A controlled clothoid spline

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 353-363

  Walton, D J ^a   Meek, D S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clothoid; Control polyline; Spline

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COSINE TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATION; POLYNOMIALS; ROBOTS; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

CLOTHOID; COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN (CAGD); CONTROL POLYLINE; SPLINE;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 18844452918     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2005.03.008     Document Type: Article

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