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 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL
Int. J. Robust Nonlinear Control 2003; 13:91–93
BOOK REVIEWS
NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS II, ALBERTO
ISIDORI, SPRINGER, LONDON, 1999.
The theory of nonlinear control systems continues
to evolve toward better applicability in design. A
primary research goal of the last two decades has
been to provide solutions of some nonlinear
design problems that for linear systems are well
understood; Alberto Isidori has performed or
inspired much of the work on these problems. For
the underlying principles of his work see his Bode
Lecture at the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision
and Control; it will appear in a forthcoming issue
of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. As the
title of this new book implies, it is a continuation
of the well-established graduate text [1,2], now in
its third edition, (with a new printing titled
Nonlinear Control Systems I). Volume II, the
book under review, continues the chapter num-
bering of [1]. It is, however, self-contained and can
be used independently of the earlier volume. The
reader will need background in the basic techni-
ques of nonlinear control analysis as found in
Reference [1] or [3].
Here are some of the book’s topics that students
and designers of nonlinear systems should be
familiar with; usually there is special attention
given to cascaded systems and systems in trian-
gular form:
(a) The basic definitions and theorems on
asymptotic stability (direct and converse
Lyapunov theorems).
(b) Input-to-state stability}a nonlinear version
of bounded-input bounded-output stabili-
ty}and its Lyapunov functions.
(c) Dissipative systems and storage functions.
(d) The importance of the ‘zero dynamics’}the
behaviour of a regulated system when the
tracking error is held to zero}in design.
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(e) Backstepping}a recursive method for de-
signing stable systems robustly.
(f) Methods of global or semiglobal stabilization
of interconnected systems, with prescribed
stability region and bounded control effort.
The chapters are:
10. Stability of Interconnected Nonlinear Sys-
tems.
11. Feedback Design for Robust Global Stabi-
lity.
12. Feedback Design for Robust Semiglobal
Stability.
13. Disturbance Attenuation.
14. Stabilization Using Small Inputs.
There are many illustrative examples and a few
applications, but no exercises. The useful Biblio-
graphical Notes give for each chapter the major
sources and credits.
This book is essential for serious research in
nonlinear control, but requires some seriousness
of purpose on the part of the reader.
D. L. Elliott
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland, College Park
MD 20742, USA
E-mail: delliott@isr.umd.edu
REFERENCES
1. Isidori A. Nonlinear Control Systems (3rd edn).
Springer: New York, 1995.
2. Elliott D.L. Review of Isidori (1995). IEEE Transac-
tions on Automatic Control 1997; 42:1043–1044.
3. Hassan Khalil, Nonlinear Systems (3rd edn). River,
NJ; Prentice-Hall: Upper Saddle, 2001.
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