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This report surveys results on distributed systems comprising mobile agents that are identical and anonymous, oblivious and interact solely by adjusting their motion according to the relative location of their neighbours. The agents are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Ariel Barel , Rotem Manor , Alfred M. Bruckstein

A group of wheeled robots with nonholonomic constraints is considered to rendezvous at a common specified setpoint with a desired orientation while maintaining network connectivity and ensuring collision avoidance within the robots. Given…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Zhen Kan , Justin Klotz , Eduardo L. Pasiliao , John M. Shea , Warren E. Dixon

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

We examine the problem of rendezvous, i.e., having multiple mobile agents gather in a single node of the network. Unlike previous studies, we need to achieve rendezvous in presence of a very powerful adversary, a malicious agent that moves…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Shantanu Das , Flaminia L. Luccio , Euripides Markou

The difference between the speed of the actions of different processes is typically considered as an obstacle that makes the achievement of cooperative goals more difficult. In this work, we aim to highlight potential benefits of such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Ofer Feinerman , Amos Korman , Shay Kutten , Yoav Rodeh

Two mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an $n$-node network at possibly different times, have to meet at the same node. This problem is known as rendezvous. Agents move in synchronous rounds using a deterministic algorithm. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Avery Miller , Andrzej Pelc

Blind rendezvous is a fundamental problem in cognitive radio networks. The problem involves a collection of agents (radios) that wish to discover each other in the blind setting where there is no shared infrastructure and they initially…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-01-29 Sixia Chen , Alexander Russell , Abhishek Samanta , Ravi Sundaram

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

Human environments contain numerous objects configured in a variety of arrangements. Our goal is to enable robots to repose previously unseen objects according to learned semantic relationships in novel environments. We break this problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Chris Paxton , Chris Xie , Tucker Hermans , Dieter Fox

Treasure hunt and rendezvous are fundamental tasks performed by mobile agents in graphs. In treasure hunt, an agent has to find an inert target (called treasure) situated at an unknown node of the graph. In rendezvous, two agents, initially…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Debasish Pattanayak , Andrzej Pelc

We investigate two fundamental problems in mobile computing: exploration and rendezvous, with two distinct mobile agents in an unknown graph. The agents may communicate by reading and writing information on whiteboards that are located at…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Romain Cosson

We consider a new type of asymmetric rendezvous search problem in which Agent II needs to give Agent I a `gift' which can be in the form of information or material. The gift can either be transfered upon meeting, as in traditional…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Pierre Leone , Steve Alpern

A metamorphic robotic system (MRS) consists of anonymous modules, each of which autonomously moves in the 2D square grid by sliding and rotation with keeping connectivity among the modules. Existing literature considers distributed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ryonosuke Yamada , Tomoyuki Usami , Yukiko Yamauchi

This paper investigates the task assignment problem for multiple dispersed robots constrained by limited communication range. The robots are initially randomly distributed and need to visit several target locations while minimizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-16 Xiaoshan Bai , Weisheng Yan , Ming Cao , Jie Huang

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

In this paper, we revisit the problem of classical \textit{meeting times} of random walks in graphs. In the process that two tokens (called agents) perform random walks on an undirected graph, the meeting times are defined as the expected…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Ryota Eguchi , Fukuhito Ooshita , Michiko Inoue , Sébastien Tixeuil

This paper presents a coordination algorithm for mobile autonomous robots. Relying upon distributed sensing the robots achieve rendezvous, that is, they move to a common location. Each robot is a point mass moving in a nonconvex environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Anurag Ganguli , Jorge Cortes , Francesco Bullo

In this paper we are interested in the task of searching and tracking multiple moving targets in a bounded surveillance area with a group of autonomous mobile agents. More specifically, we assume that targets can appear and disappear at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

This paper explores the application of quantum non-locality, a renowned and unique phenomenon acknowledged as a valuable resource. Focusing on a novel application, we demonstrate its quantum advantage for mobile agents engaged in specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Giuseppe Viola , Piotr Mironowicz

Gathering is a fundamental task for multi-agent systems and the problem has been studied under various assumptions on the sensing capabilities of mobile agents. This paper addresses the problem for a group of agents that are identical and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Ariel Barel , Thomas Dagès , Rotem Manor , Alfred M. Bruckstein