Searching for Shortest and Safest Paths Along Obstacle Common Tangents

This thesis describes a method for computing globally shortest paths for a point robot in a two-dimensional, orthogonal world composed of convex and concave polygons through the construction of obstacle common tangent visibility graphs. Visibility and intersection testing are based on the orientatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crane, Jerry Allen
Other Authors: Kanayama, Yutaka
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/43782