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Parametrized motion planning algorithms have high degree of flexibility and universality, they can work under a variety of external conditions, which are viewed as parameters and form part of the input of the algorithm. In this paper we…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Michael Farber , Shmuel Weinberger

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…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Daniel C. Cohen , Michael Farber , Shmuel Weinberger

We study a generalized motion planning problem involving multiple autonomous robots navigating in a $d$-dimensional Euclidean space in the presence of a set of obstacles whose positions are unknown a priori. Each robot is required to visit…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Gopal Chandra Dutta , Amit Kumar Paul , Subhankar Sau

Parametrized motion planning algorithms have high degrees of universality and flexibility, as they are designed to work under a variety of external conditions, which are viewed as parameters and form part of the input of the underlying…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Daniel C. Cohen , Michael Farber , Shmuel Weinberger

This is a continuation of our recent paper in which we developed the theory of sequential parametrized motion planning. A sequential parametrized motion planning algorithm produced a motion of the system which is required to visit a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Michael Farber , Amit Kumar Paul

Autonomous motion of a system (robot) is controlled by a motion planning algorithm. A sequential parametrized motion planning algorithm \cite{FP22} works under variable external conditions and generates continuous motions of the system to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Michael Farber , Amit Kumar Paul

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…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Michael Farber

Analysis of motion algorithms for autonomous systems operating under variable external conditions leads to the concept of parametrized topological complexity \cite{CFW}. In \cite{CFW}, \cite{CFW2} the parametrized topological complexity was…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Michael Farber , Amit Kumar Paul , Lucile Vandembroucq

We describe parametrised motion planning algorithms for systems controlling objects represented by points that move without collisions in an even dimensional Euclidean space and in the presence of up to three obstacles with \emph{a priori}…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Cesar A. Ipanaque Zapata , Jesús González

Recent advancements in robotics have transformed industries such as manufacturing, logistics, surgery, and planetary exploration. A key challenge is developing efficient motion planning algorithms that allow robots to navigate complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Liding Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Zewei Sun , Zhenshan Bing , Chaoqun Wang , Luis Figueredo , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

We consider the problem of robot motion planning in an oriented Riemannian manifold as a topological motion planning problem in its oriented frame bundle. For this purpose, we study the topological complexity of oriented frame bundles,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Stephan Mescher

We study an elementary problem of the topological robotics: collective motion of a set of $n$ distinct particles which one has to move from an initial configuration to a final configuration, with the requirement that no collisions occur in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Farber , Sergey Yuzvinsky

Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a set of robots in a continuous state space. The difficulty of MRMP increases with the number of robots and is exacerbated in environments with narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Courtney McBeth , James Motes , Diane Uwacu , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Farber , Mark Grant , Sergey Yuzvinsky

This paper studies a class of multi-robot coordination problems where a team of robots aim to reach their goal regions with minimum time and avoid collisions with obstacles and other robots. A novel numerical algorithm is proposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Guoxiang Zhao , Minghui Zhu

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…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Cesar A. Ipanaque Zapata , Jesús González

In this paper we develop theory of sequential parametrized motion planning which generalises the approach of parametrized motion planning, which was introduced recently in [3]. A sequential parametrized motion planning algorithm produced a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Michael Farber , Amit Kumar Paul

We study the parameterized complexity of a generalization of the coordinated motion planning problem on graphs, where the goal is to route a specified subset of a given set of $k$ robots to their destinations with the aim of minimizing the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Iyad Kanj , M. S. Ramanujan

We design a motion planning algorithm to coordinate the movements of two robots along a figure eight track, in such a way that no collisions occur. We use a topological approach to robot motion planning that relates instabilities in motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Cristian Jardon , Brian Sheppard , Veet Zaveri

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,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Farber
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