Parallelizability of control systems

Abstract

This manuscript presents a notion of parallelizability of control systems. Parallelizability is a well-known concept of dynamical systems that associates with complete instability and dispersiveness. The concept of dispersiveness has been successfully interpreted in the setup of control systems. This naturally asks about the meaning of a parallelizable control system. The answer can be given in the setting of control affine systems by evoking their control flows. The main result shows that a parallelizable control flow characterizes a dispersive control affine system. The dispersiveness is then equivalent to the existence of a functional with infinite limit at infinity. The results of the paper contribute to the controllability studies, since dispersive control systems admit no control set. For invariant control systems with commutative vector fields, null trace representative matrices are a necessary condition for the existence of control set.