Yu. L. Sachkov, Cut locus and optimal synthesis in the sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions of a plane

Title: Cut locus and optimal synthesis in the sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions of a plane
Authors: Yu. L. Sachkov
Journal title: ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations
Year: 2011
Volume: 17
Pages: 293-321
Abstract:

The left-invariant sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions (rototranslations) of a plane SE(2) is considered. In the previous works [Moiseev and Sachkov, ESAIM: COCV, DOI: 10.1051/cocv/2009004; Sachkov, ESAIM: COCV, DOI: 10.1051/cocv/2009031], extremal trajectories were defined, their local and global optimality were studied. In this paper the global structure of the exponential mapping is described. On this basis an explicit characterization of the cut locus and Maxwell set is obtained. The optimal synthesis is constructed.

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