New results on practical stability for linear and nonlinear uncertain systems

The problem of practical finite-time stability for linear and nonlinear systems subject to disturbances and parametric uncertainties together with an effective and efficient robust control has been, since the earliest Fifties, one of the most studied research topic and nowadays remains actual and significant. In this book a new and more general approach to these important matters is proposed. New useful results on robust practical stability and stabilization for linear and nonlinear uncertain continuous and also discrete systems, simple to be applied, generally little conservative, valid for a quite general class of systems with relevant interest to engineers, are stated and illustrated with numerous significant examples, highlighting also the superiority of the presented methods over some reliable results available in literature. The relevance of the results provided in this book lies in their utility to solve numerous practical analysis and synthesis problems (e.g. the robust tracking of generic reference signals).