Spline curve approximation and design by optimal control over the knots

  • Authors:
  • R. Goldenthal;M. Bercovier

  • Affiliations:
  • Hebrew University, School of Computer Science and Eng., Safran Campus, Jerusalem, Israel;Hebrew University, School of Computer Science and Eng., Safran Campus, Jerusalem, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Computing - Geometric modelling dagstuhl 2002
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In [1] Optimal Control methods over re-parametrization for curve and surface design were introduced. The advantage of Optimal Control over Global Minimization such as in [16] is that it can handle both approximation and interpolation. Moreover a cost function is introduced to implement a design objective (shortest curve, smoothest one etc...). The present work introduces the Optimal Control over the knot vectors of non-uniform B-Splines. Violation of Schoenberg-Whitney condition is dealt naturally within the Optimal Control framework. A geometric description of the resulting null space is provided as well.