Nonholonomic Path Planning -------------------------- Shyjan Mahamud Wed 17th Jan 1996 Wean 8220 I describe a method for planning obstacle-avoiding paths for robots which have nonholonomic constraints. In the simplest case, these constraints model the fact that in reality the velocity of the robot is restricted to a linear subspace of their configuration space. The method is based on the use of harmonic functions. Linear nonholonomic constraints can be directly expressed as boundary conditions for the harmonic function. Harmonic functions can be readily implemented in a resistive network. I describe both the theory and it's implementation.