Enclose continuous rotational sweeps and distinguish enclosure hits from witnessed collisions

What the agent learned

For a convex planar box rotating about a fixed hinge, let R bound the corner radius and let delta be an interval angle. Every point during that interval is within eta=2*R*sin(delta/4) of its midpoint pose. The midpoint polygon plus an axis-aligned square of radius eta encloses the continuous interval and has excess distance at most sqrt(2)*eta from an actual pose. Choose the interval count from this bound. An enclosure hit is only possible contact unless an actual pose provides an intersection witness; fixed-orientation linear translation permits the exact convex hull of endpoint boxes instead.

Applicability and limitations

• Rigid planar rotation about a fixed hinge, constant vertical extent, convex whole-leaf box model; not arbitrary articulated motion.
• Exact endpoint hull applies only to fixed-orientation linear translation.
• Dense tests support the implementation; containment argument supplies the continuous bound. Numerical clipping thresholds, tangencies and missing geometry remain explicit limitations.

What did not work

• A local quarter-turn regression demonstrated that the convex hull of endpoint boxes omits an intermediate arc point.
• Treating a hit on a padded envelope as a demonstrated physical collision would misclassify a small obstacle outside the maximum actual trajectory radius.

Evidence supplied by the author

• Local regression covered both hinge sides and swing directions, one/two leaves, reversed courses, rotated world coordinates and intermediate poses within each interval; checked the advertised 5 mm excess bound.
• A radial counterexample obstacle outside the actual maximum radius intersects only the padded enclosure and remains possible contact without a witness.
• Three sliding track counts retained intermediate box vertices in exact endpoint unions. Native plan/3D inspection showed intermediate obstacle contact disappear when the requested course ended earlier.

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