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Incorporating recent advancements in the field, this book showcases the strengths of the proposed framework by tackling key theoretical challenges in safety-critical control across multiple benchmark systems. It further highlights the real-world impact of the developed methods and algorithms through practical applications involving vehicles, quadrotors, and robotic manipulators. 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