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This paper proposes a distributed algorithm for circle formation by multiple autonomous mobile robots. The vision of each robot is limited to a maximum distance. The robots do not store past actions or records of past data. They are anonymous and cannot be distinguished by their appearances. All robots agree on a common origin and axes. Earlier works report algorithms for gathering of multiple autonomous mobile robots in limited visibility considering the robots to be dimensionless or points. This paper models a robot as a unit disc (fat robot). The algorithm presented in this paper also assures that there is no collision among the robots. The robots do not share a common clock. They execute the algorithm asynchronously.
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Dutta, A., Gan Chaudhuri, S., Datta, S., Mukhopadhyaya, K. (2012). Circle Formation by Asynchronous Fat Robots with Limited Visibility. In: Ramanujam, R., Ramaswamy, S. (eds) Distributed Computing and Internet Technology. ICDCIT 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7154. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28073-3_8
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