Publikationstyp: Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Art der Begutachtung: Peer review (Publikation)
Titel: Distributed computing by mobile robots : gathering
Autor/-in: Cieliebak, Mark
Flocchini, Paola
Prencipe, Giuseppe
Santoro, Nicola
DOI: 10.1137/100796534
Erschienen in: SIAM Journal on Computing
Band(Heft): 41
Heft: 4
Seite(n): 829
Seiten bis: 879
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Verlag / Hrsg. Institution: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
ISSN: 1095-7111
0097-5397
Sprache: Deutsch
Schlagwörter: Distributed system; Gathering; Robot
Fachgebiet (DDC): 004: Informatik
621.3: Elektro-, Kommunikations-, Steuerungs- und Regelungstechnik
Zusammenfassung: Consider a set of n > 2 identical mobile computational entities in the plane, called robots, operating in Look-Compute-Move cycles, without any means of direct communication. The Gathering Problem is the primitive task of all entities gathering in finite time at a point not fixed in advance, without any external control. The problem has been extensively studied in the literature under a variety of strong assumptions (e.g., synchronicity of the cycles, instantaneous movements, complete memory of the past, common coordinate system, etc.). In this paper we consider the setting without those assumptions, that is, when the entities are oblivious (i.e., they do not remember results and observations from previous cycles), disoriented (i.e., have no common coordinate system), and fully asynchronous (i.e., no assumptions exist on timing of cycles and activities within a cycle). The existing algorithmic contributions for such robots are limited to solutions for n ≤ 4 or for restricted sets of initial configurations of the robots; the question of whether such weak robots could deterministically gather has remained open. In this paper, we prove that indeed the Gathering Problem is solvable, for any n > 2 and any initial configuration, even under such restrictive conditions.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/7122
Volltext Version: Publizierte Version
Lizenz (gemäss Verlagsvertrag): Lizenz gemäss Verlagsvertrag
Departement: School of Engineering
Organisationseinheit: Institut für Informatik (InIT)
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:Publikationen School of Engineering

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Cieliebak, M., Flocchini, P., Prencipe, G., & Santoro, N. (2012). Distributed computing by mobile robots : gathering. SIAM Journal on Computing, 41(4), 829–879. https://doi.org/10.1137/100796534
Cieliebak, M. et al. (2012) ‘Distributed computing by mobile robots : gathering’, SIAM Journal on Computing, 41(4), pp. 829–879. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1137/100796534.
M. Cieliebak, P. Flocchini, G. Prencipe, and N. Santoro, “Distributed computing by mobile robots : gathering,” SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 829–879, 2012, doi: 10.1137/100796534.
CIELIEBAK, Mark, Paola FLOCCHINI, Giuseppe PRENCIPE und Nicola SANTORO, 2012. Distributed computing by mobile robots : gathering. SIAM Journal on Computing. 2012. Bd. 41, Nr. 4, S. 829–879. DOI 10.1137/100796534
Cieliebak, Mark, Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe, and Nicola Santoro. 2012. “Distributed computing by mobile robots : gathering.” SIAM Journal on Computing 41 (4): 829–79. https://doi.org/10.1137/100796534.
Cieliebak, Mark, et al. “Distributed computing by mobile robots : gathering.” SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 41, no. 4, 2012, pp. 829–79, https://doi.org/10.1137/100796534.


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