Reachability by paths of bounded curvature in a convex polygon

  • Authors:
  • Hee-Kap Ahn;Otfried Cheong;Jiří Matoušek;Antoine Vigneron

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Nam-gu, Pohang, Republic of Korea;Department of Computer Science, KAIST, Daehak-ro 291, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea;Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Institute of Theoretical Computer Science (ITI), Charles University, Malostranské nám. 25, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic;Geometric Modeling and Scientific Visualization Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Let B be a point robot moving in the plane, whose path is constrained to forward motions with curvature at most 1, and let P be a convex polygon with n vertices. Given a starting configuration (a location and a direction of travel) for B inside P, we characterize the region of all points of P that can be reached by B, and show that it has complexity O(n). We give an O(n^2) time algorithm to compute this region. We show that a point is reachable only if it can be reached by a path of type CCSCS, where C denotes a unit circle arc and S denotes a line segment.