Distributed Computing with Mobile Robots: an Introductory Survey

Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru (1) , Michel Raynal (2) , Sébastien Tixeuil (3, 4)

1 Regal - Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Applications
2 ASAP - As Scalable As Possible: foundations of large scale dynamic distributed systems
3 NPA - Networks and Performance Analysis
4 IUF - Institut universitaire de France

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.

Domaines: Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]

Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru, Michel Raynal, Sébastien Tixeuil. Distributed Computing with Mobile Robots: an Introductory Survey. NBiS 2011 - 14th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, Sep 2011, Tirana, Albania. pp.318-324, ⟨10.1109/NBiS.2011.55⟩. ⟨hal-00649294⟩