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A differential geometric approach to motion planning. (English) Zbl 0788.70017

Li, Zexiang (ed.) et al., Nonholonomic motion planning. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group. Kluwer Int. Ser. Eng. Comput. Sci. 192, 235-270 (1992).
The motion planning problem for real analytic, controllable systems without drift is discussed, and a new strategy is proposed. A control that steers the given initial point to the desired target point is computed. A number of Lie brackets of the system vector fields are added. Formal calculations based on the product expansion relative to a Hall basis are used. The new control achieves the desired result on the formal level. This control provides an exact solution of the original problem.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0875.00053].

MSC:

70Q05 Control of mechanical systems
70G45 Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics