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We study the Gathering problem for n autonomous mobile robots in semi-synchronous settings with persistent memory called light. It is well known that Gathering is impossible in a basic model when robots have no lights, if the system is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Satoshi Terai , Koichi Wada , Yoshiaki Katayama

We present an algorithm that ensures in finite time the gathering of two robots in the non-rigid ASYNC model. To circumvent established impossibility results, we assume robots are equipped with 2-colors lights and are able to measure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Adam Heriban , Xavier Défago , Sébastien Tixeuil

An autonomous mobile robot system consisting of many mobile computational entities (called robots) attracts much attention of researchers, and to clarify the relation between the capabilities of robots and solvability of the problems is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Yonghwan Kim , Masahiro Shibata , Yuichi Sudo , Junya Nakamura , Yoshiaki Katayama , Toshimitsu Masuzawa

In the field of swarm robotics, one of the most studied problem is Gathering. It asks for a distributed algorithm that brings the robots to a common location, not known in advance. We consider the case of robots constrained to move along…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Serafino Cicerone , Alessia Di Fonso , Gabriele Di Stefano , Alfredo Navarra

Consider a system of autonomous mobile robots initially randomly deployed on the nodes of an anonymous finite grid. A gathering algorithm is a sequence of moves to be executed independently by each robot so that all robots meet at a single…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Kaustav Bose , Ranendu Adhikary , Sruti Gan Chaudhuri , Buddhadeb Sau

The problem of gathering multiple mobile robots to a single location, is one of the fundamental problems in distributed coordination between autonomous robots. The problem has been studied and solved even for robots that are anonymous,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Zohir Bouzid , Shantanu Das , Sébastien Tixeuil

In this work we consider the problem of gathering autonomous robots in the plane. In particular, we consider non-transparent unit-disc robots (i.e., fat) in an asynchronous setting. Vision is the only mean of coordination. Using a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Chrysovalandis Agathangelou , Chryssis Georgiou , Marios Mavronicolas

We consider the classical problem of making mobile processes gather or converge at a same position (as performed by swarms of animals in Nature). Existing works assume that each process can see all other processes, or all processes within a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Rachid Guerraoui , Alexandre Maurer

The Gathering problem for a swarm of robots asks for a distributed algorithm that brings such entities to a common place, not known in advance. We consider the well-known OBLOT model with robots constrained to move along the edges of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Serafino Cicerone , Alessia Di Fonso , Gabriele Di Stefano , Alfredo Navarra

Robots with very limited capabilities are placed on the vertices of a graph and are required to move toward a single, common vertex, where they remain stationary once they arrive. This task is referred to as the GATHERING problem. Most of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Alfredo Navarra , Francesco Piselli

We study the problem \emph{Gathering} for $n$ autonomous mobile robots in synchronous settings with a persistent memory called \emph{light}. It is well known that Gathering is impossible in the basic model ($OBLOT$) where robots have no…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kohei Otaka , Fabian Frei , Koichi Wada

In this paper we address the complexity issues of two agreement problems in oblivious robot networks namely gathering and scattering. These abstractions are fundamental coordination problems in cooperative mobile robotics. Moreover, their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-07-14 Julien Clement , Xavier Defago , Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru , Stephane Messika

This paper revisits the widely researched \textit{gathering} problem for two robots in a scenario which allows randomization in the asynchronous scheduling model. The scheduler is considered to be the adversary which determines the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Debasish Pattanayak , John Augustine , Partha Sarathi Mandal

We consider a Gathering problem for n autonomous mobile robots with persistent memory called light in an asynchronous scheduler (ASYNC). It is well known that Gathering is impossible when robots have no lights in basic common models, if the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-10 R. Nakai , Y. Sudo , K. Wada

We consider a set of k autonomous robots that are endowed with visibility sensors (but that are otherwise unable to communicate) and motion actuators. Those robots must collaborate to reach a sin- gle vertex that is unknown beforehand, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-02 Sayaka Kamei , Anissa Lamani , Fukuhito Ooshita , Sébastien Tixeuil

The traditional distributed model of autonomous, homogeneous, mobile point robots usually assumes that the robots do not create any visual obstruction for the other robots, i.e., the robots are see through. In this paper, we consider a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-12 S. Bhagat , S. Gan Chaudhuri , K. Mukhopadhyaya

In this paper, we have considered two fully synchronous $\mathcal{OBLOT}$ robots having no agreement on coordinates entering a finite unoriented grid through a door vertex at a corner, one by one. There is a resource that can move around…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Pritam Goswami , Avisek Sharma , Satakshi Ghosh , Buddhadeb Sau

There has been a wide interest in designing distributed algorithms for tiny robots. In particular, it has been shown that the robots can complete certain tasks even in the presence of faulty robots. In this paper, we focus on gathering of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Debasish Pattanayak , Kaushik Mondal , H. Ramesh , Partha Sarathi Mandal

We consider a swarm of mobile robots evolving in a bidimensional Euclidean space. We study a variant of the crash-tolerant gathering problem: if no robot crashes, robots have to meet at the same arbitrary location, not known beforehand, in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Quentin Bramas , Anissa Lamani , Sébastien Tixeuil

We propose a gathering protocol for an even number of robots in a ring-shaped network that allows symmetric but not periodic configurations as initial configurations, yet uses only local weak multiplicity detection. Robots are assumed to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-01 Sayaka Kamei , Anissa Lamani , Fukuhito Ooshita , Sébastien Tixeuil