Local controllability and motion planning for some classes of systems with drift

The author explains how some recent results on the design of controls for nonholonomic systems without drift can be extended to some classes of systems with drift. In particular, it is shown that a dynamic extension of a driftless system that satisfies the Lie algebra rank condition necessary satisfies algebraic sufficient conditions for small-time local controllability at all its equilibrium points.<<ETX>>

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