An Interactive Framework for Reconfiguration in the Sliding Square Model (Media Exposition)

Authors Willem Sonke , Jules Wulms



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Willem Sonke
  • TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Jules Wulms
  • TU Wien, Austria

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We thank Bettina Speckmann for her useful comments on a draft of this paper.

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Willem Sonke and Jules Wulms. An Interactive Framework for Reconfiguration in the Sliding Square Model (Media Exposition). In 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 224, pp. 70:1-70:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.70

Abstract

We describe SquareSlider, a software framework for visualizing reconfiguration algorithms of modular robots in the sliding square model. In this model, a robot consists of a configuration of squares in a rectangular grid, which can reconfigure through a fixed set of possible moves. SquareSlider is a web-based tool that implements an easy-to-use interface allowing the user to build a configuration, run a reconfiguration algorithm on it, and examine the results.

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  • Theory of computation → Computational geometry
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  • Modular robots
  • Implementation
  • Visualization

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