IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.49, No.10, 1728-1731, 2004
A note on the connection between Bezier curves and linear optimal control
We show that Bezier curves can in fact be thought of as the solutions to linear optimal control problems, using results from Hermite interpolation in combination with traditional linear optimal control. This provides us with a computational view of Bezier curves that differs from the standard DeCasteljau Algorithm, and it furthermore points out the close relationship between Bezier curves and interpolating dynamic splines.