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This paper introduces a novel approach to solve the coverage optimization problem in multi-agent systems. The proposed technique offers an optimal solution with a lower cost with respect to conventional Voronoi-based techniques by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Mohammadhasan Faghihi , Meysam Yadegar , Mohammadhosein Bakhtiaridoust , Nader Meskin , Javad Sharifi , Peng Shi

Minimization diagrams encompass a large class of diagrams of interest in the literature, such as generalized Voronoi diagrams. We develop an abstract perturbation theory and perform a sensitivity analysis for functions depending on sets…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Ernesto G. Birgin , Antoine Laurain , Tiago C. Menezes

In this paper, we consider a class of workspace partitioning problems that arise in the context of area coverage and spatial load balancing for spatially distributed heterogeneous multi-agent networks. It is assumed that each agent has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Efstathios Bakolas

The Voronoi diagram-based dual-front active contour models are known as a powerful and efficient way for addressing the image segmentation and domain partitioning problems. In the basic formulation of the dual-front models, the evolving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Da Chen , Jack Spencer , Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Ke Chen , Minglei Shu , Laurent D. Cohen

Voronoi diagrams are highly compact representations that are used in various Graphics applications. In this work, we show how to embed a differentiable version of it -- via a novel deep architecture -- into a generative deep network. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Francis Williams , Daniele Panozzo , Kwang Moo Yi , Andrea Tagliasacchi

We present a simple framework to compute hyperbolic Voronoi diagrams of finite point sets as affine diagrams. We prove that bisectors in Klein's non-conformal disk model are hyperplanes that can be interpreted as power bisectors of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock

This paper considers the problem of safely coordinating a team of sensor-equipped robots to reduce uncertainty about a dynamical process, where the objective trades off information gain and energy cost. Optimizing this trade-off is…

Voronoi diagrams are a fundamental geometric data structure for obtaining proximity relations. We consider collections of axis-aligned orthogonal polyhedra in two and three-dimensional space under the max-norm, which is a particularly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Ioannis Z. Emiris , Christina Katsamaki

Sensor coverage is the critical multi-robot problem of maximizing the detection of events in an environment through the deployment of multiple robots. Large multi-robot systems are often composed of simple robots that are typically not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Brian Reily , Hao Zhang

In this article, we propose a numerical method to solve semi-discrete optimal transport problems for gigantic pointsets (108 points and more). By pushing the limits by several orders of magnitude, it opens the path to new applications in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Bruno Lévy , Nicolas Ray , Quentin Mérigot , Hugo Leclerc

In this article, we investigate vacuum leakage detection problems in composite manufacturing. Our approach uses Voronoi diagrams, a well-known structure in discrete geometry. The Voronoi diagram of the vacuum connection positions partitions…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Christoph Brauer , Arne Hindersmann , Timo de Wolff

Voronoi diagrams are essential geometrical structures with numerous applications, particularly astrophysics-driven finite volume methods. While serial algorithms for constructing these entities are well-established, parallel construction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Maor Mizrachi , Barak Raveh , Elad Steinberg

A decomposition-based coverage control scheme is proposed for multi-agent, persistent surveillance missions operating in a communication-constrained, dynamic environment. The proposed approach decouples high-level task assignment from…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Jeffrey R. Peters , Sean J. Wang , Amit Surana , Francesco Bullo

We introduce VoroFields, a hierarchical neural-field framework for approximating generalized Voronoi diagrams of finite geometric site sets in low-dimensional domains under arbitrary evaluable point-to-site distances. Instead of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Panagiotis Rigas , George Ioannakis , Ioannis Emiris

The Voronoi diagrams are an important tool having theoretical and practical applications in a large number of fields. We present a new procedure, implemented as a set of CUDA kernels, which detects, in a general and efficient way,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-08 Massimo Bernaschi , Matteo Lulli , Mauro Sbragaglia

Given two point sets in the plane, we study the minimization of the bottleneck distance between a point set B and an equally-sized subset of a point set A under translations. We relate this problem to a Voronoi-type diagram and derive…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Matthias Henze , Rafel Jaume

Over the years, reinforcement learning has emerged as a popular approach to develop signal control and vehicle platooning strategies either independently or in a hierarchical way. However, jointly controlling both in real-time to alleviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xianyue Peng , Shenyang Chen , Hang Gao , Hao Wang , H. Michael Zhang

This study proposes a novel stochastic geometry framework analyzing power control strategies in spatially correlated network topologies. Heterogeneous networks are studied, with users modeled via the superposition of homogeneous and Poisson…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Martin Willame , Charles Wiame , Jérôme Louveaux , Claude Oestges , Luc Vandendorpe

We study the amortized number of combinatorial changes (edge insertions and removals) needed to update the graph structure of the Voronoi diagram $\mathcal{V}(S)$ (and several variants thereof) of a set $S$ of $n$ sites in the plane as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Sarah R. Allen , Luis Barba , John Iacono , Stefan Langerman

Coverage control algorithms have traditionally focused on static target densities, where agents are deployed to optimally cover a fixed spatial distribution. However, many applications involve time-varying densities, including environmental…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Italo Napolitano , Mario di Bernardo