From eletter@win.tue.nl Thu Jun 1 19:23:13 1995 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 18:14:35 +0200 To: eletter@win.tue.nl Subject: E-letter 82 E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing ISSUE No. 82, June 1, 1995 E-mail: eletter-request@win.tue.nl Editors: Anton A. Stoorvogel Dept. of Mathematics & Computing Science Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven the Netherlands Fax +31-40-465995 Siep Weiland Dept. of Electrical Engineering Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven the Netherlands Fax +31-40-434582 Contents 1. Editorial 2. Personals 3. General announcements 3.1 Call for nomination George Polya prize 3.2 New web server Systems analysis lab., Helsinki 3.3 SCAD Update 3.4 New LMI control toolbox for Matlab 4. Positions 4.1 Assistant professor EE dept. Northwestern university, Evanston 4.2 Postdoc position real time control systems, Pittsburgh 4.3 NSF graduate research assistantships, Un. of Texas, Arlington 4.4 Postdoc research associate, Duke university, Durham 4.5 Scholarships for doctoral studies, Bremen 5. Books 5.1 `Feedback control problems using Matlab and the control system tooolbox,' D.K. Frederick and J.H. Chow 5.2 `Linear stochastic control systems,' Chen, Chen and Hsu 5.3 `Nonlinear and adaptive control design,' Krstic 5.4 Ph.D. thesis J. Shoberg 5.5 ` Robust and optimal control,' K. Zhou, J.C. Doyle, and K . Glover 6. Journals 6.1 CFP Special issue of mechanical systems and signal processing 6.2 TOC SIAM J. control and optimization, vol.33:4 6.3 TOC Circuits, systems and signal processing, vol.14:3 6.4 TOC LAA volumes 220, 221 and 222 6.5 TOC Automatica, vol.31:6 7. Conferences 7.1 Information ACC 1995 7.2 Workshop control of semiconductor manufactoring processes, Seattle 7.4 2nd Intl.symp. on methods and models in automation and robotics Miedzyzdroje. 7.5 CFP 8th IEEE workshop SSAP-1996, Corfu. 7.6 CFP Chinese control conference, Huangshau. 7.7 Workshop on intelligent control: hybrid and exterior diff. systems, Bozeman 7.8 Conf. communication, computing, control and signal processing, Stanford 7.9 Portugese control conference, Porto 7.10 1995 Int. conference on image processing, Washington, D.C. ****************************************** * * * Editorial * * * ****************************************** Welcome to E-letter number 82 !!! We plan to send out the E-letter monthly. The next issue of E-letter will appear July 1. Please send contributions before this date. We encourage contributors to provide essential information only and reserve the right to require contributors to cut certain parts of their contribution. 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The award honors the memory of George Polya and will be given for a notable application of combinatorial theory. Eligibility ----------- There are no restrictions except that the prize is broadly intended to recognize specific work. Description of the Award ------------------------ The award will consist of an engraved medal and a $20,000 cash prize. Nominations ----------- A letter of nomination, including a description of the achievement(s), should be sent by July 1, 1995, to: Dr. Paul Seymour Chair, Polya Prize Selection Committee Bell Communications Research 435 South Street Morristown, NJ 07960 Supporting letters, or names of knowledgeable persons from whom such letters might be solicited, are also welcome. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Raimo P. Hamalainen Systems Analysis Laboratory Joins the Web The homepages of the Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, are now open at http://www.hut.fi/HUT/Systems.Analysis/ You are welcome to have a look at our research and to download our DSS software (INPRE for the interval AHP, ComPAIRS for the PAIRS method, and a demo of HIPRE 3+) for educational use in universities. We provide links to other interesting web resources in the systems analysis area. We also host the homepages of the International Society of Dynamic Games (http://www.hut.fi/HUT/Systems.Analysis/isdg), where you can find copies of past issues of the Society's newsletters. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Raimund J. Ober Xu Huang UPDATE ON SCAD DATABASE -- May 1995 ******************************************************************************* #### #### ## ##### # # # # # # # #### # # # # # # # ###### # # # # # # # # # # #### #### # # ##### Systems and Control Archive at Dallas gopher: gopher.utdallas.edu ftp address: ftp.utdallas.edu IP number: 129.110.10.14 Worldwide web: URL: http://www.utdallas.edu/research/scad queries (email): scad@utdallas.edu ****************************************************************************** New contents: ============= eletters: ========= Number 81 Links to systems and control groups: =================================== The following new links have been added: Denmark: Aalborg University, Department of Control Engineering. Italy: LAD-SEB, Padua, Systems Theory Group. The Netherlands: Eindhoven University of Technology, Systems and Control Group, Department of Mathematics. Wageningen Agricultural University, Systems and Control Group, Department of Agricultural Engineering and Physics. United Kingdom: UMIST, Control Systems Centre. USA: Georgia Institute of Technology, Aerospace controls group. University of Tennessee, Maintenance Technology Laboratory, Nuclear Engineering Department, College of Engineering. NEW ACTIVITY !!!!!!!!!!!: ========================= SCAD ADDRESS LIST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A few days ago we have started an address list for systems and control people. We hope that this list will be of use to many SCAD users. So far we already have quite a few addresses. But to become a really useful tool we would like to encourage as many people as possible to register their address in SCAD. To register, simply: - go to the ADDRESS LIST link - click: add your address - fill in the form. You can check out addresses by using the search facility or by scanning through the full list. !!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE, Add your Address to the SCAD ADDRESS LIST !!!!!!!!!!! ********************************************************************** How to access scad: =================== 1.) Using gopher: Type gopher -p 1/research/scad gopher.utdallas.edu or gopher gopher.utdallas.edu Select `UT-Dallas Research' and then `Systems and Control Archive at Dallas' 2.) Using ftp: ftp ftp.utdallas.edu Then cd /pub/scad 3.) Using Worldwide Web: URL: http://www.utdallas.edu/research/scad More detailed instructions can be obtained by sending an email to scad@utdallas.edu After accessing SCAD you can find a README file which contains more information about SCAD. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: P. Gahinet (gahinet@tbird.inria.fr) LMI Control Toolbox --------------------- We are pleased to announce the mid-June release of the LMI Control Toolbox for use with MATLAB. This toolbox is an easy gateway to the fast-growing field of LMI optimization and LMI-based control. It contains: * a user-friendly environment to specify and solve general LMI optimization problems (the LMI Lab) * a collection of specialized tools for the analysis and design of control systems via LMI techniques. The LMI Lab is the core feature of the LMI Control Toolbox. It is flexible, fully programmable, and provides specialized solvers for the three generic LMI optimization problems. Thanks to a GUI called the LMI Editor, LMI constraints can be specified directly as symbolic matrix expressions with structured matrix variables. For instance, a Lyapunov inequality is entered as A'*X+X*A+Q < 0 after declaring X as a symmetric matrix variables. The LMI Lab uses a structured representation of such LMIs where only A and Q are stored. This structure-aware approach minimizes storage requirements and boosts the efficiency of the LMI solvers. The control-oriented tools cover state-of-the-art applications of LMI techniques to robust control. These include tools for * robust stability/performance analysis, using either mu-analysis, quadratic stability, parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions, or the Popov criterion * multi-model/multi-objective state-feedback synthesis with a combination of LQG and H-infinity performance and regional pole placement constraints * Riccati- and LMI-based H-infinity synthesis (with automatic regularization of singular problems in Riccati-based synthesis) * multi-objective output-feedback synthesis (mixed H2/Hinf synthesis with regional pole placement) * loop shaping design (including a GUI to specify the shaping filters) * design of robust gain-scheduled controllers for linear parameter-varying systems. The user's manual is complete with an introduction to LMIs, details on the LMI formulation of the various control applications, numerous examples, and four demos. The LMI Control Toolbox will be on display at the MATLAB booth at the '95 ACC. P. Gahinet - A. Nemirovski - A. Laub - M. Chilali ****************************************** * * * Positions * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Abraham Haddad Assistant Professor Position Open at Northwestern University The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University has one tenure track faculty position at the assistant professor level in the area of control systems for the academic year 1995-96 starting September 1995. The candidate will be part of an active control group involving five department at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. The group started a research project in collaboration with General Motors and supported by a grant from the GM Foundation. Northwestern University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action educator and employer. Applications from women and minorities are especially encouraged. Employment verification required upon hire. Applicants should have attained a doctoral degree in electrical engineering or a closely related field by the starting date of the appointment. Candidates must have strong research and teaching capabilities. Interested persons should send their resumes and the names and addresses of at least four references to: Professor A. H. Haddad, Chairman Department of EECS Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston, Illinois 60208-3118 (708) 491-3641 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Bruce Krogh (krogh@ece.cmu.edu) Post-Doctoral Position in Real-Time Control Systems The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, invite applications for a one-year post-doctoral position in the area of software architectures for highly-reliable real-time control systems. Duties include technology development and evaluation; experiment design and implementation; analysis of experimental data and writing technical reports and papers. This is a one year position which may be converted to a full-time member of the technical staff at the end of the appointment. Qualifications: Ph.D in control systems, robotics, manufacturing systems, or related areas; hands-on experience with real-time operating systems and design, implementation and testing of real time software experiments, modeling and analysis of physical dynamic systems, signal processing, filtering, failure detection, robust control, or distributed system required. Experience with applications in industrial process control, motion control systems, or micro-electronics manufacturing process is preferred. For more information contact (preferably by e-mail): Bruce H. Krogh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA e-mail: krogh@ece.cmu.edu phone: +1 412 268 2472 fax: +1 412 268 3890 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: F. Lewis NSF GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS AVAILABLE IN INTELLIGENT CONTROL AND ROBOTICS The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas 76019 Applications are invited for the National Science Foundation "Graduate Research Traineeship" Ph.D. Program at The University of Texas at Arlington. The GRT Program is in the area of Robotics and Intelligent Control, and provides a Fellowship stipend of $14,000/year, plus waiver of all tuition and fee expenses. Applicants must have a good GPA and be US citizens or permanent residents; women and minorities are especially invited to apply. Ph.D. degrees can be pursued in either Electrical Engineering or Computer Science Engineering. Ph.D. candidates may elect to perform research at UTA's Automation and Robotics Research Institute, whose facilities include an intelligent control lab, robotics labs, and manufacturing workcells. UTA is a full service university located in the heart of the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex, within easy reach of cultural events, museums, and entertainment and sports events. Please send your applications to Professor F. L. Lewis, Director of Advanced Controls, Automation and Robotics Research Institute, The University of Texas at Arlington, 7300 Jack Newell Blvd. S, Ft. Worth, Texas 76118-7115, tel. 817-794-5972, fax. 817-794-5952, email flewis@controls.uta.edu. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Dr. L.G. Bushnell (bushnell@aro-emh1.army.mil) POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP AVAILABLE Funded by the National Research Council Annual stipend: 42,000 - 44,000 Must be a US Citizen At Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Starting: January 1996 Application Deadline: August 15, 1995 Topic: Exterior Differential Systems, Nonholonomy, and Nonlinear Control New tools and techniques from nonlinear geometric control theory and exterior differential system are needed to further research the control of nonholonomic and nonlinear systems. Some specific research topics include (1) developing obstacle-avoidance path planning algorithms and interactive steering simulations to test out these algorithm; (2) stabilizing the system around the resulting trajectories and finding actual implementations that work well; (3) generating trajectories for systems with drift; (4) employing exterior differential systems techniques to develop nonlinear normal forms for use in control theory; (5) investigating how to convert to these normal forms by using feedback transformations and how to control systems in these normal forms. Various applications include the control of locomotion systems such as wheeled robotic vehicles, aircraft, swimming robots, and snake-like robots. Contact L.G. Bushnell at above email address for further information. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Luc Habets SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN (GERMANY) The Graduiertenkolleg "Complex Dynamical Systems" offers scholarships for Doctoral studies, starting on the 1st of August, to applicants with a strong degree in Mathematics or Physics. The scholarship amounts to DM 1400,- plus an allowance of DM 200,- with an additional amount for students who are married or have children. The scholarship is initially offered over a period of two years. The program is oriented on the research interests of the university staff who take part in the Graduiertenkolleg. They are: L. Arnold, A. Bunse-Gerstner, G. Czycholl, F. von Haeseler, W. Hiller, D. Hinrichsen, P. Lemke, H.-F. Muenzner, D.J. Olbers, H.-O. Peitgen, P.H. Richter, R. Schlitzer, G. Skordev. Research areas are: Fractal Geometry and Stucture Formation Nonlinear Physics Stochastic Systems Control Theory Climate Modelling and Simulation. Applications, including Resume, Degree Certificate, a copy of the Masters/Degree thesis and referees reports, should be submitted by 13.6.95 to the Director of the Graduiertenkolleg: Prof. Dr. Hans-Friedrich Muenzner Institute for Dynamical Systems Department of Mathematics University of Bremen P.O. Box 330 440 D - 28334 Bremen GERMANY For more information, please contact Prof. Muenzner by email at the following address: johanna@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de ****************************************** * * * Books * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Joe Chow, (chowj@rpi.edu) Feedback Control Problems Using MATLAB and The Control System Toolbox Dean K. Frederick and Joe H. Chow Bookware Companion Problems Book PWS Publishing Company ISBN 0-534-93798-5 Excerpts from Preface The purpose of this book is to reinforce the learning process for those who are studying the introductory aspects of control systems engineering by allowing them to use a digital computer to rapidly work a wide range of numerical problems. The book is built around illustrative examples that demonstrate the steps involved in the analysis and design process. The examples are followed by a variety of problems that consist of follow-up "what-if?" problems, textbook-type reinforcement problems, open-ended exploratory problems, and realistic comprehensive problems. To accomplish this objective, the book uses the power of MATLAB and the Control System Toolbox. This book and the accompanying software diskette will be a valuable supplement to any of the numerous textbooks that cover the introductory aspects of feedback control. The problems in this book are suitable for students taking a senior-level course on the analysis and design of continuous-time feedback control systems. In addition to classical control design methods based on transfer-function models, the book also covers state-space models and design methods. The material is organized like many of the introductory control system textbooks. The state-space modeling of systems is introduced early to emphasize its importance in modeling real-world problems. However, for those following a syllabus without any state-space modeling content, this material can be skipped without any loss of continuity. The book is also suitable as a refresher for students entering a graduate control system program. In addition, practicing engineers who already have the necessary control background can use the book to learn about MATLAB in a familiar context, and to learn about the Control System Toolbox for the computer-aided design of classical control systems at a level more advanced than the tutorial found in the Control System Toolbox user's manual. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Guanrong Chen NEW TEXT BOOK announcement (to be in the market by July 1995) Title: LINEAR STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS Author: Guanrong Chen (University of Houston) Goong Chen (Texas A&M University) Shih-Hsun Hsu (National Taiwan University) Publisher: CRC Press 2000 Corporate Blvd., N.W. Boca Raton, FL 33431-9868, U.S.A. Tel: 1-800-272-7737 or 407-994-0555 Fax: 1-800-374-3401 or 407-994-3625 Catalog No. 8075NHR; ISBN: 0-8493-8075-8 c. 464 pp. Approx. In US - $59.95; Outside US - $72.00. This textbook is essentially self-contained; the basic prerequisites are advanced calculus, elementary ordinary differential equations, and linear algebra. The book constitutes an outgrowth of the authors' instructional material that has been developed over a 5-year period from a course in statistical control systems design which the first author has taught at the University of Houston, and a period of 10 years from courses in stochastic control systems which the second author taught at Pennsylvania State University and Texas A&M University. Over the years of teaching, we have begun to feel a need and an urge to develop a textbook that fits the instructional demands and diversity of our own students, and is accessible to general audience. Our students have come from mixed backgrounds and their interests vary from engineering to physics, applied mathematics, economics and operations research. They are generally second year graduate or higher, who have taken advanced calculus and have been exposed to some elementary statistics and deterministic control theory. As instructors, we have tried to provide guidance for students on how best to study stochastic control systems in a modern context, supplying detailed derivations and rigorous proofs, and assisting them in developing a coherent mathematical theory. It is these endeavors and our firm commitment to providing students with a strong mathematical foundation that have resulted in this modest textbook, which we hope can serve for the same purpose in graduate schools and related discipline areas. A guided plan for using this book is provided at the beginning of the text. While mathematical rigor and coherence were our main concerns in the writing of the book, the real driving force is our desire to convey those aspects of modern stochastic control theory that have actually been put to use in practical engineering applications. Every chapter contains many examples and exercises. Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction (including: Text organization and reading suggestion) Chapter 2 Probability and Random Processes (including: Probability theory, stochastic processes and mean-square calculus) Chapter 3 Ito Integrals and Stochastic Differential Equations (including: Integrals of orthogonal increments processes, white noise and sample calculus, Ito and Stratonovich integrals, and solutions of scalar- and vector-valued linear stochastic differential equations) Chapter 4 Analysis of Discrete-Time Linear Stochastic Control Systems (including: Analysis of causal LTI stochastic control systems, controlled Markov chains, state space systems and ARMA models, and mathematical modeling with applications) Chapter 5 Optimal Estimation for Discrete-Time Linear Stochastic Systems (including: Optimal state estimation, Kalman Filtering, numerical examples, and various modified (extended) Kalman filtering) Chapter 6 Optimal Control of Discrete-Time Linear Stochastic Systems (including: Deterministic dynamic programming and LQG optimal control problems, stochastic dynamic programming and the separation principle, adaptive stochastic control, system parameter identification and system prediction of ARMA models) Chapter 7 Continuous-Time Linear Stochastic Control Systems (including: Analysis of continuous-time causal LTI systems, Markov diffusion processes, deterministic dynamic programming and LQ optimal control problems) Chapter 8 Optimal Control of Continuous-Time Linear Stochastic Systems (including: Continuous-time LQ stochastic control problem, stochastic dynamic programming, Kalman-Bucy filtering, optimal prediction and smoothing, and the separation principle) Chapter 9 Stability Analysis of Stochastic Differential Equations (including: Stability of deterministic and stochastic systems) Chapter 10 Appendix 10.1 Fundamental Real and Functional Analysis 10.2 Fundamental Matrix Theory and Vector Calculations 10.3 Martingales References/ Index *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: M. Krstic From John Wiley and Sons: NONLINEAR AND ADAPTIVE CONTROL DESIGN Miroslav Krstic Ioannis Kanellakopoulos Petar Kokotovic >>>>>>>>>> Wiley's back cover: <<<<<<<<<< An introduction to the new design for nonlinear control systems -- BACKSTEPPING -- written by its own architects. This innovative book breaks new ground in nonlinear and adaptive control design for systems with uncertainties. Introducing the recursive backstepping methodology, it shows -- for the first time -- how uncertain systems with severe nonlinearities can be successfully controlled with this new powerful design tool. Communicative and accessible at a level not usually present in research texts, "Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Design" can be used as either a stand-alone or a supplemental text in courses on nonlinear or adaptive control, as well as in control research and applications. It eases the reader into the subject matter, assum- ing only standard undergraduate knowledge of control theory, and provides a pedagogical presentation of the material, most of which is completely new and not available in other textbooks. Written by the creators of backstepping, the book: * Introduces the basic design tools and demonstrates their effec- tiveness through worked examples * Provides detailed proofs and application examples (active suspension, jet engine, induction motor, ...) * Develops adaptive backstepping, tuning functions, and modular designs with full state feedback * Generalizes the methodology to systems with output feedback * Describes the advantages of the new adaptive nonlinear tech- niques over traditional methods * Offers a systematic methodology for performance improvement * Provides new designs for linear systems which can be used in- dependently from the rest of the book * Is self-contained with an extensive summary of stability and passivity prerequisites * Includes sixty illustrations and tables with design algorithms Table of Contents: ------------------ CHAPTER 1 Introduction PART I STATE FEEDBACK CHAPTER 2 Design Tools for Stabilization CHAPTER 3 Adaptive Bacstepping Design CHAPTER 4 Tuning Functions Design CHAPTER 5 Modular Designs with Passive Identifiers CHAPTER 6 Modular Designs with Swapping Identifiers PART II OUTPUT FEEDBACK CHAPTER 7 Output-Feedback Design Tools CHAPTER 8 Tuning Functions Designs CHAPTER 9 Modular Designs CHAPTER 10 Linear Systems APPENDICES A Lyapunov Stability and Convergence B Input-Output Stability C Input-to-State Stability D Passivity E Parameter Projection F Nonlinear Swapping G Differential Geometric Conditions 563 pages, hardcover ISBN 0-471-12732-9 Examine FREE for 15 days! (USA only) Price: $69.95 Order from: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Attn: E. Covington 605 Third Avenue New York, NY 10158-0012 Or call: 800-US-WILEY (800-879-4539) Contact authors at: M. Krstic (UC Santa Barbara) miroslav@tesla.ece.ucsb.edu I. Kanellakopoulos (UCLA) ioannis@ee.ucla.edu P. Kokotovic (UC Santa Barbara) petar@ece.ucsb.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Jonas Sjoberg (sjoberg@isy.liu.se) PhD thesis available My PhD thesis with the title NON-LINEAR SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION WITH NEURAL NETWORKS is available by FTP or WWW. It contains 223 pages and it is stored as compressed postscript. (3.6 Mbyte uncompressed, 1.2 Mbyte compressed). Regards, Jonas Sjoberg Jonas Sjo"berg Dept. of El. Engineering University of Linkoping Telefax: +46-13-282622, or +46-13-139282 S-581 83 Linko"ping E-Mail: sjoberg@isy.liu.se Sweden Anonymous FTP: joakim.isy.liu.se or 130.236.24.1 directory: pub/Misc/NN/ file : PhDsjoberg.ps.Z WWW: file://joakim.isy.liu.se/pub/Misc/NN/ file : PhDsjoberg.ps. Abstract: This thesis addresses the non-linear system identification problem, and in particular, investigates the use of neural networks in system identification. An overview of different possible model structures is given in a common framework. A nonlinear structure is described as the concatenation of a map from the observed data to the regressor, and a map from the regressor to the output space. This divides the model structure selection problem into two problems with lower complexity: that of choosing the regressor and that of choosing the non-linear map. The possible choices for the regressors consists of past inputs and outputs, and filtered versions of them. The dynamics of the model depends on the choice of regressor, and families of different model structures are suggested based on analogies to linear black-box models. State-space models are also described within this common framework by a special choice of regressor. It is shown that state-space models which have no parameters in the state update function can be viewed as an input-output model preceded by a pre-filter. A parameterized state update function, on the other hand, can be seen as a data driven regressor selector. The second step of the non-linear identification is the mapping from the regressor to the output space. It is often advantageous to try some intermediate mappings between the linear and the general non-linear mapping. Such non-linear black-box mappings are discussed and motivated by considering different noise assumptions. The validation of a linear model should contain a test for non-linearities and it is shown that, in general, it is easy to detect non-linearities. This implies that it is not worth spending too much energy searching for optimal non-linear validation methods for a specific problem. Instead the validation method should be chosen so that it is easy to apply. Two such methods, based on polynomials and neural nets, are suggested. Further, two validation methods, the correlation-test and the parametric F-test, are investigated. It is shown that under certain conditions these methods coincide. Parameter estimates are usually based on criterion minimization. In connection with neural nets it has been noted that it is not always optimal to try to find the absolute minimum point of the criterion. Instead a better estimate can be obtained if the numerical search for the minimum is prematurely stopped. A formal connection between this stopped search and regularization is given. It is shown that the numerical minimization of the criterion can be view as a regularization term which is gradually turned to zero. This closely connects to, and explains, what is called overtraining in the neural net literature. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Kemin Zhou: kemin@gate.ee.lsu.edu Title: ROBUST AND OPTIMAL CONTROL Authors: Kemin Zhou with John C. Doyle and Keith Glover Publisher: Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1995 ISBN: 0-13-456567-3. 600+ pages title pages, table of contents, and highlights can be obtained by anonymous ftp: hot.caltech.edu /pub/kemin/ZDG/zdg0a.ps tofc.ps highlight.ps Table of Contents: Preface Notation and Symbols List of Acronyms Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Linear Algebra Chapter 3. Linear Dynamical Systems Chapter 4. Performance Specifications Chapter 5. Stability and Performance of Feedback Systems Chapter 6. Performance Limitations Chapter 7. Model Reduction by Balanced Truncation Chapter 8. Hankel Norm Approximation Chapter 9. Model Uncertainty and Robustness Chapter 10. Linear Fractional Transformation Chapter 11. Structured Singular Value Chapter 12. Parameterization of Stabilizing Controllers Chapter 13. Algebraic Riccati Equations Chapter 14. H_2 Optimal Control Chapter 15. Linear Quadratic Optimization Chapter 16. H_infinity Control: Simple Case Chapter 17. H_infinity Control: General Case Chapter 18. H_infinity Loop Shaping Chapter 19. Controller Order Reduction Chapter 20. Fixed Structure Controllers Chapter 21. Discrete Time Control Bibliography Index ****************************************** * * * Journals * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Peter Sherman CALL FOR PAPERS A Special Issue of Mechanical Systems & Signal Processing devoted to Rotating Machinery Rotating machinery represents perhaps the most important class of mechanical systems. The demands on this class of systems in recent years have increased at a significantly greater rate than the development and use of the advanced signal processing methodologies needed to accommodate them. The goal of this special issue is to provide a focussed forum for the discussion of the limit- ations of traditional signal processing tools and for presentation of advanced tools particularly appropriate for intra-cycle analysis of rotating machinery. The first, should focus on the limitations of signal processing methods that assume that signals are wide sense stationary random processes and that systems are time-invariant. For example, while these assumptions may be valid in certain settings, they are seldom verified prior to applying signal and system analysis tools which rely on them. Furthermore, in the case where signal records are collected synchronously with a top-dead-center pulse, it is almost certain that the underlying random processes are not wide sense stationary. The second type of paper should focus on advanced signal and system identification tools which relax the above assumptions. These might include methods for time-varying or time-periodic random processes and systems. Both types of papers should address the validity of the underlying assumptions pertaining to the tools to be studied, at least in part within the context of experimental measurements obtained from rotating machinery. Papers prepared following the MSSP Journal's Instructions to Authors should be submitted to: Professor Peter Sherman Department of Aerospace Engineering & Eng. Mechanics Black Engineering Bldg. Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011-3231 U.S.A. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: thomas@siam.org SIAM JOURNAL ON CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION JULY 1995 Volume 33, Number 4 CONTENTS Feedback Laws for Nonlinear Distributed Control Problems via Trotter-Type Product Formulae Catalin Popa Regularity Conditions for the Stability Margin Problem with Linear Dependent Perturbations Antonio Vicino and Alberto Tesi The H_infinity Problem for Infinite-Dimensional Semilinear Systems Viorel Barbu Relaxed Minimax Control E. N. Barron and R. Jensen Sensitivity Analysis in Nonlinear Programs and Variational Inequalities via Continuous Selections Jiming Liu A Result Concerning Controllability for the Navier-Stokes Equations E. Fernandez-Cara and M. Gonzalez-Burgos Smoothly Global Stabilizability by Dynamic Feedback and Generalizations of Artstein's Theorem John Tsinias A Mixed l_infinity/H_infinity Optimization Approach to Robust Controller Design Mario Sznaier Orders of Input/Output Differential Equations and State-Space Dimensions Yuan Wang and Eduardo D. Sontag Matrix Pairs in Two-Dimensional Systems: An Approach Based on Trace Series and Hankel Matrices Ettore Fornasini and Maria Elena Valcher Lyapunov-like Techniques for Stochastic Stability Patrick Florchinger On Feedback Equivalence of a Parameterized Family of Nonlinear Systems J.-B. Pomet and I. A. K. Kupka Necessary Conditions for Bilevel Dynamic Optimization Problems Jane J. Ye Using Persistent Excitation with Fixed Energy to Stabilize Adaptive Controllers and Obtain Hard Bounds for the Parameter Estimation Error Miloje S. Radenkovic and B. Erik Ydstie Identification of q(x) in u_t=delta u - qu from Boundary Observations Sergei Avdonin and Thomas I. Seidman Exact Observability of the Time-Varying Hyperbolic Equation with Finitely Many Moving Internal Observations A. Yu. Khapalov Rendezvous Search on the Line with Distinguishable Players Steve Alpern and Shmuel Gal Erratum: Observability and Observers for Nonlinear Systems J.-P. Gauthier and I. A. K. Kupka *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: A. H. Zemanian (zeman@sbee.sunysb.edu) Table of Contents for: CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING Vol. 14, No. 3, 1995 Pipelining and the unrestrained three-port wave filter adaptor at the bit level, B.G.Mertzios Stabilization of spectral methods for the analysis of singular systems using piecewise constant basis functions, Andrea Caiti and Giorgio Cannata Stochastic adaptive control of nonminimum phase systems in the presence of unmodelled dynamics, Miloje Radenkovic and Anthony N. Michel High-level synthesis: Current status and future prospects, H.D.Cheng and C.Xia The running time-frequency distributions, Moeness G. Amin Iterative minimization of quadratic functionals,\\ Irwin W. Sandberg *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Richard Brualdi LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS Contents Volume 220 Special Issue: Proceedings of the Workshop ``Nonnegative Matrices, Applications and Generalizations'' and the Eighth Haifa Matrix Theory Conference$L Richard A. Brualdi (Madison, Wisconsin) >From the Editor-in-Chief 1 Preface 7 Lars-Erik Andersson (Linkoping, Sweden), Gengzhe Chang (Hefei, Anhui, China), and Tommy Elfving (Linkoping, Sweden) Criteria for Copositive Matrices Using Simplices and Barycentric Coordinates 9 I. Baragana (San Sebastian, Spain) and I. Zaballa (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain) Block Similarity Invariants of Restrictions to (A, B)-Invariant Subspaces 31 Ilan Bar-On (Haifa, Israel) and Bruno Codenotti (Pisa, Italy) A Fast and Stable Parallel QR Algorithm for Symmetric Tridiagonal Matrices 63 Alberto Borobia (Madrid, Spain) (0, $X1$S2$T, 1) Matrices Which Are Extreme Points of the Generalized Transitive Tournament Polytope 97 Dragomir Z. D@B-okovic (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) Cosets of Centralizers in the General Linear Group Contain Regular Elements 111 B. Curtis Eaves (Stanford, California), Uriel G. Rothblum (Haifa, Israel), and Hans Schneider (Madison, Wisconsin) Perron-Frobenius Theory Over Real Closed Fields and Fractional Power Series Expansions 123 L. Elsner (Bielefeld, Germany) The Generalized Spectral-Radius Theorem: An Analytic-Geometric Proof 151 L. Elsner (Bielefeld, Germany) and S. Friedland (Chicago, Illinois) Singular Values, Doubly Stochastic Matrices, and Applications 161 Miroslav Fiedler (Prague, Czech Republic) Numerical Range of Matrices and Levinger's Theorem 171 Stephen J. Kirkland (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) and Michael Neumann (Storrs, Connecticut) Group Inverses of M-Matrices Associated With Nonnegative Matrices Having Few Eigenvalues 181 Mark Krupnik (Haifa, Israel) Geometric Multiplicities of Completions of Partial Triangular Matrices 215 George M. Lady (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Thomas J. Lundy (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), and John Maybee (Boulder, Colorado) Nearly Sign-Nonsingular Matrices 229 P. Lancaster (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) and L. Rodman (Williamsburg, Virginia) Minimal Symmetric Factorizations of Symmetric Real and Complex Rational Matrix Functions 249 Yu. Lyubich (Haifa, Israel) Perron-Frobenius Theory for Finite-Dimensional Spaces With a Hyperbolic Cone 283 Rosa Amelia Martins (Aveiro, Portugal) and Joao Filipe Queiro (Coimbra, Portugal) Spectral Inequalities for Generalized Rayleigh Quotients 311 J. J. McDonald (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada), M. Neumann (Storrs, Connecticut), H. Schneider (Madison, Wisconsin), and M. J. Tsatsomeros (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) Inverse M-Matrix Inequalities and Generalized Ultrametric Matrices 321 J. P. Milaszeqicz (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Comparison Theorems for Monotone Newton-Fourier Iterations and Applications in Functional Elimination 343 B. Mond (Bundoora, Victoria, Australia) and J. E. Pecaric (Zagreb, Croatia) Reverse Forms of a Convex Matrix Inequality 359 Reinhard Nabben (Bielefeld, Germany) and Richard S. Varga (Kent, Ohio) Generalized Ultrametric Matrices-a Class of Inverse M-Matrices 365 Ronald J. Stern and J. J. Ye (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Variational Analysis of an Extended Eigenvalue Problem 391 Robert C. Thompson (Santa Barbara, California) Root Spreads for Polynomials and Hermitian Matrix Pencils 419 Referees, Volumes 201-220 435 Author Index, Volumes 201-220 441 LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS Contents Volume 221 Charles Kenney (Santa Barbara, California) and Gary Hewer (China Lake, California) Trace Norm Bounds for Stable Lyapunov Operators 1 Jie-Tai Yu (Notre Dame, Indiana) On Relations Between Jacobians and Minimal Polynomials 19 Werner Kratz (Ulm, Germany) Characterization of Strong Observability and Construction of an Observer 31 H. Narayanan (Bombay, India) A Rounding Technique for the Polymatroid Membership Problem 41 M. Niezgoda and Z. Otachel (Lublin, Poland) Differentiable Transformations Preserving a Cone Preordering 59 Philip A. Knight (Glasgow, United Kingdom) Fast Rectangular Matrix Multiplication and QR Decomposition 69 Carl H. FitzGerald (La Jolla, California), Charles A. Micchelli (Yorktown Heights, New York), and Allan Pinkus (Haifa, Israel) Functions That Preserve Families of Positive Semidefinite Matrices 83 Li Jiong-Sheng (Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China) Eigenvalues of Oriented-Graph Matrices 103 Andrew J. Lazarus (Berkeley, California) Eigenvectors of Circulant Matrices of Prime Dimension 111 Li Luoluo (Guangzhou, People's Republic of China) Sufficient Conditions for the Solvability of an Algebraic Inverse Eigenvalue Program 117 Shao Jia-yu (Shanghai, People's Republic of China) On the Largest kth Eigenvalues of Trees 131 Zhi-Hao Cao (Shanghai, People's Republic of China) On Convergence of Nested Stationary Iterative Methods 159 LeRoy B. Beasley (Logan, Utah), Stephen J. Kirkland (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada), and Bryan L. Shader (Laramie, Wyoming) Rank Comparisons 171 J. M. Pena (Zaragoza, Spain) M-Matrices Whose Inverses Are Totally Positive 189 Steve Kirkland (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) and Robert E. Hartwig (Raleigh, North Carolina) A Convexity Result for Complex Numbers With Applications to Nonnegative Normal Matrices 195 S. Jondrup (Copenhagen, Denmark) Automorphisms and Derivations of Upper Triangular Matrix Rings 205 Juan M. Gracia and Francisco E. Velasco (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain) Stability of Invariant Subspaces of Regular Matrix Pencils 219 R. D. Grigorieff and R. Plato (Berlin, Germany) On a Minimax Equality for Seminorms 227 Kazuo Toraichi (Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan) and Masaru Kamada (Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan) Knot Positions for the Smoothest Periodic Quadratic Spline Interpolation of Equispaced Data 245 George Labahn (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), Bernhard Beckermann (Villeneuve d Ascq, France), and Stan Cabay (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) Inversion of Mosaic Hankel Matrices via Matrix Polynomial Systems 253 Author Index 281 LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS Contents Volume 222 Bryan E. Cain (Ames, Iowa), Roger A. Horn (Salt Lake City, Utah), and Li Luoluo (Guangzhou, People's Republic of China) Inequalities for Monotonic Arrangements of Eigenvalues 1 Joel Franklin (Pasadena, California) Least-Squares Solution of Equations of Motion Under Inconsistent Constraints 9 Leo Livshitz (Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada) A Note on 0-1 Schur Multipliers 15 Haesun Park (Minneapolis, Minnesota) and Sabine Van Huffel (Heverlee, Belgium) Two-Way Bidiagonalization Scheme for Downdating the Singular-Value Decomposition 23 Xiao-jun Wu, Jia-yu Shao, Zhi-ming Jiang, and Xi-zhao Zhou (Shanghai, China) On the Exponents of Primitive, Ministrong Digraphs With Shortest Elementary Circuit Length s 41 Yang Shangjun (Hefei, Anhui, China) and Zhang Ronghua (Dali, Yunnan, China) Green's Relations in the Matrix Semigroup Mn (S) 63 R. A. Cuninghame-Green and P. Butkovic (Birmingham, United Kingdom) Extremal Eigenproblem for Bivalent Matrices 77 Seok-Zun Song (Cheju, Republic of Korea) A Conjecture on Permanents 91 James Lee Hafner (San Jose, California) Explicit and Asymptotic Formulas for LDMt Factorization of Banded Toeplitz Matrices 97 Hong-guo Xu (Shanghai, People's Republic of China) and Lin-zhang Lu (Xiamen, Fujian, People's Republic of China) Properties of a Quadratic Matrix Equation and the Solution of the Continuous-Time Algebraic Riccati Equation 127 Mau-hsiang Shih and Jinn-wen Wu (Chung-Li, Taiwan) Two Results on the Spectral Radius of a Complex Matrix, With Application to Instability 147 Yuri Bolshakov (Yaroslavl, Russia) and Boris Reichstein (Washington, D.C.) Unitary Equivalence in an Indefinite Scalar Product: An Analogue of Singular-Value Decomposition 155 Luz M. DeAlba (Des Moines, Iowa) and Charles R. Johnson (Williamsburg, Virginia) Possible Inertia Combinations in the Stein and Lyapunov Equations 227 Jaroslav Kautsky and Radka Turcajova (Adelaide, Australia) Pollen Product Factorization and Construction of Higher Multiplicity Wavelets 241 Kazuo Murota (Kyoto, Japan) An Identity for Bipartite Matching and Symmetric Determinant 261 Author Index 275 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Huibert Kwakernaak AUTOMATICA Table of contents June, 1995 Issue 31:6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regular Papers L. Qiu, B. Bernhardsson, A. A formula for computation of the real Rantzer, et al. stability radius R. A. DeCarlo Output feedback variable structure control design J. D. Boskovic, K. S. Comparison of linear, nonlinear and neural Narendra network-based adaptive controllers for a class of fed-batch fermentation processes Q. F. Wei, W. P. Dayawansa, Nonlinear controller for an inverted pendulum W. S. Levine having restricted travel C. C. Chung, J. Hauser Nonlinear control of a swinging pendulum J.A. Rossiter, B. Feasibility and stability results for Kouvaritakis, J.R. Gossner constrained stable generalized predictive control Brief Papers Chih-Yuan Chen, Ming-Hwei Quantitative robust performance design with Perng minimal cost of feedback M. E. Bonilla, M. Malabre Geometric minimization under external equivalence for implicit descriptions Young Man Cho, T. Kailath Fast subspace-based system identification: An instrumental variable approach P. Misra, P. van Dooren, V. Pole-zero representation of descriptor Syrmos systems Technical Communiques F. Rezayat On the use of SPSA-based model-free controller in quality improvement Han Ho Choi, Myung Jin Chung Memoryless H-infinity controller design for linear systems with delayed state and control T. Mori, H. Kokame Comments on "On the stability of discrete- time linear interval systems" Book Reviews P. Nedoma K. Ogata: Solving control engineering problems with MATLAB J. Fidler R. Bulirsch, D. Kraft: Computational optimal control ****************************************** * * * Conferences * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Glenn Masada (masada@mail.utexas.edu) 1995 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE June 21-23, 1995 The Westin Hotel Seattle, Washington, USA The 1995 American Control Conference will have over 1000 technical papers presented to reflect the rapid growth and strong interest in the field of control engineering. The program features strong representation in applications areas such as aerospace, robotics and process control and in theoretical areas such as estimation, robust control and artificial intelligence. Plenary speakers are Dr. E. Stear of the Boeing Company, Professor K. Poolla of the University of California at Berkeley, and Dr. I.D. Landau of G.R. Automatique. The conference will be preceded by seven tutorial workships which will be held on June 19 and 20. The December, 1994 issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine has detailed descriptions of these workshops. There will be a number of social events, luncheons and receptions. Detailed information can be found in the February and April, 1995 issues of IEEE Control Systems Magazine or by accesssing the World Wide Web at: http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/~ahaddad/aacc.html For any other information, please contact the General Chair, Masayoshi Tomizuka Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Phone: (510) 642-0870 email: tomizuka@euler.berkeley.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Bruce H. Krogh CONTROL OF SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING PROCESSES Tutorial Pre-Conference Workshop -- June 20, 1995 American Control Conference Seattle, Washington Organizers: Pramod Khargonekar & Bruce H. Krogh Univ. of Michigan Carnegie Mellon Univ. Additional Presenters: Tom Edgar Kameshwar Poolla Chuck Schaper Univ. of Texas Univ. of California Stanford Univ. ****** Workshop Schedule ******** Morning (8:30-12:00) Background 8:30-9:15 Overview of Semiconductor Manufacturing Systems (Krogh) 9:15-9:45 Current Practice (Krogh) 9:45-10:30 Sensors and actuators (Khargonekar) 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45-11:30 Process modeling and system identification (Khargonekar) 11:30-12:00 Control system implementation issues (Krogh) 12:00-13:30 Lunch break Afternoon (13:30-17:00) Current research - Case Studies 13:30-14:10 Control for Advanced Semiconductor Device Manufacturing: A Case History (Schaper) 14:10-14:50 Semiconductor manufacturing process control research projects at Berkeley (Poolla) 14:50-15:05 Break 15:05-15:45 Sensors, Modeling and Control of Reactive Ion Etching (Khargonekar) 15:45-16:25 Model-based Control of Rapid Thermal Processing (Edgar) 16:30-17:00 Future Research Directions (Open discussion with presenters) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Ewaryst Rafajlowicz The 2nd International Symposium on METHODS AND MODELS IN AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS August 30 - September 2, 1995 Miedzyzdroje, Poland Organized by: Institute of Control Engineering, Technical University of Szczecin, Poland Sponsored by: Polish Academy of Sciences: - Committee of Automation and Robotics - Committee of Metrology and Instrumentation - Commission of Cybernetics, Poznan Branch Scope: The objective of the Symposium is to bring together scientists and engineers to discuss recent developments in the area of mathematical methods, modelling, simulation and identification in automation and robotics. This Symposium is the second event in a series which started in 1994 with the name MATHEMATICAL MODELS IN AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS. Programme Overview: PLENARY SESSIONS: Some aspects of Recursive Least Squares and Self-Tuning A. Niederlinski (PL) Automata and languages T. Puchalka and P. Siwak (PL) Mechatronic Approach to Robotic Modelling. Software Engineering Perspective O. Ravn (DK) and M. Szymkat (PL) INVITED SESSIONS: Infinite-dimensional systems Organized by H. Zwart (NL) Semigroup Criteria of Admissibility P. Grabowski (PL) and F. Callier (B) Optimal Control for Time-Varying Infinite Dimensional Systems B. Jacob (D) Mathematical Control Theory for Problems Arizing in the Models of Smart Structures I. Lasiecka (USA) Boundary Control of PDE's M. Pedersen (DK) A Comparison Between Approximate and Behavioural Controllability for Delay-Differential Systems P. Rocha (P) Interpolation Theory for Control of Infinite-Dimensional Systems H. Zwart (NL) Singular 2-D systems Organized by T. Kaczorek (PL) Infinite Dimensional Singular 2-D Systems J. Klamka (PL) Approximation of Digital Model for Continuous Linear 2-D System J. Kurek (PL) Pass Reachability of the Linear Discrete Repetitive Processes K. Galkowski (PL), E. Rogers and D. Owens (UK) Generating Functions: A New Method for the Computation of 2-Dimensional Transition Matrices N. E. Mastorakis (G) N-dimensional Sampling As a Tool for Nonlinear Neurocontrol A. Dzielinski (PL) Two-Point Boundary Problem for 2-D Continuous-Discrete Linear Systems T. Kaczorek (PL) A Method for Determining n-Dimensional Parameter Tolerance Area for Optimal Start Controller of Induction Motors T. Niewierowicz (PL) Recent developments in robotics Organized by K. Kozlowski (PL) Design of a man-machine interface in teleoperation: a real-virtual approach F. Chavand (F) Dynamic identification and control of robotics manipulator M. Gautier (F) Robot motion planning with path space iteration D. Popa and J. Wen (USA) New concepts for mobile robot idoor navigation F. M. Wahl (D) Motion space analysis and trajectory planning for dual-arm system W. Szynkiewicz and A. Gosiewski (PL) Avoidable and unavoidable kinematic singularities of robotic manipulators K. Tchon (PL) Features of robot drive system and their influence on dynamicd and control of the arm E. Jezierski (PL) Hybrid evolutionary approach to control of intelligent arm W. Jacak (A) REGULAR SESSIONS on: Distributed parameter systems (7 papers) Stability and robust control systems (9 papers) 2-D systems (7 papers) Optimization methods (9 papers) Predictive and adaptive control (10 papers) Components and instrumentation in control engineering (7 papers) Operational, switching and discrete processes (10 papers) Neural networks and learning systems (11 papers) Neural networks and fuzzy logic applications (10 papers) Identification methods and algorithms (10 papers) Pattern recognition, diagnostics and fault detection (7 papers) Robot design and control (11 papers) Robot modelling and simulation (14 papers) Systems modelling and simulation I (10 papers) Systems modelling and simulation II (9 papers) Information for participants: The Symposium will be held in Miedzyzdroje, a well-known Baltic seaside resort of North-Western Poland. The Meeting will take place at the Slavia Hotel close to the Wolin National Park. The Hotel can accommodate all participants at reasonable prices (180-280 ECU). During the Symposium tourist trips are planned to points in the Miedzyzdroje area and a cruise to the Bornholm Island. The registration fee of the Symposium covering the costs of Symposium Proceedings, ferry trip to the Bornholm Island and banquet is 150 ECU. NOTICE After the Symposium a free coach transport to Berlin airports will be provided for participants of the European Control Conference in Rome. For more information contact: Prof. Z. Emirsajlow - Chairman of the Organizing Committee Prof. S. Banka - Secretary of the IPC Phone: (+48 91) 49 47 04, 49 47 37 Fax: (+48 91) 34 09 32 E-mail: emirsaj@uoo.univ.szczecin.pl banka@we.tuniv.szczecin.pl *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Ananthram Swami 8th IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING WORKSHOP on STATISTICAL SIGNAL AND ARRAY PROCESSING June 24-26, 1996 The Corfu Hilton, Corfu, GREECE ----------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------- This workshop is the eighth in a series of biannual meetings sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Following the successful scheme of previous meetings, the workshop will feature keynote addresses by leading researchers in the area, and poster sessions consisting of both invited as well as contributed papers. Participation will be limited. Authors are invited to submit contributions in the areas of, but not limited to: * Power spectrum analysis %: parametric and non-parametric * Higher-order spectra in signal processing * Detection and estimation theory * Sensor array processing * Performance analysis % Statistical signal analysis * Nonlinear and chaotic signals and systems * Non-stationary processes: Time-frequency and time-scale representations; evolutionary spectra * Cyclo-stationary signal analysis * Signal processing for communications * Computational and implementation issues * Applications in all areas Prospective authors should submit four copies of a hundred word abstract and a two to four page extended summary to G.B. Giannakis (see below). The summary should include affiliations, addresses, tel/fax numbers and e-mail addresses, and keywords identifying one of the above topics. IMPORTANT DATES: December 1, 1995 ........ Submission of extended summary February 1, 1996 ........ Notification of acceptance March 15, 1996 ........ Camera-ready paper For updated information, check out the Workshop's home page: http://watt.seas.virginia.edu/~spirit/ssap96/ You can reach us by e-mail at: ssap96@spirit.ee.virginia.edu Organizers and Co-Chairs ------------------------ Georgios B. Giannakis Ananthram Swami Dept. of Electrical Engineering Malgudi Systems University of Virginia 1046 Redondo Blvd Charlottesville, VA 22903-2442, USA Los Angeles, CA 90019-6701, USA Fax: (804) 924-8818 Fax: (213) 931-0914 e-mail: georgios@virginia.edu e-mail: a.swami@ieee.org European Liaison Austral-Asian Liaison ---------------- --------------------- Mats Viberg Yujiro Inouye Chalmers Inst. of Tech. Osaka University Sweden Japan Local Arrangements ------------------ Nicholas Kalouptsidis, Univ. of Athens, Greece Maria Rangoussi, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece e-mail: maria@theseas.ntua.gr Publications ------------ Brian Sadler, Army Research Lab, USA Publicity --------- Guotong Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Treasurer --------- Michail Tsatsanis, University of Virginia, USA *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Jane Ye (janeye@sol.uvic.ca) Call for papers Chinese Control Conference, Otc.15-20, 1995, Huangshan, Anhui, China General topics of interest will include, but are not limited to: Linear systems Nonlinear systems Stochastic control systems Expert systems Distributed parameter systems Large scale systems Social economy systems Bio-environment systems Optimal control Robust control H infinity control Prediction control Fuzzy control Neural network control Intelligent control Robot control Adaptive control Industrial control Model reduction Stability analysis Optimization methods Modelling and system identification DEDS CIMS Key dates: March 31, 1995 Submission deadline May 10, 1995 Notification of acceptance June 30, 1995 Submission of camera-ready copy Oct.15-20,1995 Conference at Huangshan, Anhui Submission and enquiries: Dr. Jifeng Zhang Institute of Systems Science Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100080, P.R. China Tel: (861)2579540 Fax: (861)2568364 Email: jif@iss03.iss.ac.cn *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Shankar Sastry and Linda Bushnell ARO-NASA Montana State University Workshop on Intelligent Control: Hybrid and Exterior Differential Systems July 24 - July 29 1995 Bozeman, Montana This workshop focuses on intelligent control. It is a continuation of a set of workshops sponsored jointly by ARO and NASA; the first was at MIT in October 1993, the second at Cornell in October 1994. This year, the focus is on two apparently disparate topics: hybrid control and exterior differential systems. The first topic is an area of great current interest featuring the use of new formal techniques for the analysis of systems which have a mixture of continuous and discrete event parts. These techniques are frequently used in the control of complex, hierarchically-organized control systems. The use of exterior differential systems is a new way of unifying path planning and control for complex systems at the lowest or "regulation" layers. This workshop will feature the use of methods from exterior differential systems, differential geometry, game theory, automata for the control of complex, hierarchical control systems, nonholonomic systems, systems with substantial nonlinearity in their dynamics and systems on Lie groups. A partial list of topics to be covered include: linearization by state feedback, nonholonomic systems, variational problems and exterior differential systems, nonlinear normal forms and rolling, splines on Lie groups, linearization by dynamic state feedback, path planning using generalized splines, nonlinear maneuvering: connections with flat systems. We invite researchers and students to both participate and speak at the workshop. Some travel and other support will be available. The following is a partial list of people who have committed to speak thus far: Andrzej Banaszuk (Ga Tech), Robert Bryant (Duke), Linda Bushnell (ARO), Peter Caines (McGill), Robert Gardner (UNC), John Hauser (Colorado), Robert Hermann (Boston U), L.R. Hunt (Dallas), Lucas Hsu (Princeton), Naomi Leonard (Princeton), Petar Kokotovic (UC Santa Barbara), Jerry Marsden (Caltech), Clyde Martin (Texas Tech), George Meyer (NASA Ames), Richard Montgomery (Santa Cruz), Richard Murray (Caltech), Brad Paden (UC Santa Cruz), Shankar Sastry (UC Berkeley), William Shadwick (Toronto), Willem Sluis (Caltech), Dawn Tilbury (U Michigan), and Z. Zhang (Texas Tech). The program committee is: Linda Bushnell, Jagdish Chandra (ARO), John Lund (Montana State University), Clyde Martin, George Meyer, and Shankar Sastry. For registration and more information, please contact Clyde Martin at gqcfm@ttacs1.ttu.edu or Shankar Sastry and Linda Bushnell at workshop@robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Christine K. Lincke International Conference on COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTING, CONTROL and SIGNAL PROCESSING to honor the contributions of Professor Thomas Kailath June 22-26, 1995 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA The traditional systems disciplines of communications, computation, control and signal processing are becoming increasingly important in addressing major technological challenges of the coming century, in fields such as materials processing, highway automation, and ubiquitous personal communications, among many others. Moreover the boundaries between these separate disciplines are rapidly being blurred by the many demands of these applications. This conference will highlight several of these recent trends and results, presented by leading scientists and engineers from around the world. Invited speakers include: N. Abramson, B. Anderson, K. Astrom, B. Atal, A. Bruckstein, S. Boyd, J. Cioffi, T. Cover, B. De Moor, P. Dewilde, T. Durrani, C. Foias, D. Forney, R. Gallager, M. Gevers, I. Gohberg, G. Golub, H. Kimura, P. Kokotovic, S.Y. Kung, R-W. Liu, L. Ljung, D. Mayne, S. Meerkov, D. Messershmitt, S.K. Mitter, A. Netravali, B. Ottersten, A. Paulraj, E. Robinson, V. Roychowdhury, R. Schafer, G. Verghese, N. Viswanadham, A. Viterbi, J. Willems, G. Xu, L. Zadeh, For further information, fax: 415-723-8473 or e-mail: chris@isl.stanford.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: M.M. Ferreira and M.R. de Pinho (mmf@fe.up.pt, mrpinho@fe.up.pt) CALL FOR PAPERS 1996 PORTUGUESE CONTROL CONFERENCE CONTROL 96 September 11-13, 1996 Porto, Portugal The Portuguese Society of Automatic Control will hold the 2nd Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control Wednesday through Friday, September 11-13, 1996 in Oporto, Portugal. Held in cooperation with Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Instituto Superior Tecnico and Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, this conference will bring together people working in the field of Control, Automation and related areas. The official language of the Conference will be English. Both contributed and invited papers will be included in the Program. The conference will cover a range of topics relevant to theory and pratical implementation of control and automation. Topics of interest include: - Linear and Nonlinear Systems - Adaptative Control - Robust Control - Modelling and Simulation - Systems Identification - Optimal Control and Optimization - Stochastic Control, Filtering and Estimation - Automation Systems and Control - Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control - Robotics - Manufacturing Systems - Process Control - Electrical and Fluid Power Actuators - Signal Processing - Artificial Vision - Fuzzy Systems - Neural Networks Only previously unpublished papers will be accepted for presentation at the conference. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS The conference committee is soliciting contributed papers. All papers accepted for presentation will appear in the Conference Proceedings as long as at least one of the authors register for the conference. Prospective authors of papers should submit 5 (five) copies of a draft in English by January 31, 1996 to Maria do Rosario de Pinho Fac. Eng. Universidade do Porto DEEC Rua dos Bragas, 4099 Porto Codex Portugal phone: -351-2-204 1847 Fax: -351-2-2000808 E.mail: control@fe.up.pt Manuscripts should not exceed 6 (six) pages and should include author's title and affiliation, full address, telephone, E-mail address, an abstract not exceeding 200 words and 5 keywords. Talks will be 20 mns in length including discussion. CALL FOR INVITED SESSIONS The conference committee is also soliciting proposals for invited sessions for the conference. Prospective Organizers should contact Prof. Jorge Martins de Carvalho Fac. Eng. Universidade do Porto DEEC-ISR Rua dos Bragas, 4099 Porto Codex Portugal phone:-351-2-204 1852 Fax: -351-2-2000808 E.mail: control@fe.up.pt before December 15, 1995 for the appropriate forms. The complete forms must be returned by January 15, 1996. Requests for more information concerning the scientific program, as well as any organizational questions, should be directed to: Maria Margarida A. Ferreira Fac. Eng. Universidade do Porto DEEC-ISR Rua dos Bragas, 4099 Porto Portugal phone: -351-2-2041847 Fax: -351-2-2000808 E.mail: control@fe.up.pt DEADLINES: Proposals for Invited Sessions due January 15, 1996 Contributed Papers due (five copies) January 31, 1996 Notification of paper acceptance to authors May 2, 1996 Camera Ready Copies due June 14, 1996 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Maureen P. 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