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Search for smart evaders with sweeping agents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2021

Roee M. Francos*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Computer Science, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Alfred M. Bruckstein
Affiliation:
Faculty of Computer Science, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
*
*Corresponding author. Email: roee.francos@cs.technion.ac.il
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Suppose in a given planar circular region, there are smart mobile evaders and we want to find them using sweeping agents. We assume the sweeping agents are in a line formation whose total length is predetermined. We propose procedures for designing a sweeping process that ensures the successful completion of the task, thereby deriving conditions on the sweeping velocity of the linear formation and its path. Successful completion of the task means that evaders with a given limit on their velocity cannot escape the sweeping agents. We present results on the search time given the initial conditions.

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