Incremental Reconstruction of Generalized Voronoi Diagrams on Grids - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Incremental Reconstruction of Generalized Voronoi Diagrams on Grids

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '06), pp. 114 - 123, March, 2006

Abstract

We present an incremental algorithm for constructing and reconstructing Generalized Voronoi Diagrams (GVDs) on grids. Our algorithm, Dynamic Brushfire, uses techniques from the path planning community to efficiently update GVDs when the underlying environment changes or when new information concerning the environment is received. Dynamic Brushfire is an order of magnitude more efficient than current approaches. In this paper we present the algorithm, compare it to current approaches on several experimental domains involving both simulated and real data, and demonstrate its usefulness for multirobot path planning.

BibTeX

@conference{Kalra-2006-9403,
author = {Nidhi Kalra and David Ferguson and Anthony (Tony) Stentz},
title = {Incremental Reconstruction of Generalized Voronoi Diagrams on Grids},
booktitle = {Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '06)},
year = {2006},
month = {March},
pages = {114 - 123},
}