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2025 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 56298 | 
Gerlach, Raphael, et al. “Symmetry Preservation in Swarms of Oblivious Robots with Limited Visibility.” 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024), edited by Silvia Bonomi et al., vol. 324, Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2025, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.13.
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2025 | Preprint | LibreCat-ID: 58953 |
Gerlach, Raphael, and Sören von der Gracht. “Analyzing Symmetries of Swarms of Mobile Robots Using Equivariant Dynamical Systems.” ArXiv:2503.07576, 2025.
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2024 | Preprint | LibreCat-ID: 44840 |
Gerlach, Raphael, et al. “On the Dynamical Hierarchy in Gathering Protocols with Circulant Topologies.” ArXiv:2305.06632.
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2023 | Journal Article | LibreCat-ID: 33947
Castenow, Jannik, et al. “Gathering a Euclidean Closed Chain of Robots in Linear Time and Improved Algorithms for Chain-Formation.” Theoretical Computer Science, vol. 939, Elsevier BV, 2023, pp. 261–91, doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2022.10.031.
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2023 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 34008
Castenow, Jannik, et al. “A Unifying Approach to Efficient (Near-)Gathering of Disoriented Robots with Limited Visibility .” Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS) , edited by Eshcar Hillel et al., vol. 253, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2023, p. 15:1–15:25, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2022.15.
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2023 | Book Chapter | LibreCat-ID: 44769
Castenow, Jannik, et al. “Unifying Gathering Protocols for Swarms of Mobile Robots.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, 2023, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30448-4_1.
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2022 | Journal Article | LibreCat-ID: 29843
Castenow, Jannik, et al. “A Discrete and Continuous Study of the Max-Chain-Formation Problem.” Information and Computation, 104877, Elsevier BV, 2022, doi:10.1016/j.ic.2022.104877.
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2021 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 23730
Castenow, Jannik, et al. “Gathering a Euclidean Closed Chain of Robots in Linear Time.” Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks (ALGOSENSORS), edited by Leszek Gasieniec et al., vol. 12961, Springer, 2021, pp. 29–44, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-89240-1_3.
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2021 | Conference Paper | LibreCat-ID: 26986
Castenow, Jannik, et al. “The Max-Line-Formation Problem – And New Insights for Gathering and Chain-Formation.” Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2021, edited by C. Johnen et al., vol. 13046, Springer, 2021, pp. 289–304, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-91081-5_19.
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