Emergent Problems in Nonlinear Systems and Control

Front Matter....Pages -
Type II Diabetes and Obesity: A Control Theoretic Model....Pages 1-19
Dynamic Network Modeling of Diurnal Genes in Cyanobacteria....Pages 21-41
On Stability of Limit Cycles of a Prototype Problem of Piecewise Linear Systems....Pages 43-55
On the Existence and Uniqueness of Minimum Time Optimal Trajectory for a Micro Air Vehicle under Wind Conditions....Pages 57-77
A Precise Formulation and Solution of the Drag Racer and Hot Rodder Problems....Pages 79-92
An Information Space View of “Time”: From Clocks to Open-Loop Control....Pages 93-106
Control System Design for the Capsubot....Pages 107-123
On the Topology of Liapunov Functions for Dissipative Periodic Processes....Pages 125-139
Global Controllability of Switched Affine Systems....Pages 141-167
Control and Observation of the Matrix Riccati Differential Equation....Pages 169-184
Nonlinear Locally Lipschitz Output Regulation in Presence of Non-hyperbolic Zero-Dynamics....Pages 185-198
On the Observability of Nonlinear and Switched Systems....Pages 199-216
Feedback Stabilization of Solitons and Phonons Using the Controlled Lax Form....Pages 217-238
Global Asymptotic Controllability of Polynomial Switched Systems and Their Switching Laws....Pages 239-251
Semi-global Output Feedback Stabilization of a Class of Non-uniformly Observable and Non-smoothly Stabilizable Systems....Pages 253-283
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