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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

We study an elementary problem of the topological robotics: collective motion of a set of $n$ distinct particles which one has to move from an initial configuration to a final configuration, with the requirement that no collisions occur in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Farber , Sergey Yuzvinsky

We present a multimodal traffic light state detection using vision and sound, from the viewpoint of a quadruped robot navigating in urban settings. This is a challenging problem because of the visual occlusions and noise from robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sagar Gupta , Akansel Cosgun

A fundamental problem in Distributed Computing is the Pattern Formation problem, where some independent mobile entities, called robots, have to rearrange themselves in such a way as to form a given figure from every possible…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Marcello Mamino , Giovanni Viglietta

We study the Symmetric Rendezvous Search Problem for a multi-robot system. There are $n>2$ robots arbitrarily located on a line. Their goal is to meet somewhere on the line as quickly as possible. The robots do not know the initial location…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Deniz Ozsoyeller , Pratap Tokekar

We present a deep reinforcement learning-based framework for automatically discovering patterns available in any given initial configuration of fat robot swarms. In particular, we model the problem of collision-less gathering and mutual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Nelson Sharma , Aswini Ghosh , Rajiv Misra , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Gokarna Sharma

The paper details the first successful attempt at using model-checking techniques to verify the correctness of distributed algorithms for robots evolving in a \emph{continuous} environment. The study focuses on the problem of rendezvous of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Xavier Défago , Adam Heriban , Sébastien Tixeuil , Koichi Wada

There are few industries which use manually controlled robots for carrying material and this cannot be used all the time in all the places. So, it is very tranquil to have robots which can follow a specific human by following the unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sai Nikhil Gona , Prithvi Raj Bandhakavi

Two cooperating, autonomous mobile robots with arbitrary nonzero max speeds are placed at arbitrary initial positions in the plane. A remotely detonated bomb is discovered at some source location and must be moved to a safe distance away…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jared Coleman , Evangelos Kranakis , Danny Krizanc , Oscar Morales-Ponce

We present the problem of finding a maximal independent set (MIS) (named as \emph{MIS Filling problem}) of an arbitrary connected graph having $n$ vertices with luminous myopic mobile robots. The robots enter the graph one after another…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Subhajit Pramanick , Sai Vamshi Samala , Debasish Pattanayak , Partha Sarathi Mandal

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

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 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

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

Robotics can be defined as the connection of perception to action. Taking this further, this project aims to drive a robot using an automated computer vision embedded system, connecting the robot's vision to its behavior. In order to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Beatriz Arruda Asfora

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

Given a set of co-located mobile robots in an unknown anonymous graph, the robots must relocate themselves in distinct graph nodes to solve the dispersion problem. In this paper, we consider the dispersion problem for silent robots…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Bibhuti Das , Barun Gorain , Kaushik Mondal , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya , Supantha Pandit

Arbitrary pattern formation ($\mathcal{APF}$) by mobile robots is studied by many in literature under different conditions and environment. Recently it has been studied on an infinite grid network but with full visibility. In opaque robot…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Manash Kumar Kundu , Pritam Goswami , Satakshi Ghosh , Buddhadeb Sau

We consider the problem of scattering $n$ robots in a two dimensional continuous space. As this problem is impossible to solve in a deterministic manner, all solutions must be probabilistic. We investigate the amount of randomness (that is,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Quentin Bramas , Sébastien Tixeuil

In times of more and more complex interaction techniques, we point out the powerfulness of colored light as a simple and cheap feedback mechanism. Since it is visible over a distance and does not interfere with other modalities, it is…