On sub-Riemannian geodesics in SE(3) whose spatial projections do not have cusps

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Abstract: We consider the problem mathbfPcurve of minimizing intlimits0Lsqrtxi2+kappa2(s),mds for a curve mathbfx on mathbbR with fixed boundary points and directions. Here the total length Lgeq0 is free, s denotes the arclength parameter, kappa denotes the absolute curvature of mathbfx, and xi>0 is constant. We lift problem mathbfPcurve on mathbbR3 to a sub-Riemannian problem mathbfPmec on operatornameSE(3)olimits/(mathbf0imesoperatornameSO(2)olimits). Here, for admissible boundary conditions, the spatial projections of sub-Riemannian geodesics do not exhibit cusps and they solve problem mathbfPcurve. We apply the Pontryagin Maximum Principle (PMP) and prove Liouville integrability of the Hamiltonian system. We derive explicit analytic formulas for such sub-Riemannian geodesics, relying on the co-adjoint orbit structure, an underlying Cartan connection, and the matrix representation of operatornameSE(3)olimits arising in the Cartan-matrix. These formulas allow us to extract geometrical properties of the sub-Riemannian geodesics with cuspless projection, such as planarity conditions, explicit bounds on their torsion, and their symmetries. Furthermore, they allow us to parameterize all admissible boundary conditions reachable by geodesics with cuspless spatial projection. Such projections lay in the upper half space. We prove this for most cases, and the rest is checked numerically. Finally, we employ the formulas to numerically solve the boundary value problem, and visualize the set of admissible boundary conditions.



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