Fx. Mei et B. Levesque, GENERALIZED CANONICAL REALIZATION AND BIRKHOFFS REALIZATION OF CHAPLYGINS NON HOLONOMIC SYSTEM, Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, 19(2), 1995, pp. 59-73
The purpose of this paper is to realize the generalized canonical form
and the Birkhoffs form for the Chaplygin's non holonomic system. This
paper proves that the Chaplygin's non holonomic systems can be repres
ented by the canonical form and the generalized canonical form under s
ome conditions, and they can always be represented by the Birkhoffs fo
rm. Two examples are given to illustrate the application of the result
s.