Nonlinear Control Systems II

10. Stability of Interconnected Nonlinear Systems.- 10.1 Preliminaries.- 10.2 Asymptotic Stability and Small Perturbations.- 10.3 Asymptotic Stability of Cascade-Connected Systems.- 10.4 Input-to-State Stability.- 10.5 Input-to-State Stability of Cascade-Connected Systems.- 10.6 The “Small-Gain” Theorem for Input-to-State Stable Systems.- 10.7 Dissipative Systems.- 10.8 Stability of Interconnected Dissipative Systems.- 10.9 Dissipative Linear Systems.- 11. Feedback Design for Robust Global Stability.- 11.1 Preliminaries.- 11.2 Stabilization via Partial State Feedback: a Special Case.- 11.3 Stabilization via Output Feedback: a Special Case.- 11.4 Stabilization of Systems in Lower Triangular Form.- 11.5 Design for Multi-Input Systems.- 12. Feedback Design for Robust Semiglobal Stability.- 12.1 Achieving Semiglobal and Practical Stability.- 12.2 Semiglobal Stabilization via Partial State Feedback.- 12.3 A Proof of Theorem 9.6.2.- 12.4 Stabilization of Minimum-Phase Systems in Lower-Triangular Form.- 12.5 Stabilization via Output Feedback Without a Separation Principle.- 12.6 Stabilization via Output Feedback of Non-Minimum-Phase Systems.- 12.7 Examples.- 13. Disturbance Attenuation.- 13.1 Robust Stability via Disturbance Attenuation.- 13.2 The Case of Linear Systems.- 13.3 Disturbance Attenuation.- 13.4 Almost Disturbance Decoupling.- 13.5 An Estimate of the Minimal Level of Disturbance Attenuation.- 13.6L2-gain Design for Linear Systems.- 13.7 GlobalL2-gain Design for a Class of Nonlinear Systems.- 14. Stabilization Using Small Inputs.- 14.1 Achieving Global Stability via Small Inputs.- 14.2 Stabilization of Systems in Upper Triangular Form.- 14.3 Stabilization Using Saturation Functions.- 14.4 Applications and Extensions.- Bibliographical Notes.- References.