arxivcs.CGcs.RO2026-06-30
Guaranteed Escape for a Bouncing Robot in Pipe Chains
Ahmad Kamaludeen, Somnath Kundu, Yeganeh Bahoo
We study the symmetric bouncing of a point robot within orthogonally-joined rectangles with equal width, which we refer to as pipes. We provide an exhaustive case analysis of every trajectory pattern inside a single rectangular pipe segment, identifying the conditions under which…