Arbitrary pattern formation by asynchronous, anonymous, oblivious robots

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 407, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 412-447

  Flocchini, Paola ^a   Prencipe, Giuseppe ^b   Santoro, Nicola ^c   Widmayer, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autonomous robots; Distributed algorithm; Distributed computing; Mobile entities; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

MOBILE ROBOTS; NEEDLES; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; MOBILE ENTITIES; PATTERN FORMATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 53249121017     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2008.07.026     Document Type: Article

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