RobustNonlinear Control SystemDesign: An Overview

Thispapepresents abrief tutoral overview of someofrecent advances inthefield ofrobust control system design methodologies foruncertain nonlinear plants. This overview islimited toafewrepresenItatve techniques related tothepapers pesented inthis conference'. Thispaper discusses thestability robustness issues that arerelevant tocontrol of uncertain nonlinear systems andsometypical methodologies based onstability thories, extensions of robust linear control system design metxologies and "rbust" kowledgebaed conmtrl systems.