Birth of the shape of a reachable set (1312.4155v2)

Abstract: We address a linear control system under geometric constraints on control and study its reachable sets starting at zero time from the origin. The main result is the existence of a limit shape of the reachable sets as the terminal time tends to zero. Here, a shape of a set stands for the set regarded up to an invertible linear transformation. Both autonomous and non-autonomous cases are considered.