Recent advancements in Lyapunov-based design and analysis techniques
have applications to a broad class of engineering systems, including
mechanical, electrical, robotic, aerospace, and underactuated systems.
This book provides a practical yet rigorous development of nonlinear,
Lyapunov-based tools and their use in the solution of control- theoretic
problems; includes a wide range of applications, motivating examples,
and new design techniques making it suitable for an extensive audience
of graduate students, professional engineers, and researchers in control
systems, robotics, and applied mathematics.