Chain Reconfiguration. The INs and Outs, Ups and Downs of Moving Polygons and Polygonal Linkages
ISAAC '01 Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
The mixed approach for motion planning: learning global strategies from a local planner
IJCAI'87 Proceedings of the 10th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
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The classical mover's problem is the following: can a rigid object in 3-dimensional space be moved from one given position to another while avoiding obstacles? It is known that a more general version of this problem involving objects with movable joints is PSPACE-complete, even for a simple tree-like structure. In this paper, we investigate a 2-dimensional mover's problem in which the object being moved is a robot arm with an arbitrary number of joints. We reduce the mover's problem for arms constrained to move within bounded regions whose boundaries are made up of straight lines to the mover's problem for a more complex linkage that is not constrained. We prove that the latter problem is PSPACE-hard even in 2-dimensional space and then turn to special cases of the mover's problem for arms. In particular, we give a polynomial time algorithm for moving an arm confined within a circle from one given configuration to another. We also give a polynomial time algorithm for moving the arm from its initial position to a position in which the end of the arm reaches a given point within the circle.