Alberto Isidori, Professor
Universita
di
Roma
"La Sapienza", Diparti.mento di Informatica e Sistemistica,
Via Eudossiana 18,00184 Rome, Italy
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Editors
E.D.
Sontag •
M.
Thoma
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1-85233-188-7 Springer-Verlag London Berlin Heidelberg
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Isidori,
A.
Nonlinear control systems
2.-
(Communications
and
control
engineering)
...-(.Nonlinear control theory
LTitle
629.8'36
1SBN185233 1887
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