Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: dubins
Version: 0.8.1
Summary: Code to generate and manipulate dubins curves
Home-page: http://github.com/AndrewWalker/pydubins
Author: Andrew Walker
Author-email: walker.ab@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: About
        =====
        
        This software finds the shortest paths between configurations for the
        Dubin's car, the forward only car-like vehicle with a constrained
        turning radius. 
        
        Installing
        ==========
        
        You can install the latest stable version from `PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dubins>`_
        
        .. code-block:: console
        
            $ pip install dubins
        
        Or, you can install the latest development version from `GitHub <https://github.com/AndrewWalker/pydubins>`_
        
        .. code-block:: console
        
            $ pip install git+git://github.com/AndrewWalker/pydubins.git
        
        Example
        =======
        
        Sampling of a Dubin's path at finite size sizes
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            import dubins
        
            q0 = (x0, y0, theta0)
            q1 = (x1, y1, theta1)
            r = turning_radius
            step_size = 0.5
        
            qs, _ = dubins.sample_dubins_path(q0, q1, r, step_size)
        
        
        
        Method
        ======
        
        A good description of the equations and basic strategies for doing
        this are described in the book `Planning Algorithms
        <http://planning.cs.uiuc.edu/node821.html>`_, by Steven LaValle
        
        
        The approach adopted here is based on the algebraic solutions to the
        equations published by Shkel and Lumelsky "Classification of the
        Dubins set", however, rather than using the symmetry approach
        described in that work, a less efficient generate and test approach is
        used.
        
        Various revisions of this code have been used in:
        
        .. code-block:: bibtex
        
            @phdthesis{ Walker:2011,
                title  = "Hard Real-Time Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles",
                author = "Andrew Walker",
                school = "Swinburne University of Technology",
                year   = "2011"
            }
        
        and in
        
        .. code-block:: bibtex
        
            @phdthesis{ Smart:2008,
                title  = "Evolutionary Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles", 
                author = "Royce Smart",
                school = "RMIT",
                year   = "2008"
            }
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
