Analysis and design of nonlinear control systems : in honor of Alberto Isidori

System Analysis.- Smooth Distributions Are Globally Finitely Spanned.- Uniformly Universal Inputs.- System Interconnection.- Reduced Order Modeling of Nonlinear Control Systems.- Optimization Methods.- Nonholonomic Trajectory Optimization and the Existence of Twisted Matrix Logarithms.- The Hamilton-Jacobi Type Equations for Nonlinear Target Control and Their Approximation.- Causal Coding of Markov Sources with Continuous Alphabets.- Pseudospectral Optimal Control and Its Convergence Theorems.- Feedback Design.- Event Based Control.- Zero Dynamics and Tracking Performance Limits in Nonlinear Feedback Systems.- A Nonlinear Model for Combustion Instability: Analysis and Quenching of the Oscillations.- Convexification of the Range-Only Station Keeping Problem.- Control of Hydraulic Devices, an Internal Model Approach.- Hybrid Zero Dynamics of Planar Bipedal Walking.- Regulation.- Hybrid Systems: Limit Sets and Zero Dynamics with a View Toward Output Regulation.- Essential and Redundant Internal Models in Nonlinear Output Regulation.- Two Global Regulators for Systems with Measurable Nonlinearities and Unknown Sinusoidal Disturbances.- A Taxonomy for Time-Varying Immersions in Periodic Internal-Model Control.- Paving the Way Towards the Control of Wireless Telecommunication Networks.- Nonlinear Synchronization of Coupled Oscillators: The Polynomial Case.- Geometric Methods.- Disturbance Decoupling for Open Quantum Systems: Quantum Internal Model Principle.- Controller and Observer Normal Forms in Discrete-Time.- A Geometric Approach to Dynamic Feedback Linearization.- Asymptotic Analysis.- The Steady-State Response of a Nonlinear Control System, Lyapunov Stable Attractors, and Forced Oscillations.- Model Reduction by Moment Matching for Linear and Nonlinear Systems.- Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems with Unknown Parameters by Output Feedback: A Non-Identifier-Based Method.- Hybrid Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems with Quantization Noise and Large Delays.