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Coined in a 1993 Journal of the ACM paper (40(5): 1048-1066) by Bruce Donald, Pat Xavier, John Canny, and John Reif. Presumably from kinematic and dynamic.
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kinodynamic
Today it means: Of or relating to a class of problems, in robotics and motion planning, for which velocity, acceleration, and force/torque bounds must be satisfied, together with kinematic constraints such as avoiding obstacles. Full definition →