English

Local controllability does imply global controllability

Optimization and Control 2021-10-29 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We say that a control system is locally controllable if the attainable set from any state xx contains an open neighborhood of xx, while it is controllable if the attainable set from any state is the entire state manifold. We show in this note that a control system satisfying local controllability is controllable. Our self-contained proof is alternative to the combination of two previous results by Kevin Grasse.

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@article{arxiv.2110.06631,
  title  = {Local controllability does imply global controllability},
  author = {Ugo Boscain and Daniele Cannarsa and Valentina Franceschi and Mario Sigalotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.06631},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; this updated version includes new citations to previous literature

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