For a first course on nonlinear control that can be taught in one semester This book emerges from the award winning book Nonlinear Systems but has a distinctly different mission and organization While Nonlinear Systems was intended as a reference and a text on nonlinear system analysis and its application to control this streamlined book is intended as a text for a first course on nonlinear control In Nonlinear Control author Hassan K Khalil employs a writing style that is intended to make the book accessible to a wider audience without compromising the rigor of the presentation For a first course on nonlinear control that can be taught in one semester This book emerges from the award-winning book, Nonlinear Systems, but has a distinctly different mission and organization. While Nonlinear Systems was intended as a reference and a text on nonlinear system analysis and its application to control, ...this streamlined book is intended as a text for a first course on nonlinear control. In Nonlinear Control, author Hassan K. Khalil employs a writing style that is intended to make the book accessible to a wider audience without compromising the rigor of the presentation.