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Control Contraction Metrics on Finsler Manifolds

Systems and Control 2018-03-06 v1 Differential Geometry Optimization and Control

Abstract

Control Contraction Metrics (CCMs) provide a nonlinear controller design involving an offline search for a Riemannian metric and an online search for a shortest path between the current and desired trajectories. In this paper, we generalize CCMs to Finsler geometry, allowing the use of non-Riemannian metrics. We provide open loop and sampled data controllers. The sampled data control construction presented here does not require real time computation of globally shortest paths, simplifying computation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1803.01034,
  title  = {Control Contraction Metrics on Finsler Manifolds},
  author = {Thomas L. Chaffey and Ian R. Manchester},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.01034},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

accepted to 2018 American Control Conference

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