A surface integral approach to the motion planning of nonholonomic systems
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Authors
Mukherjee, Ranjan.
Subjects
Nonholonomic mechanical system, motion planning, configuration space, surface and line integrals, space robot, rolling disk
Advisors
Date of Issue
1992-08
Date
1992-08
Publisher
Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Nonholonomic mechanical systems are governed by constraints of motion that are nonintegrable differential expressions. Unlike holonomic constraints, these differential constraints do not reduce the number of dimensions of the configuration space of a system. Therefore, a nonholonomic system can access a configuration space of dimension higher than the number of degrees of freedom of the system. In this paper, we develop an algorithm for planning admissible trajectories for nonholonomic systems that will take the system from one point in its configuration space to another. In our algorithm we first converge the independent variables to their desired values and then use closed trajectories of the independent variables to converge the dependent variables. We use Stokes's theorem in our algorithm to convert the problem of finding a closed path into that of finding a surface area in the space of the independent variables, such that the dependent variables converge to their desired values as the independent variables traverse along the boundary of this surface area. The use of Stokes's theorem simplifies the motion planning problem and also imparts global characteristics. The salient features of our algorithm are apparent in the two examples that we discuss - a planar space robot and a disk rolling without slipping on a flat surface
Type
Technical Report
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Mechanical Engineering
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
NPS-ME-92-003
Sponsors
Prepared for: the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
Funding
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
Format
1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.