Nonlinear and Adaptive Control NCN4 2001 [Paperback]

Invariant manifolds, asymptotic immersion and the (adaptive) stabilization of nonlinear systems.- Robust control of a nonlinear fluidics problem.- Optimal control of the Schr?dinger equation with two or three levels.- Strong robustness in adaptive control.- On composition of Dirac structures and its implications for control by interconnection.- Adaptive nonlinear excitation control of synchronous generators.- Parameter identification for nonlinear pneumatic cylinder actuators.- The quasi-infinite horizon approach to nonlinear model predictive control.- State and parameter identification for nonlinear uncertain systems using variable structure theory.- Stabilizing memoryless controllers and controls with memory for a class of uncertain, bilinear systems with discrete and distributed delays.- Sliding mode control of a full-bridge unity power factor rectifier.- Flatness-based control of the induction drive minimising energy dissipation.- Exact feedforward linearisation based on differential flatness: The SISO case.- Local controlled dynamics.- Adaptive feedback passivity of nonlinear systems with sliding mode.- Linear algebraic tools for discrete-time nonlinear control systems with Mathematica.- Adaptive compensation of multiple sinusoidal disturbances with unknown frequencies.- Backstepping algorithms for a class of disturbed nonlinear nontriangular systems.- Nonminimum phase output tracking using sliding modes.- Goursat distributions not strongly nilpotent in dimensions not exceeding seven.- Stabilizability for boundary-value control systems using symbolic calculus of pseudo-differential operators.- Multi-periodic nonlinear repetitive control: Feedback stability analysis.- Perturbed hybrid systems, applications in control theory.- Global stabilization of nonlinear systems: A continuous feedback framework.- On computation of the logarithm of the Chen-Fliess series for nonlinear systems.- On the efficient computation of higher order maps ad f k g(x) using Taylor aritlc<