🚀 go-pugleaf

dsimon@atlas.nafb.trw.com writes:

> Hi.  What are some good, inexpensive ( <= $50 ) books on nonlinear
> control?  Hopefully something like a textbook, with examples and
> problems.

I think the best nonlinear control text available is Nijmeijer and van
der Schaft's _Nonlinear Dynamical Control Systems_ (Springer-Verlag,
1990).  This book is at the senior or first year graduate level, and
develops various differential geometric tools as required.  (One main
gripe: for fifty bucks you think Springer could have typeset this book!)

For an undergraduate level textbook, see Slotine and Li's _Applied
Nonlinear Control_ (Prentice Hall, 1991).  This book works entirely in
R^n (you must decide if this is a strength or weakness), and contains
some interesting examples.

Steven Smith