Control of nonholonomic systems with extended base space dynamics

This paper extends certain results in Reference 1 to a more general class of nonholonomic systems with extended base space dynamics. This extension is important in applications for which control actuator dynamics are significant. These nonlinear control systems are referred to as nonholonomic control systems owing to certain nonintegrability assumptions which are made. The class of systems considered in this paper are characterized by general nonlinear base space dynamics that are input-output decouplable. Controllability results for this class of nonholonomic control systems are presented.