Books by Marco Ariola

A complete treatment of work to resolve the problems of position, current, and shapecontrol of plasma in tokamaktype (toroidal) devices as a potential means of energy production by nuclear fusion, the second edition details modelling and control and lists the steps for the derivation of plasma statespace models, moving on to the control problem.

Finite-time stability (FTS) is a more practical concept than classical Lyapunov stability, useful for checking whether the state trajectories of a system remain within pre-specified bounds over a finite time interval.