E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 108, August 1, 1997
E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 108, August 1, 1997
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 40 246 5995
Siep Weiland
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
the Netherlands
Fax +31 40 243 4582
Contents
1. Editorial
2. Personals
3. General announcements
3.1 Signal Processing Turing Test
3.2 Call for nominations Richard C. DiPrima Prize
4. Positions
4.1 Position dean, college of Engr., Un. of Arizona
4.2 PH.D. position Inst. of Maths, Un. of Liege, Belgium
4.3 PH.D. position Mathematics Dept., Un. of Groningen
4.4 Post-Doc positions in Stochastic Optimal Control, Hong Kong
4.5 Post-Doc position in multi sensor fusion, Un. of Colorado
4.6 Positions in Control Engineering, Un. of Pretoria
4.7 Research Assistant in motion compensation, Un. of Strathclyde
5. Books
5.1 "Parallel Optimization: Theory, algorithms and applications",
Yair Censor and Stavros A. Zenios
5.2 "Mathematics of Stochastic manufacturing Systems"
5.3 "Interpolation, Identification and Sampling", J.R. Partington
5.4 "Robust Control design: An optimal control approach", F. Lin
6. Journals
6.1 TOC Automatica, Vol. 33:7 and 33:8
6.2 TOC IEEE TAC, Vol. 42:8
6.3 TOC IJC, Vol. 67:6
6.4 TOC SIAM Review, Vol. 39:3
6.5 TOC SIAM J. on Control and Optimization, Vol. 35:5
6.6 TOC SIAM J. on Optimization, Vol. 7:3
6.7 CfP Special Issue on Induction Motors
6.8 TOC Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 16:4
7. Conferences
7.1 Student travel grants for CDC-1997
7.2 CFP Workshop on Hybrid Systems, Berkeley
7.3 CFP 4th SIAM Conf. on control and Applications, Jacksonville, FL
7.4 CFP 1998 CCA, Trieste, Italy
7.5 CFP Workshop on Future directions in systems & control, Illinios
7.6 CFP Symp. on Large Scale Systems, Un. of Patras
7.7 CFP AMST '98, Bradford, U.K.
7.8 CFP invited session on 1998 ACC
7.9 Alapedes annual meeting in Waterford, Ireland
7.10 CFP Workshop on Hybrid Systems, Notre Dame
7.11 CFP CESA'98, Tunisia
7.12 CFP Workshop Stab. and Rob. of Non-linear Systems, Bremen
7.13 CFP Workshop Linear time-delay systems, Grenoble
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Contributed by: Miroslav Krstic
I have moved from University of Maryland to University of California
at San Diego. My new address is:
Miroslav Krstic
Department of AMES
UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411
e-mail: mkrstic@ames.ucsd.edu
office: 619-822-1374
secretary: 619-822-1269
fax: 619-534-7078
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Contributed by: Yu Hen Hu (hu@engr.wisc.edu)
Signal Processing Turing Test
Time: 1998 May 12-15.
Place: Int'l Conf. on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing, Seattle, WA, USA
Contact: Fil Alleva (Organization Committee Chair)
fil@microsoft.com
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
In order to promote awareness and appreciation of signal processing
technology; and to better understand the challenges and limitations of
state of the art signal processing technologies, the IEEE Signal
Processing Society is organizing the first International Signal
Processing Turing test. This contest is part of the IEEE Signal
Processing Society 50-th anniversary celebration event and will be held
during the 1998 International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal
Processing at Seattle, WA, USA.
A Signal Processing Turing Test (SPTT) measures the performance of a
signal processing algorithm or system in terms of how close it is to the
performance of a human being performing the same task. Examples
include, but are certainly not limited to, signal recognition (speech
recognition, face recognition, hand-written character recognition etc.),
signal synthesis (speech synthesis, facial expression synthesis, etc.),
signal re-production (voice imitation, etc.). Typically the format of
the Turing Test involves two "black boxes" and a judge. One box
contains a computer (or an algorithm) and the other a human being. The
SPTT requires that each box perform some signal processing task whose
output can be observed by the judge who then decides which box contains
the human and which box contains the computer. It is preferable that
the judge be able to actively participate with each box. For example
the judge might provide the input signal. The role of either the judge
and or the "human" will be played by visitors to the SPTT demonstration.
Prospective Participants will submit a two-page pre-proposal to the
organizing committee. The pre-proposal should include a brief
description of the proposed SPTT activity, and explanation of why this
activity is relevant to the Turing test. The organizing committee will
determine which proposals are selected for participation in the SPTT.
The proposed activity must allow members of the general public who
attend ICASSP to participate in the contest safely. The selection
criteria include: What is the difficulty of the proposed test? Is the
proposed activity engaging? Will it attract members of the public and
hence enhance the awareness of signal processing technology as a whole?
Each participating group will be responsible for the equipment and
staffing needed to participate in the SPTT. The organizing committee
will provide free booth space to host this event in a reserved portion
of the exhibition area.
For more details please contact organizing Committee:
Fil Alleva (Microsoft, Chair) fil@microsoft.com
Yu Hen Hu (U. of Wisconsin, SPS coordinator) hu@engr.wisc.edu
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Contributed by: bogardo@siam.org
Call for Nominations
for
The Richard C. DiPrima Prize
SIAM will present the award at the 1998 SIAM Annual Meeting in
Toronto, Canada, July 13-17. The award honors the memory of
Richard C. DiPrima, long-time Chair of the Department of
Mathematical Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and
past-president and energetic supporter of SIAM. The award will be
based on an outstanding doctoral dissertation in applied
mathematics.
Eligibility
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The award, based on Ph.D. research in applied mathematics (defined
as those topics covered in SIAM journals or series) is made to a
young scientist. The Ph.D. thesis and all other Ph.D. requirements
should have been completed in the time period from July 1, 1995 to
June 30, 1997. The Ph.D. degree must be awarded by December 31,
1997.
Description of the Award
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The award will consist of a certificate and a cash prize of $1,000.
The SIAM president will notify the recipient of the award in
advance of the award date and invite the recipient to attend the
annual meeting to receive the award.
Nominations
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Nominations, along with a copy of the dissertation (in English),
should be sent by November 30, 1997 to:
Professor Gilbert Strang
Chair, DiPrima Prize Selection Committee
c/o Allison Bogardo
SIAM
3600 University City Science Center
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688
Telephone: (215) 382-9800
Fax: (215) 386-7999
E-mail: bogardo@siam.org
Members of the selection committee are Philip Holmes (Princeton
University), Gilbert Strang (MIT), and Shmuel Winograd (IBM
Research Center).
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Contributed by: Emmanuel Fernandez-Gaucherand (emmanuel@sie.arizona.edu)
DEAN, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MINES
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
The University of Arizona invites nominations or applications for the
position of Dean of the College of Engineering and Mines, available
January 1, 1998.
The College of Engineering and Mines is part of a student-oriented
land-grant research university currently playing a major role in the
technological growth of southern Arizona. With 150 ranked faculty, 2500
undergraduates, and 750 graduate students, the College consists of eight
departments in the major engineering disciplines: Aerospace and
Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Civil
Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Hydrology and Water Resources, Materials Science and
Engineering, Mining and Geological Engineering, and Systems and
Industrial Engineering. The college houses several Centers with
substantial extramural funding.
The University of Arizona is a member of the American Association of
Universities and has been assigned a Research I classification by the
Carnegie Foundation. Annual research and development expenditures in
science and engineering of approximately $292 million place The
University of Arizona 10th among public universities and 14th overall,
according to the National Science Foundation.
The University of Arizona seeks an individual who has demonstrated
excellence in academic and administrative leadership. Desired
characteristics include: qualification for the rank of tenured full
professor in the College; commitment to an environment of shared
governance and participation in decision-making; ability to develop
interdepartmental, intercollegiate, and interinstitutional
collaborations and alliances; ability to be an articulate advocate and
spokesperson for the College; a commitment to foster excellence in
instruction, research,and service programs; and the energy needed to
lead the College in an era requiring innovation and change.
Formal review of candidates will begin September 15 and will continue
until an appointment is made. Letters of nomination and applications,
including a current curriculum vitae and the names, postal and e-mail
addresses, and telephone numbers of three references, should be
submitted to the Chair of the Search Committee:
Thomas J. Hixon
Dean of the Graduate College
The University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210066
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0066
The University of Arizona is an EEO/AA employer. M/W/D/V
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Contributed by: Vincent Blondel
DOCTORAL CANDIDATE POSITION IN DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS
Institute of Mathematics, University of Liege, Belgium
Applications are invited for a three year doctoral studentship beginning in
October 1997 to work on Discrete Event Systems.
The studentship is open to EU citizens only. Applicants should have, or
shortly expect to obtain, a degree in mathematics, applied mathematics,
computer science, or engineering, and should have a good knowledge of
French or English.
The position is available within the framework of the european network
ALAPADES (the algebraic approach to performance evaluation of discrete
event systems) funded by the European Commission. The successful
candidate will be based at the University of Liege but is expected to
interact with the other partners of the network. The other partners are:
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, Paris, France
INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France
INRIA Rocquencourt, Paris, France
Katholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Hewlett Packard, Bristol, United Kingdom
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
More information about the ALAPADES network can be obtained from:
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~rein/alapedes/
For applying, please send a current curriculum vitae, together with the
name, phone number and email of two referees, either by regular mail or by
email to:
Dr V. Blondel
Institute of Mathematics
University of Liege
Sart Tilman B37
4000 Liege
Belgium
Tel.: +32 4 366 94 60
Fax : +32 4 366 95 47
vblondel@ulg.ac.be
Applications should arrive before September 6th. A decision regarding the
position will be taken mid-September.
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Contributed by: Prof. R.F. Curtain
PH.D. Position on Model reduction for Infinite-Dimensional Systems
Applicants with a very strong mathematical background are sought for a ph.d.
research position at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The
position is specifically for non-Dutch nationals and the financial support
is in the form of a bursary of f 2500 a month (subject to Dutch tax) for a
maximum of 4 years. While a background in control is desirable, a
sophisticated mathematical background is mor important (see the text listed
below) The successful candidate will be required to follow courses on
systems and control (given in English) offered by the Dutch Graduate School
in Systems and Control DISC (see http:www.math.rug.nl/).
The starting date is as soon as possible. Please send the usual c.v. with
details of your university education to
Prof. R.F. Curtain
University of Groningen
Department of Mathematics
P.O. Box 800
9700 AV Groningen
The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 50 3633987 (secretary)
+31 50 3633985 (extension)
+31 50 3633976 (telefax)
Email: R.F.Curtain@math.rug.nl, http://www.math.rug.nl/
TEXT: R.F.Curtain and H.J.Zwart, An Introduction to Infinite-Dimensional
Systems Theory, Springer Verlag, 1995.
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Contributed by: Xun Yu Zhou
Post-Doctoral Positions in Stochastic Optimal Control
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Applications are invited for one or two post-doctoral research positions
which are immediately available in the Department of Systems Engineering
and Engineering Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The successful candidates should have strong background and research
experience in optimal control, stochastic processes and stochastic
differential equations and will work with Xun Yu Zhou on stochastic optimal
control theory as well as applications in finance and insurance. Preference
will be given to those candidates who are familiar with, in addition to the
aforementioned areas, one or more of the following areas: linear quadratic
regulators, Riccati equations, filtering, backward stochastic differential
equations, partial differential equations, viscosity solutions, distributed
parameter systems, numerical approximation, stochastic mechanics, economics,
stochastic programming, and semidefinite programming. The current
salary for postdoctoral fellows is ranging from HK$330,000 to HK$521,760
per year (approximately US$42,580 to US$67,323) commensurate with
the qualifications and experience. Living adjustments (with an average of
7.0% increase in recent years) will be made in September each year.
Other benefits include annual leave and medical care for the fellows
and their dependants. The fellows are normally free from any
teaching and administrative duties. The initial appointment
will be one year, renewable for a second year subject to mutual agreement.
Applicants should send a curriculum vita with a publication list and the
names and addresses of three referees via air mail, e-mail or fax to:
Dr. Xun Yu Zhou
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories
Hong Kong
Fax: (852) 2603-5505
E-mail: xyzhou@se.cuhk.edu.hk
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Contributed by: Lucy Y. Pao
POST-DOCTORAL POSITION IN MULTISENSOR FUSION
Applications are invited for a post-doc position in the multisensor
fusion and target tracking area at the University of Colorado
at Boulder. We are exploring distributed fusion algorithms and
algorithms for managing sensor information in multisensor systems.
This work is supported by funding from an Office of Naval Research
Young Investigator Award, the Colorado Advanced Software Institute,
and the Data Fusion Corporation. Interested candidates should have
a strong background in random processes and detection and extraction
of signals from noise. The appointment will be for two years, with the
possibility for an additional third year. The starting annual salary
will be in the range $33-37K, depending on the individual's
qualifications. The start date is negotiable, but it is desired
for the selected individual to begin early in January 1998.
Interested candidates should submit an extended vitae as well as
the names of three references to:
Prof. Lucy Y. Pao
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0425 USA
pao@colorado.edu
(303) 492-2360
Requests for more information (e-mail inquiries welcome)
should also go to the above.
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Contributed by: Ian K Craig
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
POSITION IN CONTROL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of
Pretoria prides itself on its outstanding research achievements and close
links with industry. With 36 faculty, it is the largest engineering
department in South Africa, with all the associated advantages of a large
staff complement: specialisation by individual lecturers, critical mass
research groups, low lecturing load, and multi-disciplinary research and
development work.
Applications are invited for a position in control systems engineering, in
the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, as described below:
- The academic rank of the successful candidate will depend upon his/her
qualifications and research record.
- A doctorate is the minimum requirement for the position of Professor or
Associate Professor, and at least a master's degree is required for the
position of Senior Lecturer or Lecturer.
- Control activities in the Department are focused on the control and automa-
tion of industrial processes, and the guidance and control of autonomous
vehicles. Applications are therefore not necessarily restricted to
applicants with a basic degree in Electrical Engineering.
- A strong commitment to teaching and research is required.
- Applicants must be fully proficient in English.
- Academic staff in the Faculty of Engineering may apply for permission to
engage in limited specialised privately funded research and development
work.
Applicants should submit a full curriculum vitae and the names and addresses
of two references with their completed application forms to the Director:
Personnel, University of Pretoria, 0002 Pretoria. South Africa. The closing
date for applications is 1 September 1997. The application for employment
form is available from http://www.up.ac.za/personnel/employment/jobform.html.
The University of Pretoria is committed to equal opportunities for all
employees.
For more information, phone Prof. Ian Craig at +27 (12) 420-2172 or send
e-mail to ian.craig@ee.up.ac.za . More detail about the Department can be
found at: http://www.ee.up.ac.za/ee/intro.html
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Contributed by: M. Spathopoulos(mps@mecheng.strath.ac.uk)
University of Strathclyde, Department of Mechanical Eng.
Research Assistantship/Associateship
EC Project:An Automatic Pendulation Control System for Offshore
Lifting Operations.
Research Assistant required to join team working on a prototype
motion compensation system for offshore cranes. The project is
jointly funded by EC and industrial partners in both Britain and
Holland. The aim of the project is to design and test, through a
realisation of a working prototype, an automatic control system that
reduces pendulation of suspended loads in offshore lifting
operations.
The successhul candidate with a good degree will have a sound background
in areas of automatic control , systems modelling and computing.
Experience with non-linear systems, control design techniques and
familiarity with Matlab will be an advantage as well as a PhD degree
in relevant areas.
The appointment can start immediately.
Please send a c.v. (preferably by e-mail) to M. Spathopoulos at
mps@mecheng.strath.ac.uk as soon
as possible and do not hesitate to make informal enquiries by e-mail
or in the address below:
M. Spathopoulos
Department of Mechanical Eng.
University of Strathclyde
James Weir Building
75 Montrose st.
Glasgow G1 1XJ
tel: 0141-5482326 fax: 0141-5522086
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Contributed by: Yair Censor
We are pleased to announce the publication of our new book, available July
1997:
PARALLEL OPTIMIZATION : THEORY, ALGORITHMS, AND APPLICATIONS
By Yair Censor and Stavros A. Zenios,
A volume in the series: "Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation",
Oxford University Press, New York, 1997.
Hardcover, 576 pages.
This book offers a unique pathway to methods of parallel optimization by
introducing parallel computing ideas into both optimization theory and into
some numerical algorithms for large-scale optimization problems.
The three parts of the book bring together relevant theory, careful study
of algorithms, and modeling of significant real-world problems such as image
reconstruction from projections, radiation therapy treatment planning, multi-
commodity network flow problems, planning under uncertainty, and matrix
balancing problems.
Ordering Information:
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A special 20% discount offer is available for this new book from the
publisher, Oxford University Press.
To order from the United States call toll-free 1-800-451-7556 or fax (919)
677-1303.
>From outside the U.S. phone (919) 677-0977.
The special discount price is $60.00 ($75.00 list price), plus $3.50
shipping and handling. Please identify the book by author and title
(Censor and Zenios: Parallel Optimization).
The ISBN is 0-19-510062-X.
The special promotion code for this offer is: I664-1 and the item number
is 1.
Orders may also be mailed to: Oxford University Press, 2001 Evans Road,
Cary, NC 27513, USA. Oxford accepts payment by check or credit card (Visa,
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or by mail.
Directions to more Information:
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For more information on the book (Title Page, Foreword, Preface,
Organization of the Book, Suggested Course Outlines, Acknowledgements,
and Table of Contents),
please visit on the internet either one of the authors' home pages:
http://www.ucy.ac.cy/ucy/pba/zenios/
or
http://s3.haifa.ac.il/math/censor.html
or the publisher at
http://www.oup-usa.org/gcdocs/gc_019510062X.html
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Contributed by: George Yin and Qing Zhang
gyin@math.wayne.edu, qingz@control.math.uga.edu
Announcing a New Book:
MATHEMATICS OF STOCHASTIC MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
Lectures in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 33
Proc. AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics June 17-22, 1996,
Williamsburg, Virginia; G. Yin and Q. Zhang (Eds.)
Publisher: American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1997
ISBN 0-8218-0755-2
399 pages, soft cover
Price: List price $69
AMS member $41
Order code: LAM/33N
AMS Tel. No. 1-800-556-7774
AMS home page: http://www.ams.org
This volume records the proceedings of the
Twenty-Sixth AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics:
``The Mathematics of Stochastic Manufacturing Systems,''
held from June 17 to 21, 1996, at College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, Virginia. Most of the papers collected in this
volume were presented in the conference. All papers have been
refereed.
In this volume, leading experts in mathematical manufacturing
research and related fields review and update recent advances
of mathematics in stochastic manufacturing systems,
and make effort to bridge the gap between theory and applications.
Various topics covered in the volume include scheduling and
production planning, modeling of
manufacturing systems, hierarchical control for large and complex
systems, Markov chains, queueing networks, numerical
methods for system approximations, singular perturbed systems,
risk-sensitive control, stochastic optimization methods,
discrete event systems, as well as statistical quality control.
Contents:
F. Avram,
Optimal control of fluid Limits of queueing networks and
stochasticity corrections
J. S. Baras and N. S. Patel,
Robust control of semiconductor manufacturing processes
E. K. Boukas and J. P. Kenne,
Maintenance and production control of manufacturing systems with setups
W. K. Ching and X. Y. Zhou, Optimal $(s,S)$
policies for production planning with delivery time guarantees
T. E. Duncan,
Identification and control of a stochastic manufacturing system with
noisy demand
K. B. Ensor and P. W. Glynn, Stochastic optimization via grid search
J. A. Filar and A. Haurie, Optimal ergodic control
of singularly perturbed hybrid stochastic systems
S. Hadjihassan, L. Pronzato, E. Walter and I. Vuchkov,
Robust design for quality improvement by ellipsoidal bounding
C. Humes Jr., Linear programming derived functional
bounds for closed queueing networks: a primal approach
M. Lefebvre and R. Labib,
Risk sensitive optimal control of wear processes
S. Meyn, Stability and optimization of multiclass queueing
networks and their fluid models
B. Pasik-Duncan,
Stochastic adaptive control and manufacturing systems
G. Pflug, Coupling, ergodicity and sensitivity of Markov processes
E. Presman, S. P. Sethi, and W. Suo,
Optimal feedback controls in dynamic stochastic jobshops
L. Pronzato, H. Wynn and A. A. Zhigljavsky,
Using Renyi entropies to measure uncertainty in search problems
R. W. Rishel,
The role of information in scheduling
S. P. Sethi,
Some insights into near-optimal plans for stochastic manufacturing systems
M. S. Yang, L. Lee, and Y. C. Ho,
On stochastic optimization and its applications
to manufacturing
D. Yao and L. Zhang,
Stochastic scheduling via polymatroid optimization
J. J. Ye,
Dynamic programming and the maximum principle
for control of piecewise deterministic Markov processes
N. F. Zhang, Autocorrelation of some linear transfer
function models and its
applications in the dynamic process systems
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Contributed by: Jonathan Partington (j.r.partington@leeds.ac.uk)
New Book
Interpolation, Identification and Sampling, by Jonathan R. Partington.
London Mathematical Society Monographs, no. 17, Oxford University
Press, July 1997. xii+267pp. 18 figures. ISBN 0-19-850024-6.
This book presents applications of functional analysis and operator
theory to problems of interpolation of analytic functions, systems
identification, and sampling of signals.
1. Function spaces and operators --- Fourier series and approximate
identities, Fourier and Laplace transforms, Function spaces on the
disc, Function spaces on the half-plane, Blaschke products and zero
sets, Toeplitz and Hankel operators.
2. Interpolation and recovery --- Classical interpolation problems,
Zero sets for the disc algebra, Extension and recovery in the disc
algebra, Totik's recovery theorem, Interpolating sequences.
3. Worst-case identification of functions --- Causal operators and
linear systems, Worst-case identification in the disc algebra,
Two-stage algorithms, Model sets and Chebyshev identification,
Band-limited identification on the circle.
4. Approximation and interpolation --- $n$-widths and approximation,
Hankel-norm approximation, Bases and decompositions in the disc
algebra, IBC and optimal algorithms, Interpolation and validation.
5. Hilbert space methods --- Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, The
matching pursuit algorithm, Minimal-norm interpolation, Least squares
methods, Frames and wavelets.
6. Convolution operators --- Worst-case identification of
convolutions, Probabilistic inequalities, Chebyshev identification and
input design, Identification in $\ell _2$, IBC and validation.
7. Sampling --- The Paley-Wiener spaces, Regular sampling, General
sampling, Balayage.
8. Applications --- Linear systems, $H_\infty$ control, Examples of
identification.
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Contributed by: Feng Lin (flin@ece.eng.wayne.edu)
NEW BOOK ON ROBUST CONTROL
ROBUST CONTROL DESIGN: An optimal control approach
by Feng Lin, Wayne State University
AFI Press, 119 pages.
For a free copy, visit: http://www.ece.eng.wayne.edu/~flin
Abstract
This book presents an optimal control approach to robust control
design. The approach translates a robust control problem into an
optimal control problem, where uncertainties are reflected in
the cost function. Many difficult robust control problems can be
solved by translating them into optimal control problems, whose
solutions are readily available. The approach applies to both
linear and nonlinear systems; it handles both matched and unmatched
uncertainties; and it also handles uncertainties in control input
matrices. Applications to space structures, robotics and aircraft
control are studied.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Notations and Backgrounds
2.1 Notations
2.2 Stability
2.3 Optimal Control
Chapter 3 Linear Systems
3.1 Matched Uncertainty
3.2 Unmatched Uncertainty
3.3 Uncertainty in the Input Matrix
Chapter 4 Nonlinear Systems
4.1 Matched Uncertainty
4.2 Unmatched Uncertainty
4.3 Uncertainty in the Input Matrix
4.4 Unmatched Input Matrix Uncertainty
Chapter 5 Robust Active Damping
5.1 Problem Formulation
5.2 Robust Active Damping Design
5.3 Simulation
5.4 Discussion
Chapter 6 Robust Control of Manipulators
6.1 Manipulator Dynamics
6.2 Robust Control Design
6.3 Simulation
6.4 Discussion
Chapter 7 Aircraft Hovering Control
7.1 Modeling and Formulation
7.2 Control Design for Jet-Borne Hovering
7.3 Simulation
7.4 Discussion
Chapter 8 Open Problems
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AUTOMATICA
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Regular Papers
A. Shkel, V. Lumelsky The jogger's problem: Control of dynamics in
real-time motion planning
T. Iwasaki, S. Hara, M. A. Computational complexity reduction in scaled
Rotea H(infinity) synthesis
S. Weiland, A. A. Stoorvogel Optimal Hankel norm identification of
dynamical systems
L. Baramov, H. Kimura Nonlinear L2-gain suboptimal control
J. C. Cockburn, B. G. Morton Linear fractional representations of uncertain
systems
C-C. Chien, Y. Zhang, P. A. Traffic density control for automated highway
Ioannou systems
S. Soatto 3-D structure from visual motion: modeling,
representation and observability
K. D. Young, U. Ozguner Sliding mode design for robust linear optimal
control
Brief Papers
S. Drakunov, G. D. Hanchin, Nonlinear control of a rodless pneumatic
UE. OEzguener, W. C. Su servoactuator or sliding modes vs coulomb
friction
Hao Ying, Guangrong Chen Necessary conditions for some typical fuzzy
systems as universal approximators
Z. Sun, X. Xia On nonregular feedback linearization
Z-J. Yang, S. Sagara, T. System impulse response identification using a
Tsuji multiresolution neural network
G. Vandersteen, Y. Rolain, Non-parametric estimation of the frequency
J. Schoukens response functions of the linear blocks of a
Wiener-Hammerstein model
T. A. Badgwell Robust stability conditions for SISO model
predictive control algorithms
K. E. Lenz Weights determine stability of
sensitivity-optimal controllers
S. Malan, M. Milanese, M. Robust analysis and design of control systems
Taragna using interval arithmetic
H. D. Tuan, S. Hosoe On robust and H(infinity) controls for a class
of linear and bilinear systems with nonlinear
uncertainty
L. Cao and Y. Hori Mixed sensitivity optimization to avoid
pole/zero cancellation
Y. N. Rosenwasser, K. Y. Frequency domain method for H2-optimization of
Polyakov, B. P. Lampe time- delayed sampled-data systems
Zhong-Ping Jiang, H. Tracking control of mobile robots: A case
Nijmeijer study in backstepping
Technical Communiques
J.R. Howell Avoiding step-response extrema: Transfer
functions without poles or zeros
F. N. Koumboulis, M. G. Robust disturbance rejection with simultaneous
Skarpetis robust input- output decoupling
P. Pugliese, P. Muraca A variable structure regulator for robotic
systems
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Regular Papers
F. Viel, F. Jadot, G. Bastin Global stabilization of exothermic
chemical reactors under input constraints
S. A. Bortoff Approximate state-feedback linearization
using spline functions
Z-H. Li, M. Krstic Optimal design of adaptive tracking
controllers for nonlinear systems
S. Hoang, P. de Mey, O. A new reduced-order adaptive filter for
state Talagrand, R. Baraille estimation in
high dimensional systems
I. D. Landau, A. Karimi Recursive algorithms for identification
in closed loop - A unified approach and
evaluation
Brief Papers
B. Friedland A nonlinear observer for estimating
parameters in dynamic systems
V. Havlena, F. Kraus Receding horizon MIMO LQ controller
design with guaranteed stability
Zheng Li, R. J. Evans Minimum variance control of linear
time-varying systems
R. Mahony, I. M. Y. Mareels, Output stabilization of square
non-linear G. Bastin, G. Campion systems
Shin-Yeu Lin Basic hardware module for a nonlinear
programming algorithm and applications
C-F. Yung, J-L. Wu, T-T. Lee Parameterization of nonlinear
H(infinity) state feedback controllers
Y. H. Kim, F. L. Lewis, C. A dynamic recurrent neural network based
T. Abdallah adaptive observer for a class of
nonlinear systems
E. G. Eszter, C. V. Hollot An IQC for uncertainty satisfying both
norm-bounded and passivity constraints
L. R. Hunt, G. Meyer Stable inversion for nonlinear systems
D. Vafiadis, N. Karcanias Decoupling and pole assignment of
singular systems: A frequency domain approach
C. H. Moog, A. M. Perdon, G. Canonical decomposition of nonlinear systems
Conte
Technical Communiques
H-S. Lee, Z. Bien A note on convergence property of
iterative learning controller with respect to
sup-norm
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Contributed by: John Baillieul, Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL
Table of Contents - Volume 42, Number 8 -August, 1997
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Scanning the Issue
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Editorial
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PAPERS
On the Partial Stochastic Realization Problem
..................... C. I. Byrnes and A. Lindquist
A Jacobi-Like Method for Solving Algebraic Riccati Equations on Parallel
Computers
..................... A. Bunsc-Gerstner and H. FaBbender
General Matrix Pencil Techniques for the Solution of Algebraic Riccati
Equations: A Unified Approach
..................... V. Ionescu, C. Oara, and M. Weiss
Robust, Fragile, or Optimal?
..................... L. H. Keel and S. P. Bhattacharyya
Polynomial Filtering of Discrete-Time Stochastic Linear Systems with
Multiplicative State Noise
..................... F. Carravetta, A. Germani, and M. Raimondi
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TECHNICAL NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE
V- Routh Approximation for Interval Systems
..................... B. Bandyopadhyan, A. Upadhye, and O. Ismail
Partially Observable Nonlinear Risk-Sensitive Control Problem: Dynamic
Programming and Verification Theorems
.................... C. D. Charalambous
On Global Output Feedback Regulation of Euler-Lagrange Systems with Bounded
Inputs
.................... A. Loria, R. Kelly, R. Ortega, and V.Santibanez
Delay-Dependent Robust Stability and Stabilization of Uncertain Linear Delay
Systems: A Linear Matrix Inequality Approach
.................... X. Li and C. E. de Souza
Globally Valid Adaptive Controllers of Mechanical Systems
.................... K. Y. Lian, L. -S. Wang, and L. -C. Fu
Synthesis of Positive Real Feedback Systems: A Simple Dervation via Parrott's
Theorem
.................... L. Turan, M. G. Safonov, and C. H. Huang
Necessary and Sufficent Conditions for Existence of Decoupling Controllers
.................... C. A. Lin
Improving Stability Margins via Dynamic-State Feedback for Systems with
Constant Uncertainty
.................... W. E. Schmitendorf and H. L. Stalford
The Role of Information State and Adjoint in Relating Nonlinear Output
Feedback Risk-Sensitive Control and Dynamic Games
.................... C. D. Charalambous
A Cone Complementarity Linearization Algorithm for Static Output-Feedback and
Related Problems
................... L. EL Ghaoui, F. Oustry, and M. Aitrami
A Study of the Gap Between the Structured Singular Value and Its Convex Upper
Bound for Low-Rank Matrices
.................. R. Smith
H$infinity Controller Synthesis with Time-Domain Constraints
.................. V. Balakrishnan
State Feedback H$infinity Suboptimal Control of a Rigid Spacecraft
.................. M. Dalsmo and O. Egeland
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BOOK REVIEWS
Optimal Sampled-Data Control Systems --- T. Chen and B. Francis
.................. Reviewed by T. Hagiwara
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List of Reviewers for 1996
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Contributed by: Taylor & Francis Table of Contents Service
International Journal of Control
Volume:- 67 Issue:- 6
Publication Date (Expected): 13th August 1997
Contents:-
Title: Nonlinear mixed H2/H Control for robust tracking design of robotic
systems
Authors: B-S. Chen, Y-C. Chang.
Pages 837-857.
Title: Discrete-time adaptive sliding mode control of a linear system in
state space form
Authors: C.Y Chan.
Pages 859-868.
Title: Adaptive output feedback control of robot manipulators using
high-gain observer
Authors: Kang Woong Lee, Hassan.K Khalil.
Pages 869-886.
Title: Eigenstructure perturbation analysis in disjointed domains for linear
uncertain systems
Authors: Rama.K Yedavalli, CR Ashokkumar.
Pages 887-899.
Title: State observation, failure detection and isolation (FDI) in bilinear
systems
Authors: Mehrdad Saif, Hanlong Yang.
Pages 901-920.
Title: Simultaneous deadbeat tracking control of two plants
Authors: Chih-Min Lin, Tend-De Meng.
Pages 921-931.
Title: Optimal anti-windup control of saturating discrete-time MIMO systems
Authors: Chih-Yuan Chen, Ming-Hwei Perng.
Pages 933-959.
Title: Mean-tracking clustering algorithm for radial basis function centre
selection
Authors: E.L Sutanto, J.D Mason, K. Warwick.
Pages 961-977.
Title: A topological analysis of a family of dynamical systems with
nonstandard chaotic and periodic behaviour
Authors: C Horn, P.J Ramadge.
Pages 979-996.
Title: System-Theoretic properties of sampled-data representations of
nonlinear systems obtained via taylor-lie series
Authors: Nikolaos Kazantzis, Costas Kravaris.
Pages 997-1020.
Title: The riemann representation for a PI feedback control around a delay
element
Authors: P Vanheeghe, D. J. Bell.
Pages 1021-1028.
Title: Optimal control for convergence of a class discrete event systems
Authors: Pudji Astuti, Brenan.J McCarragher.
Pages 1029-1046.
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Contributed by: Deborah Poulson, Production Editor SIAM Review
SIAM REVIEW
Volume 39, Number 3, SEPTEMBER 1997
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Pseudospectra of Linear Operators
Lloyd N. Trefethen
Molecular Modeling of Proteins and Mathematical Prediction of Protein
Structure
Arnold Neumaier
CASE STUDIES FROM INDUSTRY
Optimal and Dominating Strategies for Determining Continuous Caster
Product Dimensions
Dicky Yan
Skiving Addition to the Cutting Stock Problem in the Paper Industry
M. P. Johnson, C. Rennick, and E. Zak
CLASSROOM NOTES
Numerical and Analytical Solutions of Volterra's Population Model
Kevin G. TeBeest
A Study of a Semi-Infinite Integral
Y. Villacampa, A. Balaguer, and J. L. Uso
Global Stability in an S --> I --> R --> I Model
Helmar Nunes Moreira and Wang Yuquan
An Elementary Proof of Farkas' Lemma
Achiya Dax
Converting Matrix Riccati Equations to Second-Order Linear ODE
R. W. R. Darling
Time-Dependent Poiseuille Flow
S. H. Smith
Problems and Solutions
Book Reviews
Degree Theory in Analysis and Applications (Irene Fonseca and Wilfrid
Gangbo), Antonio Ambrosetti
Boundary-Field Equation Methods for a Class on Nonlinear Problems
(Gabriel N. Gatica and George C. Hsiao), Carsten Carstensen
ATLAST. Computer Exercises for Linear Algebra (Steven Leon, Eugene
Herman, and Richard Faulkenberry), Richard Elderkin
The Cauchy Probem in Kinetic Theory (Robert T. Glassey), Reinhard
Illner
Singularly Perturbed Evolution Equations with Applications to Kinetic
Theory (J. R. Mika and J. Banasiak), Hans G. Kaper
Numerical Solution of Convection-Diffusion Problems (K. W. Morton),
Numerical Methods for Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations
(H.-G. Roos, M. Stynes, and L. Tobiska), Fitted Numerical Methods for
Singular Perturbation Problems (J. J. H. Miller, E. O'Riordan, and G.
I. Shishkin), R. Bruce Kellogg
A=B (Marko Petkovsek, Herbert S. Wilf, and Doron Zeilberger), Wolfram
Koepf
Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems: The Role of Stability
Preserving Mappings (Anthony N. Michel and Kaining Wang), V.
Lakshmikantham
A First Course in the Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations
(Arieh Iserles), Raytcho Lazarov
Integral Transforms and Their Applications (Lokenath Debnath), Anne C.
Morlet
Normal Modes and Localization in Nonlinear Systems (Alexander F.
Vakakis, Leonid I. Manevitch, Yuri V. Mikhlin, Valery N. Pilipchuk,
and Alexandr A. Zevin), Richard H. Rand
The Life and Legacy of G. I. Taylor (George Batchelor), P. G. Saffman
Spectral Theory of Differential Operations: Self-adjoint Differential
Operators (V. A. Il'in), Martin Schechter
Multiple Scale and Singular Perturbation Methods (J. Kevorkian and J.
D. Cole), Shagi-Di Shih
Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control. Vol. 1 (Dimitri P.
Bertsekas), Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control. Vol. 2 (Dimitri
P. Bertsekas), Vasile Sima
Hysteresis and Phase Transitions (Martin Brokate and Jurgen Sprekels),
A. Visintin
Pade Approximants (George A. Baker, Jr. and Peter Graves-Morris), Jet
Wimp
Selected Collections
Later Editions
Chronicle
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Contributed by: Kelly Thomas, Production Editor, SIAM Journal on Control and
Optimization
SIAM JOURNAL ON CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION
Volume 35, Number 5, SEPTEMBER 1997
CONTENTS
Weighted Sensitivity Minimization in Systems with a Single Output Delay: A
State Space Solution
Gilead Tadmor
On the Time-Discretization of Control Systems
Vladimir Veliov
Tracking Fast Trajectories along a Slow Dynamics: A Singular Perturbations
Approach
Zvi Artstein and Vladimir Gaitsgory
A Homeomorphic Characterization of Minimal Spectral Factors
Augusto Ferrante
Augmented Lagrangian Techniques for Elliptic State Constrained Optimal
Control Problems
Maitine Bergounioux and Karl Kunisch
Determining the Acoustic Impedance in the 1-D Wave Equation Via an Optimal
Control Problem
V. Barbu and N. H. Pavel
Homogenization of an Optimal Control Problem
S. Kesavan and J. Saint Jean Paulin
Locally Distributed Control and Damping for the Conservative Systems
Kangsheng Liu
Rapid Boundary Stabilization of Linear Distributed Systems
Vilmos Komornik
Boundary Controllability of a Linear Hybrid System Arising in the Control of
Noise
Sorin Micu and Enrique Zuazua
On the Regularity of Semipermeable Surfaces in Control Theory with Application
to the Optimal Exit-Time Problem (Part I)
Pierre Cardaliaguet
On the Regularity of Semipermeable Surfaces in Control Theory with Application
to the Optimal Exit-Time Problem (Part II)
Pierre Cardaliaguet
Mixed Objective Control Synthesis: Optimal l_1/H_2 Control
Murti V. Salapaka, Mohammed Dahleh, and Petros Voulgaris
Numerically Reliable Computation of Optimal Performance in Singular H_infinity
Control
Pascal Gahinet and Alan J. Laub
Exact Controllability of the Damped Wave Equation
Marianna A. Shubov, Clyde F. Martin, Jerald P. Dauer, and Boris P. Belinskiy
The Relationship between the Maximum Principle and Dynamic Programming for the
Control of Parabolic Variational Inequalities
Catalin Popa
Constrained LQR Problems in Elliptic Distributed Control Systems with Point
Observations--On Convergence Rates
Puhong You and Jianxin Zhou
Nonlinear Uncertain Systems and Necessary Conditions of Optimality
N. U. Ahmed and X. Xiang
Risk-Sensitive Control of Finite State Machines on an Infinite Horizon I
W. H. Fleming and D. Hernandez-Hernandez
Weighted Means in Stochastic Approximation of Minima
J. Dippon and J. Renz
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Contributed by: Deidre Wunderlich,
SIAM Journal on Optimization
Volume 7, Number 3, August 1997
CONTENTS
Optimality Conditions for the Minimization of a Quadratic with Two
Quadratic Constraints
Ji-Ming Peng and Ya-xiang Yuan
A New Algorithm for Solving Strictly Convex Quadratic Programs
Wu Li and John Swetits
An Infeasible-Interior-Point Method for Linear Complementarity
Problems
Evangelia M. Simantiraki and David F. Shanno
Strong Duality for Semidefinite Programming
Motakuri V. Ramana, Levent Tuncel, and Henry Wolkowicz
Primal-Dual Path-Following Algorithms for Semidefinite Programming
Renato D. C. Monteiro
Convex Analysis of Spectrally Defined Matrix Functions
Alberto Seeger
Analysis of a Cutting Plane Method that Uses Weighted Analytic Center
and Multiple Cuts
Zhi-Quan Luo
A Trust Region Interior Point Algorithm for Linearly Constrained
Optimization
J. Frederic Bonnans and Cecilia Pola
Tensor Methods for Large, Sparse Unconstrained Optimization
Ali Bouaricha
Tensor-GMRES Method for Large Systems of Nonlinear Equations
Dan Feng and Thomas H. Pulliam
On the Realization of the Wolfe Conditions in Reduced Quasi-Newton
Methods for Equality Constrained
Optimization
Jean Charles Gilbert
Global Continuation for Distance Geometry Problems
Jorge J. More and Zhijun Wu
Computational Design of Optimal Output Feedback Controllers
T. Rautert and E. W. Sachs
An e-Relaxation Method for Separable Convex Cost Network Flow Problems
Dimitri P. Bertsekas, Lazaros C. Polymenakos, and Paul Tseng
Box Constrained Quadratic Programming with Proportioning and
Projections
Zdenek Dostal
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Contributed by: Romeo Ortega
Special Issue on Control of Induction Motors
Call for Papers
Induction motors constitute a theoretically interesting and
practically important class of nonlinear systems which are
evolving into a benchmark example for nonlinear control.
They are described by a fifth order nonlinear differential
equation with two inputs and only three state variables
available for measurement. The control task is further
complicated by the fact that induction motors are subject
to unknown (load) disturbances and the parameters are highly
uncertain. We are faced then with the challenging problem of
controlling a highly nonlinear system, with unknown time
varying parameters, where the regulated output, besides being
not measurable, is perturbed by an unknown additive signal.
Existing solutions to this problem, in particular the de--facto
industry standard field--oriented control, are not theoretically
well understood and suffer from some serious drawbacks, both in
commissioning and high performance applications. These compeling
factors, together with the recent development of powerful
theoretical tools for analysis and synthesis of nonlinear
systems, has motivated some control researchers to tackle this
problem.
It is fair to say that our understanding of the problem has
matured considerably with the publication of several globally
stable algorithms, the rigourous establishment of stability proofs
for classical schemes, and the discovery of some interesting
connections between the new controllers and the ones used in
industry. Since a wide variety of ``modern" (apparently unrelated)
techniques has been used to develop these new control algorithms,
it is clear that the resulting controllers will exhibit different
transients and possess different robustness properties. In order
to provide some perspective on the advantages and disadvantages
of all these approaches it is interesting to carry--out a compa-
rative study of these schemes on a benchmark problem.
Towards this end the International J. on Adaptive Control and Signal
Processing is preparing a special issue devoted to the control of
induction motors.
Interested authors are invited to consult the web page
http://www.supelec.fr/invi/lss/fr/personnels/ortega/benchmi/benchmi.html
where further details on the model, the test signals and the performance
specifications are given. The matlab files to carry out the simulations,
by simply plugging--in the proposed controller, can be downloaded from
this page.
Five copies of the complete manuscript, marked Special
Issue on Induction Motors, should be submitted by
January 15, 1998
to:
Romeo Ortega
Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes
CNRS-SUPELEC, UMR CNRS 16
91192, Gif-sur-Yvette
FRANCE
rortega@lss.supelec.fr
Authors will be notified of results of the reviews by April
15, 1998. The special issue is tentatively scheduled for
publication in November 1998.
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Contributed by: A.H.Zemanian (zeman@sbee.sunysb.edu)
Table of Contents for:
CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
Vol. 16, No. 4, 1997:
Editor: Armen H. Zemanian
Department of Electrical Engineering
University at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794-2350
FAX: 516-632-8494
Email: zeman@sbee.sunysb.edu
Potentials on the hexagonal grid,
Camillo Melzi
Design of IIR digital notch filters,
Y.V. Joshi and S.C. Dutta Roy
Model matching under external and input-output equivalence,
D. Vafiadis and N. Karcanias
Generalized inverses of two-variable polynomial matrices and applications,
N.P. Karampetakis
Computation of simple and group factors of multivariate polynomials,
Pradeep Misra, Guoxiang Gu, and Rajnikant V. Patel
A sequentially operated periodic FIR filter for perfect reconstruction,
Cishen Zhang and Yi Liao
When is the stability of a nonlinear input-output system robust?
Vaclav Dolezal
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Contributed by: Anthony N. Michel
STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS FOR THE 1997 IEEE CDC
It is anticipated that the NSF will provide support for thirty-two student
travel grants to cover part of the expenses for attending the 1997 IEEE
CDC. Only full-time undergraduate or graduate students at US colleges or
universities outside a 200-mile radius from the conference site (San Diego)
will be eligible and only two applicants per department will be considered.
Each grant will cover up to
$190 for travel,
$200 for lodging,
$50 for food, and
$60 for registration,
totaling $500.
Each application for a student travel grant must include the following
information:
a) Name, address, telephone number and e-mail address of the student
applicant and his/her institution.
b) Year in college.
c) GPA.
d) Size of the program (i.e., number of faculty and students in the control
systems area).
e) IEEE Region number.
f) Support letter from the department chair.
g) Level of cost sharing by the student's university and/or other sources
(e.g., industry).
h) A statement of the reason for attending the 1997 IEEE CDC (e.g.,
presentation of a paper at the meeting).
i) Estimated total cost of attending the meeting.
All items a)-i) are to be included in the applications. The deadline for
these is
October 3, 1997
and should be sent to
Anthony N. Michel
General Chair, 1997 CDC
College of Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Telephone: (219) 631-5534
FAX: (219) 631-8007
e-mail: anthony.n.michel.1@nd.edu
The selection of the awards will be made by a panel of scholars from
academia and industry. The awardees will be notified after receipt of the
Travel Grant from the NSF.
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Contributed by: Shankar Sastry (sastry@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Preliminary Call For Papers
HYBRID SYSTEMS: COMPUTATION AND CONTROL
International Workshop
April 13-15, 1998
Berkeley, California
The first of a newly constituted series of annual workshops on hybrid
systems will be organized at the University of California, Berkeley,
from April 13 to 15, 1998. The purpose of the workshop is to bring
together researchers from computer science and control theory, and to
advance the theory of hybrid systems and its applications.
Submissions are invited in all areas pertaining to the design, analysis,
and implementation of hybrid control systems, that is, systems in which
digital devices interact with continuous objects. We are especially
interested in methods that combine in creative ways concepts from
computer science and control theory. Topics include, but are not limited
to, control engineering, modeling and system theory, specification and
implementation languages, controller synthesis, computer-aided design
and simulation, algorithmic and deductive verification, experimental
results and applications. Reports on case studies and tool development
are particularly encouraged. Tool demos will form an integral part of
the workshop.
Authors are requested to submit an extended abstract not exceeding ten
pages, either a postscript file or six hardcopies. Electronic submission
is strongly encouraged. The abstract should start with a title page
containing the title of the paper, each author's name and affiliation,
the contact author's physical and e-mail addresses, and a one- or two-
paragraph summary. Full versions of the accepted submissions will be
published in a volume of the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series, to be available at the workshop.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: October 22, 1997
Notification of acceptance: December 10, 1997
Final version due: January 14, 1998
Submission Address
E-mail submissions: tah@eecs.berkeley.edu (postscript only)
Hardcopy submissions: Thomas A. Henzinger
EECS Department
Cory Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1770
USA
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Contributed by: Trini Flores
Announcing...
Fourth SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications
Sponsored by SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory
May 7-9, 1998
Omni Jacksonville Hotel
Jacksonville, Florida
Conference Chair: Suzanne Lenhart
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Minisymposium proposals and abstract submissions are invited. For
further information about the conference and how to send your
abstracts, visit the SIAM Web page at:
http://www.siam.org/meetings/ct98/ct98home.htm
or contact the SIAM Conference Department by e-mail at:
meetings@siam.org; phone: 215-382-9800; fax: 215-386-7999.
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Contributed by: Vassilis Syrmos
1998 IEEE CONFERENCE ON CONTROL APPLICATIONS
Congress Center of the Stazione Marittima
Molo Bersaglieri 3, 34124 Trieste, ITALY
September 1-4, 1998
http://spectra.eng.hawaii.edu/~cca98
important deadlines (below)
CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITED SESSIONS
The Seventh IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA) is being sponsored
by the IEEE Control Systems Society, and technically cosponsored by the ASME
Dynamic Systems and Control Divion, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society,
the International Federation of Automatic Control, the European Union Control
Association, the IEEE North Italy, the University of Trieste, and the Regione
Friuli Venezia Giulia. The function of the IEEE CCA is to bring together
theoretical results and practical applications in system and control theory,
particularly in regard to uses in industrial, commercial, aerospace, power
systems, automotive, or other applied arenas. The Program Committee solicits
papers presenting original work in all aspects of theoretical and practical
control applications. The theme for CCA'98 is Control Applications in
Biological and Medical Systems. The theme of CCA is meant to help structure
the conference and not to limit the topics covered.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the applications of
traditional and modern control design techniques in:
** Aerospace Systems ** Adaptive Control ** Automotive Systems
** Biomedical Systems ** Computer-Aided Design ** Discrete Event Systems
** Distributed Systems ** Expert Systems ** Fault Tolerance ** Fuzzy Systems
** Manufacturing Systems ** Modeling and Identification ** Neural Networks
** Nonlinear Systems ** Power Electronics/Systems ** Process Control
** Robotics ** Robust Control ** Sensor-Based Control
IMPORTANT DATES:
January 15, 1998 Full Papers and Proposals Due
April 1, 1998 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
April 30, 1998 Electronic Submission of Title and Abstract
May 22, 1998 Final Camera-Ready Papers Due
PAPER SUBMISSION:
FIVE copies of the full paper must be received for peer review by one
of the Program Chairs by 15 JAN. 1998. Papers will be reviewed by the
International Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance or
rejection by 1 APRIL 1998. Electronic submissions of title and
abstract are required by 30 APRIL 1998. The final camera-ready papers
must be received by the Conference Secretariat no later than 22 MAY 1998.
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
European Program Chair U.S. Program Chair
G. Conte Kimon P. Valavanis
Dipt. di Elett. e Autom. Center for Advanced Computer Studies
Univ. di Ancona PO Box 44330
via Brecce Bianche University of SW Louisiana
60131 Ancona, ITALY Lafayette, LA 70504-4330, USA
Email: gconte@anvax1.cineca.it Email: kimon@cacs.usl.edu
Phone: +39-71-2204844 Phone: (318) 482-5817
Fax: +39-71-2804334 Fax: (318) 262-5401
INVITED SESSIONS WORKSHOPS:
FOUR copies of proposals for: Invited Sessions, including extended abstracts
and a cover letter indicating the scope of the proposed session; or
Workshops, including a detailed outline of the proposed topic, must be
submitted to either Program Chair by 15 JAN. 1998. Invited Sessions
may include an introductory survey paper. Workshops will be held on 1 SEP.
1998. Invited sessions and workshops in the conference theme of biomedical
systems are particularly of interest.
PROCEEDINGS & CD-ROM:
A CD-ROM and a Book of Abstracts will be provided at the conference. A hard
copy of the proceedings will be mailed after the conference to those who
request it for an additional charge.
For further information, VISIT OUR WEB SITE, or contact the General Chair:
Frank L. Lewis
Automation & Robotics Research Institute
The University of Texas at Arlington
7300 Jack Newell Blvd. S.
Fortworth, TX 76118, USA
Email: flewis@controls.uta.edu
Phone: (817) 272-5972
Fax: (817) 272-5989
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Contributed by: P.R. Kumar
Workshop on Future Directions in Systems and Control
Allerton House; University of Illinois;
Monticello, Illinois; September 28 - 29, 1997
A Workshop on Future Directions in Systems and Control featuring ten
speakers, all invited, will be held at the Allerton House, Robert Allerton
Park, University of Illinois, Monticello, Illinois, on September 28-29,
1997. The following speakers are scheduled to present one hour talks:
Albert Benveniste
Roger Brockett
Bruce Francis
Graham C. Goodwin
Thomas Kailath
P.S. Krishnaprasad
Sanjoy K. Mitter
Shankar Sastry
John Tsitsiklis
Pravin Varaiya
While the number of speakers is limited to those shown above, other
non-speaking participants are encouraged to attend the Workshop.
Minorities and women are strongly encouraged.
The Workshop will be held on two days, with one day, September 29,
overlapping the Thirty-Fifth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication,
Control and Computing. Attendees for the Allerton Conference need only
pay an additional Registration fee of $25 (faculty) or $15 (students) to
attend this Workshop too. For those attending this Workshop only but not
the Allerton Conference, the Registration fee is $75 (faculty) or $25
(students). Since the number of Workshop attendees is limited, registration
will be on a first come first serve basis. Please request a registration
form before September 1, 1997 by email to "becky@decision.csl.uiuc.edu" or
fax 217-244-1653 or by mail to
Workshop on Future Directions in Systems and Control
Allerton Conference
c/o Becky Lonberger
Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1308 West Main Street
Urbana, IL 61801-2307
If you would like to attend this Workshop. Indicate if you will also
be attending the Allerton Conference.
Allerton House is located twenty-six miles southwest of the
Urbana-Champaign campus of the University, in a wooded area on the Sangamon
River. It is part of the fifteen-hundred acre Robert Allerton Park, near
Monticello, Illinois.
Workshop organizer: P. R. Kumar
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Contributed by: Chrysostomos Stylios
CALL FOR PAPERS
8th IFAC/IFORS/IMACS/IFIP/ SYMPOSIUM
ON
LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS (LSS'98)
July 15 -17, 1998 University of
Patras Rio, GREECE
http://www.lar.ee.upatras.gr/lss98.html
Scope of the IFAC-LSS'96
The area of Large Scale Systems (LSS) is gaining a new momentum as we
enter the 21st century. Today more than ever before there is a need to
re-address many aspects of the modeling and control of large, complex
man-made systems. Modern complex manufacturing systems employ today
advanced technologies that require deep interdisciplinary expertise for
successful implementation. At the same time, a successful integration of
technologies and functions requires technical and functional breadth.
In the field of Large Scale Systems special attention is given to the
problems of structure, decomposition, nonlinearity, complexity and
uncertainty. The symposium will host a variety of contributed, invited
and plenary papers. It will cover all major aspects of large scale systems
from theoretical and methodological developments to practical application.
The field of LSS lately is influenced by theories of Computer Integrated
Manufacturing Systems, Informatics and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems.
The Symposium is to address various interdisciplinary aspects of these areas.
Furthermore, an emphasis on real application will be given.
Call for papers
Five copies of full papers in English should be received by the
symposium secretariat by September 15th, 1997. The papers should be
structured as follows :
paper title
each author's name and affiliation
full address (including fax and e-mail)
abstract
four keywords
topic(s) addressed from the above list.
background and main contributions
The papers will be evaluated by the International Programme Committee.
Selected full papers are to be prepared according to the instructions
sent to the authors (maximum 6 two-column pages). Accepted papers must
be presented in person at the symposium.
Call for Invited Sessions
Proposals for topics of invited sessions are especially welcome.These
proposals should contain the title of the session, a list of 5 speakers
and titles of their papers,together with abstracts completed according
to the above instructions. They should be sent to the Symposium
Secretariat by September 15th, 1997.
For further information write to :
IFAC-LSS'98, Symposium Secretariat
Laboratory for Automation and Robotics
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Patras
GR-26500 Rion Patras
GREECE
or contact the Chairman of the Symposium:
Professor P.P. Groumpos
Laboratory for Automation & Robotics
TEl : +30 61 997295
FAX : +30 61 997309
Email : groumpos@ee.upatras.gr
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Contributed by: K.M.Ebrahimi (m.ebrahimi@bradford.ac.uk)
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
AMST '98 (6th International Symposium)
APPLICATION OF MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEM TECHNIQUES
7-8 April 1998
Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
BACKGROUND:
This is the 6th international symposium on the Application of Multivariable
System Techniques and the third to be held at the University of Bradford.
Earlier meetings in 1982, 84, 87, 90, 94 were highly successful events
attracting over 100 delegates each and in 1994, 35 papers on widely varying
aspects of multivariable system identification, modelling, and control were
presented.
SCOPE:
The scope of the symposium is wide and covers, for example, the application
of multivariable and multidimensional techniques to power plant, process,
manufacturing, aeronautical and marine systems and utility industry applica-
tions. Contributions on the following areas will be especially welcome:
Design methods, identification and implementation procedures and papers
addressing commissioning and operating problems associated with specific
installations.
1)The application of multivariable control to include self-tuning, robust,
fuzzy logic, generic, neural networks and non-linear strategies, and the
computer control of multi-input/multi-output processes.
2)The application of multivariable and multidimensional system techniques
to robotic mechanisms for maintenance, manufacture or exploration.
3)Advanced methods of CAD of discrete, continuous, linear or non-linear
system control schemes and simulation.
4)Comparative fail-safe and integrity studies on the various approaches to
multivariable and multidimensional system regulation problems and viability
exercises.
SPECIAL SESSIONS:
The Organising Committee wish to invite contributions for special sessions.
These sessions will be on a selected and focused theme and may contain up to
four papers. Special session co-ordinators are requested to submit one A4
page describing the session theme together with an outline of the specific
papers. Co-ordinators will be subject to reduce conference registration fees
and will be required to chair their session.
DEADLINES:
Intending authors should note the following dates:
8th September 1997 Submission of 500 word abstract
19th September 1997 Notification of provisional acceptance
28th November 1997 Receipt of full text for final review
17th December 1997 Notification of final acceptance of paper
CONTACT ADDRESSES
Abstracts and full papers should be submitted to:
AMST'98
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Bradford
West Yorkshire BD7 1DP
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1274 384526
Telefax: +44 1274 384525
e-mail: amst@bradford.ac.uk
http://www.bradford.ac.uk/research/amst
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Contributed by: Bonnie Heck and Dawn Tilbury
Call for Papers for an Invited Session at the 1998 ACC
"Controls Education on the Web"
Topics of interest include web-based demos which illustrate systems
and controls concepts, virtual and/or physical laboratories, libraries
of benchmark or sample problems for use as class demos or computer
projects, and course administrative uses of the web. The goal of the
session is to disseminate web-based tools and resources relevant to
controls education; tutorial-style submissions are welcomed.
Please contact Bonnie Heck (bonnie.heck@ece.gatech.edu) or Dawn Tilbury
(tilbury@umich.edu) by August 15 for more information on submitting a
paper.
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Contributed by: Michael Mc Gettrick
ALAPEDES ANNUAL MEETING IN WATERFORD, IRELAND
sunday september 7 - wednesday september 10 (inclusive)
at
WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
BACKGROUND
ALAPEDES is an EU TMR research network on the ALgebraic Approach to the
Performance Evaluation of Discrete Event Systems. This conference covers
recent work in this area, and in related areas (encompassing the domains of
mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics,...) and we actively
encourage non-ALAPEDES members to present their work (especially people
working in these areas in Ireland, and industrial concerns to whom this work
may be relevant). For further information on the scientific areas covered by
ALAPEDES please see the ALAPEDEAN home page at
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~rein/alapedes/
TRANSPORT
* through Dublin: Direct airlinks exist from all major European cities.
From Dublin an Airport express bus serves the main train station
(Heuston) from which a direct train can be taken to Waterford (c.f.
timetable of Iarnrod Eireann).
* through London: British Airways operates direct flights from London
(Stansted) and London (Luton) to Waterford Airport. Consult the online
timetable for details.
* through Cork (Ireland): Cork is 120km from Waterford and has links by
train and bus. Cork airport has direct flights to a number of European
cities and many British ones.
To give a presentation, please send a one/half page abstract (preferably in
TeX) to the programme organiser.
for further information please contact
PROGRAMME ORGANISATION:
Niek Tholen ( n.tholen@math.tudelft.nl )
LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Kathryn Kiely ( kkiely@wit.ie ) Ian Downey ( idowney@wit.ie )
Paul Barry ( pbarry@wit.ie )
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Contributed by: Panos Antsaklis
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
HYBRID SYSTEMS V (HS'97)
September 11-13, 1997
at the University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
For up to date information, please consult the Web page of the
workshop at
http://www.nd.edu/~lemmon/hs97
General Chair:
Panos Antsaklis University of Notre Dame (antsaklis.1@nd.edu)
Program Chair:
Michael Lemmon University of Notre Dame (lemmon@maddog.ee.nd.edu)
Hybrid systems are interacting networks of digital and continuous systems.
Hybrid systems arise throughout business and industry in such areas as
interactive distributed simulation, traffic control, plant process control,
military command and control, aircraft and robot design, and path planning.
Three of the fundamental problems that hybrid systems theory should
address are: How to model physical and information systems as hybrid
systems; How to verify that their behavior satisfies program or performance
specifications; How to extract from performance specifications for a
network of physical systems and their simulation models digital control
programs which will force the network to obey its performance
specification. This rapidly developing area is at the interface of
control, engineering and computer science. Methods under development are
extensions of those from diverse areas such as dynamical systems, program
verification, concurrent and distributed processes, logic programming,
logics of programs, discrete event simulation, calculus of variations,
optimization, differential geometry, Lie algebras, automata, etc.
Hybrid Systems V (HS'97) will be held on the campus of the University of
Notre Dame at the Center for Continuing Education (CCE), September 11-13,
1997. The University of Notre Dame (du Lac) was founded in 1842 by a
French missionary order called the Congregation of Holy Cross. Its
1,250-acre campus, with its twin lakes and wooded areas, is located just
north of the city limits of South Bend, Indiana very close to the border
with Michigan in an area known as Michiana; lake Michigan is about 40 miles
and downtown Chicago about 90 miles away. Workshop participants can make
hotel reservations through CCE by using the workshop registration form.
There will be an informal Opening Reception on Thursday evening and a
Banquet on Friday evening. Light breakfasts and lunches will be provided
during both days, Friday and Saturday at the CCE.
Previous Hybrid Systems Workshops have taken place at the MSI/Cornell (June
10-12, 1991), the Technical University Lyngby, Denmark (Oct 19-21, 1992),
the MSI Cornell (Oct 28-30, 1994), at the DIMACS/SYCON Rutgers (Oct. 22-25,
1995), and the MSI/Cornell (October 12-14, 1996). Several Springer-Verlag
volumes on Hybrid Systems have resulted from these workshops, in particular
Hybrid Systems (Springer LNCS 736; 1992 Workshop), Hybrid Systems II
(Springer LNCS 999; 1994 Workshop), Hybrid Systems III (Springer LNCS,1066;
1995 Workshop) and Hybrid Systems IV (1996 Workshop). An additional
Springer volume is planned from the workshop in Grenoble, France on Hybrid
and Real-Time Systems (HART'97, March 26-28, 1997). There will be a
Springer-Verlag LNCS volume of refereed full papers invited and selected by
the volume editors after the Hybrid Systems V meeting.
Questions? Please contact CCE:
Tel: 1 (219) 631-6691; Fax: 1 (219) 631-8083; E-mail: cce.1@nd.edu
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Contributed by: Fathi Ghorbel
CALL FOR PAPERS CESA'98 IMACS MULTICONFERENCE
CESA'98 IMACS MULTICONFERENCE
Computational Engineering in Systems Applications
Nabeul-Hammamet, Tunisia, April 1-4, 1998.
Sponsored by IMACS and co-sponsored by IEEE/SMC
(For full information on the conference, deadlines for
submitted papers, and Tunisia, refer to the web page
of the conference http://www.ec-lille.fr/~cesa98
For more information on Tunisia check
http://www.tunisiaonline.com/
http://www.tunisie.com/)
You are invited to contribute in the two sessions described below.
1) Session on Dynamics, Control, and Design of
Biomechanical Systems.
The session will cover the following themes:
* Computer Modeling
* Human-Machine Systems
* Measurement and Data Processing
* Mathematical Modeling of Physiological and Biomedical
Engineering Systems
* Prosthetics, Orthotics and assistive devices
* Methods and Instrumentation
* Simulation and Optimization in Biomechanics
* Normal and Non-Normal Locomotion
* Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
* Assessment of Muscle Function
* Clinical and Orthopedics Biomechanics
* Occupational Biomechanics
* Sport Biomechanics
The accepted papers are expected to be based on sound
engineering approach and demonstrate innovative application
of the principles of dynamics, control and mechanical design to
bioengineering problems.
2) Session on Modeling and Control of Mechanical Systems
Papers in this session are expected to feature important aspects
of the theory and application of modeling (kinematics & dynamics)
and innovative control techniques of mechanical systems including
but not limited to serial, parallel, and nonholonomic robots;
underactuated mechanical systems; and drive (actuator/load) systems
with flexible coupling/harmonic drives. Modeling and compensation
of flexibility, friction, backlash and other nonlinear transmission
attributes in mechanical systems are topics of interest.
Schedule Summary:
August 15, 1997 : Contact organizer and submit title of paper(s)
September 8, 1997 : Submission of paper(s) for review
December 1, 1997 : Notification of acceptance
January 15, 1998 : Submission of camera ready papers
Organizer:
Fathi Ghorbel
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Rice University
6100 S. Main Street - MS 321
Houston, Texas 77005 USA
e-mail:ghorbel@rice.edu
Tel: (713) 527-8101 x 3738
Fax: (713) 285-5423
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Contributed by: Fabian Wirth
ANNOUNCEMENT and 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop
Stabilization and Robustness of Nonlinear Systems
- Methods and Applications
15.-17.9.1997
University of Bremen
SCOPE
The objective of the Symposium is to bring together mathematicians and
engineers to present and discuss recent developments in the area of
stabilization and robustness of nonlinear systems. Emphasis will be
placed on applications of new techniques as well as theoretical
advances. It is also hoped that this workshop will provide an
opportunity for an exchange of ideas between the academic and
industrial communities. To this end representatives of local industry
will be invited, and the program arranged so that on the first day
talks of particular interest to them will be presented.
TOPICS
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Hamiltonian Systems and Robotics
- Nonlinear Predictive Control
- Hybrid Systems
- Nonlinear Discrete Time Systems
- Passivity and Dissipativity Techniques for Nonlinear Control
- Time-varying and Static Feedback Stabilization
- Robustness Analysis and Robustness Measures for Nonlinear Systems
INVITED SPEAKERS
F. Allgower (Switzerland) A. Bacciotti (Italy)
J. Levine (France) H. Nijmeijer (Netherlands)
R. Ortega (France) W. Respondek (Poland)
S. Savaresi (Italy) A. van der Schaft (Netherlands)
K. Schneider (Germany) H. Schumacher (Netherlands)
R. Sepulchre (Belgium) M. C. Smith (Great Britain)
Short presentations that fall within the scope of the conference are
still solicited. Prospective authors are invited to submit 2 copies of
extended abstracts to the organizers. Other participants are most
welcome. There is a limited amount of funding for local expenses
available.
The registration form can be obtained at the web site listed below.
Send enquiries to:
Fabian Wirth
Center for Technomathematics
University of Bremen
PO BOX 330440
D-28334 Bremen
email: fabian@mathematik.uni-bremen.de
FAX: +49-421-218 4235
Visit the conference home-page at
http://www.mathematik.uni-Bremen.de/control/srns97/
or send email to
srns97@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de
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Contributed by: L. Dugard
Call for Papers
IFAC Workshop on LINEAR TIME DELAY SYSTEMS
Grenoble, France, July 6-7,1998.
The IFAC Workshop on Linear Time Delay Systems will be held from Monday
6 to Tuesday 7 July 1998, at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Ingenieurs
Electriciens de Grenoble, France.
SCOPE
The objective of this workshop is to bring together specialists in the
field of linear time-delay systems to present the state of the art and
to discuss new trends and mutual impacts of their research on the topic.
Junior people are encouraged to attend and participate in the conference.
THE TOPICS INCLUDE
Structural properties - Controllability and Observability - Stability
Stabilization - Robustness - H2 and Hinf Filtering - Numerical methods
Applications - Other infinite dimensional linear systems
CALL FOR PAPERS:
5 copies of full papers should be sent to :
L.DUGARD (LTDS98)
LAG-ENSIEG BP 46
38402 Saint-Martin-d'H?res
FRANCE
Tel. (33) 4 76 82 62 35
Fax (33) 4 76 82 63 88
E-mail: dugard@lag.ensieg.inpg.fr
DEADLINES:
Submission of full papers : November 1, 1997
otification of acceptance : February 1, 1998
Submission of final papers : April 1, 1998
RELATED EVENT:
IFAC Conference on System Structure and Control, 8-10
July 1998, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France.
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