In this document, we present the main ideas and results concerning high‐gain observers
and some of their applications in control. The introduction gives a brief history of the topic …

Nonlinear and Adaptive Control with Applications provides a detailed treatment of the
design of robust adaptive controllers for nonlinear systems with uncertainties. The authors …

To overcome the obstructions imposed by high-dimensional bipedal models, we embed a
stable walking motion in an attractive low-dimensional surface of the system's state space …

Significant progress has been made on nonlinear control systems in the past two decades.
However, many of the existing nonlinear control methods cannot be readily used to cope …

This chapter provides some of the main ideas resulting from recent developments in
sampled-data control of nonlinear systems. We have tried to bring the basic parts of the new …

For multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear systems, we prove that while global asymptotic
stabilizability may not ensure semiglobal asymptotic stabilizability (SGAS) by sampled-data …

The design of output feedback for ensuring global asymptotic stability is a difficult task which
has attracted the attention of many researchers with very different approaches. We propose …

This work considers theoretical and implementational aspects of sampled-data open-loop
nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) of continuous time systems. In general, in model …

For a class of SISO non-affine systems, we address the problem of how semiglobal
asymptotic stabilization (SGAS) can be achieved by n-dimensional sampled-data output …

For a family of time-delay feedforward systems satisfying a linear growth condition, we study
the problem of global asymptotic stabilization by digital state and output feedback …