A note on the papadimitriou-silverberg algorithm for planning optimal piecewise-linear motion of a ladder

Micha Sharir*

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Abstract

We present an improvement of a recent algorithm by Papadimitriou and Silverberg for optimal motion planning for a ladder (1987). The improved algorithm runs in time O(n3α(n) log2n), where n is the number of obstacle edges and where α(n) is the extremely slowly growing inverse Ackermann function. This is an improvement by nearly θ(n) of the original algorithm of Papadimitriou and Silverberg.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)187-190
Number of pages4
JournalInformation Processing Letters
Volume32
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 1989

Keywords

  • Davenport-Schinzel sequences
  • Motion planning
  • arrangements of curves
  • computational geometry
  • faces and zones in arrangements
  • shortest paths

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