Dear Colleagues,

Despite linear simplifications, real industrial systems are generally non-linear and often very complex. The research should remain based in reality and must cope with existing challenges. The analysis of nonlinear systems seeks discover their properties, while the design of an appropriate control strategy enables practitioners to take care over the process. Therefore, efficient nonlinear control should take into account various nonlinear aspects, such as modelling, control system design, stability analysis, and its assessment and sustainability. In fact, any industrial system is additionally subject to unknown uncertainties, but is always impacted by different kinds of disturbances. These unknown environments are often complex and have strange properties. Their analysis gives insight into the process, enabling better understanding and allowing proper control strategy selection. As this subject is broad, the research should be focused.

The nonlinear nature of the industrial real-time processes requires analysis with novel ideas of fractional calculus, entropy, divergence or multi-fractality, and causality analysis, among others. In this Special Issue of Applied Sciences, we want to address these state-of-the-art nonlinear analysis and control issues, with the main focus being on their industrial background and realizations using limited assumptions and model-free approaches. In this Special Issue, we will publish both original and review scientific articles, as well as short communications.

Prof. Dr. Pawel D. Domański
Prof. Dr. Ewa Pawłuszewicz
Guest Editors

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• non-Gaussianity
• fractional calculus
• geometric methods in nonlinear control
• realization of control systems
• stability and stabilizability
• fat and heavy tails
• persistence analysis
• fractality and multi-fractality
• causality analysis
• oscillation detection and propagation
• transfer entropy