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Main Authors: Wang, Qianhao, Wang, Zhepei, Wang, Mingyang, Ji, Jialin, Han, Zhichao, Wu, Tianyue, Jin, Rui, Gao, Yuman, Xu, Chao, Gao, Fei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02977
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  • Convex polytopes have compact representations and exhibit convexity, which makes them suitable for abstracting obstacle-free spaces from various environments. Existing generation methods struggle with balancing high-quality output and efficiency. Moreover, another crucial requirement for convex polytopes to accurately contain certain seed point sets, such as a robot or a front-end path, is proposed in various tasks, which we refer to as manageability. In this paper, we propose Fast Iterative Regional Inflation (FIRI) to generate high-quality convex polytope while ensuring efficiency and manageability simultaneously. FIRI consists of two iteratively executed submodules: Restrictive Inflation (RsI) and Maximum Volume Inscribed Ellipsoid (MVIE) computation. By explicitly incorporating constraints that include the seed point set, RsI guarantees manageability. Meanwhile, iterative MVIE optimization ensures high-quality result through monotonic volume bound improvement.In terms of efficiency, we design methods tailored to the low-dimensional and multi-constrained nature of both modules, resulting in orders of magnitude improvement compared to generic solvers. Notably, in 2-D MVIE, we present the first linear-complexity analytical algorithm for maximum area inscribed ellipse, further enhancing the performance in 2-D cases. Extensive benchmarks conducted against state-of-the-art methods validate the superior performance of FIRI in terms of quality, manageability, and efficiency. Furthermore, various real-world applications showcase the generality and practicality of FIRI.