The presence of constraints in a dynamical system makes its feedback control challenging. Most notably, input constraints usually prevent the inversion of the system dynamics. This thesis is concerned with the design of control laws that steer to the origin the state of two classes of constrained dynamical systems (namely nonlinear systems in feedforward form and linear systems with amplitude and/or rate limited input). The considered constraints impose a gain limitation at the inputs, so that the classical approach to stabilize such systems is to use so-called low-gain designs. Those have the advantage of producing large regions of attraction but have the drawbacks of resulting in feedback systems presenting poor performance and a lack of ...