Dubins' problem on surfaces. I. nonnegative curvature

Journal of Geometric Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 565-587

  Chitour, Yacine ^a,b   Sigalotti, Mario ^a,b  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ HENRI POINCARÉ NANCY 1   (France)

Author keywords

Controllability; geodesic curvature; nonnegative curvature

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645014819     PISSN: 10506926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02922245     Document Type: Article

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