Fault-tolerant gathering algorithms for autonomous mobile robots

SIAM Journal on Computing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-82

  Agmon, Noa ^a   Peleg, David ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autonomous mobile robots; Convergence; Robot swarms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FAULT TOLERANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; CRASH FAILURES; FAILURE PRONE SYSTEMS; ROBOT SWARMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33847736949     PISSN: 00975397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/050645221     Document Type: Article

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