Departmental Papers (ESE)
Abstract
In this paper, we consider the problem of constructing abstractions of affine control systems that preserve reachability properties, and, in particular, local accessibility. In this framework, showing local accessibility of the higher level, abstracted model is equivalent to showing local accessibility of the, more detailed, lower level model. Given an affine control system and a smooth surjective map, we present a canonical construction for extracting an affine control system describing the trajectories of the abstracted variables. We then obtain conditions on the abstraction maps that render the original and abstracted system equivalent from a local accessibility point of view. Such consistent hierarchies of accessibility preserving abstractions of nonlinear control systems are then considered for various classes of affine control systems including linear, bilinear, drift free, and strict feedback systems.
Document Type
Journal Article
Subject Area
GRASP
Date of this Version
May 2002
Keywords
Abstraction, affine control systems, hierarchies, local accessibility
Date Posted: 09 November 2004
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Copyright 2002 IEEE. Reprinted from IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume 47, Issue 5, May 2002, pages 745-756.
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