Sensor-Based Exploration: The Hierarchical Generalized Voronoi Graph

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Sensor-Based Exploration: The Hierarchical Generalized Voronoi Graph (2000)

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by Howie Choset , Joel Burdick

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@MISC{Choset00sensor-basedexploration:,
    author = {Howie Choset and Joel Burdick},
    title = {Sensor-Based Exploration: The Hierarchical Generalized Voronoi Graph},
    year = {2000}
}

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Abstract

The hierarchical generalized Voronoi graph (HGVG) is a new roadmap developed for sensor-based exploration in unknown environments. This paper defines the HGVG structure: a robot can plan a path between two locations in its work space or configuration space by simply planning a path onto the HGVG, then along the HGVG, and finally from the HGVG to the goal. Since the bulk of the path planning occurs on the one-dimensional HGVG, motion planning in arbitrary dimensioned spaces is virtually reduced to a one-dimensional search problem. A bulk of this paper is dedicated to ensuring the HGVG is sufficient for motion planning by demonstrating the HGVG (with its links) is an arc-wise connected structure. All of the proofs in this paper that lead toward the connectivity result focus on a large subset of spaces in R³, but wherever possible, results are derived in R^m. In fact, under a strict set of conditions, the HGVG (the GVG by itself) is indeed connected, and hence sufficient for motion planning. The chief advantage of the HGVG is that it possesses an incremental construction procedure, described in a companion paper, that constructs the HGVG using only line-of-sight sensor data. Once the robot constructs the HGVG, it has effectively explored the environment, because it can then use the HGVG to plan a path between two arbitrary configurations.

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sensor-based exploration hierarchical generalized voronoi graph motion planning path planning line-of-sight sensor data connectivity result focus one-dimensional search problem unknown environment work space strict set hgvg structure incremental construction procedure arc-wise connected structure new roadmap arbitrary configuration configuration space arbitrary dimensioned space large subset companion paper chief advantage one-dimensional hgvg

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