In this paper the stability and observability of a controlled serial kinematic chain are analyzed with reference to a characterization of observability and stability for a stochastic system grounded in the application of Shannon theory to controlled systems. This approach was proposed in 2004 by H. Touchette and S. Lloyd. In particular it is analyzed in depth the case in which errors on the joints follow (concentrated) Gaussian distributions. In this case the property of Lie Groups (and related tangent space Lie algebra), studied from G. Chirikjian et al., allow to carry out the study of stochastic serial kinematic chains in a simplified way and to properly identify stability and observability conditions from a Shannon information standpoint.

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