Nonholonomic constraint
Constraints that are not holonomic constraint.
There is, mainly, two reasons for being nonholonomic:
- The constraint is of the form
and this ODE cannot be integrated. In this case it is described as a Pfaffian equation that is non integrable. We can add this ODE to the equations of motion, and try to solve the system.
I think they are also called semi-holonomic.
- The constraint is of the form
I don't know how proceed in this case.