand-up indulgent gathering (SUIG), by robots endowed with limited visibility sensors and lights on line-shaped networks. In this problem, a group of mobile…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Quentin Bramas , Hirotsugu Kakugawa , Sayaka Kamei , Anissa Lamani , Fukuhito Ooshita , Masahiro Shibata , Sébastien Tixeuil

In this paper we investigate the computational power of a set of mobile robots with limited visibility. At each iteration, a robot takes a snapshot of its surroundings, uses the snapshot to compute a destination point, and it moves toward…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Giuseppe A. Di Luna , Paola Flocchini , Nicola Santoro , Giovanni Viglietta

Multi-robot rendezvous and exploration are fundamental challenges in the domain of mobile robotic systems. This paper addresses multi-robot rendezvous within an initially unknown environment where communication is only possible after the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Mauro Tellaroli , Matteo Luperto , Michele Antonazzi , Nicola Basilico

In the existing literature of the Mutual Visibility problem for autonomous robot swarms, the adopted visibility models have some idealistic assumptions that are not consistent with practical sensing device implementations. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Kaustav Bose , Abhinav Chakraborty , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

This paper addresses the problem of Uniform Circle Formation by n > 1 transparent disc robots (fat robots). The robots execute repetitive cycles of the states look-compute-move in semi-synchronous manner where a set of robots execute the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Moumita Mondal , Sruti Gan Chaudhuri

Robotic Exploration has evolved rapidly in the past two decades as new and more complex techniques have been created to explore unknown regions efficiently. Exciting advancements in exploration, autonomous navigation, and sensor technology…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Akanimoh Adeleye

Embodied computer vision considers perception for robots in novel, unstructured environments. Of particular importance is the embodied visual exploration problem: how might a robot equipped with a camera scope out a new environment? Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Santhosh K. Ramakrishnan , Dinesh Jayaraman , Kristen Grauman

Autonomous exploration allows mobile robots to navigate in initially unknown territories in order to build complete representations of the environments. In many real-life applications, environments often contain dynamic obstacles which can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Valentina Cavinato , Thomas Eppenberger , Dina Youakim , Roland Siegwart , Renaud Dubé

Path planning for multiple robots is well studied in the AI and robotics communities. For a given discretized environment, robots need to find collision-free paths to a set of specified goal locations. Robots can be fully anonymous,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Wolfgang Hönig , T. K. Satish Kumar , Liron Cohen , Hang Ma , Sven Koenig , Nora Ayanian

We consider the problem of searching for an intruder in a geometric domain by utilizing multiple search robots. The domain is a simply connected orthogonal polygon with edges parallel to the cartesian coordinate axes. Each robot has a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Swadhin Agrawal , Sujoy Bhore , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , P. B. Sujit , Aayush Gohil

In this paper, the parking problem of a swarm of mobile robots has been studied. The robots are deployed at the nodes of an infinite grid, which has a subset of prefixed nodes marked as parking nodes. Each parking node p_i has a capacity of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Abhinav Chakraborty , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

The Meeting problem for $k\geq 2$ searchers in a polygon $P$ (possibly with holes) consists in making the searchers move within $P$, according to a distributed algorithm, in such a way that at least two of them eventually come to see each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Giuseppe A. Di Luna , Paola Flocchini , Nicola Santoro , Giovanni Viglietta , Masafumi Yamashita

A mobile robot represented by a point moving in the plane has to explore an unknown terrain with obstacles. Both the terrain and the obstacles are modeled as arbitrary polygons. We consider two scenarios: the unlimited vision, when the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Jurek Czyzowicz , David Ilcinkas , Arnaud Labourel , Andrzej Pelc

Control of systems operating in unexplored environments is challenging due to lack of complete model knowledge. Additionally, under measurement noises, data collected from onboard sensors are of limited accuracy. This paper considers…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Dantong Ge , Melkior Ornik , Ufuk Topcu

In the dispersion problem, a set of $k$ co-located mobile robots must relocate themselves in distinct nodes of an unknown network. The network is modeled as an anonymous graph $G=(V,E)$, where the nodes of the graph are not labeled. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Barun Gorain , Partha Sarathi Mandal , Kaushik Mondal , Supantha Pandit

In this paper, we study the problem of exploring an unknown Region Of Interest (ROI) with a team of aerial robots. The size and shape of the ROI are unknown to the robots. The objective is to find a tour for each robot such that each point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Yoonchang Sung , Deeksha Dixit , Pratap Tokekar

Given a set of $n\geq 1$ unit disk robots in the Euclidean plane, we consider the fundamental problem of providing mutual visibility to them: the robots must reposition themselves to reach a configuration where they all see each other. This…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Rusul J. Alsaedi , Joachim Gudmundsson , André van Renssen