Clothoid-based path planning for a formation of fixed-wing uavs

L Blasi, E D'Amato, I Notaro, G Raspaolo - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing an increasingly crucial role in many
applications such as search and rescue, delivery services, and military operations. However …

[HTML][HTML] On the G2 Hermite interpolation problem with clothoids

E Bertolazzi, M Frego - Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The G 2 Hermite Interpolation Problem with clothoid curves requires to find the
interpolating clothoid that matches initial and final positions, tangents and curvatures, also …

Human exposure to mercury in the atmosphere and soils in Konongo: an age-old mining centre in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

EA Coker, BC Nkuah, SA Amoanimaah… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
The dramatic upsurge of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) activities in Ghana
has resulted in environmental degradation, water pollution and human exposure to mercury …

Reactive planning for assistive robots

P Bevilacqua, M Frego, D Fontanelli… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a vehicle consisting of a robotic walking assistant pushed by a user. The robot
can guide the person along a path and suggest a velocity by various means. The vehicle …

Optimal smooth paths based on clothoids for car-like vehicles in the presence of obstacles

ED Lambert, R Romano, D Watling - International Journal of Control …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Automated Guided Vehicles are increasingly used for material transfer in factory
and warehouse environments amongst humans and human operated vehicles. Safe and …

Aero-engine pipe gap automatic detection based on 3D scanning point clouds

C Ding, Y Liu, T Cao, J Wang - Measurement, 2024 - Elsevier
Complex pipe systems are an important part of aero-engines to ensure reliable operations.
These pipes are typically distributed in a narrow space while retaining a safe distance from …

Point data reconstruction and smoothing using cubic splines and clusterization

E Bertolazzi, M Frego, F Biral - Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 2020 - Elsevier
An algorithm to smooth a sequence of noisy data in R d with cubic polynomials is herein
presented. The data points are assumed to be sequentially ordered, with the idea that they …

K-surfaces: Bézier-splines interpolating at Gaussian curvature extrema

T Djuren, M Kohlbrenner, M Alexa - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
K-surfaces are an interactive modeling technique for Bézier-spline surfaces. Inspired by k-
curves by [Yan et al. 2017], each patch provides a single control point that is being …

Smooth interpolating curves with local control and monotone alternating curvature

A Binninger, O Sorkine‐Hornung - Computer Graphics Forum, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a method for the construction of a planar curve based on piecewise clothoids
and straight lines that intuitively interpolates a given sequence of control points. Our method …

Controllable clothoid path generation for autonomous vehicles

S Zhang, R Wang, Z Jian, W Zhan… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter proposes a novel and simple smooth path generation algorithm for autonomous
vehicles. The proposed method can rapidly generate feasible and curvature continuous …