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Despite the attention that the problem of path planning for tethered robots has garnered in the past few decades, the approaches proposed to solve it typically rely on a discrete representation of the configuration space and do not exploit…

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Questions surrounding the spatial disposition of particles in various condensed-matter systems continue to pose many theoretical challenges. This paper explores the geometric availability of amorphous many-particle configurations that…

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The propositional planning problem is a notoriously difficult computational problem, which remains hard even under strong syntactical and structural restrictions. Given its difficulty it becomes natural to study planning in the context of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-10-30 Christer Baeckstroem , Peter Jonsson , Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider

In resolving instances of a computational problem, if multiple instances of interest share a feature in common, it may be fruitful to compile this feature into a format that allows for more efficient resolution, even if the compilation is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Hubie Chen

We consider a simply supported plate with constant thickness, defined on an unknown multiply connected domain. We optimize its shape according to some given performance functional. Our method is of fixed domain type, easy to be implemented,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Dan Tiba , Cornel Marius Murea

State-of-the-art generalist manipulation policies have enabled the deployment of robotic manipulators in unstructured human environments. However, these frameworks struggle in cluttered environments primarily because they utilize auxiliary…

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We consider two matrix completion problems, in which we are given a matrix with missing entries and the task is to complete the matrix in a way that (1) minimizes the rank, or (2) minimizes the number of distinct rows. We study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Robert Ganian , Iyad Kanj , Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider

We establish upper and lower universal bounds for potentials of weighted designs on the sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ that depend only on quadrature nodes and weights derived from the design structure. Our bounds hold for a large class of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-11 S. Borodachov , P. Boyvalenkov , P. Dragnev , D. Hardin , E. Saff , M. Stoyanova

Motion planning is a fundamental problem of robotics with applications in many areas of computer science and beyond. Its restriction to graphs has been investigated in the literature for it allows to concentrate on the combinatorial problem…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-04-14 Zhilin Wu , Stephane Grumbach

We study computational complexity of the class of distance-constrained graph labeling problems from the fixed parameter tractability point of view. The parameters studied are neighborhood diversity and clique width. We rephrase the distance…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-04 Jiří Fiala , Tomáš Gavenčiak , Dušan Knop , Martin Koutecký , Jan Kratochvíl

A vertex of a plane digraph is bimodal if all its incoming edges (and hence all its outgoing edges) are consecutive in the cyclic order around it. A plane digraph is bimodal if all its vertices are bimodal. Bimodality is at the heart of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Walter Didimo , Fedor V. Fomin , Petr A. Golovach , Tanmay Inamdar , Stephen Kobourov , Marie Diana Sieper

We obtain new parameterized algorithms for the classical problem of determining whether a directed acyclic graph admits an upward planar drawing. Our results include a new fixed-parameter algorithm parameterized by the number of sources, an…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Steven Chaplick , Emilio Di Giacomo , Fabrizio Frati , Robert Ganian , Chrysanthi N. Raftopoulou , Kirill Simonov

A coordinate-free proof of the Maximum Principle is provided in the specific case of an optimal control problem with fixed time. Our treatment heavily relies on a special notion of variation of curves that consist of a concatenation of…

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Most datasets encountered in computer vision and medical applications present symmetries that should be taken into account in classification tasks. A typical example is the symmetry by rotation and/or scaling in object detection. A common…

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We show that any two geometric triangulations of a closed hyperbolic, spherical or Euclidean manifold are related by a sequence of Pachner moves and barycentric subdivisions of bounded length. This bound is in terms of the dimension of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Tejas Kalelkar , Advait Phanse

We introduce the topological complexity of the work map associated to a robot system. In broad terms, this measures the complexity of any algorithm controlling, not just the motion of the configuration space of the given system, but the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Aniceto Murillo , Jie Wu

We give new lower bounds for the (higher) topological complexity of a space, in terms of the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of a certain auxiliary space. We also give new lower bounds for the rational topological complexity of a space, and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Mark Grant , Gregory Lupton , John Oprea

Moving Morphable Component (MMC) based topology optimization approach is an explicit algorithm since the boundary of the entity explicitly described by its functions. Compared with other pixel or node point-based algorithms, it is optimized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Xinchao Jiang , Hu Wang , Yu Li , Kangjia Mo

We present upper and lower bounds for symmetrized topological complexity $TC^\Sigma(X)$ in the sense of Basabe-Gonz\'alez-Rudyak-Tamaki. The upper bound comes from equivariant obstruction theory, and the lower bounds from the cohomology of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-23 Mark Grant

In the coordinated motion planning problem, we are given a graph together with the starting and destination vertices of $k$ robots. At each time step, any subset of robots may move, each traversing an edge of the graph, provided that no two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Iyad Kanj