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Suppose that a robot is required to traverse a terrain spred with impenetrable rectangular obstacles. The robot has no information of the terrain in advance, but it can see and move in any direction. In this paper we construct an on-line algorithm for the robot to determine an obstacle-free path to its destination dynamically. Our algorithm guarantees that the ratio of the distance traversed to the length of the shortest path is optimized.
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Chan, Kf., Lam, T.W. (1991). An on-line algorithm for navigating in unknown terrain. In: Hsu, WL., Lee, R.C.T. (eds) ISA'91 Algorithms. ISA 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 557. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54945-5_56
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