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Reduction of Necessary Conditions for the Variational Collision Avoidance Problem

Optimization and Control 2023-10-31 v1 Systems and Control Systems and Control Differential Geometry Dynamical Systems

Abstract

In this work, we study the reduction by a Lie group of symmetries of variational collision avoidance probelms of multiple agents evolving on a Riemannian manifold and derive necessary conditions for the reduced extremals. The problem consists of finding non-intersecting trajectories of a given number of agents, among a set of admissible curves, to reach a specified configuration, based on minimizing an energy functional that depends on the velocity, covariant acceleration and an artificial potential function used to prevent collision among the agents.

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@article{arxiv.2310.18389,
  title  = {Reduction of Necessary Conditions for the Variational Collision Avoidance Problem},
  author = {Jacob R. Goodman and Leonardo J. Colombo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.18389},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages, 8th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, LHMNC 2024. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2310.18057, arXiv:2207.13574

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