A visibility-based pursuit-evasion problem

International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 471-493

  Guibas, Leonidas J ^a   Latombe, Jean Claude ^a   Lavalle, Steven M ^a,b   Lin, David ^a   Motwani, Rajeev ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Information spaces; Motion planning; Pursuit evasion; Sensing uncertainty; Visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033415235     PISSN: 02181959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/s0218195999000273     Document Type: Article

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