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Laumond, J.P., Sekhavat, S., Lamiraux, F. (1998). Guidelines in nonholonomic motion planning for mobile robots. In: Laumond, J.P. (eds) Robot Motion Planning and Control. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0036070

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