Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Control Systems : In Honor of Alberto Isidori

This book has been prepared as a tribute to Prof. Alberto Isidori on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The book contains 27 chapters written by a number of researchers who have been involved, in different ways, in the prolific and high-impact career of Prof. Isidori. The chapters cover a significant number of control and systems theory topics and describe a mix of new methodological results, advanced applications, emerging control areas and tutorial works. The overall contributions have been divided in six parts: "System Analysis", "Optimization Methods", "Feedback Design", "Regulation", "Geometric Methods" and "Asymptotic Analysis". All these fields reflect areas in which Prof. Isidori, during his scientific activity, has been actively involved by providing key ideas and pioneering contributions. The book is expected to be of significant interest to academic and industrial researchers involved in the area of linear and nonlinear control systems and a key reference for future research developments. Contents......Page 11 Part I: System Analysis......Page 24 Smooth Distributions Are Globally Finitely Spanned......Page 25 Uniformly Universal Inputs......Page 31 System Interconnection......Page 47 Reduced Order Modeling of Nonlinear Control Systems......Page 62 Part II: Optimization Methods......Page 84 Nonholonomic Trajectory Optimization and the Existence of Twisted Matrix Logarithms......Page 85 The Hamilton-Jacobi Type Equations for Nonlinear Target Control and Their Approximation......Page 97 Causal Coding of Markov Sources with Continuous Alphabets......Page 111 Pseudospectral Optimal Control and Its Convergence Theorems......Page 129 Part III: Feedback Design......Page 145 Event Based Control......Page 146 Zero Dynamics and Tracking Performance Limits in Nonlinear Feedback Systems......Page 167 A Nonlinear Model for Combustion Instability: Analysis and Quenching of the Oscillations......Page 178 Convexification of the Range-Only Station Keeping Problem......Page 199 Control of Hydraulic Devices, an Internal Model Approach......Page 222 Hybrid Zero Dynamics of Planar Bipedal Walking......Page 237 Part IV: Regulation......Page 252 Hybrid Systems: Limit Sets and Zero Dynamics with a View Toward Output Regulation......Page 253 Essential and Redundant Internal Models in Nonlinear Output Regulation......Page 274 Two Global Regulators for Systems with Measurable Nonlinearities and Unknown Sinusoidal Disturbances......Page 295 A Taxonomy for Time-Varying Immersions in Periodic Internal-Model Control......Page 313 Paving the Way Towards the Control of WirelessTelecommunication Networks......Page 329 Nonlinear Synchronization of Coupled Oscillators: The Polynomial Case......Page 348 Part V: Geometric Methods......Page 361 Disturbance Decoupling for Open Quantum Systems: Quantum Internal Model Principle......Page 362 Controller and Observer Normal Forms in Discrete-Time......Page 383 A Geometric Approach to Dynamic Feedback Linearization......Page 403 Part VI: Asymptotic Analysis......Page 418 The Steady-State Response of a Nonlinear Control System, Lyapunov Stable Attractors, and Forced Oscillations......Page 419 Model Reduction by Moment Matching for Linearand Nonlinear Systems......Page 432 Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Parameters by Output Feedback: A Non-Identifier-Based Method......Page 448 Hybrid Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems with Quantization Noise and Large Delays......Page 467 This book is a tribute to Prof. Alberto Isidori on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Prof. Isidori's proli?c, pioneering and high-impact research activity has spanned over 35 years. Throughout his career, Prof. Isidori has developed ground-breaking results, has initiated researchdirections and has contributed towardsthe foundationofnonlinear controltheory.In addition,his dedication to explain intricate issues and di?cult concepts in a simple and rigorous way and to motivate young researchers has been instrumental to the intellectual growth of the nonlinear control community worldwide. The volume collects 27 contributions written by a total of 52 researchers. The principal author of each contribution has been selected among the - searchers who have worked with Prof. Isidori, have in?uenced his research activity, or have had the privilege and honour of being his PhD students. The contributions address a signi?cant number of control topics, including th- retical issues, advanced applications, emerging control directions and tutorial works. The diversity of the areas covered, the number of contributors and their international standing provide evidence of the impact of Prof. Isidori in the control and systems theory communities. The book has been divided into six parts: System Analysis, Optimization Methods, Feedback Design, Regulation, Geometric Methods and Asymptotic Analysis, re?ecting important control areas which have been strongly in- enced and, in some cases, pioneered by Prof. Isidori.