Workshop on Exterior Differential Systems in Nonlinear Control
                         June 29, 30 & July 1, 1995


This workshop will feature the use of methods from exterior differential
systems and differential geometry for the control of nonlinear systems
with nonholonomic constraints, systems with substantial nonlinearity
in their dynamics, and systems on Lie groups.

The workshop is timed to be held right after the IFAC meeting NOLCOS
(Nonlinear Control System Design) at Lake Tahoe from June 26 through
June 28.  The workshop will be held on campus at Berkeley and we have
reserved blocks of rooms in area hotels for workshop participants.

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: 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 list of people who have committed to speak thus far:

Andrzej Banaszuk (Ga Tech), Robert Bryant (Duke), Linda Bushnell (ARO),
Lucas Hsu (Princeton), Naomi Leonard (Princeton), Jerry Marsden (Berkeley),
George Meyer (Ames), Richard Montgomery (Santa Cruz),
Richard Murray (Caltech), Shankar Sastry (Berkeley),
William Shadwick (Toronto), Willem Sluis (Caltech),
and Dawn Tilbury (Michigan).

The Organizers are: Shankar Sastry (Berkeley), Linda Bushnell (ARO),
Jagdish Chandra (ARO), George Meyer (NASA Ames) and A. K. Pradeep (GE CR&D).

If you are interested in attending and / or speaking at the workshop and
would like more information please send e-mail by MAY 10, 1995 to:

workshop@robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu