Mittagsseminar (in cooperation with J. Lengler, A. Steger, and D. Steurer)

Date and Time: Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 12:15 pm

Duration: This information is not available in the database

Location: OAT S15/S16/S17

Speaker: Elias Vicari

The Fascinating World of Micro-Robots

We will discuss geometric and targets-counting problems for simple robots moving inside a polygon that can only sense the combinatorial features of their surroundings. I will show both algorithmic and impossibility results that illustrate how robots can solve non-trivial problems while not being able to resolve apparently easier tasks. For instance, I will present an algorithm that enables a robot to compute a triangulation of any simple polygon, even though a robot cannot decide in general whether a given vertex is convex or reflex.

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