A continuation method for motion-planning problems

ESAIM - Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 139-168

  Chitour, Yacine ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Homotopy continuation method; Motion planning problem; Non holonomic control systems; Path following; Sub Riemannian geometry; Wazewski equation

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MAPS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HOMOTOPY CONTINUATION METHOD; MOTION PLANNING PROBLEM; NON-HOLONOMIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; PATH FOLLOWING; SUB-RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY; WAZEWSKI EQUATION;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 33645784849     PISSN: 12928119     EISSN: 12623377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/cocv:2005035     Document Type: Article

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