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This paper studies a multi-robot visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem in which a group of pursuer robots are tasked with detecting an evader within a two dimensional polygonal environment. The primary contribution is a novel formulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Trevor Olsen , Nicholas M. Stiffler , Jason M. O'Kane

We study pursuit-evasion in a polygonal environment with polygonal obstacles. In this turn based game, an evader $e$ is chased by pursuers $p_1, p_2, ..., p_{\ell}$. The players have full information about the environment and the location…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Brendan Ames , Andrew Beveridge , Rosalie Carlson , Claire Djang , Volkan Isler , Stephen Ragain , Maxray Savage

Given a two-dimensional polygonal space, the multi-robot visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem tasks several pursuer robots with the goal of establishing visibility with an arbitrarily fast evader. The best known complete algorithm for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Trevor Olsen , Anne M. Tumlin , Nicholas M. Stiffler , Jason M. O'Kane

This paper addresses the visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem where a team of pursuer robots operating in a two-dimensional polygonal space seek to establish visibility of an arbitrarily fast evader. This is a computationally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Trevor Olsen , Nicholas M. Stiffler , Jason M. O'Kane

We consider the problem of searching for an intruder in a geometric domain by utilizing multiple search robots. The domain is a simply connected orthogonal polygon with edges parallel to the cartesian coordinate axes. Each robot has a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Swadhin Agrawal , Sujoy Bhore , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , P. B. Sujit , Aayush Gohil

The protection of pathways holds immense significance across various domains, including urban planning, transportation, surveillance, and security. This article introduces a groundbreaking approach to safeguarding pathways by employing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Hamid Hoorfar , Faraneh Fathi , Sara Moshtaghi Largani , Alireza Bagheri

A sliding camera inside an orthogonal polygon $P$ is a point guard that travels back and forth along an orthogonal line segment $\gamma$ in $P$. The sliding camera $g$ can see a point $p$ in $P$ if the perpendicular from $p$ onto $\gamma$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Therese Biedl , Timothy M. Chan , Stephanie Lee , Saeed Mehrabi , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Hamideh Vosoughpour

We study a turn-based game in a simply connected polygonal environment $Q$ between a pursuer $P$ and an adversarial evader $E$. Both players can move in a straight line to any point within unit distance during their turn. The pursuer $P$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Lindsay Berry , Andrew Beveridge , Jane Butterfield , Volkan Isler , Zachary Keller , Alana Shine , Junyi Wang

This paper addresses a multi-pursuer single-evader pursuit-evasion game where the free-moving evader moves faster than the pursuers. Most of the existing works impose constraints on the faster evader such as limited moving area and moving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Xu Fang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie , Jie Chen

Suppose an unpredictable evader is free to move around in a polygonal environment of arbitrary complexity that is under full camera surveillance. How many pursuers, each with the same maximum speed as the evader, are necessary and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-24 Kyle Klein , Subhash Suri

This paper introduces a multirobot cooperation approach to solve the "pursuit evasion" problem for mobile robots that have omnidirectional vision sensors. The main characteristic of this approach is to implement a real cooperation between…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Damien Pellier , Humbert Fiorino

The Meeting problem for $k\geq 2$ searchers in a polygon $P$ (possibly with holes) consists in making the searchers move within $P$, according to a distributed algorithm, in such a way that at least two of them eventually come to see each…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Giuseppe A. Di Luna , Paola Flocchini , Nicola Santoro , Giovanni Viglietta , Masafumi Yamashita

There are few industries which use manually controlled robots for carrying material and this cannot be used all the time in all the places. So, it is very tranquil to have robots which can follow a specific human by following the unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sai Nikhil Gona , Prithvi Raj Bandhakavi

Pursuit-evasion is a multi-agent sequential decision problem wherein a group of agents known as pursuers coordinate their traversal of a spatial domain to locate an agent trying to evade them. Pursuit evasion problems arise in a number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Zhen Li , Nicholas J. Meyer , Eric B. Laber , Robert Brigantic

With the increasing use of robots in daily life, there is a growing need to provide robust collaboration protocols for robots to tackle more complicated and dynamic problems effectively. This paper presents a novel, factor graph-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Messiah Abolfazli Esfahani , Ayşe Başar , Sajad Saeedi

Let $\mathcal{W} \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be a planar polygonal environment (i.e., a polygon potentially with holes) with a total of $n$ vertices, and let $A,B$ be two robots, each modeled as an axis-aligned unit square, that can translate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Dan Halperin , Micha Sharir , Alex Steiger

This paper presents an algorithm to deploy a team of {\it free} guards equipped with omni-directional cameras for tracking a bounded speed intruder inside a simply-connected polygonal environment. The proposed algorithm partitions the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hamid Emadi , Tianshuang Gao , Sourabh Bhattacharya

With the advent of autonomous robots with two- and three-dimensional scanning capabilities, classical visibility-based exploration methods from computational geometry have gained in practical importance. However, real-life laser scanning of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Sandor P. Fekete , Christiane Schmidt

We study the problem of motion planning for a collection of $n$ labeled unit disc robots in a polygonal environment. We assume that the robots have revolving areas around their start and final positions: that each start and each final is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Tzvika Geft , Dan Halperin , Erin Taylor

We consider a problem of cooperative evasion between a single pursuer and multiple evaders in which the evaders are constrained to move in the positive Y direction. The evaders are slower than the vehicle and can choose their speeds from a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Shivam Bajaj , Eloy Garcia , Shaunak D. Bopardikar
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