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At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that engineers working with modern control systems required. Among its many accolades, that first edition was cited by t
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Written by Behal (U. of Florida, US), Dixon (U. of Florida, US), Dawson (Clemson U., US) and Xian (Tianjin U., China), this work describes frameworks for setting up nonlinear control design problems p
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