Chapter 1: Input-Output Stability.- Chapter 2: Small-Gain and Passivity of Input-Output Maps.- Chapter 3: Dissipative Systems Theory.- Chapter 4: Passivity.- Chapter 5: Passivity by Feedback.- Chapter 6: Port-Hamiltonian Systems.- Chapter 7: Port-Hamiltonian Network Dynamics.- Chapter 8: L2-Gain and the Small Gain Theorem.- Chapter 9: Factorizations of Nonlinear Systems.- Chapter 10: Nonlinear H-infinity Control.-Chapter 11: Hamilton-Jacobi Inequalities.
About the Author: A.J. (Arjan) van der Schaft (1955) received the undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, in 1979 and 1983, respectively. In 1982 he joined the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, Enschede, where he was appointed as a full professor in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory in 2000. In September 2005 he returned to Groningen as a full professor in Mathematics.
He has served as Associate Editor for Systems & Control Letters, Journal of Nonlinear Science, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and the European Journal of Control. Currently he is on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Geometric Mechanics and Annual Reviews in Control.
Arjan van der Schaft is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He was Invited Lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, Spain, 2006. He is the 2013 recipient of the 3-yearly awarded Certificate of Excellent Achievements} of the IFAC Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems.
Arjan van der Schaft is (co-)author of the following other books: System Theoretic Descriptions of Physical Systems (1984), Variational and Hamiltonian Control Systems (1987, with P.E. Crouch), Nonlinear Dynamical Control Systems (1990, with H. Nijmeijer), An Introduction to Hybrid Dynamical Systems (2000, with J.M. Schumacher), Modeling and Control of Complex Physical Systems: the Port-Hamiltonian Approach( Geoplex Consortium, 2009), and Port-Hamiltonian Systems Theory: An Introductory Overview (2014, with D. Jeltsema). He (co-)edited five conference proceedings.
He (co-)authored around 125 journal articles and 265 refereed contributions to proceedings or book chapters.
