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dRVG: Quadtree-Guided, Resolution-Complete Online Motion Planning for Polygonal Robots in Unknown Environments

arXiv:2609.31412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the dynamic rotation-stacked visibility graph (dRVG), an online motion planner that guides polygonal robots to specified goals in initially unknown, static environ- ments. It merges local roadmaps from successive observations to plan collision-free translations and rotations without a uniform position grid. A spatial quadtree schedules sensing goals across regions to reduce repeated visits while retaining all orientation configurations

Published September 28, 2026 · Category: Robotics

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arXiv:2609.31412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the dynamic rotation-stacked visibility graph (dRVG), an online motion planner that guides polygonal robots to specified goals in initially unknown, static environ- ments. It merges local roadmaps from successive observations to plan collision-free translations and rotations without a uniform position grid. A spatial quadtree schedules sensing goals across regions to reduce repeated visits while retaining all orientation configurations for routing. Under exact sensing and geometric computation and star-shaped robot and envelope assumptions, dRVG with center scans is resolution-complete relative to full- map RVG at the same angular resolution. In experiments using footprint scans, dRVG solves all 140 cases across 20 difficult maps and seven angular resolutions within a 20 s planning budget, with a median planning time of 1.18 s at 360 orientation layers. Six microMVP demonstrations illustrate the complete online planning loop on a physical robot.

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Originally published at arxiv.org.

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