English
Related papers

Related papers: Pattern Formation for Fat Robots with Lights

200 papers

Given a set of $n\geq 1$ autonomous, anonymous, indistinguishable, silent, and possibly disoriented mobile unit disk (i.e., fat) robots operating following Look-Compute-Move cycles in the Euclidean plane, we consider the Pattern Formation…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Rusul J. Alsaedi , Joachim Gudmundsson , André van Renssen

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

Arbitrary Pattern Formation is a widely studied problem in autonomous robot systems. The problem asks to design a distributed algorithm that moves a team of autonomous, anonymous and identical mobile robots to form any arbitrary pattern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Kaustav Bose , Ranendu Adhikary , Manash Kumar Kundu , Buddhadeb Sau

The Arbitrary Pattern Formation problem asks for a distributed algorithm that moves a set of autonomous mobile robots to form any arbitrary pattern given as input. The robots are assumed to be autonomous, anonymous and identical. They…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Kaustav Bose , Manash Kumar Kundu , Ranendu Adhikary , Buddhadeb Sau

\textsc{Arbitrary Pattern Formation} is a fundamental problem in autonomous mobile robot systems. The problem asks to design a distributed algorithm that moves a team of autonomous, anonymous and identical mobile robots to form any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Kaustav Bose , Archak Das , Buddhadeb Sau

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

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

This paper addresses the problem of Uniform Circle Formation by n > 1 transparent disc robots (fat robots). The robots execute repetitive cycles of the states look-compute-move in semi-synchronous manner where a set of robots execute the…

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

We consider a swarm of autonomous mobile robots each of which is an anonymous point in the three-dimensional Euclidean space (3D-space) and synchronously executes a common distributed algorithm. We investigate the pattern formation problem…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Yukiko Yamauchi , Taichi Uehara , Masafumi Yamashita

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

The Arbitrary Pattern Formation problem asks to design a distributed algorithm that allows a set of autonomous mobile robots to form any specific but arbitrary geometric pattern given as input. The problem has been extensively studied in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Kaustav Bose , Ranendu Adhikary , Manash Kumar Kundu , Buddhadeb Sau

We study a recently introduced \textit{unconscious} mobile robot model, where each robot is associated with a \textit{color}, which is visible to other robots but not to itself. The robots are autonomous, anonymous, oblivious and silent,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Prajyot Pyati , Navjot Kaur , Saswata Jana , Adri Bhattacharya , Partha Sarathi Mandal

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

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

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

In this paper, we study the circle formation problem by multiple autonomous and homogeneous disc-shaped robots (also known as fat robots). The goal of the robots is to place themselves on the periphery of a circle. Circle formation has many…

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 the arbitrary pattern formation problem, $n$ autonomous, mobile robots must form an arbitrary pattern $P \subseteq \mathbb{R}^2$. The (deterministic) robots are typically assumed to be indistinguishable, disoriented, and unable to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Christopher Hahn , Jonas Harbig , Peter Kling

Pattern formation is one of the most fundamental problems in distributed computing, which has recently received much attention. In this paper, we initiate the study of distributed pattern formation in situations when some robots can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Debasish Pattanayak , Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Partha Sarathi Mandal , Stefan Schmid

This paper presents a deterministic algorithm for forming a given asymmetric pattern in finite time by a set of autonomous, homogeneous, oblivious mobile robots under the CORDA model. The robots are represented as points on the 2D plane.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-12 Sruti Gan Chaudhuri , Swapnil Ghike , Shrainik Jain , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›