Zhengtao Ding is a Senior Lecturer in Control Engineering and Director for MSc in Advanced Control and Systems Engineering at the Control Systems Centre, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, UK. His research interests focus on nonlinear and adaptive control design. He pioneered research in asymptotic rejection of general periodic disturbances in nonlinear systems and produced a series of results to systematically solve this problem in various situations. He also made significant contributions in output regulation and adaptive control of nonlinear systems with some more recent results on observer design and output feedback control as well. Dr Ding has been teaching Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Systems to MSc students for 9 years, and he has accumulated tremendous experiences in explaining difficult control concepts to students.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to nonlinear and adaptive systemsChapter 2: State space modelsChapter 3: Describing functionsChapter 4: Stability theoryChapter 5: Advanced stability theoryChapter 6: Feedback linearisationChapter 7: Adaptive control of linear systemsChapter 8: Nonlinear observer designChapter 9: Backstepping designChapter 10: Disturbance rejection and output regulationChapter 11: Control applications