@article {1995, title = {Some control problems for the pendulum}, journal = {Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 4 (1995) 3313-3318}, number = {SISSA;80/95/M}, year = {1995}, publisher = {IEEE}, abstract = {The aim of this paper is to illustrate some geometric techniques for the study of nonlinear systems. The pendulum on one hand is good for its simplicity, on the other it presents many of the difficulties one can encounter treating nonlinear systems.}, doi = {10.1109/CDC.1995.478998}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/982}, author = {Benedetto Piccoli} }