Topology of robot motion planning
Location
Math 383-N
Event Series
Event Type
Seminar
Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00 PM
Michael Farber (Queen Mary University of London)
Motion planning algorithms allow autonomous functioning of mechanical systems (robots). I will discuss purely topological problems inspired by the motion planning problem of robotics and will survey some recent results. In particular, I will describe properties of motion planning algorithms in aspherical spaces with fundamental groups hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov.