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Local minimizers for variational obstacle avoidance on Riemannian manifolds
- Source :
- Journal of Geometric Mechanics. 15:59-72
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), 2023.
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Abstract
- This paper studies a variational obstacle avoidance problem on complete Riemannian manifolds. That is, we minimize an action functional, among a set of admissible curves, which depends on an artificial potential function used to avoid obstacles. In particular, we generalize the theory of bi-Jacobi fields and biconjugate points and present necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality. Local minimizers of the action functional are divided into two categories and subsequently classified, with local uniqueness results obtained in both cases.<br />11 pages
Details
- ISSN :
- 19414889
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Geometric Mechanics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6c54fd03121aeef0d711deeb1ad8d2dc