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We investigate the terminating grid exploration for autonomous myopic luminous robots. Myopic robots mean that they can observe nodes only within a certain fixed distance, and luminous robots mean that they have light devices that can emit…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Shota Nagahama , Fukuhito Ooshita , Michiko Inoue

We consider systems made of autonomous mobile robots evolving in highly dynamic discrete environment i.e., graphs where edges may appear and disappear unpredictably without any recurrence, stability, nor periodicity assumption. Robots are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Marjorie Bournat , Swan Dubois , Franck Petit

We consider a swarm of $n$ autonomous mobile robots, distributed on a 2-dimensional grid. A basic task for such a swarm is the gathering process: All robots have to gather at one (not predefined) place. A common local model for extremely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Matthias Fischer , Daniel Jung , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

In the gathering problem, n autonomous robots have to meet on a single point. We consider the gathering of a closed chain of point-shaped, anonymous robots on a grid. The robots only have local knowledge about a constant number of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Sebastian Abshoff , Andreas Cord-Landwehr , Daniel Jung , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

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

Consider a set of $n$ mobile entities, called robots, located and operating on a continuous circle, i.e., all robots are initially in distinct locations on a circle. The \textit{gathering} problem asks to design a distributed algorithm that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Satakshi Ghosh , Avisek Sharma , Pritam Goswami , Buddhadeb Sau

The Arbitrary Pattern Formation problem asks for a distributed algorithm that moves a set of autonomous mobile robots to form any arbitrary pattern given as input. The robots are assumed to be autonomous, anonymous and identical. They…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Kaustav Bose , Manash Kumar Kundu , Ranendu Adhikary , Buddhadeb Sau

We consider a team of $k$ identical, oblivious, asynchronous mobile robots that are able to sense (\emph{i.e.}, view) their environment, yet are unable to communicate, and evolve on a constrained path. Previous results in this weak scenario…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-30 Stéphane Devismes , Franck Petit , Sébastien Tixeuil

A swarm of anonymous oblivious mobile robots, operating in deterministic Look-Compute-Move cycles, is confined within a circular track. All robots agree on the clockwise direction (chirality), they are activated by an adversarial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Giuseppe A. Di Luna , Ryuhei Uehara , Giovanni Viglietta , Yukiko Yamauchi

Given a set of $n\geq 1$ unit disk robots in the Euclidean plane, we consider the Pattern Formation problem, i.e., the robots must reposition themselves to form a given target pattern. This problem arises under obstructed visibility, where…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Rusul J. Alsaedi , Joachim Gudmundsson , André van Renssen

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

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

We study a Rendezvous problem for 2 autonomous mobile robots in asynchronous settings with persistent memory called light. It is well known that Rendezvous is impossible when robots have no lights in basic common models, even if the system…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Takashi Okumura , Koichi Wada , Yoshiaki Katayama

Multi-Robot Coverage problems have been extensively studied in robotics, planning and multi-agent systems. In this work, we consider the coverage problem when there are constraints on the proximity (e.g., maximum distance between the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Dolev Mutzari , Yonatan Aumann , Sarit Kraus

Consider a finite set of identical computational entities that can move freely in the Euclidean plane operating in Look-Compute-Move cycles. Let p(t) denote the location of entity p at time t; entity p can see entity q at time t if at that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-02 G. A. Di Luna , P. Flocchini , S. Gan Chaudhuri , F. Poloni , N. Santoro , G. Viglietta

In this paper, we consider the gathering problem of seven autonomous mobile robots on triangular grids. The gathering problem requires that, starting from any connected initial configuration where a subgraph induced by all robot nodes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Masahiro Shibata , Masaki Ohyabu , Yuichi Sudo , Junya Nakamura , Yonghwan Kim , Yoshiaki Katayama

We consider the fundamental benchmarking problem of gathering in an $(N,f)$-fault system consisting of $N$ robots, of which at most $f$ might fail at any execution, under asynchrony. Two seminal results established impossibility of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Subhajit Pramanick , Saswata Jana , Partha Sarathi Mandal , Gokarna Sharma

The mobile robot dispersion problem on graphs asks $k\leq n$ robots placed initially arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node anonymous graph to reposition autonomously to reach a configuration in which each robot is on a distinct node of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

In this paper, we consider the problem of planning a path for a robot to monitor a known set of features of interest in an environment. We represent the environment as a graph with vertex weights and edge lengths. The vertices represent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Soroush Alamdari , Elaheh Fata , Stephen L. Smith

We study the Rendezvous problem for 2 autonomous mobile robots in asynchronous settings with persistent memory called light. It is well known that Rendezvous is impossible in a basic model when robots have no lights, even if the system is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Takashi Okumura , Koichi Wada , Xavier Défago