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Investigate clothoid spline curves as an alternative to the current cubic splines #265

Open stfnp opened 2 months ago

stfnp commented 2 months ago

https://thegraphicsblog.com/2018/04/30/clothoids-the-perfect-curve/

https://pypi.org/project/pyclothoids/

https://igl.ethz.ch/projects/monocurve/CRC_Paper_Local_Mono_Curve.pdf

https://ebertolazzi.github.io/Clothoids/

Advantages of a piecewise Clothoid over a polynomial spline curve:

Starting angle is simpler to prescribe
Arc-length parameterization much more simple
Fewer different segment types

Diadvantages:

Computationally more difficult to fit