An optimal competitive strategy for walking in streets

  • Authors:
  • Christian Icking;Rolf Klein;Elmar Langetepe

  • Affiliations:
  • Fern Universität Hagen, Hagen;Fern Universität Hagen, Hagen;Fern Universität Hagen, Hagen

  • Venue:
  • STACS'99 Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Theoretical aspects of computer science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We present an optimal strategy for searching for a goal in a street which achieves the competitive factor of √2, thus matching the best lower bound known before. This finally settles an interesting open problem in the area of competitive path planning many authors have been working on.