PROJECTIVE REEDS-SHEPP CAR ON S 2 WITH QUADRATIC COST

Fix two points x, ¯ ∈ S 2 and two directions (without orientation) η,¯ η of the velocities in these points. In this paper we are interested to the problem of minimizing the cost

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