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Flatness Characterization: Two Approaches

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Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals and Systems with Physical Modeling

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We survey two approaches to flatness necessary and sufficient conditions and compare them on examples.

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  1. Automatisierungs- und Regelungstechnik, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 37, DE-85579, Neubiberg, Germany

    Felix Antritter

  2. Mines ParisTech, CAS- Centre Automatique et Systèmes, Mathématiques et Systèmes, 35, rue Saint-Honoré, 77305, Fontainebleau, France

    Jean Lévine

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    Jean Lévine

  2. Laboratoire d’ Automatique, Faculté des Sciences de l’Ingénieur Station 9, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Antritter, F., Lévine, J. (2010). Flatness Characterization: Two Approaches. In: Lévine, J., Müllhaupt, P. (eds) Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals and Systems with Physical Modeling. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 407. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16135-3_11

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