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\iteman{io-port 05470283}
\itemau{Gupta, Kamal}
\itemti{Motion planning for flexible shapes (systems with many degrees of freedom): a survey.}
\itemso{Visual Comput. 14, No. 5-6, 288-302 (1998).}
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Summary: The article provides a brief tutorial-cum-overview of motion planning for ``flexible'' shapes. The article takes the point of view that motion planning for flexible shapes, in a broad sense, essentially amounts to motion planning for systems with many degrees of freedom (dofs), a well-studied problem in robotics. We start with the basics of motion planning including an introduction to some key concepts, survey a number of recent approaches to solve the motion planning for systems with many dofs, discuss the application of some of these approaches to motion planning for flexible shapes, and report on some recent work in this area.
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\itemcc{I.3.7}
\itemut{motion planning; manipulation planning; degrees of freedom; robotics; animation; flexible shapes}
\itemli{doi:10.1007/s003710050141}
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