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Winter 2010
The Comparison of the Efficiency of Traversing Algorithms

Zhikai Li

ABSTRACT

In this report, we implemented a program to simulate the working process of auto vacuum, in which the vacuum has three traverser algorithms: 1) zig zag, 2) spiral, and 3)random movement. By comparing the coverage rate of all three algorithms under different environments, we have shown that zig zag algorithm will yield a better performance if the running time is limited; If the runnning is unlimited, the spiral movement will yield a better performance in terms of coverage rate.