Reconfiguration of Squares Using a Constant Number of Moves Each

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Main Authors: van der Horst, Thijs, Löffler, Maarten, Ophelders, Tim, Peters, Tom
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Published: 2026
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author van der Horst, Thijs
Löffler, Maarten
Ophelders, Tim
Peters, Tom
author_facet van der Horst, Thijs
Löffler, Maarten
Ophelders, Tim
Peters, Tom
contents Multi-robot motion planning is a hard problem. We investigate restricted variants of the problem where square robots are allowed to slide over an arbitrary curve to a new position only a constant number of times each. We show that the problem remains NP-hard in most cases, except when the squares have unit size and when the problem is unlabeled, i.e., the location of each square in the target configuration is left unspecified.
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spellingShingle Reconfiguration of Squares Using a Constant Number of Moves Each
van der Horst, Thijs
Löffler, Maarten
Ophelders, Tim
Peters, Tom
Computational Geometry
Multi-robot motion planning is a hard problem. We investigate restricted variants of the problem where square robots are allowed to slide over an arbitrary curve to a new position only a constant number of times each. We show that the problem remains NP-hard in most cases, except when the squares have unit size and when the problem is unlabeled, i.e., the location of each square in the target configuration is left unspecified.
title Reconfiguration of Squares Using a Constant Number of Moves Each
topic Computational Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05203