NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS - VOL.2

'Nonlinear Control Systems II' is a continuation of the same author’s classic work 'Nonlinear Control Systems'. Including further advances in this increasingly important field of control theory, the second volume presents a self-contained and co-ordinated description of several design methods. In particular, the text takes advantage of the recent vigorous growth in such methods and concepts as input-to-state stability, the small-gain criterion and passivity via feedback to increase the reader’s ability to design effective feedback laws for nonlinear systems with model uncertainties. Among the most important features of this text are: stability analysis of interconnected nonlinear systems, including the notions of input-to-state stability and its role in analysing cascade-connected or feedback-connected systems and of dissipativity and its consequences; robust stabilization in cases with parametric uncertainties – the use of global, semi-global and practical semi-global stabilization and the design of state feedback and output feedback laws; robust stabilization in cases with unstructured perturbations including disturbance attenuation and almost disturbance decoupling; global stabilization using bounded controls; normal forms for multi-input, multi-output nonlinear systems from the global point of view and their role in feedback design. The primary purpose of this book is as a reference for scientists, mathematicians and engineers working in the design of nonlinear control systems but it will also be of use as a text for graduate students studying control theory and nonlinear dynamical systems.