ICRA 2023poster3 citations

A minimum swept-volume metric structure for configuration space

Yann de Mont-Marin, Jean Ponce, Jean-Paul Laumond

Abstract

Borrowing elementary ideas from solid mechanics and differential geometry, this presentation shows that the volume swept by a regular solid undergoing a wide class of volume-preserving deformations induces a rather natural metric structure with well-defined and computable geodesics on its configuration space. This general result applies to concrete classes of articulated objects such as robot manipulators, and we demonstrate as a proof of concept the computation of geodesic paths for a free flying rod and planar robotic arms as well as their use in path planning with many obstacles.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{icra2023_aminimumsweptvol,
  title = {A minimum swept-volume metric structure for configuration space},
  author = {Yann de Mont-Marin and Jean Ponce and Jean-Paul Laumond},
  booktitle = {ICRA 2023},
  year = {2023}
}