For a first course on nonlinear control that can be taught in one semester

This book emerges from the award-winning book, Nonlinear Systems, but has a distinctly different mission and organization. While Nonlinear Systems was intended as a reference and a text on nonlinear system analysis and its application to control, this streamlined book is intended as a text for a first course on nonlinear control. In Nonlinear Control, author Hassan K. Khalil employs a writing style that is intended to make the book accessible to a wider audience without compromising the rigor of the presentation.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 Two-Dimensional Systems

3 Stability of Equilibrium Points

4 Time-Varying and Perturbed Systems

5 Passivity

6 Input-Output Stability

7 Stability of Feedback Systems

8 Special Nonlinear Forms

9 State Feedback Stabilization

10 Robust State Feedback Stabilization

11 Nonlinear Observers

12 Output Feedback Stabilization

13 Tracking and Regulation

A Examples

B Mathematical Review

C Composite Lyapunov Functions

D Proofs

About the Author

Hassan K. Khalil is an Egyptian-born American electrical engineer and distinguished professor emeritus at Michigan State University (MSU). He is internationally recognized for his contributions to nonlinear control theory and control systems engineering.