Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Geometric Tools for Time Delay Systems.- Chapter 3. The Geometric Framework - Results on Integrability.- Chapter 4. Accessibility of Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems.- Chapter 5. On the Geometric Interpretation of the Polynomial Lie Bracket.- Chapter 6. Observability.- Chapter 7. Characterization of the Chain Form with Delays.- Chapter 8. Applications of Integrability.- Chapter 9. Control of Single-Input Time Delay Systems.

Claudia Califano is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza. In 1998, she received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Rome la Sapienza. She held a post-doctoral position at the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, CNRS-Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette, before returning to the University of Rome la Sapienza as an Assistant Professor in 2000. She has held several positions as Visiting Professor in particular at Ecole Centrale de Nantes and Polytechnique Nantes. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications, including journal articles, conference papers and two chapters in books. She is a senior member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, a member of the IEEE CSS Technical Committee Nonlinear Systems and Control and the IFAC Technical Committee Nonlinear Control Systems, and an Associate Editor for the IMA Mathematical Control and Information Journal.Claude Moog gained his M.Sc. in Automatic Control from the University of Franche-Comté and his Ph.D. from the University of Nantes, in 1978 and 1981, respectively. After an Assistant Professor position at Ecole Centrale de Lyon, he entered as a full-time researcher at CNRS in 1983. He was awarded the title of IEEE Fellow in 2007 and Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2011. He has published over 90 journal articles, over 150 international conference papers and 4 books. He is a member of several international committees and has acted as an Associate Editor of multiple journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.