Autonomous Path Planning for Road Vehicles in Narrow Environments: An Efficient Continuous Curvature Approach

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Journal of Advanced Transportation

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Figure 17: Autonomous Path Planning for Road Vehicles in Narrow Environments: An Efficient Continuous Curvature Approach 