Flatness and small-time controllability of multibody mobile robots: Application to motion planning

We propose a local motion planner for a mobile robot pulling n trailers. This planner verifies a topological property so that it is suitable for different global motion planning schemes including obstacle avoidance. We use for this the differential flatness of this system.

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