Geodesic
Rolling Balls and Octonions
Informatics and Automation, Analysis and singularities. Part 1, Tome 258 (2007), pp. 17-27.

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In this semi-expository paper we disclose hidden symmetries of a classical nonholonomic kinematic model and try to explain the geometric meaning of the basic invariants of vector distributions. 
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A. A. Agrachev. Rolling Balls and Octonions. Informatics and Automation, Analysis and singularities. Part 1, Tome 258 (2007), pp. 17-27. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/TRSPY_2007_258_a2/

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