Non-uniform circle formation algorithm for oblivious mobile robots with convergence toward uniformity

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 396, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 97-112

  Défago, Xavier ^a   Souissi, Samia ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circle formation; Cooperation and control; Distributed algorithms; Distributed computing; Mobile robots

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

CIRCLE FORMATION; SYNCHRONIZED ENVIRONMENT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 42149138425     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2008.01.050     Document Type: Article

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