Output stabilization and maneuver regulation: A geometric approach

This paper investigates maneuver regulation for single input control affine systems from a geometric perspective. The maneuver regulation problem is converted to output stabilization and necessary and sufficient conditions are provided to solve the latter problem by feedback linearizing the dynamics transverse to a suitable embedded submanifold of the state space. When specialized to the linear time invariant setting, this work recovers well-known results on output stabilization.