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This work focuses on the following question related to the Gathering problem of $n$ autonomous, mobile robots in the Euclidean plane: Is it possible to solve Gathering of robots that do not agree on any axis of their coordinate systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jannik Castenow , Jonas Harbig , Daniel Jung , Till Knollmann , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

We study the rendezvous problem for two robots moving in the plane (or on a line). Robots are autonomous, anonymous, oblivious, and carry colored lights that are visible to both. We consider deterministic distributed algorithms in which…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-11-28 Giovanni Viglietta

Gathering is a fundamental coordination problem in swarm robotics, where the objective is to bring robots together at a point not known to them at the beginning. While most research focuses on continuous domains, some studies also examine…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Abhinav Chakraborty , Pritam Goswami , Satakshi Ghosh

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

This work deals with the problem of gathering $n$ oblivious mobile entities, called robots, at a point (not known beforehand) placed on an infinite triangular grid. The robots are considered to be myopic, i.e., robots have limited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Pritam Goswami , Avisek Sharma , Satakshi Ghosh , Buddhadeb Sau

This work addresses the gathering problem for a set of autonomous, anonymous, and homogeneous robots with limited visibility operating in a continuous circle. The robots are initially placed at distinct positions, forming a rotationally…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Avisek Sharma , Satakshi Ghosh , Buddhadeb Sau

RecentadvancesinDistributedComputinghighlightmodelsandalgo- rithms for autonomous swarms of mobile robots that self-organize and cooperate to solve global objectives. The overwhelming majority of works so far considers handmade algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Laure Millet , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Nathalie Sznajder , Sébastien Tixeuil

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

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

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

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

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

In this paper, we study the problem of gathering distance-1 myopic robots on an infinite triangular grid. We show that the algorithm developed by Goswami et al. (SSS, 2022) is lattice-linear (cf. Gupta and Kulkarni, SRDS 2023). This implies…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Arya Tanmay Gupta , Sandeep S Kulkarni

This paper studies the gathering problem for a set of $N \ge 2$ autonomous mobile robots operating in the Euclidean plane under the distributed Look-Compute-Move model. We consider oblivious robots executing under the adversarial defected…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Prakhar Shukla , Seshunadh Tanuj Peddinti , Subhash Bhagat

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

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

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

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

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 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