LOCAL STABILIZABILITY
                  OF NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS

                       by Andrea Bacciotti
                 (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

This  new  book aims to present the stabilizability  problem  for 
nonlinear  systems  in a well organized  and  detailed  way:  the 
problem,  its motivation,  features and results.  Control systems 
defined  by  ODE's  are  dealt with.  Many  worked  examples  are 
included. The main focus is on the mathematical aspects, but some 
important applications are also described. 

The  contents  includes:  a  sketch of  the  linear  theory,  the 
linearization  method,  relationship between controllability  and 
stabilizability,  certain  versions  of  the   Liapunov  function 
approach,  local approximation techniques, the critical cases and 
the center manifold method,   cascade systems,  bilinear systems, 
homogeneous systems, low dimensional systems.