Textbook reference for lectures 1-13 is

 

Applied Nonlinear Control, Slotine and Li, Prentice-Hall 1991

 

Main references for lectures 14-20 are

 

R1    Lohmiller, W., and Slotine, J.J.E., "On Contraction Analysis for Nonlinear Systems," Automatica, 34(6), 1998

 

R2    Slotine, J.J.E., "Modular Stability Tools for Distributed Computation and Control," Int. J. Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 17(6), 2003

 

R3    Wang, W., and Slotine, J.J.E., "On Partial Contraction Analysis for Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators," Biological Cybernetics, 92(1), 2005

 

R4    Pham, Q.C., and Slotine, J.J.E., "Stable Concurrent Synchronization in Dynamic System Networks," Neural Networks, 20(1), 2007

 

R5    Tabareau, N., Slotine, J.J.E., and Pham, Q.C., "How Synchronization Protects from Noise," PLoS Computational Biology 6(1), 2010

 

R6     Slotine, J.J.E., and Coetsee, J.A., "Adaptive Sliding Controller Synthesis for Nonlinear Systems," Int. J. Control, 43(4), 1986

 

R7      Sanner, R., and Slotine, J.J.E., "Gaussian Networks for Direct Adaptive Control," I.E.E.E. Trans. Neural Networks, 3(6), 1992