Critical point sensing in unknown environments

Abstract
Many motion planning algorithms use Morse functionsto characterize the free space. Specifically, thesealgorithms look at the critical points of a Morse functionto denote the topological changes in the free space.This paper introduces methods to sense critical pointsand ensure all critical points are "seen" by a coveragealgorithm. Experimental results performed on a mobilerobot are also presented.

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