Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. About the author XI
5. List of Figures XIII
6. Part I: Introduction and motivation
7. 1 Motivation and problem formulation 3
8. Part II: Theoretical foundations
9. 2 Stability, dissipativity and some system-theoretic concepts 17
10. 3 Dissipativity-based observer and feedback control design 55
11. Part III: Application examples
12. Introduction 87
13. 4 Finite-dimensional systems 89
14. 5 Infinite-dimensional systems 120
15. 6 Conclusions and outlook 169
16. A Lemmata on quadratic forms 171
17. B Kalman decomposition for observer design 175
18. C The algebraic Riccati equation, optimality and dissipativity 191
19. D Kernel derivations for the backstepping approach 195
20. Bibliography 217
21. Index 227