Extended versions of awarded contributions of the International Conference on Systems, Analysis and Automatic Control, Barcelona 2014. Among the topics are: Adaptive Control, Predictive Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, System Identification, Expert and Knowledge Based Systems, Nonlinear Systems, Human-Machine Systems, Intelligent User Interface, Human-Machine Design and Evaluation, Learning Control, Uncertain Systems, Supervision.

This book presents essential studies and applications in the context of sliding mode control, highlighting the latest findings from interdisciplinary theoretical studies, ranging from computational algorithm development to representative applications. Readers will learn how to easily tailor the techniques to accommodate their ad hoc applications.

To make the content as accessible as possible, the book employs a clear route in each paper, moving from background to motivation, to quantitative development (equations), and lastly to case studies/illustrations/tutorials (simulations,...