In the first part, this article presents an overview of Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC)
methodologies developed for space manipulators to perform in-orbit robotic missions …

Cheetahs and beetles run, dolphins and salmon swim, and bees and birds fly with grace
and economy surpassing our technology. Evolution has shaped the breathtaking abilities of …

Symmetry has always played an important role in mechanics, from fundamental formulations
of basic principles to concrete applications. The theme of the book is to develop the basic …

Nonholonomic systems provide an important class of mechanical control systems. One
reason for this importance is that nonintegrability is essential to both the mechanics and the …

This paper gives a review of integration algorithms for finite dimensional mechanical
systems that are based on discrete variational principles. The variational technique gives a …

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Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems Modeling, Analysis, and Design for Simple …

We demonstrate that an irreducibly simple, uncontrolled, two-dimensional, two-link model,
vaguely resembling human legs, can walk down a shallow slope, powered only by gravity …

At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that
engineers working with modern control systems required. Among its many accolades, that …

This thesis is devoted to nonlinear control, reduction, and classification of underactuated
mechanical systems. Underactuated systems are mechanical control systems with fewer …

In this paper, we introduce an approach for the efficient solution of motion-planning
problems for time-invariant dynamical control systems with symmetries, such as mobile …