Brief Announcement: Leader Election vs Pattern Formation

Yoann Dieudonné (1, 2) , Franck Petit (3) , Vincent Villain (2)

1 LaRIA - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique d'Amiens
2 MIS - Modélisation, Information et Systèmes - UR UPJV 4290
3 Regal - Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Applications

In this paper, we study the relationship between two fundammental problem in Robotics namely, leader election problem and pattern formation problem. In particular, we prove that both problems are equivalent for n≥4 in a fully asynchronous model, called CORDA, provided the robots share the same chirality.

Mots clés: leader election; robots; pattern formation

Domaines: Algorithme et structure de données [cs.DS]

Yoann Dieudonné, Franck Petit, Vincent Villain. Brief Announcement: Leader Election vs Pattern Formation. PODC '10 - 29th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS symposium on Principles of distributed computing, Jul 2010, Zurich, Switzerland. pp.404--405, ⟨10.1145/1835698.1835793⟩. ⟨hal-01008762⟩