Target Audience for the Lie Tools Package

LTP is intended for mathematicians, physicists, practicing engineers, as well as for classroom use to complement the theoretical aspects with practical excercises. It is assumed that the user possess some prior knowledge of the mathematical concepts in Lie algebra and group theory (for a brief review see Section 3). In this sense, LTP may assist in communicating the Lie theory concepts to students in an introductory Lie Theory or Advanced Control Systems course, but it is not intended as a stand-alone introductory tool. At the same time it is sophisticated enough to allowresearchers evaluate alternate develop control strategies, nonlinear filters or simply perform general computations based on Lie algebraic symbolic calculations.