We provide an approach of elastic flow with dynamic conditions at the knot points to resolve the path planning problem in the plane. The elastic flow is set up by a second-order semilinear parabolic system with nonlocal lower-order terms. We prove the existence of classical global solutions to the elastic flow, whose asymptotic limits provide classical solutions to the path planning problem.
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