Output stabilization and maneuver regulation: A geometric approach

• DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2005.09.006
• Publication Date: 2005-11-15T12:14:43Z
• Authors: Christopher Nielsen; Manfredi Maggiore
• Keywords: LTI system theory

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.