Abstract
This work considers small-time local controllability (STLC) of single- and multiple-input systems, ẋ = f0 (x) + Σi=1m fiui where f0 (x) contains homogeneous polynomials and f1,...,fm are constant vector fields. For single-input systems, it is shown that even-degree homogeneity precludes STLC if the state dimension is larger than one. This, along with the obvious result that for odd-degree homogeneous systems STLC is equivalent to accessibility, provides a complete characterization of STLC for this class of systems. In the multiple-input case, transformations on the input space are applied to homogeneous systems of degree two, an example of this type of system being motion of a rigid-body in a plane. Such input transformations are related via consideration of a tensor on the tangent space to congruence transformation of a matrix to one with zeros on the diagonal. Conditions are given for successful neutralization of bad type (1,2) brackets via congruence transformations.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 139-143 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2003 |
Keywords
- Controllability
- Lie algebras
- Nonlinear systems
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Computer Science Applications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering