Optimal Torus Exploration by Oblivious Robots - Sorbonne Université Accéder directement au contenu
Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2015

Optimal Torus Exploration by Oblivious Robots

Stéphane Devismes
Anissa Lamani
Sébastien Tixeuil

Résumé

We consider autonomous robots that are endowed with motion actuators and visibility sensors. The robots we consider are weak, i.e., they are anonymous, uniform, unable to explicitly communicate, and oblivious (they do not remember any of their past actions). In this paper, we propose an optimal (w.r.t. the number of robots) solution for the terminating exploration of a torus-shaped network by a team of $k$ such robots. In more details, we first show that it is impossible to explore a simple torus of arbitrary size with (strictly) less than four robots, even if the algorithm is probabilistic. If the algorithm is required to be deterministic, four robots are also insufficient. This negative result implies that the only way to obtain an optimal algorithm (w.r.t. the number of robots participating to the algorithm) is to make use of probabilities. Then, we propose a probabilistic algorithm that uses four robots to explore all simple tori of size $\ell \times L$, where $7 \leq \ell \leq L$. Hence, in such tori, four robots are necessary and sufficient to solve the (probabilistic) terminating exploration. As a torus can be seen as a 2-dimensional ring, our result shows, perhaps surprisingly, that increasing the number of possible symmetries in the network (due to increasing dimensions) does not come at an extra cost w.r.t. the number of robots that are necessary to solve the problem.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
torus.pdf (292.37 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origine : Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s)
Loading...

Dates et versions

hal-00926573 , version 1 (09-01-2014)
hal-00926573 , version 2 (06-02-2014)
hal-00926573 , version 3 (13-06-2014)

Identifiants

Citer

Stéphane Devismes, Anissa Lamani, Franck Petit, Sébastien Tixeuil. Optimal Torus Exploration by Oblivious Robots. NETYS 2015 - Third International Conference on Networked Systems, May 2015, Agadir, Morocco. pp.183-199, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-26850-7_13⟩. ⟨hal-00926573v3⟩
621 Consultations
319 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More