Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can execute aggressive (ie, high-speed
and high-acceleration) maneuvers have attracted significant attention in the past few years …

We introduce flat systems, which are equivalent to linear ones via a special type of feedback
called endogenous. Their physical properties are subsumed by a linearizing output and they …

Field theory is a more or less coherent approach in the social sciences whose essence is
the explanation of regularities in individual action by recourse to position vis-à-vis others …

Mathematics is playing an ever more important role in the physical and biological sciences,
provoking a blurring of boundaries between scientific disciplines and a resurgence of …

Nature discovered feedback long ago. It created feedback mechanisms and exploited them
at all levels, that are central to homeostasis and life. As a technology, control dates back at …

From a kinematic point of view, the main characteristic of wheeled robots is the
nonholonomic rolling without slipping constraint of the wheels on the floor, which forces the …

Illustrating the power, simplicity, and generality of the concept of flatness, this reference
explains how to identify, utilize, and apply flatness in system planning and design. The book …

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A new system equivalence relation, using the framework of differential geometry of jets and
prolongations of infinite order, is studied. In this setting, two systems are said to be …

In this paper, we introduce an approach for the efficient solution of motion-planning
problems for time-invariant dynamical control systems with symmetries, such as mobile …