Switched Finite Time Control of a Class of Underactuated Systems (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

This book resents a switched finite time control philosophy to stabilize a class of underactuated systems. Beginning with basic definitions and mathematical preliminaries, the monograph works its way up to the main control algorithm. Three well-studied applications are chosen to demonstrate the algorithm. Other facets of the algorithm and an alternate algorithm are also briefly touched upon.