Dynamics and control of mechanical systems. The falling cat and related problems. Papers of the first Fields Institute Workshop held at Waterloo, Ontario (Canada), March 1992 (Q689051)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Baillieul, J.}, Stable average motions of mechanical systems subject to periodic forcing, 1-23 [Zbl 0793.70020] \textit{Bloch, A. M.; Crouch, P. E.}, Nonholonomic and vakonomic control systems on Riemannian manifolds, 25-52 [Zbl 0788.70006] \textit{Bogoyavlenskij, O. I.}, General integrable problems of classical mechanics, 53-73 [Zbl 0792.70006] \textit{Enos, Michael J.}, On an optimal control problem on \(SO(3)\times SO(3)\) and the falling cat, 75-111 [Zbl 0786.70021] \textit{Ge, Zhong}, On the cut points and conjugate points in a constrained variational problem, 111-132 [Zbl 0794.49036] \textit{Levi, Mark}, A theorem of Poinsot, path ordered integrals and parallel transport, 133-138 [Zbl 0797.70005] \textit{Marsden, Jerrold E.; Scheurle, Jürgen}, The reduced Euler-Lagrange equations, 139-164 [Zbl 0789.70013] \textit{Modi, V. J.}, On the dynamics and control of the evolving space station `Freedom', 165-191 [Zbl 0800.70073] \textit{Montgomery, Richard}, Gauge theory of the falling cat, 193-218 [Zbl 0787.70020] \textit{Murray, Richard M.}, Control of nonholonomic systems using chained form, 219-245 [Zbl 0788.70018] \textit{Patrick, George W.}, A vectorizing momentum preserving symplectic integration algorithm, 247-261 [Zbl 0787.70002] \textit{Posbergh, Thomas A.; Zhao, Rongze}, Stabilization of the uniform rotation of a rigid body by the energy- momentum method, 263-280 [Zbl 0788.70020]