Description: Section headings and selected papers: Plenary Lectures. A dynamical systems approach to control, (F. Colonius, W. Kliemann). Feedback Stabilization. Nonlinear and Adaptative Control of Electromechanical Systems. Modeling the effects of magnetic saturation on electrical machine control systems, (C.R. Sullivan, S.R. Sanders). Nonholonomic Systems. Anholonomy in the control of kinematically redundant mechanisms with flexible components, (J. Baillieul). Control of Nonholonomic Systems. Generalized State Space Systems. On differentially flat nonlinear systems, (M. Fliess et al. ). Dynamic Feedback in Nonlinear Systems. Links between local controllability and local continuous stabilization, (J.-M. Coron). Nonlinear Observers and Model-Matching. Algebraic Computing in Nonlinear Systems Theory. Implementing Ritt's algorithm of differential algebra, (S.T. Glad). Dynamical and Control Systems. Applications. Stability analysis and control of rotating stall, (D.-C. Liaw, E.H. Abed). Decoupling, Linearization and Model-Matching. Algebraic and Geometric Methods. On rational state space realizations, (K. Forsman). Recent Advances in Feedback Stabilization. Stabilization of nonlinear systems by using integrators, (J. Tsinias). Robust Control. Output feedback control of a class of nonlinear systems, (R. Marino, P. Tomei). Robotics and Mechanical Systems. Controllability and Optimal Control. Author index. Keyword index.

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