Online Exploration of Polygons with Holes

نویسندگان

  • Robert Georges
  • Frank Hoffmann
  • Klaus Kriegel
چکیده

We study online strategies for autonomous mobile robots with vision to explore unknown polygons with at most h holes. Our main contribution is an (h+c0)!–competitive strategy for such polygons under the assumption that each hole is marked with a special color, where c0 is a universal constant. The strategy is based on a new hybrid approach. Furthermore, we give a new lower bound construction for small h.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012