Moving Matter: Using a Single, Simple Robot to Reconfigure a Connected Set of Building Blocks
Moving Matter: Using a Single, Simple Robot to Reconfigure a Connected Set of Building Blocks
著者: Javier Garcia, Jonas Friemel, Ramin Kosfeld, Michael Yannuzzi, Peter Kramer, Christian Rieck, Christian Scheffer, Arne Schmidt, Harm Kube, Dan Biediger, Sándor P. Fekete, Aaron T. Becker
分類: cs.RO, cs.CG, cs.DS
原文アブストラクト
We implement and evaluate different methods for the reconfiguration of a connected arrangement of tiles into a desired target shape, using a single active robot that can move along the tile structure. This robot can pick up, carry, or drop off one tile at a time, but it must maintain a single connected configuration at all times. Becker et al. (CCCG 2025) recently proposed an algorithm that uses histograms as canonical intermediate configurations, guaranteeing performance within a constant factor of the optimal solution if the start and target configuration are well-separated. We implement and evaluate this algorithm, both in a simulated and practical setting, using an inchworm type robot to compare it with two existing heuristic algorithms.