This book presents recent developments in the area of nonlinear control for mechanical systems. as well as some of the necessary background, at an introductory level. A main distinction is made between rigid mechanical systems (modeled by ordinary differential equations) and flexible mechanical systems (modeled by partial differential equations).
By Marcia S. de Queiroz, Darren M. Dawson, Siddharth P. Nagarkatti, and Fumin Zhang