Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction.- Part I: Nonlinear Control Systems.- New Results in Distributed Nonlinear Control of Autonomous Multi-Agents.- Controlled Invariant Distributions: How It All Started and Why It's Still Alive.- Covergent Systems: Nonlinear Simplicity.- Part II: Synchronization in Networked Systems.- An Observer Looks at Synchronization: Revisited.- Synchronization and Emergent Behavior in Networks of Heterogeneous Systems: A Control Theory Perspective; Emergence of Oscillations in Networks of Time-Delay Coupled Internet Systems.- Control of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems.- Control of Underactuated Marine Vehicles in the Presence of Environmental Disturbances.- Position Control via Force Feedback for a Class of Standard Mechanical Systems in the Port-Hamiltonian Framework.- The Endogenous Configuration Space Approach: An Intersection of Robotics and Control Theory.