Almost optimal asynchronous rendezvous in infinite multidimensional grids

E Bampas, J Czyzowicz, L Gąsieniec, D Ilcinkas… - … Symposium, DISC 2010 …, 2010 - Springer
Two anonymous mobile agents (robots) moving in an asynchronous manner have to meet in
an infinite grid of dimension δ> 0, starting from two arbitrary positions at distance at most d …

A structured methodology for designing distributed algorithms for mobile entities

S Cicerone, G Di Stefano, A Navarra - Information Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Following the wide investigation in distributed computing issues by mobile entities of the last
two decades, we consider the need of a structured methodology to tackle the arisen …

Solving the pattern formation by mobile robots with chirality

S Cicerone, G Di Stefano, A Navarra - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Among fundamental problems in the context of distributed computing by mobile robots, the
Pattern Formation (PF) is certainly the most representative. Given a multi-set F of points in …

On the solvability of anonymous partial grids exploration by mobile robots

R Baldoni, F Bonnet, A Milani, M Raynal - Principles of Distributed …, 2008 - Springer
Given an arbitrary partial anonymous grid (a finite grid with possibly missing vertices or
edges), this paper focuses on the exploration of such a grid by a set of mobile anonymous …

Anonymous graph exploration without collision by mobile robots

R Baldoni, F Bonnet, A Milani, M Raynal - Information Processing Letters, 2008 - Elsevier
Considering autonomous mobile robots moving on a finite anonymous graph, this paper
focuses on the Constrained Perpetual Graph Exploration problem (CPGE). That problem …

Memory efficient anonymous graph exploration

L Gąsieniec, T Radzik - Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science …, 2008 - Springer
Efficient exploration of unknown or unmapped environments has become one of the
fundamental problem domains in algorithm design. Its applications range from robot …

Fast periodic graph exploration with constant memory

L Gąsieniec, R Klasing, R Martin, A Navarra… - Journal of Computer and …, 2008 - Elsevier
We consider the problem of periodic exploration of all nodes in undirected graphs by using a
finite state automaton called later a robot. The robot, using a constant number of states …

Patrolling Grids with a Bit of Memory

M Amir, D Rabinovich, AM Bruckstein - arxiv preprint arxiv:2307.09214, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study the following problem in elementary robotics: can a mobile agent with $ b $ bits of
memory, which is able to sense only locations at Manhattan distance $ V $ or less from itself …

Synchronous black hole search in directed graphs

A Kosowski, A Navarra, CM Pinotti - Theoretical Computer Science, 2011 - Elsevier
The paper considers a team of robots which has to explore a graph G, where some nodes
can be harmful. Robots are initially located at the so-called home base node. The …

Graph decomposition for memoryless periodic exploration

A Kosowski, A Navarra - Algorithmica, 2012 - Springer
We consider a general framework in which a memoryless robot periodically explores all the
nodes of a connected anonymous graph by following local information available at each …