Applications to aeronautics of the theory of transformations of nonlinear systems

The development of the transformation theory is discussed. Results and applications concerning the use of this design technique for automatic flight control of aircraft are presented. The theory examines the transformation of nonlinear systems to linear systems. The tracking of linear models by nonlinear plants is discussed. Results of manned simulation are also presented

Feedback Equivalence of 1-dimensional Control Systems of the 1-st Order

The problem of local feedback equivalence for 1-dimensional control systems of the 1-st order is considered. The algebra of differential invariants and criteria for the feedback equivalence for regular control systems are found.Comment: 12page

Canonical forms for nonlinear systems

Necessary and sufficient conditions for transforming a nonlinear system to a controllable linear system have been established, and this theory has been applied to the automatic flight control of aircraft. These transformations show that the nonlinearities in a system are often not intrinsic, but are the result of unfortunate choices of coordinates in both state and control variables. Given a nonlinear system (that may not be transformable to a linear system), we construct a canonical form in which much of the nonlinearity is removed from the system. If a system is not transformable to a linear one, then the obstructions to the transformation are obvious in canonical form. If the system can be transformed (it is called a linear equivalent), then the canonical form is a usual one for a controllable linear system. Thus our theory of canonical forms generalizes the earlier transformation (to linear systems) results. Our canonical form is not unique, except up to solutions of certain partial differential equations we discuss. In fact, the important aspect of this paper is the constructive procedure we introduce to reach the canonical form. As is the case in many areas of mathematics, it is often easier to work with the canonical form than in arbitrary coordinate variables

Dual Conditions for Local Transverse Feedback Linearization

D’Souza, R. S., & Nielsen, C. (2018). Dual Conditions for Local Transverse Feedback Linearization. 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2938–2943. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2018.8619815Given a control-affine system and a controlled invariant submanifold, the local transverse feedback linearization problem is to determine whether or not the system is locally feedback equivalent to a system whose dynamics transversal to the submanifold are linear and controllable. In this paper we present necessary and sufficient conditions for a single-input system to be locally transversally feedback linearizable to a given submanifold that dualize, in an algebraic sense, previously published conditions. These dual conditions are of interest in their own right and represent a first step towards a Gardner-Shadwick like algorithm for local transverse feedback linearization