Provides complete coverage of both the Lyapunov and Input-Output stability theories, ina readable, concise manner.

* Supplies an introduction to the popular backstepping approach to nonlinear control design

* Gives a thorough discussion of the concept of input-to-state stability

* Includes a discussion of the fundamentals of feedback linearization and related results.

* Details complete coverage of the fundamentals of dissipative system's theory and its application in the so-called L2gain control prooblem, for the first time in an introductory level textbook.

* Contains a thorough discussion of nonlinear observers, a very important problem, not commonly encountered in textbooksat this level.

*An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.