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Guaranteed Collision Detection With Toleranced Motions

Computational Geometry 2018-07-31 v3 Robotics

Abstract

We present a method for guaranteed collision detection with toleranced motions. The basic idea is to consider the motion as a curve in the 12-dimensional space of affine displacements, endowed with an object-oriented Euclidean metric, and cover it with balls. The associated orbits of points, lines, planes and polygons have particularly simple shapes that lend themselves well to exact and fast collision queries. We present formulas for elementary collision tests with these orbit shapes and we suggest an algorithm, based on motion subdivision and computation of bounding balls, that can give a no-collision guarantee. It allows a robust and efficient implementation and parallelization. At hand of several examples we explore the asymptotic behavior of the algorithm and compare different implementation strategies.

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@article{arxiv.1310.8097,
  title  = {Guaranteed Collision Detection With Toleranced Motions},
  author = {Hans-Peter Schröcker and Matthias J. Weber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.8097},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in Computer Aided Geometric Design

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