Techniques for Mechatronic Systems such as Electric Machinery, Robotic Manipulator Systems, Overhead Cranes, Rapid Isothermal Processing of Electronic Materials, Magnetic Bearings, and Mechanical Friction, Boundary Control of Distributed Parameter Systems such as Paper Handling and Textile Machines, Flexible Beams/Robots/Rotors, and Cable Structures, iii) Robust and Adaptive Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems, Partial State Feedback and Output Feedback Control Techniques and Realtime Hardware and Software Systems for Control Implementation.