This paper addresses the problem of numerically finding an optimal path for a robot with non-holonomic constraints. A car like robot, whose turning radius is lower bounded i s considered as an example, where the arc length and the change in steering angle are optimized. The car like robot is kinematically constrained and i s modelled as a 2 D object translating and rotating in the horizontal pl...

We consider the problem of having a team of nonholonomic mobile robots follow a desired leader-follower formation using omnidirectional vision. By specifying the desired formation in the image plane, we translate the control problem into a separate visual servoing task for each follower. We use a rank constraint on the omnidirectional optical flows across multiple frames to estimate the positio...

This paper presents a general approach to computing optimal feedback motion strategies for a holonomic or nonholonomic robot in a static workspace. The proposed algorithm synthesizes a numerical navigation function deened by interpolation in a simplicial complex. The computation progresses much in the same way as Dijkstra's algorithm for graphs; however, the proposed approach applies to continu...

A new smooth closed loop time invariant control law is proposed for the exponential stabilization of mobile robots with nonholonomic motion constraints. The control scheme relies solely on visual information and includes an observer for the system state estimation by means of the essential matrix. The problem of model degeneracies due to short baseline is solved with the definition of a virtual...

We introduce the notion of a nonlinear splitting on fibre bundle as generalization an Ehresmann connection. present its basic properties and we pay attention to special cases affine, homogeneous principal splittings. explain where splittings appear in context Lagrangian systems Finsler geometry show their relation Routh symmetry reduction, submersive second-order differential equations unreduct...

In this work, we propose a new approach for motion planning for nonholonomic car-like robots which is based on a Customizable PRM (C-PRM). A major advantage of our approach is that it enables the same roadmap to be efficiently utilized for car-like robots with different turning radii, which need not be known before query time. Our C-PRM-based approach first builds a so-called control roadmap wh...

This paper presents a multisine approach for trajectory optimization based on information gain, with distance and orientation sensing to known beacons. It addresses the problem of active sensing, i.e. the selection of a robot motion or sequence of motions, which make the robot arrive in its desired goal configuration (position and orientation) with maximum accuracy, given the available sensor i...

In this paper, we develop the theoretical foundations of discrete Dirac mechanics, that is, discrete mechanics of degenerate Lagrangian/Hamiltonian systems with constraints. We first construct discrete analogues of Tulczyjew’s triple and induced Dirac structures by considering the geometry of symplectic maps and their associated generating functions. We demonstrate that this framework provides ...

This paper deals with the foundations of analytical dynamics. It obtains the explicit equations of motion for mechanical systems that are subjected to non-ideal holonomic and nonholonomic equality constraints. It provides an easy incorporation of such non-ideal constraints into the framework of Lagrangian dynamics. It bases its approach on a fundamental principle that includes non-ideal constra...

This work studies the interaction of the nonholonomic and visibility constraints of a robot to maintain visibility of a landmark. The robot is a differential drive system (nonholonomic robot) and has a sensor with limited capabilities (limited field of view). In this research, we want to determine whether or not a robot can always maintain visibility of a landmark during the execution of a path...