Dynamics of the Chaplygin sleigh on a cylinder
2016, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 675–687
Author(s): Bizyaev I. A., Borisov A. V., Mamaev I. S.
This paper is concerned with the motion of the Chaplygin sleigh on the surface of a circular cylinder. In the case of inertial motion, the problem reduces to the study of the dynamical system on a (two-dimensional) torus and to the classification of singular points. Particular cases in which the system admits an invariant measure are found. In the case of a balanced and dynamically symmetric Chaplygin sleigh moving in a gravitational field it is shown that on the average the system has no drift along the vertical.
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