Selected Topics on Constrained and Nonlinear Control: Textbook

This textbook was created within the NIL-I-007-d Project “Enhancing NOSK Cooperation in Automatic Control” (ECAC) carried out in 2009-2011 by university teams from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava and from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. As it is already given by the project title, its primary aim was enhancing cooperation in academic research in the automatic control area in the partner institutions. This was achieved by supporting broad spectrum of activities ranging from student mobilities at the MSc. and PhD. level, staff mobilities, organization of multilateral workshop and conferences, joint development of teaching materials and publishing scientific publications. With respect to the original project proposal, the period for carrying out the foreseen activities was reasonably shortened and that made management of the all work much more demanding. Despite of this, the project has reached practically all planned outputs – this textbook represents one of them – and we believe that it really contributes to the enhancement of Slovak-Norwegian cooperation and to improvement of the educational framework at both participating universities. Thereby, I would like to thank all colleagues participating in the project activities at both participating universities and especially professor Sigurd Skogestad, coordinator of activities at the NTNU Trondheim, associate professor Katar´ina ?Z´akov´a for managing the project activities, and professor Miroslav Fikar for the patient and voluminous work with collecting all contribution and compilation of all main three project publications (textbook, workbook, and workshop preprints).