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

Contents......Page 11
Part I: System Analysis......Page 24
Smooth Distributions Are Globally Finitely Spanned......Page 25
Uniformly Universal Inputs......Page 31
System Interconnection......Page 47
Reduced Order Modeling of Nonlinear Control Systems......Page 62
Part II: Optimization Methods......Page 84
Nonholonomic Trajectory Optimization and the Existence of Twisted Matrix Logarithms......Page 85
The Hamilton-Jacobi Type Equations for Nonlinear Target Control and Their Approximation......Page 97
Causal Coding of Markov Sources with Continuous Alphabets......Page 111
Pseudospectral Optimal Control and Its Convergence Theorems......Page 129
Part III: Feedback Design......Page 145
Event Based Control......Page 146
Zero Dynamics and Tracking Performance Limits in Nonlinear Feedback Systems......Page 167
A Nonlinear Model for Combustion Instability: Analysis and Quenching of the Oscillations......Page 178
Convexification of the Range-Only Station Keeping Problem......Page 199
Control of Hydraulic Devices, an Internal Model Approach......Page 222
Hybrid Zero Dynamics of Planar Bipedal Walking......Page 237
Part IV: Regulation......Page 252
Hybrid Systems: Limit Sets and Zero Dynamics with a View Toward Output Regulation......Page 253
Essential and Redundant Internal Models in Nonlinear Output Regulation......Page 274
Two Global Regulators for Systems with Measurable Nonlinearities and Unknown Sinusoidal Disturbances......Page 295
A Taxonomy for Time-Varying Immersions in Periodic Internal-Model Control......Page 313
Paving the Way Towards the Control of WirelessTelecommunication Networks......Page 329
Nonlinear Synchronization of Coupled Oscillators: The Polynomial Case......Page 348
Part V: Geometric Methods......Page 361
Disturbance Decoupling for Open Quantum Systems: Quantum Internal Model Principle......Page 362
Controller and Observer Normal Forms in Discrete-Time......Page 383
A Geometric Approach to Dynamic Feedback Linearization......Page 403
Part VI: Asymptotic Analysis......Page 418
The Steady-State Response of a Nonlinear Control System, Lyapunov Stable Attractors, and Forced Oscillations......Page 419
Model Reduction by Moment Matching for Linearand Nonlinear Systems......Page 432
Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Parameters by Output Feedback: A Non-Identifier-Based Method......Page 448
Hybrid Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems with Quantization Noise and Large Delays......Page 467