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Stand up indulgent gathering.

Authors :
Bramas, Quentin
Lamani, Anissa
Tixeuil, Sébastien
Source :
Theoretical Computer Science. Jan2023, Vol. 939, p63-77. 15p.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

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 finite time; if one or several robots crash at the same location, the remaining correct robots gather at the crash location to rescue them. Motivated by impossibility results in the semi-synchronous setting, we present the first solution to the problem for the fully synchronous setting that operates in the vanilla Look-Compute-Move model with no additional hypotheses: robots are oblivious, disoriented, have no multiplicity detection capacity, and may start from arbitrary positions (including those with multiplicity points). We furthermore show that robots gather in a time that is proportional to the initial maximum distance between robots. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects

Subjects :
*MOBILE robots
*ROBOTS

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
03043975
Volume :
939
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Theoretical Computer Science
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
160210333
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2022.10.015