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Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems: Modeling, Analysis, and Design for Simple Mechanical Control Systems

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2005
ISBN
0387221956
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23501938 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
751\751
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Control theory for mechanical systems is a topic that has received considerable interest in the past decade, motivated by applications such as robotics and automation, autonomous vehicles in marine, aerospace and other environments, flight control, problems in nuclear magnetic resonance, micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS), and fluid mechanics. This book presents a unified approach for studying these systems using differential geometry. The emphasis is on understanding in a geometric way all components of a mechanical control system: configuration space, the Lagrangian, external forces, and nonholonomic constraints. This book is well-suited for use as a textbook, with numerous examples and exercises included to help consolidate the theory.

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