Control theory from the geometric viewpoint.

Publication date: 4 October 2004

Published in: Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

optimal control; maximum principle; curvature; time-optimal control; rigid body; feedback linearization; linearizability; Frobenius theorem; moving frame; second-order conditions; attainable sets; chronological calculus; chronological exponential; differential-geometric methods in control; L-Q problem; rolling bodies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

93B05: Controllability

93-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to systems and control theory

93B17: Transformations

70H20: Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

93B03: Attainable sets, reachability

70F25: Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles

49K15: Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations

70E18: Motion of a rigid body in contact with a solid surface

58A30: Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles)

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