5 papers
Distributed Multi-Coverage for Robot Swarms
Mariem Guitouni, Aaron T. Becker
Autonomous drone swarms deployed for surveillance, environmental monitoring, and infrastructure inspection must maintain reliable coverage of critical assets despite robot failures…
Moving Matter: Using a Single, Simple Robot to Reconfigure a Connected Set of Building Blocks
Javier Garcia, Jonas Friemel, Ramin Kosfeld +9
We implement and evaluate different methods for the reconfiguration of a connected arrangement of tiles into a desired target shape, using a single active robot that can move along…
Efficient Reconfiguration of Tile Arrangements by a Single Active Robot
Aaron T. Becker, Sándor P. Fekete, Jonas Friemel +6
We consider the problem of reconfiguring a two-dimensional connected grid arrangement of passive building blocks from a start configuration to a goal configuration, using a single…
Using Mobile Relays to Strongly Connect a Minimum-Power Network between Terminals Complying with No-Transmission Zones
Francesco Bernardini, Daniel Biediger, Ileana Pineda +2
We present strategies for placing a swarm of mobile relays to provide a bi-directional wireless network that connects fixed (immobile) terminals. Neither terminals nor relays are p…
Multi-Covering a Point Set by Disks with Minimum Total Area
Mariem Guitouni, Chek-Manh Loi, Sándor P. Fekete +2
A common robotics sensing problem is to place sensors to robustly monitor a set of assets, where robustness is assured by requiring asset to be monitored by at least se…