Elastic curves as solutions of Riemannian and sub-Riemannian control problems

Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 140-155

  Leite, F Silva ^a   Camarinha, M ^a   Crouch, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ELASTIC CURVES; LIE GROUPS; RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS; SASAKI METRIC; TANGENT BUNDLE;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033687223     PISSN: 09324194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/pl00009863     Document Type: Article

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