This unique book presents an analytical uniform design methodology of continuous-time or discrete-time nonlinear control system design which guarantees desired transient performances in the presence of plant parameter variations and unknown external disturbances. All results are illustrated with numerical simulations, their practical importance is highlighted, and they may be used for real-time control system design in robotics, mechatronics, chemical reactors, electrical and electro-mechanical systems as well as aircraft control systems. The book is easy reading and is suitable for teaching.

A Student Solutions Manual along with a set of Matlab-Simulink's files can be downloaded from http://ac.cs.nstu.ru/~yurkev/books.html.

Contents:

• Regularly and Singularly Perturbed Systems
• Design Goal and Reference Model
• Methods of Control System Design Under Uncertainty
• Design of SISO Continuous-Time Control Systems
• Advanced Design of SISO Continuous-Time Control Systems
• Influence of Unmodeled Dynamics
• Realizability of Desired Output Behavior
• Design of MIMO Continuous-Time Control Systems
• Stabilization of Internal Dynamics
• Digital Controller Design Based on Pseudo-Continuous Approach
• Design of Discrete-Time Control Systems
• Design of Sampled-Data Control Systems
• Control of Distributed Parameter Systems

"Special classes of linear, nonlinear, and nonstationary control systems are considered. The presentation is at an engineering level, which makes it possible to easily and visually explain the solution methods ... The book will be useful to control engineers and students of various other technical areas. For mathematicians interested in control theory, it could serve as a source of new, interesting, and significant mathematical problems."

“... this book exploiting the time-scale character of the closed-loop system, is a welcome addition to the recent flood of books on the 'new' and beautiful world of nonlinear science and control.”