<p>Part I. Power Systems<br>1. Active Load Reduction in Large Scale Wind Turbines using Non-linear Quadratic Disturbance Observer<br>2. Observer-Based Controller of Analytical Complex Systems- Application for a Large Scale Power System<br>3. Robust Control for Wind Turbines using Sliding Modes based Compensation<br>4. Meta Heuristic Optimized control strategies for Hybrid DC- AC systems<br>5. Distributed Nonlinear Control of Microgrids</p> <p>Part II. Robotics and Mechatronics<br>6. Finite Time Observer Design for Nonholonomic Systems<br>7. Robust Observer-based Stabilization for Constrained Robots with Force and Parameter Estimation: Application to the ABB-IRB 140 Industrial Robot<br>8. Design of a Composite Control in Two-time Scale using Disturbance State Observer based SMC and Backstepping Control of a Two-link Flexible Manipulator<br>9. Robust Observer-based Control of the Inverted Pendulum System Subject to Communication Delays</p> <p>Part III. Flight and Automotive dynamics<br>10. A class of Nonlinear Unknown Input Observers under L2-gain performance for Fault Diagnosis: Application to the Mars Sample Return mission<br>11. A Class of Reduced-order Multiple Observers with Applications to Aircraft Landing<br>12. Disturbance Observer-Based Control of Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics Subject to Perturbations and Underactuation<br>13. Actuator or/and Sensor Fault Detection Based on LPV Unknown Input Observer Applied to Lateral Vehicle Dynamics</p> <p>Part IV. Bio-Industry<br>14. Observer-Based Trajectory Tracking for an Anaerobic Digestion Process by Using New LMI Method</p>