Papers by Reif on
Motion Planning and Kinodynamics in Robotics (31 papers)
- J.H. Reif,
Complexity of the Mover's Problem and Generalizations. 20th Annual IEEE
Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 1979, pp.
421-427. [PDF]
Published as Complexity of the Generalized Mover's Problem, Chapter 11 in Planning,
Geometry and Complexity of Robot Motion, Jacob Schwartz, ed., Ablex Pub., Norwood, NJ, 1987, pp. 267-281. [PDF]
- J.H. Reif and M.
Sharir, Motion Planning in the Presence of Moving Obstacles, 26th
Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, Portland, OR, October 1985, pp. 144-154. Published in Journal of the ACM (JACM), 41:4, July 1994, pp. 764-790. [PDF]
or [PostScript]
[PDF]
- J.H.
Reif and J.A. Storer, Shortest Paths in Euclidean Space with Polyhedral
Obstacles. Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Czechoslovakia,
August 1988. Published as Shortest Paths in the plane with polygonal
obstacles, Journal of the ACM(JACM) 41:5, September, 1994, pp. 982-1012. [PDF]
- J.H.
Reif and J.A. Storer, Minimizing Turns for Discrete Movement in the
Interior of a Polygon, IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol.
3, No. 3, June 1987, pp. 182-193. [PDF]
- J. Canny and J.H. Reif, New Lower Bound
Techniques for Robot Motion Planning Problems. 28th Annual IEEE
Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, Los Angeles, CA, October 1987, pp. 49-60. [PDF]
- J.
Canny, B. Donald, J.H. Reif and P. Xavier. On the Complexity of
Kinodynamic Planning. 29th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of
Computer Science, White Plains, NY, October 1988, pp. 306-316.
Published as Kinodynamic Motion Planning, Journal of the ACM, Vol 40(5), November 1993, pp. 1048-1066. [PDF]
- J.H. Reif and S.
Tate, Continuous Alternation: The Complexity of Pursuit in Continuous
Domains, Special Issue on Computational Robotics: the Geometric Theory of
Manipulation, Planning and Control, Algorithmica, Vol. 10, pp. 151-181, 1993. [PostScript]
[PDF]
- J.H. Reif and S.
Tate, Approximate Kinodynamic Planning Using L2-norm Dynamic Bounds. Duke University
Technical Report CS-1990-13, 1989. Published in Computers and
Mathematics with Applications,
Vol. 27, No.5, pp.29-44, March 1994. [PostScript]
[PDF]
9.
J.H. Reif, A Survey
on Advances in the Theory of Computational Robotics. Proceedings of the Fourth
Workshop of Adaptive Systems Control Theory as Adaptive and Learning Systems:
Theory and Applications, K.S.
Narendra, ed., Plenum Press, New York, NY, 1986. [PDF]
10.
J. Canny, A. Rege,
and J.H. Reif, An Exact Algorithm for Kinodynamic Planning in the Plane. 6th Annual
ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, Berkeley, CA, June 1990, pp. 271-280. [PDF]
Published in Discrete and Computational Geometry, Vol. 6, 1991, pp. 461-484. [PDF]
11.
J.H. Reif and H.
Wang, On Line Navigation Through Regions of Variable Densities. ARO
Computational Geometry Workshop, Raleigh, North Carolina, October, 1993.
Rewritten as On-Line Navigation Through Weighted Regions. [PostScript] [PDF]
- J.H.
Reif and H. Wang, Social Potential Fields: A Distributed Behavioral
Control for Autonomous Robots, Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of
Robotics (WAFR'94), San
Francisco, California, February, 1994; The Algorithmic Foundations of
Robotics, A.K.Peters, Boston, MA. 1995. Published in Robotics and
Autonomous Systems, Vol. 27, no.3, pp.171-194, (May 1999). [PostScript]
[PDF]
- J.H.
Reif and J. Storer, A Single-Exponential Upper Bound for Finding Shortest
Paths in Three Dimensions. Published in Journal of the ACM(JACM), Vol. 41, No. 5, Sept. 1994, pp. 1013-1019.
[PDF]
- E. Gelenbe,
N.Schmajuk, J. Staddon, and J.H. Reif, Autonomous Search and the Search
for Robots and Mines: A Survey, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 22,
pp. 23-33. (November 1997). [PostScript]
[PDF]
- J.H. Reif, Robust,
Adaptive and Dynamic Robotic Motion Planning, 19th NSF Design and
Manufacturing Grantees Conference, Monterrey, Mexico, Jan 1998. [PostScript]
[PDF]
- J.H.
Reif and H. Wang, Nonuniform Discretization
for Kinodynamic motion planning and its applications, Workshop on
Foundations of Robotics,
Toulouse, France, July 1996, 97-112. Published in SIAM Journal of
Computing (SICOMP), Volume 30, No. 1, pages 161-190, (2000). [PostScript]
[PDF]
- J.H. Reif and Z.
Sun, Nano-Robotics Motion Planning and Its Applications in Nanotechnology
and Biomolecular Computing, NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees
Conference, Jan 5-8, 1999. [HTML]
- J.H. Reif and H.
Wang, The Complexity of the Two Dimensional Curvature-Constrained
Shortest-Path Problem, Third International Workshop on Algorithmic
Foundations of Robotics (WAFR98),
Pub. by A. K. Peters Ltd,
Houston, Texas, pages 49-57, June, 1998. [PostScript]
[PDF]
- J.H. Reif and Z.
Sun, The Computational Power of Frictional Mechanical Systems, Third
International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, (WAFR98), Pub. by A. K. Peters Ltd, Houston, Texas,
pages 223-236, Mar. 5-7 1998.
Published as On Frictional Mechanical Systems
and Their Computational Power, SIAM Journal of Computing(SICOMP),
Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 1449-1474, (2003). [PDF]
or [PDF]
Talk slides: [HTML]
- J.H. Reif and Z.
Sun. An efficient approximation algorithm for weighted region shortest
path problem. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Algorithmic
Foundations of Robotics (WAFR2000), A. K. Peters Ltd Publishers, Hanover, New
Hampshire, pages 191-203, Mar. 16-18 2000. [PDF]
[PostScript].
Published as Z. Sun and J.H. Reif, On Finding Approximate Optimal Paths in Weighted
Regions, Journal of Algorithms, Volume 58, Number 1, pp. 1-32, January 2006.
[PDF]
21.
J.H. Reif and Z. Sun.
Movement planning in the presence of flows. In Proceedings of the 7th
International Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS2001),
volume 2125 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 450-461, Brown
University, Providence, RI, August 8-10, (2001). Published in Algorithmica,
Volume 39, Number 2, pages 127-153, February 2004. [PDF] or [PDF]. Talk slides: [HTML]
22.
Z. Sun and J.H. Reif.
BUSHWHACK: An approximation algorithm for minimal paths through
pseudo-Euclidean spaces. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual International
Symposium on Algorithms and Computation(ISAAC01),
Christchurch, New Zealand, Dec 19-21, 2001, Volume 2223 of Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, pages 160-171, Dec, 2001. Published in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics (SMC), Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp 925-936 (2007). [PDF]
[PDF]
- J.H.
Reif and T. H. LaBean, and N.C. Seeman. Programmable Assembly at the
Molecular Scale: Self-Assembly of DNA Lattices, Invited paper, 2001 IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2001), Seoul, Korea, ed. Lee Beom
(May, 2001).
24.
Z. Sun
and J. H. Reif, On Finding Energy-minimizing Paths on Terrains for a Mobile
Robot, 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation(ICRA2003),
Taipei, Taiwan, May 12-17, 2003. IEEE
Transaction on Robotics and Automation, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, February 2005, pages
102-114. [PDF]
25.
D. Hsu,
T. Jiang, J. H. Reif, and Z. Sun, The Bridge Test for Sampling Narrow Passages
with Probabilistic Roadmap Planners, 2003 IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation(ICRA2003), Taipei, Taiwan, May 12-17, 2003. Published as Z. Sun, D. Hsu, T. Jiang, H.
Kurniawati, and J.H.Reif, Narrow Passage Sampling for Probabilistic Roadmap
Planning, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Volume 21, No. 6, Dec. 2005. pp. 1105 – 1115. [PDF]
26.
John H.
Reif and Zheng Sun, On Boundaries of Highly Visible Spaces and Applications, 14th Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation
Theory, Malm Hgskola, Sweden, August 12-15, 2003, Springer-Verlag Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, 2003. Invited paper published in Theoretical
Computer Science, Volume 354, Issue 3, (4 April 2006), pp. 379-390. [PDF][PDF]
- Zheng Sun and John H.
Reif, Adaptive and Compact Discretization for Weighted Region Optimal Path
Finding. 14th Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, Malm
Hgskola, Sweden, August 12-15, 2003, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, 2003. [PostScript] [PDF].
- John
H. Reif and Sam Slee, Asymptotically Optimal Kinodynamic Motion Planning
for Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Seventh International Workshop on the Algorithmic
Foundations of Robotics (WAFR2006), NYC, New York, July 16-18, 2006. [PDF]
- John H. Reif and
Sam Slee, Optimal Kinodynamic Motion Planning for Self-ReconŢgurable Robots
Between Arbitrary 2D ConŢgurations, Robotics: Science and Systems
Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, June 27-30, 2007. [PDF]
- Urmi Majumder and
John Reif, A Framework for Designing Novel Magnetic Tiles Capable of
Complex Self-Assemblies, submitted to the Conference on Unconventional
Computation, Vienna, Austria, Aug 25-26, 2008. Conference Version: [PDF] Full Paper: [PDF]
- John H. Reif,
Mechanical Computation: itŐs Computational Complexity and Technologies,
invited chapter to appear in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and System
Science (edited by Robert A. Meyers), Springer (2009) ISBN:
978-0-387-75888-6. [PDF]