η3-Splines for the smooth path generation of wheeled mobile robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1089-1095

  Piazzi, Aurelio ^a   Guarino Lo Bianco, Corrado ^a   Romano, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Curve primitives; Dynamic path inversion; Geometric continuity; Polynomial splines; Smooth path generation; Wheeled mobile robots

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; INTERPOLATION; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; POLYNOMIALS;

CURVE PRIMITIVES; DYNAMIC PATH INVERSION; GEOMETRIC CONTINUITY; POLYNOMIAL SPLINES; SMOOT PATH GENERATION; WHEELED MOBILE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 35348902015     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2007.903816     Document Type: Article

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