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"The development of computer software for nonlinear control systems has provided many benefits for teaching, research, and the development of control systems design. MATLAB is considered the dominant software platforms for linear and nonlinear control systems analysis.

This book provides an easy way to learn nonlinear control systems such as feedback linearization technique and sliding mode control (Structure Variable Control) which are one of the most used techniques in nonlinear control dynamical systems. Teachers, students and researchers can all benefit from such nonlinear controllers, especially for more complicated systems such as induction motor, satellite, and vehicles dynamical models. This book is an excellent resource for learning the principle of feedback linearization and sliding mode techniques in an easy and simple way:

Provides a brief description of the feedback linearization and slidingmode control strategiesIncludes a simple method on how to determine the right and appropriate controller (P-PI-PID) for feedback linearization control strategyA Symbolic MATLAB Based function for finding the feedback linearization and sliding mode controllers are developed and tested using several examples.A simple method for finding the approximate sliding mode controller parameters is introducedWhere the program used to construct the nonlinear controller uses symbolic computations, the user should provide the program with the necessary functions f(x), g(x) and h(x) using the symbolic library."

Author: Mourad Boufadene