• DocumentCode
    1751615
  • Title

    Computing the flat outputs of Engel differential systems: the case study of the bi-steerable car

  • Author

    Sekhavat, S. ; Rouchon, P. ; Hermosillo, J.

  • Author_Institution
    INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    3576
  • Abstract
    We present a necessary condition for the flat coordinates change of any driftless system represented by two differential forms in a state space of dimension. This condition is expressed by a partial differential equation and implies an approach to help the computation of the flat outputs. Then, we apply our approach to a specific system, namely the bi-steerable car for which we explicitly compute the flat outputs. Hence, we solve the problem of the open loop control design for bi-steerable cars
  • Keywords
    automobiles; mobile robots; partial differential equations; path planning; Engel differential systems; bisteerable Car; driftless system; flatness; necessary condition; partial differential equation; path planning; state space; Computer aided software engineering; Control systems; Design engineering; Open loop systems; Partial differential equations; Path planning; State-space methods; Systems engineering and theory; Vehicles; Wheels;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    American Control Conference, 2001. Proceedings of the 2001
  • Conference_Location
    Arlington, VA
  • ISSN
    0743-1619
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6495-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACC.2001.946189
  • Filename
    946189