Controllability of a planar body with unilateral thrusters |
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Authors: | Lynch K.M. |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Mech. Eng., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL; |
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Abstract: | Investigates the minimal number of unilateral thrusters required for different versions of nonlinear controllability of a planar rigid body. For one to three unilateral thrusters, one gets a new property with each additional thruster: one thruster suffices for small-time accessibility on the body's state space TSE(2); two thrusters suffice for global controllability on TSE(2); and three thrusters suffice for small-time local controllability at zero velocity states |
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