Feedback Control of Linear and Nonlinear Systems

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• The global description of locally linear systems.
• Global properties of the root-locus map.
• Group action and differential operators.
• Some factorizations at infinity of rational matrix functions and their control interpretation.
• Some topological properties of electrical machines.
• Finite-dimensional observation-spaces for non-linear systems.
• Polynomial models and algebraic stability criteria.
• Linear system factorization.
• Controlled invariance in systems over rings.
• Control and filtering of a class of nonlinear but “homogeneous” systems.
• Construction of formal and analytic realizations of nonlinear systems.
• (Ad f, G) Invariant and controllability distributions.
• Schur techniques for riccati differential equations.
• Toward a theory of nonlinear stochastic realization.
• Burning grass and floating corks.
• Supervisory control of discrete event processes.
• Automation and society.
• Abstract regulation of nonlinear systems: Stabilization.
• Time-optimal control in the plane.
• Continuous-time quantum mechanical filter.
• Approximate disturbance decoupling by measurement feedback.