Matching and stabilization of the unicycle with rider

In this paper we apply matching techniques for controlled Lagrangians to the stabilization problem of a nonholonomic system consisting of a unicycle with rider. We show how generalized matching results may be applied to the Routhian associated with this nonholonomic system.

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