Abstract:We introduce a new problem which we call the Pony Express problem. n robots with differing speeds are situated over some domain. A message is placed at some commonly known point. Robots can acquire the message either by visiting its initial position, or by encountering another robot that has already acquired it. The robots must collaborate to deliver the message to a given destination 6 .The objective is to deliver the message in minimum time. In this paper we study the Pony Express problem on the line where n… Show more
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