Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Control Systems In Honor of Alberto Isidori

This book has been prepared as a tribute to Prof. Alberto Isidori on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The book contains 27 chapters written by a number of researchers who have been involved, in different ways, in the prolific and high-impact career of Prof. Isidori. The chapters cover a significan...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Astolfi, Alessandro (Editor), Marconi, Lorenzo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2008, 2008
Edition:1st ed. 2008
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Essential and Redundant Internal Models in Nonlinear Output Regulation
  • Two Global Regulators for Systems with Measurable Nonlinearities and Unknown Sinusoidal Disturbances
  • A Taxonomy for Time-Varying Immersions in Periodic Internal-Model Control
  • Paving the Way Towards the Control of Wireless Telecommunication Networks
  • Nonlinear Synchronization of Coupled Oscillators: The Polynomial Case
  • Geometric Methods
  • Disturbance Decoupling for Open Quantum Systems: Quantum Internal Model Principle
  • Controller and Observer Normal Forms in Discrete-Time
  • A Geometric Approach to Dynamic Feedback Linearization
  • Asymptotic Analysis
  • The Steady-State Response of a Nonlinear Control System, Lyapunov Stable Attractors, and Forced Oscillations
  • Model Reduction by Moment Matching for Linear and Nonlinear Systems
  • Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Parameters by Output Feedback: A Non-Identifier-Based Method
  • System Analysis
  • Smooth Distributions Are Globally Finitely Spanned
  • Uniformly Universal Inputs
  • System Interconnection
  • Reduced Order Modeling of Nonlinear Control Systems
  • Optimization Methods
  • Nonholonomic Trajectory Optimization and the Existence of Twisted Matrix Logarithms
  • The Hamilton-Jacobi Type Equations for Nonlinear Target Control and Their Approximation
  • Causal Coding of Markov Sources with Continuous Alphabets
  • Pseudospectral Optimal Control and Its Convergence Theorems
  • Feedback Design
  • Event Based Control
  • Zero Dynamics and Tracking Performance Limits in Nonlinear Feedback Systems
  • A Nonlinear Model for Combustion Instability: Analysis and Quenching of the Oscillations
  • Convexification of the Range-Only Station Keeping Problem
  • Control of Hydraulic Devices, an Internal Model Approach
  • Hybrid Zero Dynamics of Planar Bipedal Walking
  • Regulation
  • Hybrid Systems: Limit Sets and Zero Dynamics with a View Toward Output Regulation
  • Hybrid Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems with Quantization Noise and Large Delays