Optimal Trajectories of Curvature Constrained Motion in the Hamilton---Jacobi Formulation

  • Authors:
  • Ryo Takei;Richard Tsai

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA;Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We propose a PDE approach for computing time-optimal trajectories of a vehicle which travels under certain curvature constraints. We derive a class of Hamilton---Jacobi equations which models such motions; it unifies two well-known vehicular models, the Dubins' and Reeds---Shepp's cars, and gives further generalizations. Numerical methods (finite difference for the Reeds---Shepp's car and semi-Lagrangian for the Dubins' car) are investigated for two-dimensional domains and surfaces.