Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 August 2002
For linear control systems with coefficients determined by a dynamical system null controllability is discussed. If uniform local null controllability holds, and if the Lyapounov exponents of thehomogeneous equation are all non-positive, then the system is globally null controllable for almost all paths of the dynamical system. Even if some Lyapounov exponents are positive, anirreducibility assumption implies that, for a dense set of paths, the system is globally null controllable.