Stabilization and Regulation of Nonlinear Systems

Introduction.- Fundamentals of Nonlinear Systems.- Classification of Nonlinear Control Systems.- Robust Stabilization.- Adaptive Stabilization.- Universal Adaptive Stabilization.- Robust Output Regulation: A Framework.- Global Robust Output Regulation.- Output Regulation with Uncertain Exosystems.- Attitude Control of a Rigid Spacecraft.- Appendix.

Zhiyong Chen studied Automatic Control at the University of Science and Technology of China from 1995 to 2000 and was awarded the B. Eng degree in 2000. He was awarded the M.Phil and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong both in the area of systems and control and in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He was a Research Associate with the University of Virginia from 2005 to 2006 and is currently a Senior Lecture with the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research area is mainly nonlinear control theory and applications. He received the China State Natural Science Award, Class II, in 2010, the best paper award of the Eighth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision in 2004, the best paper awards of the Eighth and the Tenth World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation in 2010 and 2012. He is/was associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems and Control Letters and several other journals.

Jie Huang studied Power Engineering at Fuzhou University from 1977 to 1979 and Circuits and Systems at Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) from 1979 to 1982. He got his Master's degree from NUST in 1982 and was a faculty member there from 1982 to 1986. He completed his Ph.D. study in automatic control at the Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and subsequently held a post-doctoral fellowship there until July 1991. From August 1991 to July 1995, he worked in industry in the USA. In September 1995, he joined the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is now a professor and chairman there. He served as a Science Advisor to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Honorary Advisor to Hong Kong Science Museum. His research interests include control theory and applications, robotics and automation, systems biology and guidance

"The book focuses on two design problems for nonlinear continuous-time control systems, namely stabilization and output regulation. ... The book is useful for both researchers and for use in graduate courses in control engineering." (Tibor Takács, Mathematical Reviews, August, 2015)