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Publications [#329184] of Pankaj K. Agarwal

Papers Published

  1. Agarwal, PK; van Kreveld, M, Implicit point location of line segments, with an arrangements an application to motion planning, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 652 LNCS (January, 1992), pp. 80-91, ISBN 9783540562870 [doi]
    (last updated on 2023/06/02)

    Abstract:
    Let S be a set of n (possibly intersecting) line segments in the plane. We show that tile arrangement of S can be stored implicitly into a data structure of size O(n log2 n) so that the following query can be answered in time O(n1/2 log2 n): Given two query points, determine whether they lie in the same face of the arrangemen t of S and, if so, return a path between them that lies within the face. This version of the implicit point location problem is motivated by the following motion planning problem: Given a polygonal robot R with m vertices and a planar region bounded by polygonal obstacles with n vertices in total, prcprocess them into a data structure so that, glvcn initial and final positions of R, one can quickly dctermine whether there exists a continuous collision-free translational motion of R from the initial to the final position. We show that such a query can be answered in time O((mn)1/2 log2 mn) using O(mn log2 mn) storage.

 

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