Passivity based control of a class of Hamiltonian systems with nonholonomic constraints

This paper is concerned with state and output feedback stabilization of a class of port-Hamiltonian systems with nonholonomic constraints. First we study canonical forms for port-Hamiltonian systems with nonholonomic constraints. Second, we give a new state feedback stabilization method by using non-smooth Hamiltonian functions via generalized canonical transformations. Third, we propose a dynamic output feedback stabilization method without measuring the velocity based on the corresponding state feedback result. Numerical examples demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.