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Every physical actuator is subject to saturation. For this reason, the original formulations of many fundamental control problems, including controllability and time optimal control, all reflect the constraints imposed by actuator saturation. Control problems that involve hard nonlinearities such as actuator saturation, however, turned out to be difficult to deal with. As a result, even though there have been continual efforts in addressing actuator saturation (see [4] for a chronological bibliography on this subject), its effect has been ignored in most of the modern control literature
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Hu, T., Lin, Z. (2001). Introduction. In: Control Systems with Actuator Saturation. Control Engineering. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0205-9_1
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