Shortest Watchman Tours in Simple Polygons under Rotated Monotone Visibility

Abstract: We present an $O(nrG)$ time algorithm for computing and maintaining a minimum length shortest watchman tour that sees a simple polygon under monotone visibility in direction $\theta$, while $\theta$ varies in $[0,180^{\circ})$, obtaining the directions for the tour to be the shortest one over all tours, where $n$ is the number of vertices, $r$ is the number of reflex vertices, and $G\leq r$ is the maximum number of gates of the polygon used at any time in the algorithm.