Title :
Distributed Computing with Mobile Robots: An Introductory Survey
Author :
Potop-Butucaru, Maria ; Raynal, Michel ; Tixeuil, Sébastien
Author_Institution :
Inst. Univ. de France, Rennes, France
Abstract :
This paper surveys the main characteristics of the distributed models proposed for robot networks and briefly presents the latest algorithmic achievements for tackling the agreement abstraction in both continuous and discrete spaces.
Keywords :
distributed processing; mobile robots; continuous spaces; discrete spaces; distributed computing; mobile robots; robot networks; Computational modeling; Convergence; Markov processes; Protocols; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Convergence; Exploration; Flocking; Gathering; Look-Compute-Move; Robot network; Scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), 2011 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tirana
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0789-6
Electronic_ISBN :
2157-0418
DOI :
10.1109/NBiS.2011.55
