E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
Issue 169, September, 2002
E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
Issue 169, September, 2002
Editor: Pradeep Misra
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435
USA
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Fax +937 775 3936
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Submission deadline for October eletter: September 30, 2002
Contents
0. Editorial
1. Personals
1.1 Change of Address: Frank Doyle
1.2 Change of Address: Zidong Wang
2. Awards Honors
2.1 Call for Nominations: Peter Henrici Prize
2.2 Call for Nominations - J. D. Crawford Prize
2.3 Call for Nominations - Jurgen Moser Lecture
2.4 R.E. Kalman receives Univ of Bologna Sigillum Magnum
2.5 Symposium in Honor of E. Bruce Lee
3. General Announcements
3.1 Explore Potential use DASP Technology in Control
3.2 ObjectAgent v3.0 Released
3.3 Short Course: Principles of System Identification
4. Positions
4.1 Faculty Position: Concordia Univ Canada
4.2 Head ECE Dept Colorado State Univ USA
4.3 PhD PDF: Hamilton Institute Ireland
4.4 PhD and Post-Doc: Delft Univ Netherlands
4.5 PhD positions: ETH Zurich
4.6 Post-Grad: Hamilton Institute Ireland
4.7 Research Associate: Medical Imaging USA
5. Books
5.1 Catastrophies in Control Systems
5.2 New Books from the IEE Control Series
5.3 Qualitative Analysis and Synthesis of Recurrent Neural Networks
6. Journals
6.1 Contents: Asian Journal of Control
6.2 Contents: Automatica
6.3 Contents: IEEE Trans. Automatic Control - July
6.4 Contents: IEEE Trans. Automatic Control - June
6.5 Contents: IEEE Trans on Control Syst Technology
6.6 Contents: Jour of Guidance Control and Dynamics
6.7 Contents: Modeling Identification and Control
7. Conferences
7.1 17th IEEE International Symp on Intelligent Control
7.2 2003 American Control Conference
7.3 41st Conference on Decision and Control
7.4 Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
7.5 Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control
7.6 New Technologies for Automation of Metallurgical Industry
7.7 Second Joint IEEE CSS/RAS Workshop EURON and RJS
7.8 Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems
7.9 Symposium on Info Tech in Environmental Engineering
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Personals
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Contributed by: Frank Doyle,
Change of Address: Frank Doyle
Effective July 1, 2002, I have taken a faculty position
in the department of Chemical Engineering at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
My new contact information is as follows:
Francis J. Doyle III
Department of Chemical Engineering
UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
(805) 893-8133 (Ph)
(805) 893-4731 (FAX)
doyle@engineering.ucsb.edu
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Contributed by: Zidong Wang,
Change of Address: Zidong Wang
As of August 1, 2002, I have taken up a new position at Brunel University.
My new contact information is
Dr. Zidong Wang
Department of Information Systems and Computing
Brunel University
Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, U.K.
Email: Zidong.Wang@brunel.ac.uk
Web: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/cs/
Tel: ++44/1895 274000 (ext. 2126)
Fax: ++44/1895 251686
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Awards Honors
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Contributed by: Joanna Littleton,
Call for Nominations: Peter Henrici Prize (ETHZ/SIAM)
http://www.siam.org/prizes/henrici.htm
The Peter Henrici Prize is awarded jointly by the Eidgenossische Technische
Hochschule Zurich (ETHZ) and the Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (SIAM). The prize is awarded for original contributions to
applied analysis and numerical analysis and/or for exposition appropriate for
applied mathematics and scientific computing. The prize is intended to
recognize broad and extended contributions to these subjects, rather than a
single outstanding work.
The next award will be presented at the Fifth International Congress on
Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2003) in Sydney, Australia, 7-11
July 2003.
Eligibility
There are no restrictions on eligibility beyond those specified above.
Description of the Award
The award is to include a certificate containing the citation and a cash
prize of $2500 plus reasonable travel costs to attend the prize ceremony.
Nominations
Nominations may be made by anyone, including members of the selection
committee. It is the responsibility of the nominator to provide all relevant
information to the selection committee, including a resume and any letter(s)
of support. In case his or her nominee will be chosen, the nominator will
also be asked to provide the draft of a citation of about 100 words that can
be read at the award ceremony.
Letters of nomination should be sent by DECEMBER 1, 2002, to
Prof. Martin H. Gutknecht
Chair, Selection Committee for Peter Henrici Prize
c/o Allison Bogardo
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
3600 University City Science Center
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688
U.S.A.
Telephone: 215-382-9800
Fax: 215-386-7999
E-mail: bogardo@siam.org
or to
Prof. Martin H. Gutknecht
Seminar for Applied Mathematics
ETH-Zentrum, HG
CH-8092 Zurich
Switzerland
Telephone: (+41)(0)1-632-3464
Fax: (+41)(0)1-632-1104
E-mail: gutknecht@math.ethz.ch
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Contributed by: Joanna Littleton,
Call for Nominations - J. D. Crawford Prize
SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems
The SIAG/DS J.D. Crawford Prize
The SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems will present the award at the
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems at Snowbird, May 27-31,
2003. The prize is awarded for recent outstanding work on a topic in
dynamical systems and nonlinear science, as evidenced by a publication in
English in a peer-reviewed journal within the four calendar years preceding
the award date.
Description of Award
The award will consist of a plaque, a certificate containing the citation,
and $750 plus reasonable travel expenses to attend the conference.
Nominations
Nominations should be sent by e-mail, fax, or regular mail by NOVEMBER 1,
2002 to:
SIAG/DS J. D. Crawford Prize
c/o A. G. Bogardo
SIAM
3600 University City Science Center
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688
Telephone: 215-382-9800
Fax: 215-386-7999
E-mail: bogardo@siam.org
Eligibility
The research of the candidate must contain significant contributions to the
field of nonlinear science, as evidenced by papers published in English in a
peer-reviewed journal bearing a publication date within the award period.
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Contributed by: Joanna Littleton,
Call for Nominations - The Jurgen Moser Lecture
SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems
The SIAG/DS Moser Lecture
The SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems will present the award at the
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems at Snowbird, May 27-31,
2003. The prize is awarded to a person who has made distinguished
contributions to nonlinear science. The term "nonlinear science" includes
dynamical systems theory and its applications, as well as experiments and
computations/simulations.
Description of the Award
The award will consist of a plaque, a certificate containing the citation, an
invitation to give a plenary lecture at the conference, and $1000 cash, plus
reasonable travel expenses to attend the conference.
Nominations
Nominations should be sent by SEPTEMBER 30 (revised date) to:
SIAG/DS Jurgen Moser Lecture
c/o A. G. Bogardo
SIAM
3600 University City Science Center
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688
Telephone: 215-382-9800
Fax: 215-386-7999
E-mail: bogardo@siam.org
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Contributed by: Elena Zattoni,
R.E. Kalman receives Univ of Bologna Sigillum Magnum
University of Bologna
Aula Absidale di S. Lucia, Bologna, Italy
Wednesday, September 4, 2002
R.E. Kalman has received a Doctorate honoris causa in Electronic Engineering
from the University of Bologna in occasion of the celebrations of the 900
years of Bologna University.
The lectures and the concluding panel discussion organized by the System
Theory and Identification Group (sting@deis.unibo.it) celebrate that event
and the influence of Prof. Kalman on the research performed at Bologna in
the area of System Theory and Identification:
"Origin, evolution, critique and future of Kalman filtering"
R.E. Kalman
"The geometric approach and Kalman regulator"
G. Marro
"The extension of Kalman filtering: errors-in-variables filtering"
R. Guidorzi
"A glance on the future - Discussion and conclusions"
Moderator: R.E. Kalman
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Contributed by: Tryphon Georgiou,
Symposium in Honor of E. Bruce Lee
On September 20-21, 2002, the University of Minnesota will host a workshop
in honor of Professor E. Bruce Lee on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
Professor E. Bruce Lee is a pioneering contributor to the field of optimal
control and the theory of dynamical systems, with extensive service to the
Control Community and the University of Minnesota.
For detailed information please see the following web site:
http://www.ece.umn.edu/users/EBLee_workshop/
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General Announcements
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Contributed by: Frank Papenfuss,
Explore Potential use DASP Technology in Control
(European project EURODASP)
Digital Alias-free Signal Processing (DASP) is a special advanced digital
signal processing technology for processing radio frequency and microwave
signals in a direct digital way. The technology can be used for digital
processing of signals at much higher frequencies than achievable by
traditional DSP techniques and it is beneficial for many applications. DASP
achieves this extraordinary performance by sampling signals in a special
non-uniform way leading to elimination of alias frequencies.
The project aims at digital processing of signals with bandwidths up to 3GHz
(while the systems mean sampling rate stays in the MHz range and can well be
handled by today's high speed ADC chips). The application potential of DASP
is demonstrated by a prototype system. The system consists of a digitiser
(hardware) and virtual instruments (software) performing fully digital
analysis of signals in time and frequency domain achieving a processing
bandwidth from DC up to 1.2GHz. The mean sampling rate is only 80MS/sec.
A customisable VLSI sampling driver design (using VHDL) has been made
available to interested DASP users during the course of the project and the
interested reader is encouraged to contact the EURODASP project team via the
project dedicated web page: www.eurodasp.com
The exploitation of the DASP technology facilitates creation of a wide range
of new telecommunication systems, test and measurement equipment and
scientific computer based instruments. DASP based high frequency designs are
simpler and less costly in manufacturing than traditional DSP designs. DASP
technology opens up the possibility to build digital systems the construction
of which was not feasible or even possible before. Potential benefits to
control system design gained through exploitation of DASP have not been
studied so far.
Dipl.-Ing. Frank Papenfuss
University of Rostock
Dept. of EE and Information Technology
Institute of Applied Microelectronics and Computer Science
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Contributed by: Michael Paluszek,