Piecewise-smooth Dynamical Systems

From the reviews: "This book is undoubtedly a strong contribution to the field of bifurcation and chaos analysis and more generally to the field of nonsmooth dynamical systems analysis. The authors have made a remarkable effort in mixing intricate technical developments with numerous examples, numerical results, and experimental results." IEEE Control Systems Magazine "PSDS presents a valuable compendium of information about the bifurcations of different types of piecewise-smooth systems, but it stops short of completely specifying the mathematical context within which the bifurcation phenomena it discusses are generic. That leaves lots of interesting work to do in studying piecewise-smooth dynamical systems. PSDS is an excellent starting point where one can find extensive analysis of diverse examples." SIAM Book Reviews "This book treats dynamical systems that have a piecewise smooth right-hand-side. ... Graphical sketches are abundant, supporting the presentation of the essential ideas behind arguments and techniques. Overall, the level of presentation makes the book useful as a source of theoretical background knowledge for researchers and postgraduate students in engineering and applied mathematics. It is also suitable as a reference for undergraduate projects or advanced undergraduate reading groups." (Jan Sieber, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1146, 2008) "The book ... providing motivation by showing a variety of applications and new phenomena. ... This book offers a very good survey of the rapidly developing area of the dynamics of non-smooth systems ... . the authors succeed in building up a systematic framework which is based on relevant applications. ... This is a book rich in content and an excellent introduction to this new area. The book is configured as a compiled introduction for graduate students and researchers interested in this area." (Tassilo Kupper, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2009 i)

• Qualitative theory of non-smooth dynamical systems.- Border-collision in piecewise-linear continuous maps.- Bifurcations in general piecewise-smooth maps.- Boundary equilibrium bifurcations in flows.- Limit cycle bifurcations in impacting systems.- Limit cycle bifurcations in piecewise-smooth flows.- Sliding bifurcations in Filippov systems.- Further applications and extensions.