This article presents a survey of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications in smart cities,
emphasizing integration challenges. Smart cities leverage innovative technologies …

(I. la) m= f (x)+[gi (x) ui i= I (1. lb) y= h (x) and we want to examine to what extent the behavior
of such a system could be made" linear" under the effect of an appropriate feedback control …

In this chapter we present a state space interpretation of the small gain and passivity
approach of the previous chapter. Moreover, we will come to some kind of synthesis …

This book is an introduction to optimal stochastic control for continuous time Markov
processes and the theory of viscosity solutions. It covers dynamic programming for …

A powerful and usable class of methods for numerically approximating the solutions to
optimal stochastic control problems for diffusion, reflected diffusion, or jump-diffusion models …

Constructive Nonlinear Control presents a broad repertoire of constructive nonlinear
designs not available in other works by widening the class of systems and design tools …

Safety critical and high-integrity systems, such as industrial plants and economic systems
can be subject to abrupt changes-for instance due to component or interconnection failure …

This paper addresses the issues of stability, L2-gain analysis and H∞ control for switched
systems via multiple Lyapunov function methods. A concept of general Lyapunov-like …

In the early days of nonlinear control theory most of the stability, optimality and uncertainty
concepts were descriptive rather than constructive. This survey describes their …

We introduce the concept of a control contraction metric, extending contraction analysis to
constructive nonlinear control design. We derive sufficient conditions for exponential …