A Motion Planner for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 577-593

  Laumond, Jean Paul ^a   Jacobs, Paul E ^a,b   Taïx, Michel ^a   Murray, Richard M ^c,d  

^a LAAS CNRS   (France)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MOTION CONTROL; NAVIGATION; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY; TRAJECTORIES;

COLLISION FREE PATH; MOTION CONSTRAINTS; MOTION PLANNING; NONHOLONOMIC MOBILE ROBOTS; SUB RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0028516861     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.326564     Document Type: Article

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