Feedback linearization has been studied extensively in the nonlinear systems literature (see, for example, [121,134,159,185]). In this text, we cover only some of the basic background to help the ...

During the last few years there have been significant developments in the control of highly uncertain, nonlinear dynamical systems. For systems with parametric uncertainty, adaptive nonlinear control ...

Engineering design is often largely about the tradeoffs among the approaches to solving various challenges while meeting overall project objectives. These tradeoffs may be global such as balancing ...

Consider the single-DOF problem of a thin bar pinned to ground with a constant horizontal force F acting at the free end of the bar. This says that for a small perturbation about the equilibrium state ...