CURRENT TRENDS IN NONLINEAR SYSTEMS AND（目前的趋势在非线性系统和）.pdfVIP

Control and Cybernetics vol. 36 (2007) No. 1 Book review: CURRENT TRENDS IN NONLINEAR SYSTEMS AND CONTROL by L. Menini, L. Zaccarian and Ch. T. Abdallah, editors This book, published in the Birkhäuser series Systems and Control, Founda- tions and Applications, contains a collection of papers presented during a two day workshop, entitled Applications of Advanced Control Theory to Robotics and Automation that took place in June 2004 in Rome, Italy. The workshop was organized to honor the 70th birthdays of two prominent control scien tists, P. Kokotovic and T. Nicosia. The contributions included in this book present high quality results, whose authors were either directly or (more often) indirectly inspired by scientific achievements of the honorees. Among 79 con tributors, dominated by the Italians, there are both the authors of established renown as well as young doctors. The content of the book is relevant to its title; indeed, it portrays recent developments in control theory from the perspective of their applications in automation and robotics. The spectrum of problems and approaches tackled in the book spans a wide range, from the antiwindup designs, through the collective behavior control of robots, up to the emerging domain of the networked control systems. In most cases, the book consists of survey papers that provide guidelines for a further study of the source literature, but it also contains papers bringing forward novel results. Taking into account its theoretic, simulation and experimental dimensions, as well as high editorial standards, this book may be recommended as a reference text on modern aspects of control