Planning Rigid Body Motions and Optimal Control Problem on Lie Group SO(2, 1)

In this paper smooth trajectories are computed in the Lie group SO(2, 1) as a motion planning problem by assigning a Frenet frame to the rigid body system to optimize the cost function of the elastic energy which is spent to track a timelike curve in Minkowski space. A method is proposed to solve a motion planning problem that minimizes the integral of the Lorentz inner product of Darboux vector of a timelike curve. This method uses the coordinate free Maximum Principle of Optimal control and results in the theory of integrable Hamiltonian systems. The presence of several conversed quantities inherent in these Hamiltonian systems aids in the explicit computation of the rigid body motions.

• Nemat Abazari
• Ilgin Sager

• Optimal control
• Hamiltonian vector field
• Darboux vector
• maximum principle
• lie group
• rigid body motion
• Lorentz metric.

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