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We explore the problem of $M$-guarding polygons with holes using $k$-visibility guards, where a set of guards is said to $M$-guard a polygon if every point in the polygon is visible to at least $M$ guards, with the constraint that there may…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yeganeh Bahoo , Ahmad Kamaludeen

Art Gallery is a fundamental visibility problem in Computational Geometry. The input consists of a simple polygon P, (possibly infinite) sets G and C of points within P, and an integer k; the task is to decide if at most k guards can be…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Akanksha Agrawal , Kristine V. K. Knudsen , Daniel Lokshtanov , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

In the art gallery problem, we are given a closed polygon $P$, with rational coordinates and an integer $k$. We are asked whether it is possible to find a set (of guards) $G$ of size $k$ such that any point $p\in P$ is seen by a point in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Lucas Meijer , Tillmann Miltzow

We investigate a variation of the art gallery problem in which a team of mobile guards tries to track an unpredictable intruder in a simply-connected polygonal environment. In this work, we use the deployment strategy for diagonal guards…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Guillermo J. Laguna , Rui Zou , Sourabh Bhattacharya

This paper addresses the problem of tracking mobile intruders in a polygonal environment. We assume that a team of diagonal guards is deployed inside the polygon to provide mobile coverage. First, we formulate the problem of tracking a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Guillermo J. Laguna , Sourabh Bhattacharya

The problem of vertex guarding a simple polygon was first studied by Subir K. Ghosh (1987), who presented a polynomial-time $O(\log n)$-approximation algorithm for placing as few guards as possible at vertices of a simple $n$-gon $P$, such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Stav Ashur , Omrit Filtser , Matthew J. Katz

We consider a generalization of the classical Art Gallery Problem, where instead of a light source, the guards, called $k$-transmitters, model a wireless device with a signal that can pass through at most $k$ walls. We show it is NP-hard to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Sarah Cannon , Thomas G. Fai , Justin Iwerks , Undine Leopold , Christiane Schmidt

We resolve the complexity of the point-boundary variant of the art gallery problem, showing that it is $\exists\mathbb{R}$-complete, meaning that it is equivalent under polynomial time reductions to deciding whether a system of polynomial…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Jack Stade

Let $P$ be an orthogonal polygon. Consider a sliding camera that travels back and forth along an orthogonal line segment $s\in P$ as its \emph{trajectory}. The camera can see a point $p\in P$ if there exists a point $q\in s$ such that $pq$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Stephane Durocher , Saeed Mehrabi

A hidden guard set $ G $ is a set of point guards in polygon $ P $ that all points of the polygon are visible from some guards in $ G $ under the constraint that no two guards may see each other. In this paper, we consider the problem for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Hamid Hoorfar , Alireza Bagheri

A polygonal art gallery can be observed by guards placed at one third of its corners. However, the strategy of placing guards at every third corner does not work for all art galleries. In this note, we provide an example of a nine-sided art…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Ralph Morrison

We devise an algorithm for surveying a dynamic orthogonal polygonal domain by placing one guard at each vertex in a subset of its vertices, i.e., whenever an orthogonal polygonal domain {\cal P'} is modified to result in another orthogonal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Debangshu Banerjee , R. Inkulu

We prove that every simply connected orthogonal polygon of $n$ vertices can be partitioned into $\left\lfloor\frac{3 n +4}{16}\right\rfloor$ (simply connected) orthogonal polygons of at most 8 vertices. It yields a new and shorter proof of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Ervin Győri , Tamás Róbert Mezei

An orthogonal polygon is called an ortho-unit polygon if its vertices have integer coordinates, and all of its edges have length one. In this paper we prove that any ortho-unit polygon with $n \geq 12$ vertices can be guarded with at most…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-15 J. M. Díaz-Báñez , P. Horn , M. A. Lopez , N. Marín , A. Ramírez-Vigueras , O. Solé-Pi , A. Stevens , J. Urrutia

In the problem "Localization and trilateration with the minimum number of landmarks", we faced the 3-Guard and classic Art Gallery Problems. The goal of the art gallery problem is to find the minimum number of guards within a simple polygon…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Bahram Sadeghi Bigham , Sahar Badri , Nazanin Padkan

In the Art Gallery Problem we are given a polygon $P\subset [0,L]^2$ on $n$ vertices and a number $k$. We want to find a guard set $G$ of size $k$, such that each point in $P$ is seen by a guard in $G$. Formally, a guard $g$ sees a point $p…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Michael Gene Dobbins , Andreas Holmsen , Tillmann Miltzow

Let $G = (V,E)$ be a plane graph. A face $f$ of $G$ is guarded by an edge $vw \in E$ if at least one vertex from $\{v,w\}$ is on the boundary of $f$. For a planar graph class $\mathcal{G}$ we ask for the minimal number of edges needed to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Paul Jungeblut , Torsten Ueckerdt

Given a closed simple polygon $P$, we say two points $p,q$ see each other if the segment $pq$ is fully contained in $P$. The art gallery problem seeks a minimum size set $G\subset P$ of guards that sees $P$ completely. The only currently…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Simon Hengeveld , Tillmann Miltzow

Placing a minimum number of guards on a given watchman route in a polygonal domain is called the {\em minimum vision points problem}. We prove that finding the minimum number of vision points on a shortest watchman route in a simple polygon…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Mayank Chaturvedi , Bengt J. Nilsson

The monostatic property of convex polyhedra (i.e. the property of having just one stable or unstable static equilibrium point) has been in the focus of research ever since Conway and Guy published the proof of the existence of the first…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Sándor Bozóki , Gábor Domokos , Flórián Kovács , Krisztina Regős