On controllability of driftless control systems on symmetric spaces

Symmetric spaces arise in wide variety of problems in Mathematics and Physics. They are mostly studied in Representation theory, Harmonic analysis and Differential geometry. As many physical systems have symmetric spaces as their configuration spaces, the study of controllability on symmetric space is quite interesting. In this paper, a driftless control system of type \({\dot{x}}= \sum _{i=1}^m u_if_i(x)\) is considered on a symmetric space. For this we have established global controllability condition which is illustrated by few examples of exponential submanifolds of SE(3) and random matrix ensembles.