Title : 
Two-finger caging of concave polygon
         
        
            Author : 
Pipattanasomporn, Peam ; Sudsang, Attawith
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Chulalongkorn Univ., Bangkok
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
An object is captured by a set of fingers when there exists no trajectory to bring the object arbitrarily far from the fingers. Object concavity is a special geometric property that allows objects to be captured with only few fingers. In particular, certain concave objects may be captured by appropriately placing two fingers close to some pair of opposite concave sections. This paper addresses the problem of computing all configurations of the fingers that are farthest away from each other while still capable of capturing the object. We propose an O(n2lg n) algorithm for this task and present preliminary results showing efficiency of the algorithm
         
        
            Keywords : 
computational complexity; computational geometry; concave polygon; object concavity; two-finger caging; Algorithm design and analysis; Discrete transforms; Fingers; Region 10; Robustness; Uncertainty;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006. Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Orlando, FL
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-9505-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642020