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Configurations, Coordination, and Curvature
Geometry/Topology| Speaker: | Aaron Abrams, University of Georgia |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Wed, Oct 8 2003, 4:10PM |
Description
Problems involving lots of moving objects can
often be clarified by associating a configuration space to
the problem. I will describe such a topological approach to
motion-planning and shape-planning problems arising in an
area of robotics called ``reconfigurable systems.'' We will
see that the geometry of the configuration spaces is both
mathematically interesting and useful for robotics. (This
is joint work with Rob Ghrist.)