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The online freeze-tag problem

Hammar, Mikael LU ; Nilsson, Bengt J. and Persson, Mia LU (2006) LATIN 2006: Theoretical Informatics - 7th Latin American Symposium 3887 LNCS. p.569-579
Abstract
We consider the following problem from swarm robotics: given one or more "awake" robots in some metric space M, wake up a set of "asleep" robots. A robot awakens a sleeping robot by moving to the sleeping robot's position. When a robot awakens, it is available to assist in awakening other slumbering robots. We investigate offline and online versions of this problem and give a 2-competitive strategy and a lower bound of 2 in the case when M is discrete and the objective is to minimize the total movement cost. We also study the case when M is continuous and show a lower bound of 7/3 when the objective is to minimize the time when the last robot awakens.
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Metric space, Slumbering robots
host publication
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
volume
3887 LNCS
pages
569 - 579
publisher
Springer
conference name
LATIN 2006: Theoretical Informatics - 7th Latin American Symposium
conference location
Valdivia, Chile
conference dates
2006-03-20 - 2006-03-24
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  • scopus:33745628046
ISSN
1611-3349
0302-9743
DOI
10.1007/11682462_53
language
English
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  abstract     = {{We consider the following problem from swarm robotics: given one or more "awake" robots in some metric space M, wake up a set of "asleep" robots. A robot awakens a sleeping robot by moving to the sleeping robot's position. When a robot awakens, it is available to assist in awakening other slumbering robots. We investigate offline and online versions of this problem and give a 2-competitive strategy and a lower bound of 2 in the case when M is discrete and the objective is to minimize the total movement cost. We also study the case when M is continuous and show a lower bound of 7/3 when the objective is to minimize the time when the last robot awakens.}},
  author       = {{Hammar, Mikael and Nilsson, Bengt J. and Persson, Mia}},
  booktitle    = {{Lecture Notes in Computer Science}},
  issn         = {{1611-3349}},
  keywords     = {{Metric space; Slumbering robots}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{569--579}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  title        = {{The online freeze-tag problem}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11682462_53}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/11682462_53}},
  volume       = {{3887 LNCS}},
  year         = {{2006}},
}