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We consider the gathering problem for asynchronous and oblivious robots that cannot communicate explicitly with each other, but are endowed with visibility sensors that allow them to see the positions of the other robots. Most of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Sayaka Kamei , Anissa Lamani , Fukuhito Ooshita , Sebastien Tixeuil , Koichi Wada

A team consisting of an unknown number of mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an unknown network, have to meet at the same node and terminate. This problem is known as {\em gathering}. We study deterministic gathering algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Andrzej Pelc

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 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

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

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

A team consisting of an unknown number of mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an unknown network, possibly at different times, have to meet at the same node. Agents are anonymous (identical), execute the same deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Yoann Dieudonné , Andrzej Pelc

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

We present a new algorithm for the problem of universal gathering mobile oblivious robots (that is, starting from any initial configuration that is not bivalent, using any number of robots, the robots reach in a finite number of steps the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Pierre Courtieu , Lionel Rieg , Sébastien Tixeuil , Xavier Urbain

We consider the federated learning problem where data on workers are not independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.). During the learning process, an unknown number of Byzantine workers may send malicious messages to the central node,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jie Peng , Zhaoxian Wu , Qing Ling , Tianyi Chen

It has been known since the early 1980s that Byzantine Agreement in the full information, asynchronous model is impossible to solve deterministically against even one crash fault [FLP85], but that it can be solved with probability 1…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Shang-En Huang , Seth Pettie , Leqi Zhu

A graph environment must be explored by a collection of mobile robots. Some of the robots, a priori unknown, may turn out to be unreliable. The graph is weighted and each node is assigned a deadline. The exploration is successful if each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Jurek Czyzowicz , Maxime Godon , Evangelos Kranakis , Arnaud Labourel , Euripides Markou

We consider n robots with limited visibility: each robot can observe other robots only up to a constant distance denoted as the viewing range. The robots operate in discrete rounds that are either fully synchronous (FSync) or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Jannik Castenow , Thorsten Götte , Till Knollmann , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

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

In this paper, we consider the partial gathering problem of mobile agents in asynchronous unidirectional rings equipped with whiteboards on nodes. The partial gathering problem is a new generalization of the total gathering problem. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Masahiro Shibata , Shinji Kawai , Fukuhito Ooshita , Hirotsugu Kakugawa , Toshimitsu Masuzawa

Suppose we are sending out $k$ robots from $0$ to search the real line at constant speed (with turns) to find a target at an unknown location; $f$ of the robots are faulty, meaning that they fail to report the target although visiting its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Andrey Kupavskii , Emo Welzl

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

Anonymous mobile robots are often classified into synchronous, semi-synchronous and asynchronous robots when discussing the pattern formation problem. For semi-synchronous robots, all patterns formable with memory are also formable without…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Taisuke Izumi , Samia Souissi , Yoshiaki Katayama , Nobuhiro Inuzuka , Xavier Défago , Koichi Wada , Masafumi Yamashita

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

Gracefully degrading algorithms [Biely \etal, TCS 2018] are designed to circumvent impossibility results in dynamic systems by adapting themselves to the dynamics. Indeed, such an algorithm solves a given problem under some dynamics and,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Marjorie Bournat , Swan Dubois , Franck Petit