Bounded-Curvature Shortest Paths through a Sequence of Points using Convex Optimization

Xavier Goaoc; Hyo-Sil Kim; Sylvain Lazard

Bounded-Curvature Shortest Paths through a Sequence of Points using Convex Optimization

Xavier Goaoc ¹ Hyo-Sil Kim ² Sylvain Lazard ¹

1 VEGAS - Effective Geometric Algorithms for Surfaces and Visibility

Inria Nancy - Grand Est, LORIA - ALGO - Department of Algorithms, Computation, Image and Geometry

2 KAIST - Department of Electrical Engineering [Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology]

Abstract : We consider the problem of computing shortest paths having curvature at most one almost everywhere and visiting a sequence of $n$ points in the plane in a given order. This problem is a sub-problem of the Dubins Traveling Salesman Problem and also arises naturally in path planning for point car-like robots in the presence of polygonal obstacles. We show that when consecutive waypoints are distance at least four apart, this question reduces to a family of convex optimization problems over polyhedra in $\mathbb{R}^n$.

Keywords : Convex optimization Bounded curvature Dubins path Path planning

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Computer Science [cs] / Computational Geometry [cs.CG]

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