Nonlinear Systems Techniques for Dynamical Analysis and Control [Paperback]

This treatment of modern topics relatedto the control of nonlinear systems is a collection of contributionscelebrating the work of Professor Henk Nijmeijer and honoring his 60^thbirthday. It addresses several topics that have been the core of ProfessorNijmeijers work, namely: the control of nonlinear systems, geometric controltheory, synchronization, coordinated control, convergent systems and thecontrol of underactuated systems. The book presents recent advances in theseareas, contributed by leading international researchers in systems and control.In addition to the theoretical questions treated in the text, particularattention is paid to a number of applications including (mobile) robotics,marine vehicles, neural dynamics and mechanical systems generally.

This volume providesa broad picture of the analysis and control of nonlinear systems for scientistsand engineers with an interest in the interdisciplinary field of systems andcontrol theory. The reader will benefit from the expert participants ideas on importantopen problems with contributions that represent the state of the art innonlinear control.

Introduction.- Part I: Nonlinear Control Systems.- NewResults in Distributed Nonlinear Control of Autonomous Multi-Agents.-Controlled Invariant Distributions: How It All Started and Why Its StillAlive.- Covergent Systems: Nonlinear Simplicity.- Part II: Synchronization inNetworked Systems.- An Observer Looks at Synchronization: Revisited.- Synchronizationand Emergent Behavior in Networks of Heterogeneous Systems: A Control TheoryPerspective; Emergence of Oscillations in Networks of Time-Delay Coupled InternetSystems.- Control of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems.- Control of UnderactuatedMarine Vehicles in the Presence of Environmental Disturbances.- PositionControl via Force Feedback for a Class of Standard Mechanical Systems in thePort-Hamiltonian Framework.- The Endogenous Configuration Space Approach: AnIntersection oflcl