**Meet the editor**

Andrzej Bartoszewicz received M.Sc. degree in 1987 and Ph.D. degree in 1993, both from Technical University of Łódź, Poland. Then he obtained the degree of Assistant Professor in control engineering and robotics from Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow, Poland. He was visiting scholar at Purdue University, West Lafayette, In., USA and at Strathclyde University, Glasgow,

UK. Then for one year he was at the University of Leicester, UK. Currently he is Professor at Technical University of Łódź, vice dean of Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering, head of Electric Drive and Industrial Automation Group and vice-director of Institute of Automatic Control. He has published three monographs and over 250 papers, primarily in the fields of sliding mode control and congestion control in data transmission networks.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Robust Control in Aircraft,** 

Chapter 2 **Advanced Control Techniques** 

Chapter 1 **Sliding Mode Approach to Control** 

**Vehicle and Automotive Applications 1** 

**Quadrotor Using Dynamic Inversion 3**  Abhijit Das, Frank L. Lewis and Kamesh Subbarao

Gianfranco Morani, Giovanni Cuciniello, Federico Corraro and Adolfo Sollazzo

Chapter 3 **Fault Tolerant Depth Control of the MARES AUV 49**  Bruno Ferreira, Aníbal Matos and Nuno Cruz

Chapter 4 **Robust Control Design for Automotive Applications: A Variable Structure Control Approach 73** 

**for Vibration Reduction of Passenger's Body 93** 

**of Longitudinal Vehicle Advanced ACC Systems 113** 

**to the Robust Vibration Control of Structures 149** 

Benedikt Alt and Ferdinand Svaricek

Takuma Suzuki and Masaki Takahashi

Yang Bin, Keqiang Li and Nenglian Feng

**and Electro-Mechanical Systems 147** 

Chapter 6 **Modelling and Nonlinear Robust Control** 

**Part 2 Control of Structures, Mechanical** 

Chapter 7 **A Decentralized and Spatial Approach** 

Alysson F. Mazoni, Alberto L. Serpa and Eurípedes G. de O. Nóbrega

Chapter 5 **Robust Active Suspension Control** 

**for the Transonic Phase of a Re-Entry Flight 25** 
