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Ricochet Robots with Infinite Horizontal Board is Turing-complete

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This paper investigates the Ricochet Robots game problem from a complexity standpoint. The problem consists of moving robots in a rectangular square-tiled board, from initial tiles to reach specific target tiles. A robot can only move vertically or horizontally and when it starts to move in a given direction, the robot follows this direction, until being blocked by a wall or another robot. This paper proves that the corresponding decision problem to Ricochet Robots is Turing-complete for endless board game and an infinite number of robots. A reduction from a universal Turing machine to Ricochet Robots is exhibited.
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lirmm-04164381 , version 1 (18-07-2023)

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Samuel Masseport, Tom Davot, Rodolphe Giroudeau. Ricochet Robots with Infinite Horizontal Board is Turing-complete. Journal of Information Processing, 2023, 31, pp.413-420. ⟨10.2197/ipsjjip.31.413⟩. ⟨lirmm-04164381⟩
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