CONFERENCE

Title:		IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design
Date:		14-16 September 1994
Abbreviation:	RCD'94
Place:		Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

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    INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL  (IFAC)
           IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design
                September 14 - 16,  1994
                  Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
    Sponsored by IFAC Technical Committe on Theory
                 SBA (Brazilian Society of Automatic Control)

                     CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS AND INVITED SESSIONS

Important dates:
     November 15, 1993:     Deadline for submission of papers and proposals of invited 
                            sessions 
     March 15, 1994:        Notification of acceptance of papers and proposals of invited
                            sessions
     April 30, 1994:        Final version of paper due
     September 14-16, 1994: Symposium

Submitted papers are welcome in the following areas:
Linear Control System Design
Nonlinear Control Systems
H2 and H-infinity Control
Adaptive and Variable Structure Control
LQG, LTR and LMI Design
Uncertain Systems Analysis and Design
Stability: Structured-Unstructured Perturbations
Large-Scale Control Systems
Hierarchical and Decentralized Control
Mathematical Control and Systems Theory
Covariance Control

Five (5) copies of submitted papers should be sent to:
Prof. J. C. Geromel, Chairman of the International Program Committee (IPC)
LAC-DT-FEE/UNICAMP
13081-970 Campinas, S.P.
Brasil
Fax: (55-192)39-1395
e-mail: geromel@dt.fee.unicamp.br

Proposals of invited sessions:
Proponents should send 5 copies of the Proposals to the Chariman of the IPC (address abo
ve) until November 15, 1993. The Proposals should contain the name of the Invited Session
, a brief text showing the importance of the session and the coherence of the papers in the session. Moreover, the Proposal should include an abstract of 2000 words of each paper of the session.

International Program Committee (IPC):
J. C. Geromel (BR) -Chairman, B. R. Barmish (USA), J. Bernussou (F), S. P. Bhattacharyya
(USA), S. Boyd (USA), E. J. Davison (CND), C. E. Souza (AUS), P. Dorato (USA), G. Guarda
bassi (I), L. Hsu (BR), P.P. Khargonekar (USA), H. Kwakernaak (NL), J. M. Maciejowski (UK
), I. R. Petersen (AUS), M. G. Safonov (USA), R. E. Skelton (USA), D. D. Siljak (USA)

Plenary Lectures
Two Plenary Lectures are scheduled for the Symposium:
S. Boyd (USA), "Convex optimization and engineering design"
R. E. Skelton (USA), "Robust control of aerospace systems"

Further informations:
Prof. Pedro M. G. Ferreira
DEE, PUC-Rio
C.P.38063
22452 Rio de Janeiro
Brasil
Fax: (55-21)511-5154
Phone: (55-21) 529-9427/9334/9246/9336
e-mail: pedro@ele.puc-rio.br  


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