Carefully edited book celebrating the 65th birthday of Alberto Isidori

Has a celebrative flavour, and at the same time contain reference material for researchers interested in nonlinear control theory, and in particular in its mathematical foundations

Of technical nature building upon the contributions and ideas of Alberto Isidori prolific research career

Includes supplementary material: [...]

System Analysis.- Smooth Distributions Are Globally Finitely Spanned.- Uniformly Universal Inputs.- System Interconnection.- Reduced Order Modeling of Nonlinear Control Systems.- Optimization Methods.- Nonholonomic Trajectory Optimization and the Existence of Twisted Matrix Logarithms.- The Hamilton-Jacobi Type Equations for Nonlinear Target Control and Their Approximation.- Causal Coding of Markov Sources with Continuous Alphabets.- Pseudospectral Optimal Control and Its Convergence Theorems.- Feedback Design.- Event Based Control.- Zero Dynamics and Tracking Performance Limits in Nonlinear Feedback Systems.- A Nonlinear Model for Combustion Instability: Analysis and Quenching of the Oscillations.- Convexification of the Range-Only Station Keeping Problem.- Control of Hydraulic Devices, an Internal Model Approach.- Hybrid Zero Dynamics of Planar Bipedal Walking.- Regulation.- Hybrid Systems: Limit Sets and Zero Dynamics with a View Toward Output Regulation.- Essential and Redundant Internal Models in Nonlinear Output Regulation.- Two Global Regulators for Systems with Measurable Nonlinearities and Unknown Sinusoidal Disturbances.- A Taxonomy for Time-Varying Immersions in Periodic Internal-Model Control.- Paving the Way Towards the Control of Wireless Telecommunication Networks.- Nonlinear Synchronization of Coupled Oscillators: The Polynomial Case.- Geometric Methods.- Disturbance Decoupling for Open Quantum Systems: Quantum Internal Model Principle.- Controller and Observer Normal Forms in Discrete-Time.- A Geometric Approach to Dynamic Feedback Linearization.- Asymptotic Analysis.- The Steady-State Response of a Nonlinear Control System, Lyapunov Stable Attractors, and Forced Oscillations.- Model Reduction by Moment Matching for Linear and Nonlinear Systems.- Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Parameters by Output Feedback: A Non-Identifier-Based Method.- Hybrid Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems with Quantization Noise and Large Delays.