This book will sell because it gives new insights into two staple control problems – the rotary aircraft and the VTOL fixed wing aircraft. The author’s reputation in non-linear control will also raise sales.

Rogelio Lozano has worked in worked at a number of institutions with a high reputation for control engineering – the University of Newcastle in Australia, Nasa’s Langley Research Center and now as CNRS Research Director at the University of Compiègne. He is a very experienced author in the control field being an associate editor of both Automatica and International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. He is the co-author of 3 previous titles for Springer all of them in the Communications and Control Engineering series:

Landau, I.D., Lozano, R. and M’Saad, M. Adaptive Control (1997) 3-540-76187-X

Lozano, R., Brogliato, B., Egeland, O. and Maschke, B. Dissipative Systems Analysis and Control (1999) 1-85233-285-9

Fantoni, I. and Lozano, R. Non-linear Control for Underactuated Mechanical Systems (2001) 1-85233-423-1