The phrase "able to chart a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capability to create a plan, map, or outline for a particular situation or project.
Example: "The team was able to chart a course for the project's success despite the challenges they faced."
Alternatives: "capable of mapping out" or "able to outline a".
By applying these weights to the proportions of time each cow spent on each of the 3 activities, we were able to chart a circadian rhythm of activity.
Try as they might, campaign strategists say, they fear they will not be able to chart a reliable course for winning the nomination without Iowa.
The details of Mr. Obama's January fund-raising illustrate just how much his campaign has been able to chart a new path for the presidential race.
The UK's government will be able to chart a course out of it only when it wakes up to the unpleasant realities of its predicament.
And if executives are not able to chart a path to profitability on mobile platforms, the filing indicated, the company's "revenue and financial results may be negatively affected".
Despite increasing emphasis on the genetic study of quantitative traits, we are still far from being able to chart a clear picture of their genetic architecture, given an inherent complexity involved in trait formation.
Only when the Left and its allies are stronger yet will they be able to chart an alternative direction for India.
The succeeding novels, A World of Strangers (1958), Occasion for Loving (1963) and The Late Bourgeois World (1966), however, cemented her reputation as a novelist able to chart with a new immediacy and depth the failures of love and morality in the corrupting and limited world of colonial relations.
Simmons's group has re-created the bat's echo processing prowess in a computer that was able to chart its way through a virtual obstacle course almost as well as the bat itself.
By making it the organizing principle of the Moreys' lives, and by hewing so closely and with such discipline to his characters' own perception of themselves, Dee is able to chart their transformation from a golden young couple to monsters of insular high-handedness without ever changing the terms of their relationship to the world: without melodramatic moral event.
In this way, he was able to chart the "micro-structure" of a composition -- the most subtle aspects of a score, like the attack on an individual note, which composers leave to performers and conductors to discern.
