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Geometric motion planning for systems with toroidal and cylindrical shape spaces

  • Chaohui Gong
  • , Zhongqiang Ren
  • , Julian Whitman
  • , Jaskaran Grover
  • , Baxi Chong
  • , Howie Choset

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Abstract

Kinematic motion planning using geometric mechanics tends to prescribe a trajectory in a parameterization of a shape space and determine its displacement in a position space. Often this trajectory is called a gait. Previous works assumed that the shape space is Euclidean when often it is not, either because the robotic joints can spin around forever (i.e., has an S1 configuration space component, or its parameterization has an S1 dimension). Consider a shape space that is a torus; gaits that “wrap” around the full range of a shape variable and return to its starting configuration are valid gaits in the shape space yet appear as line segments in the parameterization. Since such a gait does not form a closed loop in the parameterization, existing geometric mechanics methods cannot properly consider them. By explicitly analyzing the topology of the underlying shape space, we derive geometric tools to consider systems with toroidal and cylindrical shape spaces.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationModeling and Validation; Multi-Agent and Networked Systems; Path Planning and Motion Control; Tracking Control Systems; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Application; Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicles; Vibration in Mechanical Systems; Vibrations and Control of Systems; Vibrations
Subtitle of host publicationModeling, Analysis, and Control
PublisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ISBN (Electronic)9780791851913
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
EventASME 2018 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DSCC 2018 - Atlanta, United States
Duration: Sep 30 2018Oct 3 2018

Publication series

NameASME 2018 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DSCC 2018
Volume3

Other

OtherASME 2018 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DSCC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta
Period9/30/1810/3/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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