Advances in the Control of Nonlinear Systems

Flat systems, equivalence and feedback.- Flat systems: open problems, infinite dimensional extension, symmetries and catalog.- Fundamentals of nonlinear quantitative feedback theory.- to discrete event systems.- Petri nets models of timed discrete event plants.- Modelling and analysis of hybrid dynamical systems.- On modelling and control of mass balance systems.- Network modelling of physical systems: a geometric approach.- Energy shaping control revisited.- Geometric modeling of mechanical systems for interactive control.