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Self-Stabilizing Robot Formations over Unreliable Networks

Gilbert, Seth  
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Lynch, Nancy
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Mitra, Sayan
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2009
Acm Transactions On Autonomous And Adaptive Systems

We describe how a set of mobile robots can arrange themselves on any specified curve on the plane in the presence of dynamic changes both in the underlying ad hoc network and in the set of participating robots. Our strategy is for the mobile robots to implement a self-stabilizing virtual layer consisting of mobile client nodes, stationary Virtual Nodes (VNs), and local broadcast communication. The VNs are associated with predetermined regions in the plane and coordinate among themselves to distribute the client nodes relatively uniformly among the VNs' regions. Each VN directs its local client nodes to align themselves on the local portion of the target curve. The resulting motion coordination protocol is self-stabilizing, in that each robot can begin the execution in any arbitrary state and at any arbitrary location in the plane. In addition, self-stabilization ensures that the robots can adapt to changes in the desired target formation.

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research article
DOI
10.1145/1552297.1552300
Web of Science ID

WOS:000269267900003

Author(s)
Gilbert, Seth  
Lynch, Nancy
Mitra, Sayan
Nolte, Tina
Date Issued

2009

Published in
Acm Transactions On Autonomous And Adaptive Systems
Volume

4

Issue

3

Start page

17

Subjects

Algorithms

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Reliability

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Formal methods

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cooperative mobile robotics

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distributed algorithms

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pattern formation

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self-stabilization

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replicated state machines

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Mobile Robots

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November 30, 2010
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