15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
CRITERION FOR NONREGULAR FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION WITH APPLICATION
S. S. Ge Z. Sun T. H. Lee
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117576

A new criterion for nonregular static state feedback linearization is presented for a class of affine nonlinear control systems. This criterion is applied to several classes of nonholonomic systems and discontinuous stabilizing control design is outlined based on linear system theory and the backstepping techniques.
Keywords: Nonregular feedback linearization, Nonlinear systems, Nonholonomic systems
Session slot T-Th-M07: Linearization of Nonlinear Systems/Area code 2c : Non-linear Systems