Controllability and trajectory tracking for classes of cascade-form second order nonholonomic systems

We discuss classes of nonlinear systems with drift that can be reduced to the cascade of a linear system and a drift-free nonholonomic system. Building on previous work with amplitude-modulated sinusoids for trajectory tracking in drift-free systems, we present algorithms for configuration trajectory tracking in these dynamic settings. Results are demonstrated in simulation for representative examples.

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