A new digital control method for a time varying sampled data system called a variable period deadbeat control is proposed to control high order nonholonomic chained systems with drift terms. This control law has a potential to avoid an excessive overshoot to prevent the trajectories close to the singular manifold of the transformation needed to obtain the chained forms. The control will be appl...

This paper focuses on issues related to implementing timed discrete-event systems (TDES) supervisors, and the concurrency and timing delay issues involved. In particular, we examine issues related to implementing TDES as sampled-data (SD) controllers. An SD controller is driven by a periodic clock and sees the system as a series of inputs and outputs. On each clock edge (tick event), it samples...