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Two avenues are investigated: one, the geometric characterization of a class of square invertible nonlinear systems that can be molded into a normal form by a global diffeomorphism, and two, additional conditions are fashioned under which this global normal form lends itself to the implementation of the recursive design method known as "backstepping".
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Schwartz et al. (2002) studied this question.