Static and expanding grid coverage with ant robots: Complexity results

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 412, Issue 35, 2011, Pages 4661-4674

  Altshuler, Yaniv ^a,b   Bruckstein, Alfred M ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Collaborative cleaning; Collaborative search; Decentralized systems; Expanding domains; Grid search

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE CLEANING; COLLABORATIVE SEARCHES; DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM; EXPANDING DOMAINS; GRID SEARCH;

ALGORITHMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 79960559356     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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