Honoring Andrei Agrachev's 60th birthday, this volume presents recent advances in the interaction between Geometric Control Theory and sub-Riemannian geometry.

Provides a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to sub-Riemannian geometry and its applications. For graduate students and researchers.

This text is an enhanced, English version of the Russian edition, published in early 2021 and is appropriate for an introductory course in geometric control the

Geometric control theory is concerned with the evolution of systems subject to physical laws but having some degree of freedom through which motion is to be con

Nonholonomic systems are control systems which depend linearly on the control. Their underlying geometry is the sub-Riemannian geometry, which plays for these s