Title
Sparsification of motion-planning roadmaps by edge contraction
Abstract
We present Roadmap Sparsification by Edge Contraction (RSEC), a simple and effective algorithm for reducing the size of a motion-planning roadmap. The algorithm exhibits minimal effect on the quality of paths that can be extracted from the new roadmap. The primitive operation used by RSEC is edge contraction-the contraction of a roadmap edge to a single vertex and the connection of the new vertex to the neighboring vertices of the contracted edge. For certain scenarios, we compress more than 98% of the edges and vertices at the cost of degradation of average shortest path length by at most 2%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631155
Robotics and Automation
Keywords
DocType
Volume
graph theory,path planning,RSEC,average shortest path length,compression,graph,motion-planning roadmaps sparsification,neighboring vertices,roadmap sparsification by edge contraction,vertex
Journal
abs/1209.4463
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1050-4729
978-1-4673-5641-1
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.54
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Doron Shaharabani180.54
Oren Salzman26115.27
Pankaj K. Agarwal35257593.81
D. Halperin480.54