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Part I Invited Survey Chapters |
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Variational Problems on Lie Groups and their Homogeneous Spaces: Elastic Curves, Tops, and Constrained Geodesic Problems |
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Space forms and their frame bundles |
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Hamiltonians and the extremal curves |
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Controllability of Lie Systems |
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53 | (24) |
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53 | (1) |
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Control systems on Lie groups |
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54 | (3) |
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Groups irrelevant for transitivity |
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57 | (2) |
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Exploiting compactness and irrelevancy |
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59 | (2) |
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Irrelevant groups and algebras |
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61 | (3) |
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Irrelevant groups and algebras: the solvable case |
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64 | (11) |
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Irrelevant groups and algebras: the semisimple case |
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75 | (2) |
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Canonical Contact Systems for Curves: A Survey |
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77 | (36) |
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77 | (3) |
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The canonical contact system for curves |
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80 | (3) |
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83 | (5) |
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Involutive subdistributions of corank one |
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88 | (4) |
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Contact systems, characteristic distributions and involutive subdistributions |
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92 | (10) |
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Flatness of contact systems |
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102 | (3) |
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105 | (2) |
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Singular points and extended Kumpera-Ruiz normal forms |
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107 | (6) |
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The Brachistochrone Problem and Modern Control Theory |
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113 | (54) |
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113 | (5) |
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Johann Bernoulli and the brachistochrone problem |
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118 | (5) |
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The standard formulation and Johann Bernoulli's solution |
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123 | (5) |
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Spurious solutions and the calculus of variations approach |
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128 | (3) |
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The optimal control approach |
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131 | (5) |
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The differential-geometric connection |
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136 | (14) |
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Five modern variations on the theme of the brachistochrone |
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150 | (17) |
Part II Contributed Chapters |
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167 | (306) |
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Symplectic Methods for Strong Local Optimality in the Bangbang Case |
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169 | (14) |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (5) |
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176 | (7) |
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Charges in Magnetic Fields and Sub-Riemannian Geodesics |
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183 | (20) |
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183 | (1) |
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Sub-Riemannian geometry and classical particles |
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184 | (4) |
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Polynomial magnetic fields |
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188 | (7) |
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Linear magnetic fields, and Cartan's five dimensional case |
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195 | (8) |
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Topological Versus Smooth Linearization of Control Systems |
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203 | (14) |
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203 | (3) |
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Preliminaries on equivalence of control systems |
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206 | (2) |
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Main result on topological linearization |
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208 | (3) |
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211 | (2) |
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Implications in control theory |
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213 | (4) |
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Local Approximation of the Reachable Set of Control Processes |
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217 | (16) |
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217 | (1) |
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218 | (7) |
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225 | (3) |
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228 | (2) |
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230 | (3) |
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Geometric Optimal Control of the Atmospheric Arc for a Space Shuttle |
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233 | (24) |
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233 | (2) |
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235 | (3) |
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238 | (2) |
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The minimal principle without state constraints-extremal curves |
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240 | (9) |
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Optimal control with state constraints |
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249 | (8) |
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High-Gain and Non-High-Gain Observers for Nonlinear Systems |
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257 | (30) |
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Introduction, systems under consideration |
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257 | (4) |
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Justification of the assumptions and observability |
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261 | (3) |
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Statement and proof of the theoretical result |
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264 | (9) |
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Application: observation of a binary distillation column |
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273 | (10) |
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Appendix: Technical lemmas |
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283 | (4) |
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Lie Systems in Control Theory |
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287 | (18) |
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287 | (1) |
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Systems of differential equations admitting a superposition rule |
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288 | (2) |
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Control and controllability of systems on Lie groups |
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290 | (1) |
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291 | (1) |
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292 | (13) |
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From the Geometry to the Algebra of Nonlinear Observability |
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305 | (42) |
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305 | (3) |
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The differential algebraic geometric approach |
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308 | (11) |
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319 | (28) |
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Appendix: Basic differential algebraic geometry |
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328 | (6) |
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Appendix: Characteristic sets |
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334 | (13) |
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Existence Theorems in Nonlinear Realization Theory and a Cauchy-Kowalewski Type Theorem |
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347 | (12) |
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347 | (1) |
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Existence of analytic realizations |
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348 | (3) |
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Convergence along vector fields and their commutators |
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351 | (3) |
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Existence of analytic solutions of PDE's |
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354 | (5) |
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Normality, Local Controllability and NOC for Multiobjective Optimal Control Problems |
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359 | (22) |
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359 | (4) |
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363 | (5) |
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Normality implies seminormality |
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368 | (4) |
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Hamiltonian normality implies seminormality |
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372 | (1) |
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Normality implies seminormality for systems of Mayer type |
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373 | (2) |
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NOC for multiobjective optimal control problems |
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375 | (6) |
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Controllability and Coordinates of the First Kind |
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381 | (24) |
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381 | (2) |
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Integral manifolds and controllability |
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383 | (4) |
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Separating invariant flows from time-varying functionals |
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387 | (4) |
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Coordinates of the 1st kind |
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391 | (4) |
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395 | (10) |
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Variational Equations of Lagrangian Systems and Hamilton's Principle |
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405 | (18) |
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405 | (1) |
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The variational principle |
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406 | (3) |
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Symmetries and constants of motion |
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409 | (3) |
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412 | (5) |
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417 | (6) |
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Control of the Hovercraft Vessel: A Flatness plus Second Order Sliding Mode control Approach |
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423 | (18) |
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423 | (1) |
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424 | (5) |
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Trajectory tracking for the hovercraft system |
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429 | (4) |
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433 | (8) |
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Optimality of Singular Trajectories and Asymptotics of Accessibility Sets under Generic Assumptions |
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441 | (18) |
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441 | (2) |
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Optimality of singular trajectories |
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443 | (8) |
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Asymptotics of the accessibility sets |
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451 | (8) |
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Control Theory and Holomorphic Diffeomorphisms |
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459 | (14) |
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459 | (1) |
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Complex analytic considerations |
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460 | (2) |
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Holomorphic vector fields |
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462 | (4) |
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466 | (7) |
| Index |
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