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