Robot's finger and expansions in non-integer bases

Anna Chiara Lai; Paola Loreti

doi:10.3934/nhm.2012.7.71

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2012, Volume 7, Issue 1: 71-111. Doi: 10.3934/nhm.2012.7.71

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Robot's finger and expansions in non-integer bases

Anna Chiara Lai^1, and
Paola Loreti^2,

1.
Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l’Ingegneria, Sezione Matematica, Via A. Scarpa n.16 00161 Roma
2.
Sapienza Università di Roma, Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l’Ingegneria, Sezione Matematica, Via A. Scarpa n.16 00161 Roma

Received: July 2011

Revised: December 2011

Published: March 2012

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We study a robot finger model in the framework of the theory of expansions in non-integer bases. We investigate the reachable set and its closure. A control policy to get approximate reachability is also proposed.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 70E60, 11A63.

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