Professor Francesco Bullo - Books and Lecture Notes

Each title links to its own page, with the free downloads.

Books

Contraction Theory for Dynamical Systems

Contraction Theory for Dynamical Systems
Francesco Bullo
Edition 1.3, January 2026, 293 pages and 113 exercises
Kindle Direct Publishing, ISBN 979-8836646806
Book and slides: free download

Lectures on Network Systems

Lectures on Network Systems
Francesco Bullo
Edition 1.7, April 2024, 376 pages and 190 exercises
Kindle Direct Publishing, ISBN 978-1-986425-64-3
Book and slides: free download

Distributed Control of Robotic Networks

Distributed Control of Robotic Networks
Francesco Bullo, Jorge Cortés and Sonia Martínez
Applied Mathematics Series, Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 0691141959
Free download

Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems

Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems
Francesco Bullo and Andrew D. Lewis
Volume 49 of Texts in Applied Mathematics, Springer, 2004, ISBN 0-387-22195-6
Free downloads: chapter 1, supplementary chapters and Mathematica packages

Lecture notes

Lectures on Dynamical Systems

Lectures on Dynamical Systems
Francesco Bullo
Version 1.0b, October 2026
Lecture notes for the UCSB course ME 103 Dynamical Systems
Notes in textbook and slide format: free download

Lectures on Neural Dynamics

Lectures on Neural Dynamics
Francesco Bullo
Latest version January 2026
Free download

Lectures on Robotic Planning and Kinematics

Lectures on Robotic Planning and Kinematics
Francesco Bullo and Stephen L. Smith
Version 0.94, July 2025
Free download