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We introduce a variant of Farber's topological complexity, defined for smooth compact orientable Riemannian manifolds, which takes into account only motion planners with the lowest possible "average length" of the output paths. We prove…
In this paper, we investigate discrete topological complexity $TC(K)$ introduced for situations where the configuration space possesses a simplicial structure. %Simplicial complexes are well-known and commonly used in programming for…
It has been observed that the very important motion planning problem of robotics mathematically speaking boils down to the problem of finding a section to the path-space fibration, raising the notion of topological complexity, as introduced…
We describe and implement a randomized algorithm that inputs a polyhedron, thought of as the space of states of some automated guided vehicle $\mathcal{R}$, and outputs an explicit system of piecewise linear motion planners for…
In this paper we generalize the discrete r-homotopy to the discrete (s, r)-homotopy. Then by this notion, we introduce the discrete motion planning for robots which can move discreetly. Moreover, in this case the number of motion planning,…
The Topological complexity a la Farber $\text{TC}(-)$ is a homotopy invariant which have interesting applications in Robotics, specifically, in the robot motion planning problem. In this work we calculate the topological complexity of the…
In this work we will review the notion of topological complexity, introduced by Michael Farber in 2003. We will use this theory of topological complexity to solve the motion planning problem of a mobile robot that navigates in the Euclidean…
In this paper we study a notion of topological complexity for the motion planning problem. The topological complexity is a number which measures discontinuity of the process of motion planning in the configuration space X. More precisely,…
We introduce a notion of discrete topological complexity in the setting of simplicial complexes, using only the combinatorial structure of the complex by means of the concept of contiguous simplicial maps. We study the links of this new…
We propose a novel method for planning shortest length piecewise-linear motions through complex environments punctured with static, moving, or even morphing obstacles. Using a moment optimization approach, we formulate a hierarchy of…
We study the topological complexity of work maps with respect to some subspaces of the configuration space and a workspace considered as the target set of the motion of robots. The motivation is to optimize and reduce the number of motion…
We establish sharp upper bounds for the topological complexity of motion planning problem in spaces with small fundamental group, i.e. when it is finite of small order or has small cohomological dimension.
Topological complexity $\TC{B}$ of a space $B$ is introduced by M. Farber to measure how much complex the space is, which is first considered on a configuration space of a motion planning of a robot arm. We also consider a stronger version…
The paper surveys topological problems relevant to the motion planning problem of robotics and includes some new results and constructions. First we analyse the notion of topological complexity of configuration spaces which is responsible…
We present a new approach to equivariant version of the topological complexity, called a symmetric topological complexity. It seems that the presented approach is more adequate for the analysis of an impact of symmetry on the the motion…
We study motion planning algorithms for collision free control of multiple objects in the presence of moving obstacles. We compute the topological complexity of algorithms solving this problem. We apply topological tools and use information…
In this study, we delve into the discrete TC of surjective simplicial fibrations, aiming to unravel the interplay between topological complexity, discrete geometric structures, and computational efficiency. Moreover, we examine the…
Farber and Rudyak introduced topological complexity $\mathbf{TC}(X)$ of motion planning and its higher analogs $\mathbf{TC}_n(X)$ to measure the complexity of assigning paths to point tuples. Motivated by motion planning where a robotic…
In robotics, a topological theory of motion planning was initiated by M. Farber. The multitasking motion planning problem is new and its theoretical part via topological complexity has hardly been developed, but the concrete implementations…
In this paper we introduce and study a new concept of parametrised topological complexity, a topological invariant motivated by the motion planning problem of robotics. In the parametrised setting, a motion planning algorithm has high…