On the generation of smooth three-dimensional rigid body motions

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 576-589

  Žefran, Miloš ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^b   Croke, Christopher B ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Euclidean group; Lie groups; SE(3); Trajectory generation; Variational calculus

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; MOTION PLANNING; TRAJECTORIES; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EUCLIDEAN GROUP; LIE GROUPS; TRAJECTORY GENERATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0032138442     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.704225     Document Type: Article

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