Maxwell strata in the Euler elastic problem

Sachkov, Yu. L.

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“…Then the state space of the problem is embedded into R 3 (see e.g. [19]), and finally Filippov's theorem [2] implies existence of optimal controls.…”

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“…The general construction of elliptic coordinates was developed in [15,16,19], here they are adapted to the problem under consideration.…”

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“…According to the general construction developed in [19], we introduce elliptic coordinates (ϕ, k) on the domain C 1 ∪ C 2 ∪ C 3 of the cylinder C, where k is a reparameterized energy, and ϕ is the time of motion of the pendulum (2.8). We use Jacobi's functions…”

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“…In the main Section 5 we obtain an explicit description of Maxwell strata corresponding to the group of discrete symmetries, and prove the upper bound on cut time. This approach was already successfully applied to the analysis of several invariant optimal control problems on Lie groups [15][16][17][18][19][20]. …”

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Maxwell strata in sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions of a plane

Моисеев¹,

Sachkov²

2009

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Abstract.The left-invariant sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions of a plane is considered. Sub-Riemannian geodesics are parameterized by Jacobi's functions. Discrete symmetries of the problem generated by reflections of pendulum are described. The corresponding Maxwell points are characterized, on this basis an upper bound on the cut time is obtained. Mathematics Subject IntroductionProblems of sub-Riemannian geometry have been actively studied by geometric control methods, see books [2,3,7,10]. One of the central and hard questions in this domain is a description of cut and conjugate loci. Detailed results on the local structure of conjugate and cut loci were obtained in the 3-dimensional contact case [1,6]. Global results are restricted to symmetric low-dimensional cases, primarily for left-invariant problems on Lie groups (the Heisenberg group [5,22], the growth vector (n, n(n + 1)/2) [9,11,12], the groups SO(3), SU(2), SL(2) and the Lens Spaces [4]).The paper continues this direction of research: we start to study the left-invariant sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions of a plane SE(2). This problem has important applications in robotics [8] and vision [13]. On the other hand, this is the simplest sub-Riemannian problem where the conjugate and cut loci differ one from another in the neighborhood of the initial point.The main result of the work is an upper bound on the cut time t cut given in Theorem 5.4: we show that for any sub-Riemannian geodesic on SE(2) there holds the estimate t cut ≤ t, where t is a certain function defined on the cotangent space at the identity. In a forthcoming paper [21] we prove that in fact t cut = t. The bound on the cut time is obtained via the study of discrete symmetries of the problem and the corresponding Maxwell points -points where two distinct sub-Riemannian geodesics of the same length intersect one another.This work has the following structure. In Section 1 we state the problem and discuss existence of solutions. In Section 2 we apply Pontryagin Maximum Principle to the problem. The Hamiltonian system for normal extremals is triangular, and the vertical subsystem is the equation of mathematical pendulum. In Section 3Keywords and phrases. Optimal control, sub-Riemannian geometry, differential-geometric methods, left-invariant problem, Lie group, Pontryagin Maximum Principle, symmetries, exponential mapping, Maxwell stratum. * The second author is partially supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and we endow the cotangent space at the identity with special elliptic coordinates induced by the flow of the pendulum, and integrate the normal Hamiltonian system in these coordinates. Sub-Riemannian geodesics are parameterized by Jacobi's functions. In Section 4 we construct a discrete group of symmetries of the exponential mapping by continuation of reflections in the phase cylinder of the pendulum. In the main Section 5 we obtain an explicit description of Maxwell strata corresponding to the group of discrete symmetries, and prove the upper ...

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“…Then the state space of the problem is embedded into R 3 (see e.g. [19]), and finally Filippov's theorem [2] implies existence of optimal controls.…”

Section: Problem Statementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The general construction of elliptic coordinates was developed in [15,16,19], here they are adapted to the problem under consideration.…”

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Maxwell strata in sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions of a plane

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Sachkov²

2009

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“…One can show that γ(k) = 4kK for k ∈ (0, k 0 ] and γ(k) = 2kp α1 1 (k) for [k 0 , 1), where k 0 ≈ 0.909 is the unique root of the equation 2E(k) − K(k) = 0, see Proposition 11.5 [17]. Thus for k ∈ (k 0 , 1) the bound (2.17) is not exact and can be replaced by the following exact one:…”

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Conjugate and cut time in the sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions of a plane

Sachkov¹

2009

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Abstract.The left-invariant sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions (rototranslations) of a plane SE(2) is studied. Local and global optimality of extremal trajectories is characterized. Lower and upper bounds on the first conjugate time are proved. The cut time is shown to be equal to the first Maxwell time corresponding to the group of discrete symmetries of the exponential mapping. Optimal synthesis on an open dense subset of the state space is described.Mathematics Subject Classification. 49J15, 93B29, 93C10, 53C17, 22E30.

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Elastic energy of a convex body

Bianchini

Henrot

Takahashi

2015

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In this paper a Blaschke-Santaló diagram involving the area, the perimeter and the elastic energy of planar convex bodies is considered. More precisely we give a description of setwhere A is the area, P is the perimeter and E is the elastic energy, that is a Willmore type energy in the plane. In order to do this, we investigate the following shape optimization problem:where C is the class of convex bodies with fixed perimeter and µ 0 is a parameter. Existence, regularity and geometric properties of solutions to this minimum problem are shown.

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Maxwell strata in the Euler elastic problem

Cited by 111 publications

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