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In our earlier paper [2] we examined the problem of control of a balanced dynamically nonsymmetric sphere with rotors with no-slip condition at the point of contact. In this paper we investigate the controllability of a ball in the presence of friction. We also study the problem of the existence and stability of singular dissipation-free periodic solutions for a free ball in the presence of friction forces. The issues of constructive realization of the proposed algorithms are discussed.

In the paper we study control of a balanced dynamically nonsymmetric sphere with rotors. The no-slip condition at the point of contact is assumed. The algebraic contrability is shown and the control inputs providing motion of the ball along a given trajectory on the plane are found. For some simple trajectories explicit tracking algorithms are proposed.

In this paper we consider the control of the motion of a dynamically asymmetric unbalanced ball (Chaplygin top) by means of two perpendicular rotors. We propose a mechanism for control by periodically changing the gyrostatic momentum of the system, which leads to an unbounded speedup. We then formulate a general hypothesis of the mechanism for speeding up spherical bodies on a plane by periodically changing the system parameters.

Рассмотрена динамика антиподального вихря, представляющего собой систему вихрь+антипод на сфере, имеющих равные по величине, но противоположные по знаку интенсивности. Показано, что система n антиподальных вихрей допускает редукцию на две степени свободы. Рассмотрены случаи двух и трех антиподальных вихрей, проведен их численный анализ. Обсуждаются томсоновские, коллинеарные и равнобедренные конфигурации антиподальных вихрей, построены бифуркационные диаграммы для этих случаев.