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In the field of swarm robotics, one of the most studied problem is Gathering. It asks for a distributed algorithm that brings the robots to a common location, not known in advance. We consider the case of robots constrained to move along…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Serafino Cicerone , Alessia Di Fonso , Gabriele Di Stefano , Alfredo Navarra

This work presents a 3D multi-robot exploration framework for a team of UGVs moving on uneven terrains. The framework was designed by casting the two-level coordination strategy presented in [1] into the context of multi-robot exploration.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Luigi Freda , Tiago Novo , David Portugal , Rui P. Rocha

The general position problem in graphs is to find the maximum number of vertices that can be selected such that no three vertices lie on a common shortest path. The mutual-visibility problem in graphs is to find the maximum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Dhanya Roy , Sandi Klavžar , Aparna Lakshmanan

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 study the computational complexity of optimally solving multi-robot path planning problems on planar graphs. For four common time- and distance-based objectives, we show that the associated path optimization problems for multiple robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Jingjin Yu

The dispersion problem on graphs requires $k$ robots placed arbitrarily at the $n$ nodes of an anonymous graph, where $k \leq n$, to coordinate with each other to reach a final configuration in which each robot is at a distinct node of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Faizan Ali

The fully dynamic transitive closure problem asks to maintain reachability information in a directed graph between arbitrary pairs of vertices, while the graph undergoes a sequence of edge insertions and deletions. The problem has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Kathrin Hanauer , Monika Henzinger , Christian Schulz

Machine learning problems have an intrinsic geometric structure as central objects including a neural network's weight space and the loss function associated with a particular task can be viewed as encoding the intrinsic geometry of a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Guruprasad Raghavan , Matt Thomson

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

The dispersion problem on graphs asks $k\leq n$ robots placed initially arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node anonymous graph to reposition autonomously to reach a configuration in which each robot is on a distinct node of the graph. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

The mobile robot dispersion problem on graphs asks $k\leq n$ robots placed initially arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node anonymous graph to reposition autonomously to reach a configuration in which each robot is on a distinct node of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

This paper studies a class of multi-robot coordination problems where a team of robots aim to reach their goal regions with minimum time and avoid collisions with obstacles and other robots. A novel numerical algorithm is proposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Guoxiang Zhao , Minghui Zhu

The concept of mutual visibility in graphs, introduced recently, addresses a fundamental problem in Graph Theory concerning the identification of the largest set of vertices in a graph such that any two vertices have a shortest path…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-09 M. Cera , P. Garcia-Vazquez , J. C. Valenzuela-Tripodoro , I. G. Yero

Given a two-dimensional polygonal space, the multi-robot visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem tasks several pursuer robots with the goal of establishing visibility with an arbitrarily fast evader. The best known complete algorithm for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Trevor Olsen , Anne M. Tumlin , Nicholas M. Stiffler , Jason M. O'Kane

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

The shortest path problem is related to many dynamic processes on networks, ranging from routing in communication networks to signaling in molecular interaction networks. When the network is fully known, the shortest path problem can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-05 Zhihao Qiu , Sámuel G. Balogh , Xinhan Liu , Piet Van Mieghem , Maksim Kitsak

We study a fundamental NP-hard motion coordination problem for multi-robot/multi-agent systems: We are given a graph $G$ and set of agents, where each agent has a given directed path in $G$. Each agent is initially located on the first…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Tzvika Geft , Dan Halperin , Barak Ugav

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

We address multi-robot geometric task-and-motion planning (MR-GTAMP) problems in synchronous, monotone setups. The goal of the MR-GTAMP problem is to move objects with multiple robots to goal regions in the presence of other movable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hejia Zhang , Shao-Hung Chan , Jie Zhong , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Multiple mobile robots play a significant role in various spatially distributed tasks.In unfamiliar and non-repetitive scenarios, reconstructing the global map is time-inefficient and sometimes unrealistic. Hence, research has focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Weining Lu , Qingquan Lin , Litong Meng , Chenxi Li , Bin Liang