Equidistant robots
positioning on a circle
Abstract: In the latest years the use of robots has become a known fact. The high risk tasks are currently always done with the help of robots. One problem that has to be often resolved is how to have the robots place themselves in such position that can offer a good coverage of the area that they have to monitor.
One of the problems is how to place them equidistant on a circle and how they will rearrange themselves when one of the sensors disappears or a new one is added. Also the problem of limited knowledge of the environment where they are placed is a factor in how fast they are able to find their optimal position. This research is trying to find what the limitations of current algorithms are and to try to prove what will happen in case new assumptions are introduced.
One assumption studied is the introduction of a learning stage in which the robot added to the environment does not know the direction in which the others are moving.
We are also trying to see how many can be added at once and if the fact that the robots are moving synchronous or asynchronous has an impact on how fast they are converging towards the final position or the time it takes to do it.