Nonholonomic Control and Gauge Theory

We present a dictionary between gauge theory and control theory. This is useful for problems involving the control of the orientations of deformable bodies (robots, gymnasts) by means of shape deformations. In the last section we present some ideas on the stabilization of nonholonomic control systems, where the objective is a given submanifold instead of a single point.

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