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Nelin. Dinam., 2012 Volume 8, Number 4, Pages 837–852 (Mi nd363)

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The problem of optimal control of a Chaplygin ball by internal rotors

Sergey V. Bolotin

Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkina st. 8, Moscow, 119991, Russia

Abstract: We study the problem of optimal control of a Chaplygin ball on a plane by means of 3 internal rotors. Using Pontryagin maximum principle, the equations of extremals are reduced to Hamiltonian equations in group variables. For a spherically symmetric ball, the solutions can be expressed in by elliptic functions.

Keywords: nonholonomic constraint, vaconomic mechanics, optimal control, maximum principle, Hamiltonian.

UDC: 531.36

MSC: 37J60, 37J35, 70E18, 70F25, 70H45

Received: 04.09.2012
Revised: 09.11.2012



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