This monograph grew out of a combined effort to prove a conjecture concerning the characterization of Hamiltonian control systems in terms of their variational input-output behaviour. The main concepts and results of this monograph are contained in chapters 1 to 6. Chapter 0 gives a brief introduction to Hamiltonian control systems, with particular emphasis on the relations between physical and control theoretical notions. Indeed, the study of Hamiltonian control systems is one of the places where (theoretical) physics and systems and control theory meet. We conclude the monograph with chapter 7 discussing some possible extensions to the theory presented, as well as some open problems.

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Book Title: Variational and Hamiltonian Control Systems
Editors: P. E. Crouch, A. J. Schaft
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0042858
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1987
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-18372-3Published: 28 October 1987
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-47929-1Published: 11 April 2006
Series ISSN: 0170-8643
Series E-ISSN: 1610-7411
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IV, 124
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Engineering, general, Classical Mechanics

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