Advances in the Control of Nonlinear Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Banos, Alfonso (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Francoise (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Montoya, Francisco J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 264
• Subjects: Dynamics.; Ergodic theory.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Control and Systems Theory.

This volume is based on the course notes of the 2nd NCN Pedagogical School, the second in the series of Pedagogical Schools in the frame work of the European TMR project, "Breakthrough in the control of nonlinear systems (Nonlinear Control Network)". The school consists of four courses tha...

Table of Contents:

• Flat systems, equivalence and feedback
• Flat systems: open problems, infinite dimensional extension, symmetries and catalog
• Fundamentals of nonlinear quantitative feedback theory
• to discrete event systems
• Petri nets models of timed discrete event plants
• Modelling and analysis of hybrid dynamical systems
• On modelling and control of mass balance systems
• Network modelling of physical systems: a geometric approach
• Energy shaping control revisited
• Geometric modeling of mechanical systems for interactive control.