Motion Control for Nonholonomic Systems on Matrix Lie Groups

Abstract

In this dissertation we study the control of nonholonomic systems defined by invariant vector fields on matrix Lie groups. We make use of canonical constructions of coordinates and other mathematical tools provided by the Lie group setting. An approximate tracking control law is derived for so-called chained form systems which arise as local representations of systems on a certain nilpotent matrix group. After studying the technique of nilpotentization in the setting of systems on matrix Lie groups we show how motion control laws derived for nilpotent systems can be extended to nilpotentizable systems using feedback and state transformations. The proposed control laws exhibit highly oscillatory components both for tracking and feedback stabilization of local representations of nonholonomic systems on Lie groups. Applications to the control and analysis of the kinematics of mechanical systems are discussed and numerical simulations are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA441056

Entities

People

  • Herbert K. Struemper

Organizations

  • University of Maryland, Baltimore

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algebra
  • Algorithms
  • Amplitude Modulation
  • Computations
  • Control Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Lie Groups
  • Linear Algebra
  • Linear Systems
  • Modulation
  • Motion Planning
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Robots
  • Three Dimensional
  • Vector Spaces

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.