  This paper presents a distributed painting algorithm for painting a priori
known rectangular region by swarm of autonomous mobile robots. We assume that
the region is obstacle free and of rectangular in shape. The basic approach is
to divide the region into some cells, and to let each robot to paint one of
these cells. Assignment of different cells to the robots is done by ranking the
robots according to their relative positions. In this algorithm, the robots
follow the basic Wait-Observe-Compute-Move model together with the synchronous
timing model. This paper also presents a simulation of the proposed algorithm.
The simulation is performed using the Player/Stage Robotic Simulator on Ubuntu
10.04 (Lucid Lynx) platform.
