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Main Authors: Jindal, Ashutosh, Nicolau, Florentina, Diego, David Martin, Banavar, Ravi
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11183
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author Jindal, Ashutosh
Nicolau, Florentina
Diego, David Martin
Banavar, Ravi
author_facet Jindal, Ashutosh
Nicolau, Florentina
Diego, David Martin
Banavar, Ravi
contents Differential flatness serves as a powerful tool for controlling continuous time nonlinear systems in problems such as motion planning and trajectory tracking. A similar notion, called difference flatness, exists for discrete-time systems. Although many control systems evolve in continuous time, control implementation is performed digitally, requiring discretization. It is well known in the literature that discretization does not necessarily preserve structural properties, and it has been established that, in general, flatness is not preserved under discretization (whether exact or approximate). In this paper, inspired by our previous work [1] and based on the notion of discretization maps, we construct numerical schemes that preserve flatness.
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spellingShingle Numerical Discretization Schemes that Preserve Flatness
Jindal, Ashutosh
Nicolau, Florentina
Diego, David Martin
Banavar, Ravi
Systems and Control
Differential flatness serves as a powerful tool for controlling continuous time nonlinear systems in problems such as motion planning and trajectory tracking. A similar notion, called difference flatness, exists for discrete-time systems. Although many control systems evolve in continuous time, control implementation is performed digitally, requiring discretization. It is well known in the literature that discretization does not necessarily preserve structural properties, and it has been established that, in general, flatness is not preserved under discretization (whether exact or approximate). In this paper, inspired by our previous work [1] and based on the notion of discretization maps, we construct numerical schemes that preserve flatness.
title Numerical Discretization Schemes that Preserve Flatness
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11183