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Geometry of non-holonomic diffusion

Mathematical Physics 2019-11-14 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We study stochastically perturbed non-holonomic systems from a geometric point of view. In this setting, it turns out that the probabilistic properties of the perturbed system are intimately linked to the geometry of the constraint distribution. For GG-Chaplygin systems, this yields a stochastic criterion for the existence of a smooth preserved measure. As an application of our results we consider the motion planning problem for the noisy two-wheeled robot and the noisy snakeboard.

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@article{arxiv.1204.6438,
  title  = {Geometry of non-holonomic diffusion},
  author = {Simon Hochgerner and Tudor S. Ratiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.6438},
  year   = {2019}
}
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