Global controllability tests for geometric hybrid control systems

María Barbero Liñán, Jorge Cortés, David Martín de Diego, Sonia Martínez, and Miguel C. Muñóz Lecanda
Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 38 (2020), DOI 100935

Abstract:

Hybrid systems are characterized by having an interaction between continuous dynamics and discrete events. The contribution of this paper is to provide hybrid systems with a novel geometric formulation so that controls can be added. Using this framework we describe some new global controllability tests for hybrid control systems exploiting the geometry and the topology of the set of jump points, where the instantaneous change of dynamics take place. Controllability is understood as the existence of a feasible trajectory for the system joining any two given points. As a result we describe examples where none of the continuous control systems are controllable, but the associated hybrid system is controllable because of the characteristics of the jump set.

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Bib-tex entry:

@article{MBL-JC-DMD-SM-MCML:20,
author = {M. Barbero Li\~n\'an, J. Cort\'es, D. Mart{\'\i}n de Diego, S. Mart{\'\i}nez and M. C. Mu\~noz Lecanda},
title = {Global controllability tests for geometric hybrid control systems},
journal= {Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems},
volume = {38},
doi = {100935},
year = {2020}
}