Configuration Space Computation for Polyhedra with Planar Motions

E. Sacks
This report describes an algorithm that computes the configuration space of a polyhedron with planar motion relative to a fixed polyhedral obstacle. The algorithm decomposes the configuration space along the orientation axis into intervals of cross-sections with the same structure. It computes the angles where the structure changes. In each interval between two changes, it computes the (fixed) free-space structure from a representative cross-section then lifts the contact curves to construct an adjacency graph of contact patches.
Purdue University Technical Report, CSD-TR 01-004, 2001

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