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42nd IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37475)

DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2003.1273067

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How should a snake turn on ice: A case study of the asymptotic isoholonomic problem

Proceedings article published in 2004 by Jianghai Hu, Slobodan N. Simic, Shankar Sastry
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Abstract

It is a classical result that solutions to the isoperimetric problem, i.e., finding the planar curves with a fixed length that enclose the largest area, are circles. As a generalization, we study an asymptotic version of the dual isoholonomic problem in a Euclidean space with a co-dimension one distribution. We propose the concepts of asymptotic rank and efficiency, and compute these quantities as well as the efficiency-achieving curves in several special cases. In particular, an example of a snake moving on ice is worked out in detail to illustrate the results.