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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 consider the following variant of the two dimensional gathering problem for swarms of robots: Given a swarm of $n$ indistinguishable, point shaped robots on a two dimensional grid. Initially, the robots form a closed chain on the grid…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Sebastian Abshoff , Andreas Cord-Landwehr , Matthias Fischer , Daniel Jung , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

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

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 consider the problem of filling an unknown area represented by an arbitrary connected graph of $n$ vertices by mobile luminous robots. In this problem, the robots enter the graph one-by-one through a specific vertex, called the Door, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Attila Hideg , Tamas Lukovszki

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

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

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

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

The gathering over meeting nodes problem asks the robots to gather at one of the pre-defined meeting nodes. The robots are deployed on the nodes of an anonymous two-dimensional infinite grid which has a subset of nodes marked as meeting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Subhash Bhagat , Abhinav Chakraborty , Bibhuti Das , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

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

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 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

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

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of scattering a swarm of mobile oblivious robots in a continuous space. We consider the fully asynchronous setting where robots may base their computation on past observations, or may be observed by…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Ulysse Léchine , Sébastien Tixeuil

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

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

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

We study the {\sc Uniform Circle Formation} ({\sc UCF}) problem for a swarm of $n$ autonomous mobile robots operating in \emph{Look-Compute-Move} (LCM) cycles on the Euclidean plane. We assume our robots are \emph{luminous}, i.e. embedded…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Caterina Feletti , Debasish Pattanayak , Gokarna Sharma