Control system design for mechanical systems using contraction theory

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 984-989

  Lohmiller, Winfried ^a   Slotine, Jean Jacques E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; MECHANISMS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OBSERVABILITY; SUBMERSIBLES; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CONTRACTION THEORY; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MODULAR SYSTEM;

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0034187420     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/9.855568     Document Type: Article

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