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Gathering of Asynchronous Oblivious Robots with Limited Visibility

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We consider a collection of robots which are identical (anony- mous), have limited visibility of the environment, and no memory of the past (oblivious); furthermore, they are totally asynchronous in their ac- tions, computations, and movements. We show that, even in such a to- tally asynchronous setting, it is possible for the robots to gather in the same location in finite time, provided they have a compass.

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  1. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Paola Flocchini

  2. Università di Pisa, Italy

    Giuseppe Prencipe

  3. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Nicola Santoro

  4. ETH Zürich, Switzerland

    Peter Widmayer

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  2. Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Fakultät Informatik, TU Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany

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Flocchini, P., Prencipe, G., Santoro, N., Widmayer, P. (2001). Gathering of Asynchronous Oblivious Robots with Limited Visibility. In: Ferreira, A., Reichel, H. (eds) STACS 2001. STACS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44693-1_22

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