NOLCOS 95 FIRST ANNOUCEMENT - CALL FOR PAPERS International Federation of Automatic Control _________________________________________________________ SYMPOSIUM on NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS DESIGN _________________________________________________________ 26-28 June, 1995, Tahoe City, California, USA _________________________________________________________ Organized by: Institute of Theoretical Dynamics, University of California, Davis and American Automatic Control Council (AACC) Third IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems Design Granlibakken Conference Center, Tahoe City, California Monday-Wednesday, June 26-28, 1995 Sponsored by IFAC, The International Federation of Automatic Control, Technical Committee on the Mathematics of Control Scope of the Symposium The symposium will present the state of the art in the design of nonlinear control systems. It will explore current theoretical developments as well as their latest applications to engineering problems. The symposium will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of papers which describe new design methodologies for the control of nonlinear plants and will feature novel applications of these methods . The program will include invited survey papers by leading international authorities and encourage wide ranging discussions by all participants on basic problems and future directions. The beautiful location and excellent conference facilities will facilitate this. The range of topics to be discussed includes: - Applications of nonlinear control - Algebraic theory of nonlinear systems - Geometric theory of nonlinear systems - Discrete-time nonlinear control systems - Stabilizabilty and feedback stabilization - Nonlinear observers and filters - Optimal control of nonlinear systems - Variable structure systems - Robust and H-Infinity control - Adaptive control of nonlinear systems - Singular perturbations in nonlinear control - Expert control for nonlinear systems - Computational methods for design & control Location The Granlibakken Conference Center is located in a picturesque mountain valley near Tahoe City, CA. It is an hour drive from Reno Airport, two hours from Sacramento and four hours from San Francisco. The Conference Center has ample meeting rooms and lodging in one, two and three bedroom townhouses with kitchens. On the grounds is a large heated pool, six tennis courts and nearby there is hiking, river rafting, golf and boating on Lake Tahoe. Accomodations are on the American plan with three full meals. There are reduced rates for accompanying persons. Participants may wish to extend their stay and enjoy the scenic location. International Progam Committee (IPC) D. Q. Mayne (Ch.) (USA), A. Agrachev (R), A. Bacciotti (I), J. Burns (USA), W. P. Dayawansa (USA), J. C. Dunn (USA), M. Fliess (F), H. Frankowska (F), W. Gao (PRC), T. Glad (S), D. Hill (AUS), A. Isidori (I), B. Jakubczyk (PL), I. Kanellakopoulos (USA), H. Kimura (J), A. Krener (USA), A. Kurzhanski (R), F. Lamnahbi-Lagarrigue (F), S. Nikitin (R), W. Respondek (PL), W. J. Rugh (USA), E. P. Ryan (UK), W. Shadwick (CND), E. Sontag (USA), T. J. Tarn (USA), A. vanderSchaft (NL), M. Vidyasagar (IND), J. C. Willems (NL), M. Zeitz (D) National Organizing Committee (NOC) A. Krener, Chair, J. W. Helton, I. Kanellakopoulos, P. Kokotovic, G. Leitmann, C. Martin, G. Meyer, R. Murray, S. Sastry Instructions to Authors and Organizers of Special Sessions Prospective authors are invited to submit 3 copies of a draft of the full paper in English to the Chair of the IPC: Prof. David Q. Mayne Institute of Theoretical Dynamics University of California Davis, CA 95616-8618, USA nolcos@itd.ucdavis.edu Manuscipts should not excced 15 double-spaced pages and should include the author's title and affiliation, full address, telephone, e-address, a 200 word abstract and keywords. Talks will be thirty minutes in length including discussion. A Special Session consists of four papers on a coherent theme within the scope of the symposium. Proposals for Special Sessions should include title and affiliation, full address, telephone, e-address of the organizer(s), a 500 word discription of the theme of the session and the four draft manuscripts as described above. Deadlines Submission of draft manuscipts and proposals for Special Sessions August 31,1994 Notification of acceptance November 15,1994 Submission of full paper January 15,1995 Publication and Copywright The material submitted for presentation at an IFAC meeting (symposium, conference, workshop) must be original, not published or being considered elsewhere. All papers for presentation will appear in the Preprints of the meeting and will be distributed to the participants. Papers duly presented will be archived and offered for sale, in the form of Postprint volumes, by Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford, UK. The papers which have been presented will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC journals Automatica and Control Engineering Practice, or in other, IFAC affiliated journals. The abstracts of all papers presented will also appear in Control Engineering Practice. Copyright of material presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC. Authors will be sent a copyright transfer form. Automatica, Control Engineering Practice and, after these, IFAC affiliated journals have priority access to all contributions presented. However, if the author is not contacted by an editor of these journals, within three months after the meeting, the author is free to re-submit the material for publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented. --------- cut here and return to nolcos@itd.ucdavis.edu ---------------- IFAC SYMPOSIUM ON NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS DESIGN Granlibakken Conference Center, Tahoe City, CA, June 25-28, 1995 Name:__________________________________________ Mailing Address:_________________________________ e-Address:______________________________________ __ I wish to receive further information __ I intend to submit a paper __ I intend to organize an Special Session entitled _________________________________________________ I suggest further annoncements be sent to __________________________________________________ Suggestions for the International Program Committee __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________