Generalization of approximation of planar spiral segments by arc splines

Spirals based on quadratic Bezier, cubic Bezier, Pythagorean hodogragh (PH) cubic, PH quintic and clothoid curves are suitable for CAD and computer-aided geometric design (CAGD) applications. The clothoidal spiral segments an widely used in highway design, railway design and robot trajectories. For...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Lan
Language:en_US
Published: 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1295