This monograph couples output regulation with several recent developments in modern control theory. It re-examines output regulation theory to achieve a design of controllers that take into account the physical limiting characteristics of actuators such as saturation. The book provides a solution to the basic problem of finding a controller that achieves internal stabilization, results in a desired performance norm, and renders asymptotic tracking of a reference signal even in the presence of persistent disturbances.

1. Introduction - 2. Classical Exact Regulation - 3. Well-posedness and Structural Stability: Continuous-time Systems - 4. Well-posedness and Structural Stability: Discrete-time Systems - 5. Performance with Output Regulation Constraint - 6. Output Regulation with H2 Optimal Control Constraint: Continuous-time Systems - 7. Output Regulation with H2 Optimal Control Constraint: Discrete-time Systems - 8. Output Regulation with H Optimal Control Constraint: Continuous-time Systems - 9. Output Regulation with H Optimal Control Constraint: Discrete-time Systems - 10. Regulation under Saturating Actuators: Continuous-time Systems - 11. Regulation under Saturating Actuators: Discrete-time Systems - 12. Regulation in the Presence of Amplitude and Rate Saturating Actuators: Continuous-time Systems - 13. Regulation in the Presence of Amplitude and Rate Saturating Actuators: Discrete-time Systems - 14. Generalized Exact Regulation: Continuous-time Systems - 15. Generalized Exact Regulation: Discrete-time Systems - 16. Generalized Regulation under Saturating Actuators: Continuous-time Systems - 17. Generalized Regulation under Saturating Actuators: Discrete-time Systems - 18. Continuous-time Regulation with Performance - 19. Discrete-time Regulation with Performance - 20. Review of Disturbance Decoupling - 21. Review of Almost Disturbance Decoupling.