Emergent Problems in Nonlinear Systems and Control [electronic resource] / edited by Bijoy K. Ghosh, Clyde F. Martin, Yishao Zhou.

Type II Diabetes and Obesity: A Control Theoretic Model -- Dynamic Network Modeling of Diurnal Genes in Cyanobacteria -- On Stability of Limit Cycles of a Prototype Problem of Piecewise Linear Systems -- On the Existence and Uniqueness of Minimum Time Optimal Trajectory for a Micro Air Vehicle under Wind Conditions -- A Precise Formulation and Solution of the Drag Racer and Hot Rodder Problems -- An Information Space View of “Time”: From Clocks to Open-Loop Control -- Control System Design for the Capsubot -- On the Topology of Liapunov Functions for Dissipative Periodic Processes -- Global Controllability of Switched Affine Systems -- Control and Observation of the Matrix Riccati Differential Equation -- Nonlinear Locally Lipschitz Output Regulation in Presence of Non-hyperbolic Zero-Dynamics -- On the Observability of Nonlinear and Switched Systems -- Feedback Stabilization of Solitons and Phonons Using the Controlled Lax Form -- Global Asymptotic Controllability of Polynomial Switched Systems and Their Switching Laws -- Semi-global Output Feedback Stabilization of a Class of Non-uniformly Observable and Non-smoothly Stabilizable Systems.

Papers in this collection partly represent the set of talks that were presented at Texas Tech University on the occasion of Daya’s memorial workshop in the year 2007. Daya had a varied interest in the field of Dynamics and Control Theory and the papers bring out the essence of his involvement in these activities. He also had a large number of collaborators and this collection represent a good fraction of them. The papers included here cover his interest in control theory. Also included are papers from application areas that we believe are of strong interest to him.