Title :
On the existence of a strategy to maintain a moving target within the sensing range of an observer reacting with delay
Author :
Murrieta, Rafael ; Sarmiento, Alejandro ; Hutchinson, Seth
Author_Institution :
Beckman Inst. for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
This paper deals with the problem of computing the motions of a robot observer in order to maintain visibility of a moving target. The target moves unpredictably, and the distribution of obstacles in the workspace is known in advance. Our algorithm computes a motion strategy based on partitioning the configuration space and the workspace in non-critical regions separated by critical curves. In this work, the existence of a solution for a given polygon and delay are determined.
Keywords :
delays; directed graphs; mobile robots; motion control; path planning; robot vision; target tracking; configuration space; critical curves; delay; motion strategy; moving target; noncritical regions; polygon; robot observer; Computational geometry; Data processing; Delay; Missiles; Motion control; Orbital robotics; Partitioning algorithms; Robot sensing systems; Target tracking; Visual servoing;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2003. (IROS 2003). Proceedings. 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7860-1
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2003.1248806