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We investigate gathering algorithms for asynchronous autonomous mobile robots moving in uniform ring-shaped networks. Different from most work using the Look-Compute-Move (LCM) model, we assume that robots have limited visibility and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Sayaka Kamei , Anissa Lamani , Fukuhito Ooshita , Sébastien Tixeuil , Koichi Wada

The \textsc{Mutual Visibility} is a well-known problem in the context of mobile robots. For a set of $n$ robots disposed in the Euclidean plane, it asks for moving the robots without collisions so as to achieve a placement ensuring that no…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Serafino Cicerone , Alessia Di Fonso , Gabriele Di Stefano , Alfredo Navarra

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

Consider a group of autonomous mobile computational entities called robots. The robots move in the Euclidean plane and operate according to synchronous $Look$-$Compute$-$Move$ cycles. The computational capabilities of the robots under the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Archak Das , Satakshi Ghosh , Avisek Sharma , Pritam Goswami , Buddhadeb Sau

This paper proposes a distributed algorithm for a set of tiny unit disc shaped robot to form a straight line. The robots are homoge- neous, autonomous, anonymous. They observe their surrounding up to a certain distance, compute destinations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Arijit Sil , Sruti Gan Chaudhuri

This study addresses the problem of "Circle Formation on an Infinite Grid by Fat Robots" ($CF\_FAT\_GRID$). Unlike prior work focused solely on point robots in discrete domain, it introduces fat robots to circle formation on an infinite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Pritam Goswami , Manash Kumar Kundu , Satakshi Ghosh , Buddhadeb Sau

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

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

In this paper we study the Near-Gathering problem for a finite set of dimensionless, deterministic, asynchronous, anonymous, oblivious and autonomous mobile robots with limited visibility moving in the Euclidean plane in Look-Compute-Move…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Linda Pagli , Giuseppe Prencipe , Giovanni 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 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

This paper proposes a distributed algorithm which deterministically gathers n (n > 4) asynchronous, fat robots. The robots are assumed to be transparent and they have full visibility. The robots are initially considered to be stationary. A…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Sruti Gan Chaudhuri , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

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

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

We deal with a set of autonomous robots moving on an infinite grid. Those robots are opaque, have limited visibility capabilities, and run using synchronous Look-Compute-Move cycles. They all agree on a common chirality, but have no global…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Quentin Bramas , Stephane Devismes , Pascal Lafourcade

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

In the field of distributed computing by robot swarms, the research comprehends manifold models where robots operate in the Euclidean plane through a sequence of look-compute-move cycles. Models under study differ for (i) the possibility of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Caterina Feletti , Lucia Mambretti , Carlo Mereghetti , Beatrice Palano

Arbitrary Pattern formation ($\mathcal{APF}$) by a swarm of mobile robots is a widely studied problem in the literature. Many works regarding $\mathcal{APF}$ have been proposed on plane and infinite grid by point robots. But in practical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Manash Kumar Kundu , Pritam Goswami , Satakshi Ghosh , Buddhadeb Sau

We investigate exploration algorithms for autonomous mobile robots evolving in uniform ring-shaped networks. Different from the usual Look-Compute-Move (LCM) model, we consider two characteristics: myopia and luminosity. Myopia means each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Fukuhito Ooshita , Sébastien Tixeuil