For a set of robots (or agents) moving in a graph, two properties are highly desirable: confidentiality (i.e., a message between two agents must not pass through any intermediate agent) and efficiency (i.e., messages are delivered through shortest paths). These properties can be obtained if the \textsc{Geodesic Mutual Visibility} (GMV, for short) problem is solved: oblivious robots move along the edges of the graph, without collisions, to occupy some vertices that guarantee they become pairwise geodesic mutually visible. This means there is a shortest path (i.e., a ``geodesic'') between each pair of robots along which no other robots reside. In this work, we optimally solve GMV on finite hexagonal grids $G_k$. This, in turn, requires first solving a graph combinatorial problem, i.e. determining the maximum number of mutually visible vertices in $G_k$.
翻译:对于在图中移动的一组机器人(或智能体),有两个特性是高度可取的:保密性(即两个智能体之间的消息不得经过任何中间智能体)和效率(即消息通过最短路径传递)。如果解决了测地互视性问题,即可实现这些特性:无记忆的机器人沿着图的边移动,在避免碰撞的前提下占据某些顶点,以确保它们成对地成为测地互视的。这意味着每对机器人之间存在一条最短路径(即“测地线”),且该路径上没有其他机器人。在本工作中,我们最优地解决了有限六边形网格 $G_k$ 上的测地互视性问题。这首先需要解决一个图组合问题,即确定 $G_k$ 中互视顶点的最大数量。