English

Flatness and Monge parameterization of two-input systems, control-affine with 4 states or general with 3 states

Optimization and Control 2011-12-14 v2

Abstract

This paper studies Monge parameterization, or differential flatness, of control-affine systems with four states and twocontrols. Some of them are known to be flat, and this implies admitting a Monge parameterization. Focusing on systems outside this class, we describe the only possible structure of such a parameterization for these systems, and give a lower bound on the order of this parameterization, if it exists. This lower-bound is good enough to recover the known results about "(x,u)-flatness" of these systems, with much more elementary techniques.

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@article{arxiv.math/0505443,
  title  = {Flatness and Monge parameterization of two-input systems, control-affine with 4 states or general with 3 states},
  author = {David Avanessoff and Jean-Baptiste Pomet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0505443},
  year   = {2011}
}