From the reviews: This book presents a comprehensive introduction to theory and design techniques for nonlinear control systems, with an emphasis on the geometric approach. The book is intended to serve as a reference for control scientists and control engineers, as well as Ph.D. students majoring in automation and related fields, such as operational research, management, and communications. (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 30, December, 2010) This book is intended to provide readers … a complete and up-to-date presentation of the geometric approach to nonlinear control systems and its design techniques. Particular attention is given to new topics, new results, and new design techniques. … An effort has been made to make the concepts understandable for engineers or readers not specializing in mathematics; for instance, new concepts are defined initially in local coordinates and later for general topological spaces or manifolds, elementary proofs are presented and some proofs have been simplified.

(Anna Maria Perdon, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 f).