Nonlinear and Adaptive Control NCN4 2001

The objective of the EU Nonlinear Control Network Workshop was to bring together scientists who are already active in nonlinear control and young researchers working in this field. This book presents selectively invited contributions from the workshop, some describing state-of-the-art subjects that already have a status of maturity while others propose promising future directions in nonlinear control. Amongst others, following topics of nonlinear and adaptive control are included: adaptive and robust control, applications in physical systems, distributed parameter systems, disturbance attenuation, dynamic feedback, optimal control, sliding mode control, and tracking and motion planning. TOC:Adaptive and robust control.- Applications in physical systems.- Classification and equivalence.- Distributed parameter systems.- Disturbance attenuation.- Dynamic feedback Identification and estimation.- Observers Optimal control.- Sliding mode control.- Stabilization Sub-Riemannian geometry.- Systems with constraints.- Tracking and motion planning.

Invariant manifolds, asymptotic immersion and the (adaptive) stabilization of nonlinear systems.- Robust control of a nonlinear fluidics problem.- Optimal control of the Schrödinger 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 arithmetic and the Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff formula.- Nonlinear M.I.S.O. direct-inverse compensation for robust performance speed control of an S.I. engine.- Exact delayed reconstructors in nonlinear discrete-time systems control.- Generalized PID control of the average boost converter circuit model.- Sliding mode observers for robust fault reconstruction in nonlinear systems.- Real-time trajectory generation for flat systems with constraints.