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Computations by Luminous Robots

verfasst von : Paola Flocchini

Erschienen in: Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The study of computability issues by a system of simple, autonomous, oblivious, mobile robots, operating in the plane in Look-Compute-Move cycles, has been the object of intensive investigations. These robots do not have explicit communication mechanisms, but they implicitly cooperate towards a common goal.
This paper focuses on luminous robots, a recently introduced model where the robots are equipped with a light that can take a constant number of different colors. The light is visible to the observing robots and stays lit from a computation cycle to the next. The availability of lights, which provides little communication and memory, has clearly a great impact on the system of robots. We review the recent results, highlighting the many open problems and research directions.

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Metadaten
Titel
Computations by Luminous Robots
verfasst von
Paola Flocchini
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19662-6_17