Contact geometry and its application to control

Peter Vassiliou

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16135-3

Contact geometry and its application to control

Peter Vassiliou

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The purpose of this note is to describe a recent generalisation of the well-known Goursat normal form and explore its possible role in control theory. For instance, we give a new, straightforward, general procedure for linearising nonlinear control systems, including time-varying, fully nonlinear systems and we illustrate the method by elementary pedagogical examples. We also exhibit an apparently non-flat control system which can nevertheless be explicitly linearised and therefore posseses an infinite symmetry group

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in the theory of control, signals and systems with physical modelling : Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences : 407
Editors	J Levine, P Mullhaupt
Place of Publication	Germany
Publisher	Springer
Pages	225-237
Number of pages	13
Volume	407
ISBN (Print)	9783642161346
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16135-3
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	Advances in the theory of control, signals and systems with physical modelling - Lausanne, Switzerland Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → 30 Jun 2009

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Conference	Advances in the theory of control, signals and systems with physical modelling
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Lausanne
Period	1/01/09 → 30/06/09

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Vassiliou, P 2009, Contact geometry and its application to control. in J Levine & P Mullhaupt (eds), Advances in the theory of control, signals and systems with physical modelling : Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences : 407. vol. 407, Springer, Germany, pp. 225-237, Advances in the theory of control, signals and systems with physical modelling, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1/01/09. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16135-3

Contact geometry and its application to control. / Vassiliou, Peter.
Advances in the theory of control, signals and systems with physical modelling : Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences : 407. ed. / J Levine; P Mullhaupt. Vol. 407 Germany: Springer, 2009. p. 225-237.

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