Nonpositive curvature and Pareto optimal coordination of robots

SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1697-1713

  Ghrist, Robert ^a   Lavalle, Steven M ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Author keywords

CAT(O) geometry; Configuration space; Nonpositive curvature; Pareto optimality

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARETO PRINCIPLE; VECTORS;

CAT(O) GEOMETRY; CONFIGURATION SPACES; NONPOSITIVE CURVATURE; PARETO OPTIMALITY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 34547157209     PISSN: 03630129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/040609860     Document Type: Article

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