Feedback Control of Linear and Nonlinear Systems

The global description of locally linear systems.- Global properties of the root-locus map.- Group action and differential operators.- Some factorizations at infinity of rational matrix functions and their control interpretation.- Some topological properties of electrical machines.- Finite-dimensional observation-spaces for non-linear systems.- Polynomial models and algebraic stability criteria.- Linear system factorization.- Controlled invariance in systems over rings.- Control and filtering of a class of nonlinear but “homogeneous” systems.- Construction of formal and analytic realizations of nonlinear systems.- (Ad f, G) Invariant and controllability distributions.- Schur techniques for riccati differential equations.- Toward a theory of nonlinear stochastic realization.- Burning grass and floating corks.- Supervisory control of discrete event processes.- Automation and society.- Abstract regulation of nonlinear systems: Stabilization.- Time-optimal control in the plane.- Continuous-time quantum mechanical filter.- Approximate disturbance decoupling by measurement feedback.