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Efficient Coverage Path Planning (CPP) is necessary for autonomous robotic lawnmowers to effectively navigate and maintain lawns with diverse and irregular shapes. This paper introduces a comprehensive end-to-end pipeline for CPP, designed…
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Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) is a widely recognized additive manufacturing technology for producing intricate metal components with exceptional accuracy. A key challenge in L-PBF is the formation of complex microstructures affecting…
In this paper, we propose a new method called Clustering Topological PRM (CTopPRM) for finding multiple homotopically distinct paths in 3D cluttered environments. Finding such distinct paths, e.g., going around an obstacle from a different…
We propose a novel computational framework for optimizing the toolpath continuity in fabricating surface models on an extrusion-based 3D printer. Toolpath continuity has been a critical issue for extrusion-based fabrications that affects…
Optimal recursive decomposition (or DR-planning) is crucial for analyzing, designing, solving or finding realizations of geometric constraint sytems. While the optimal DR-planning problem is NP-hard even for general 2D bar-joint constraint…
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Recent advances in image acquisition and scene reconstruction have enabled the generation of high-quality structural urban scene geometry, given sufficient site information. However, current capture techniques often overlook the crucial…