Ring exploration with myopic luminous robots
Ring exploration with myopic luminous robots
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近视发光机器人环探索
DOI:
10.1016/j.ic.2021.104702
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发表时间:
2021
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通讯作者:
Fukuhito Ooshita and Sebastien Tixeuil
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作者:
Eto Hiroshi;Ito Takehiro;Kobayashi Yasuaki;Otachi Yota;Wasa Kunihiro;早乙女献自,中澤巧爾;Ryota Nakayama and Naoki Nishida;Fukuhito Ooshita and Sebastien Tixeuil
We investigate exploration algorithms for autonomous mobile robots evolving in uniform ring-shaped networks. Unlike previous works, we consider myopia (each robot can only observe its neighboring nodes) and luminosity (each robot can use only two colors for its light) properties for the robots.As a main contribution, we prove that(i)in the FSYNC model, two (resp. three) myopic robots are necessary and sufficient to achieve perpetual (resp. terminating) exploration, and(ii)in the SSYNC and ASYNC models, three (resp. four) myopic robots are necessary and sufficient to achieve perpetual (resp. terminating) exploration.We also show that, in all execution models, our perpetual exploration algorithm is universal. That is, the algorithm solves perpetual exploration from any solvable initial configuration with two (resp. three) myopic robots and two colors in the FSYNC model (resp. the SSYNC and ASYNC models). On the other hand, we provide impossibility results for universal terminating exploration.