Abstract:Abstract. We study the sensor and movement capabilities that simple robots need in order to create a map of an unknown polygon of size n, and to meet. We consider robots that can move from vertex to vertex, can backtrack movements, and see distant vertices in counter-clockwise order but have no means of visibly identifying them. We show that such robots can always solve the weak rendezvous problem and reconstruct the visibility graph, given an upper bound on n. Our results are tight: The strong rendezvous prob… Show more
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