Nilpotent Bases for Nonholonomic Distributions
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This paper develops a constructive method for nding a nilpotent basis for a special class of smooth nonholonomic distributions. The main tool is the use of the Goursat normal form theorem which arises in the study of exterior di erential systems. The results are applied to the problem of nding a set of nilpotent input vector elds for a nonholonomic control system, which can then used to construct explicit trajectories to drive the system between any two points. A kinematic model of a rolling penny is used to illustrate this approach. The methods presented here extend previous work using \chained form" and cast that work into a coordinate-free setting.
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