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Reachability by Paths of Bounded Curvature in a Convex Polygon

Computational Geometry 2010-08-26 v1

Abstract

Let BB be a point robot moving in the plane, whose path is constrained to forward motions with curvature at most one, and let PP be a convex polygon with nn vertices. Given a starting configuration (a location and a direction of travel) for BB inside PP, we characterize the region of all points of PP that can be reached by BB, and show that it has complexity O(n)O(n). We give an O(n2)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.

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@article{arxiv.1008.4244,
  title  = {Reachability by Paths of Bounded Curvature in a Convex Polygon},
  author = {Hee-Kap Ahn and Otfried Cheong and Jirí Matoušek and Antoine Vigneron},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.4244},
  year   = {2010}
}