Inhaltsangabe1 Introduction 1 1.1 Definition of nonlinear systems 1 1.2 Nonlinear systems dynamics analysis and control 1 1.3 Why operator-based nonlinear control system? 2 1.4 An overview of the book 2 1.5 Acknowledgments 3 2 Robust right coprime factorization for nonlinear plants with uncertainties 5 2.1 Preliminaries 5 2.2 Operator theory 11 3 Robust stability of operator-based nonlinear control systems 27 3.1 Concept of operator based robust stability 27 3.2 Design methods of nonlinear systems with uncertainties 27 3.3 Operatorbased robust antiwindup nonlinear feedback control systems design 38 3.4 Operatorbased multiinput and multioutput(MIMO) nonlinear feedback control systems design 58 3.5 Operatorbased timevarying delayed nonlinear feedback control systems design 110 4 Tracking issues and fault detection issues in nonlinear control systems 121 4.1 Operatorbased tracking compensator in nonlinear feedback control systems design 121 4.2 Robust control for nonlinear systems with unknown perturbations using simplified robust right co-prime factorization 128 4.3 Operatorbased actuator fault detection methods 146 4.4 Operatorbased input command fault detection method in nonlinear feedback control systems 159 5 Operator based nonlinear control systems with smart actuators 177 5.1 Operatorbased robust nonlinear feedback control systems design for nonsymmetric backlash 177 5.2 Operatorbased robust nonlinear feedback control systems design for symmetric and nonsymmetric hysteresis 190 5.3 Operatorbased nonlinear feedback systems application for smart actuators 203 6 Nonlinear feedback control to large scale systems using a distributed control system (DCS) device 247 6.1 Introduction 247 6.2 Multitank process modelling 249 6.3 Robust right coprime factorization design and controller realization254 6.4 Experimental results 260 6.5 Summary 264 References 267