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HAL Id: inria-00074301https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00074301

Submitted on 24 May 2006

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open accessarchive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come fromteaching and research institutions in France orabroad, or from public or private research centers.

L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, estdestinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documentsscientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non,émanant des établissements d’enseignement et derecherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoirespublics ou privés.

Convex Tours of Bounded CurvatureJean-Daniel Boissonnat, Jurek Czyzowicz, Olivier Devillers, Jean-Marc

Robert, Mariette Yvinec

To cite this version:Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Jurek Czyzowicz, Olivier Devillers, Jean-Marc Robert, Mariette Yvinec. Con-vex Tours of Bounded Curvature. [Research Report] RR-2375, INRIA. 1994. �inria-00074301�

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INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE

Convex Tours of Bounded Curvature

Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Jurek Czyzowicz, Olivier Devillers,

Jean-Marc Robert and Mariette Yvinec

N˚ 2375Octobre 1994

PROGRAMME 4

Robotique,

image

et vision

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