E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 53, Part 1 (of 2); 3 Aug 1992
Editors: Bradley W. Dickinson
bradley@princeton.edu or bradley@pucc.bitnet
Eduardo D. Sontag
sontag@hilbert.rutgers.edu or sontag@pisces.bitnet
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Contents
Changes to mailing list
Personals:
People on the move
People going up
Noted with regrets
Journals:
Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems -- NO BACKLOG
Table of Contents, MCSS Vol. 5, No. 4 (1992)
TOC: SIAM J. Control and Optimization, Nov 92
Conferences:
1992 CDC - Program Information; Hotel and Registration Forms
IFIP Conf Sys Modelling Opt, July 5-9, 1993, Compiegne, France
Workshop on Coding and Quantization, Rutgers Univ., 10/92
Joint Propulsion Conference, Monterey, CA, 6/28/93-7/1/93
Robust Control Course in Oberpfaffenhofen Sep 14-18, 1992
Proposals solicited for 1993 CDC Workshops/Short Courses
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Mailing list on wavelets
DSP E-Letter -- Aug. 1 issue contents and information
Technical Reports available via anonymous ftp
COSY_PAK = Mathematica based COntrol SYstems PAKage
Preprints & Programs: Nonlinear Dynamics, Signal Processing...
MATLAB Primer, 2nd Edition
Request for references --a priori knowledge in adaptive control
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Contributed by the Editors: Changes/Additions to mailing list.
Changes and Corrections:
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D.Clements@unsw.edu.au (David Clements, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
johnk@cs.unsw.oz.au (John Kaye, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
centrap@tamvm1.bitnet (Charles K. Chui, Texas A&M Univ., College Station)
lakshman@umdsun2.umd.umich.edu (Sridhar Lakshmanan, U. of Michigan, Dearborn)
cr57dxd@ctccummins.cummins.com (Dong Da, Cummins Engine Co.)
howe@das.harvard.edu (Rob Howe, Harvard Univ.)
janeye@sol.uvic.ca (Jane J. Ye, Univ. of Victoria, BC, Canada)
zeger@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Ken Zeger, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
yuandan@polya.sci.fau.edu (Yuandan Lin, Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton)
ersicsiep@er.ele.tue.nl (Siep Weiland, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology)
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poolla@jagger.berkeley.edu (Kameshwar Poolla, Univ. of California, Berkeley)
nsadegh@gtme.courier.gatech.edu (Nader Sadegh, Georgia Tech)
coxson@apollo.ece.wisc.edu (Greg Coxson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)
rhkluwer@world.std.com (Robert Holland, Kluwer Academic)
paulraj@rascals.stanford.edu (Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford Univ.)
cabrera@corwin.eng.yale.edu (Joao B. D. Cabrera, Yale Univ.)
datta@eemips.tamu.edu (A. Datta, Texas A&M Univ., College Station)
riskin@ee.washington.edu (Eve Riskin, Univ. of Washington, Seattle)
lillo@ecn.purdue.edu (Walter Lillo, Purdue Univ., W. Lafayette, IN)
kuschews@ecn.purdue.edu (John Kuschewski, Purdue Univ., W. Lafayette, IN)
ppw@egr.duke.edu (Paul Wang, Duke Univ., Durham, NC)
eeljs@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Len Sciacca, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)
wangle@trace.eng.wayne.edu (Le Yi Wang, Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI)
vish@phoenix.princeton.edu (Viswanath Ramakrishna, Princeton Univ.)
slin@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Shu Lin, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa)
hellas@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Vassilis Syrmos, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa)
jyee@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (James Yee, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa)
ali@odin.control.utoronto.ca (Ali Langari, Univ. of Toronto)
raisch@odin.control.utoronto.ca (Joerg Raisch, Univ. of Toronto)
branicky@lids.mit.edu (Michael Branicky, MIT)
bobt@zeus.net.com (Robert Tykulsker, Network Equip. Technologies, Redwood City)
nitish@cs.sfu.ca (Nitish Mandal, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada)
drabik@solaris.gatech.edu (Tim Drabik, Georgia Inst. of Technology)
umaurer@dgogwdg1.bitnet (Uwe Maurer, Univ. Goettingen, Germany)
srv@athena.mit.edu (S.R. Venkatesh, MIT)
liberati@ipmel1.polimi.it (Diego Liberati, Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
rapisard@univ.trieste.it (Paolo Rapisarda, State Univ. of Trieste, Italy)
shimo@bcl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Hidetoshi Shimodaira, Univ. of Tokyo)
ephui@ntivax.bitnet (Hui Ping, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)
gundes@eecs.ucdavis.edu (A. Nazli Gundes, Univ. of California, Davis)
kabuli@isi.com (M. Guntekin Kabuli, Integrated Systems, Santa Clara)
chang@eecs.ucdavis.edu (T. S. Chang, Univ. of California, Davis)
humes@ime.usp.br (Carlos Humes, Jr., Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil)
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Contributed by the Editors -- PERSONALS
********** PEOPLE ON THE MOVE ************
(1) Siep Weiland left the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of
Rice University, Houston, and accepted a position at the Measurement and
Control group of the Electrical Engineering Department of Eindhoven
University of Technology, the Netherlands. His new address:
Siep Weiland
Eindhoven University of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Telephone: +31.40.472300
Telefax: +31.40.434582
E-mail: ersicsiep@er.ele.tue.nl
(2) Yuandan Lin received his Ph.D. at Rutgers, with a dissertation entitled
"Lyapunov Function Techniques for Stabilization". He has accepted a
position as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Florida Atlantic
University, and his new address, effective mid August, is:
Mathematics Dept.
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Fl 33431
email: yuandan@polya.sci.fau.edu
(3) Frank Doyle, who is finishing up a post-doctoral position at DuPont in
Wilmington, DE, will be joining the Chemical Engineering faculty at
Purdue University for the Fall semester. Frank was recently named as
a recipient of a 1992 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award.
His research field is nonlinear process control.
(4) Carlos E. de Souza <eeced@cc.newcastle.edu.au> will be on sabbatical leave
from July 92 to June 93 at the Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble. His
work address is:
Dr. Carlos E. de Souza
Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble
ENSIEG
B.P. 46
38402 Saint-Martin-d'Heres
France
Fax (76) 82 63 88 - Tel (76) 82 62 36
Email: eeced@cc.newcastle.edu.au or desouza@lag.grenet.fr
(5) New Address:
Jane J. Ye
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Victoria
Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 2Y2
email: janeye@sol.uvic.ca
(6) Ken Zeger has moved from the University of Hawaii to the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His new coordinates:
Ken Zeger
Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois
1101 West Springfield Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Ph: (217) 333-1347 (office)
(217) 244-1642 (FAX)
zeger@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (email)
********** PEOPLE GOING UP ************
John J. Shynk was recently promoted to Associate Professor at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering.
******* NOTED WITH REGRETS *******
(Contributed by Rob Stengel <stengel@pucc.bitnet>)
DUNSTAN GRAHAM (1922-1992)
DUNSTAN GRAHAM died on July 24, 1992, a victim of cancer. He was born in
Princeton, New Jersey. He earned the B.S.E. and M.S.E. degrees in
Aeronautical Engineering from Princeton University in 1943 and 1947. After
working briefly in the Controls Group at Fleetwings in 1943, he became a
navigator in the U.S. Army Air Force. In 1947 and 1948, he was an
aerodynamicist with the Boeing Airplane Company. He then engaged in flying
qualities research at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory. From 1950 to 1955
he was with the Air Force's All-Weather Flying Division, where he ultimately
was responsible for a broad flight research program in the mechanics of
aircraft response to control, automatic pilots, radio and radar aids to
navigation, and de- icing. At Lear, Inc. between 1955 and 1959, he was Chief
Engineer for Flight Controls, in charge of development of the automatic flight
control equipment for the Boeing KC-135 jet tanker, Sud Caravelle jet
transport, SAAB J-35 fighter, Lockheed F-104 interceptor, and Northrop F-5
fighter.
In 1959, Dunstan Graham was appointed an Associate Professor of Aeronautical
Engineering at Princeton University, where he taught courses in aerospace
guidance and control and advised many graduate students in their research. He
was promoted to Professor in 1965. At Princeton, Professor Graham established
the Aerospace Systems and Mission Analysis Laboratory, which conducted
pioneering research on space flight trajectory optimization. In 1971, he
became a founding principal investigator for the FAA/NASA-sponsored Joint
University Program on Air Transportation Research, a unique collaboration with
M.I.T. and Ohio University that continues to this day. He also was a
Technical Director of Systems Technology, Inc., a firm specializing in the
analysis of aircraft flying qualities and the design of flight control
systems. He retired from teaching in 1980, continuing his professional
activities as an author, consultant, and investor in technological ventures.
His most recent paper was "Retrospective Essay on Nonlinearities in Aircraft
Flight Control," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (1991),
co-authored with Duane McRuer.
Dunstan Graham was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics. He wrote the books, Analysis of Nonlinear Control Systems
(Wiley, 1961; Dover, 1971), with Duane McRuer, and Aircraft Dynamics and
Automatic Control (Princeton University Press, 1973), with Duane McRuer and
Irving Ashkenas. Both of these books were classics in their fields. His 1953
paper, "The Synthesis of Optimum Response: Criteria and Standard Forms,"
Transactions of the AIEE, written with R. C. Lathrop, was an important
precursor of the developments in optimal control theory that followed. His
first paper, co-authored by Ted Carter, was entitled "The Sikorsky
Helicopter," and it appeared in The Princeton Engineer (1943). His
engineering research spanned nearly half a century, focusing on human factors,
air traffic control, and economic systems, as well as aerospace guidance,
control, and dynamics.
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Contributed by: The Editors
MATHEMATICS OF CONTROL, SIGNALS, AND SYSTEMS -- NO BACKLOG
We are delighted to announce that we have been able to bring the current
backlog (time from final acceptance to publication) to a minimal value,
essentially the time it takes to produce issues of the journal. (Of course,
the time it takes to evaluate a paper still depends on reviewers!)
To maintain the highest possible standards of quality, and based on a goal of
timely publication, *only a small fraction* of submitted papers can be expected
to be accepted. Papers are assigned to an Associate Editor, who makes a
publication recommendation on the basis of a detailed and careful evaluation
by at least two referees. Evaluation criteria used include originality,
substance, and quality of exposition.
Papers submitted to MCSS must be no longer than 50 double-spaced typewritten
pages, 20 pages of TeX or LaTeX in 12 point article style, or the equivalent.
This limit should be considered an absolute upper bound rather than a
suggested length; Associate Editors and reviewers are instructed to pay
careful attention to conciseness as an important characteristic of good
mathematical exposition. Longer papers will only be considered if the
submission is accompanied by a letter justifying why an exception should be
made.
The scope of the journal is described in its inside cover page, and Tables of
Contents are reproduced periodically in Eletter. Authors wishing to inquire
about the suitability of a particular topic are encouraged to contact the
Editors informally, preferably by electronic mail, prior to submission.
Bradley W. Dickinson and Eduardo D. Sontag, co-Managing Editors, MCSS
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Contributed by: the editors
Table of Contents, MCSS Vol. 5, No. 4 (1992)
Nonlinear Control of Planar Multibody Systems in Shape Space
N. Sreenath 343-363
Invertibility of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
C. M. Ozveren and A. S. Willsky 365-390
Continuity of Dynamical Systems: The Continuous-Time Case
J. W. Nieuwenhuis and J. C. Willems 391-400
Asymptotic Analysis of Nonlinear Stochastic Risk-Sensitive
Control and Differential Games
M. R. James 401-417
Factorization and the Nehari Theorem in Time-Varying Systems
G. Tadmor and M. Verma 418-451
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Contributed by: SIAM <helfrich@siam.org>
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization -- Table of Contents
Vol. 30, No. 6, November 1992
On the Time-Varying Riccati Difference Equation of Optimal Filtering
Giuseppe De Nicolao
Verification of the Self-Stabilization Mechanism in Robust Stochastic Adaptive
Control Using Lyapunov Function Arguements
Miloje Radenkovic and Anthony N. Michel
Global Time-Varying Linearization up to Output Injection
H. Hammouri and J. P. Gauthier
Constrained Controllability of Linear Discrete Nonstationary Systems in Banach
Spaces
Vu Ngoc Phat and Trinh Cong Dieu
Extended Quadratic Controller Normal Form and Dynamic State Feedback
Linearization of Nonlinear Systems
Wei Kang and Arthur J. Krener
On the Exponential Stability of Singularly Perturbed Systems
Martin Corless and Luigi Glielmo
Variants of the Kuhn--Tucker Sufficient Conditions in Cones of Nonnegative
Functions
J. C. Dunn and T. Tian
Extreme Points for Linear Optimal Control Problems with Diagonal Structure
Edward J. Anderson and Andrew J. Philpott
A Finite Fuel Stochastic Problem on a Finite Time Horizon
A. P. N. Weerasinghe
Sensitivity Analysis of Parametrized Programs Under Cone Constraints
A. Shapiro and J. F. Bonnans
Tracking and Restrictability in Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
Cuneyt M. Ozveren and Alan S. Willsky
Information Structures, Causality, and Nonsequential Stochastic Control I:
Design Independent Properties
Mark S. Andersland and Demosthenis Teneketzis
Stochastic Approximations and Adaptive Control of a Discrete-Time Single-Server
Network with Random Routing
Armand M. Makowski and Adam Shwartz
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Contributed by: TAMER BASAR <tbasar@black.csl.uiuc.edu>
THE 31ST IEEE CONFERENCE
ON DECISION AND CONTROL
Westin La Paloma
Tucson, Arizona
December 16--18, 1992
The IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) is the annual meeting of the
IEEE Control Systems Society. It is conducted in cooperation with the Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Operations Research
Society of America (ORSA). The thirty-first CDC will be held on December
16-18, 1992, at the resort hotel Westin La Paloma, Tucson, Arizona, and will
be preceded by two days of tutorial workshops. The General Chairman of the
Conference is Tamer Basar of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The Program Chairman is Sergio Verdu of Princeton University.
Below you will find some information on the Technical Program, Tutorial
Workshops, Critical deadlines to meet, Receptions and the Awards Banquet,
Special Rates on airfares and car rentals, as well as the hotel reservation
and advance conference registration forms.
The Advance Program of the Conference will be available in early to mid
September, 1992. For further information, contact the General Chairman
at 217-333-3607 (FAX: 217-244-1653; email: tbasar@black.csl.uiuc.edu).
*** A PRELIMINARY ADVANCE PROGRAM IS CURRENLY AVAILABLE FROM THE SCAD
DATABASE... SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENT ELSEWHERE IN THIS ISSUE...
_________________________________________________________________________
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
The Program Committee has received a record number of submissions in various
categories, and has put together an outstanding technical program, consisting
of invited and contributed sessions on all aspects of the theory and
application of systems, involving decision, control, optimization and
adaptation.
The conference will feature three plenary speakers:
Plenary Lecture I Complexity-Theoretic Aspects of Problems in
Control Theory
by John N. Tsitsiklis, MIT, USA
(Dec. 16, 8:30 AM)
Plenary Lecture II Smart Cars on Smart Roads: Design and Evaluation
by Pravin P. Varaiya, UC Berkeley, USA
(Dec. 17, 8:30 AM)
Bode Prize Lecture Controller Design: Getting from Theory to Practice
by Brian D.O. Anderson, Australian
National University, Canberra, Australia
(Dec. 18, 11:30 AM)
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TUTORIAL WORKSHOPS
Five one-day tutorial workshops are being planned for the Monday and
Tuesday preceding the conference :
MONDAY, December 14
* Intelligent Control with Applications (Acar, Valavanis, Berenji)
* Modeling and Scheduling in Semiconductor Fabrication (Li)
* Identification and Robust Control Interplay (Kosut, Gevers, Bitmead)
TUESDAY, December 15
* Robust Control for State Space Systems (Yedavalli, Leitmann)
* An Introduction to Control of Smart Structures (Knowles, Hagood)
For the fee structure on the tutorial workshops, see the registration form.
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CRITICAL DEADLINES
Conference Registration: November 2, 1992, for reduced fees
Hotel Reservation: November 21, 1992, for guaranteed reduced rates
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RECEPTIONS AND BANQUET
Following the CDC tradition, a welcoming reception (cash bar) will be held
on Tuesday, December 15, 1992 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Westin La Paloma.
The Awards BANQUET will take place on THURSDAY EVENING, December 17, starting
at 7:30 pm. It will feature presentations of Control Systems Society and IEEE
Awards, and brief remarks on the Conference and the state of the Society.
Banquet tickets will be included in the registration packets of
non student/retiree participants. Additional banquet tickets may be purchased
by checking the appropriate box in the conference registration form.
There will also be a closing reception starting at 6:30 pm on Friday, Dec. 18.
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TRANSPORTATION
1. Airline: Reduced airfares have been arranged with American
Airlines, for travel to Tucson from destinations
within North America. When making reservations,
either by directly calling the toll-free number
1-800-433-1790 or through your travel agency, mention
the file STAR # S01D24J.
2. Car Rental: Special rates have been arranged with AVIS, for
rentals at Phoenix or Tucson airports, to be returned
to the same point. Call 1-800-331-1600 to make
reservations, and mention the Worldwide Discount
Number B146404.
In both cases, early reservations are advised. The venue of the
Conference, Westin La Paloma, is a resort hotel, located in the
Northern part of the city, seventeen miles from Tucson International
Airport. It can be reached from the Tucson Airport by regular
limousine service, on which further information will be included in
the Advance Program. For those who would prefer to rent a car, there
will be ample (free) parking space at Westin.
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31st CDC HOTEL RESERVATION FORM
Westin La Paloma, Tucson, Arizona.
December 16-18, 1992
Name: _____________________________________________________________
Affiliation: ______________________________________________________
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Country: __________________________________________________________
Please reserve ________________ single room(s) at $90 per room
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These special convention rates are valid 7 days before and 7 days
after the conference.
$10 additional if room is shared with a third adult (over age 18).
Sharing room with: ________________________________________________
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Departure Date: ______________________ (Check out by Noon, 12:00 pm)
Please send to:
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Westin La Paloma
3800 East Sunrise Drive
Tucson, Arizona 85718/USA
FAX: (602) 577-5887
or call: (800) 228-3000 (toll free)
(602) 742-6000 (local)
and mention 31st CDC.
Reservations must be received by Saturday, November 21, 1992,
and must include a deposit for one night.
This can be paid by a check or money order in U.S. dollars or credit card.
Mastercard ______ Visa ______ American Express ______ Other ______
Credit Card No: ______________________________________
Expiration Date: ___/___ Signature: ______________________________________
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31st CDC ADVANCE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM
PART I: Registration Information
Conference Registration:
Deadline for Advance Registration: November 2, 1992
(Please circle the relevant amount)
Society Non- Student or
Member Member Retiree
Advance Registration Fee $210 $280 $60
(Before NOV. 2, 1992)
On-Site Registration $290 $375 $70
Registrations received after November 2, 1992 will be returned.
Registration fee (except for student and retiree registrants) includes
Welcoming and Farewell Receptions, Thursday's Dinner Banquet,
and one set of Conference Proceedings.
Additional Copies of Proceedings
(Member @ $90; Non-member @ $115 each) $__________________________
Conf. Registration Total $_________________________________
Workshop Registration: Not Stud.
Attend After Attend or
(Please circle the relevant amounts) CDC 11/2/92 CDC Ret.
Workship #1 (Mon)
Intelligent Control with Appl. $140 $160 $200 $65
Workshop #2 (Mon)
Modeling & Scheduling in SC Fabricat. $140 $160 $200 $65
Workshop #3 (Tues)
Robust Control for State Space Systems $140 $160 $200 $65
Workshop #4 (Tues)
Intro. to Control of Smart Structures $140 $160 $200 $65
Workshop #5 (Mon)
Identif. & Robust Control Interplay $140 $160 $200 $65
WORKSHOP TOTAL $ __________________
Extra Banquet Tickets #______ @ $50 = $__________________
TOTAL AMOUNT DUE = $ __________________
PART II:
Name _____________________________________________________________________
(last) (first) (initial)
Name on Badge ____________________________________________________________
Affiliation ______________________________________________________________
Department _______________________________________________________________
Street Address ___________________________________________________________
City ______________________ State ____________ Zip _______________
Country ________________________________ FAX: ___________________________
Accompanying Guest's Name ________________________________________________
Society Membership (Check one): _________ IEEE ________ SIAM ________ ORSA
Membership # _____________________________________________________________
TOTAL AMOUNT DUE (from Part I) US $ _____________________
Please make check or money order in US currency payable to ``31st IEEE
CDC'' and mail payment and this form to the Registration Chairman:
Professor Sean P. Meyn
University of Illinois
Coordinated Science Laboratory
1101 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Tel: (217) 244-1782; Fax: (217) 244-1653
e-mail: meyn@crime.csl.uiuc.edu
Alternatively, you can charge the total amount to:
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Proceedings Mailing: (Please check one:)
__________ Mail Proceedings directly to the above address (for
North American addresses only. No charge for mailing. No P.O.
Boxes please).
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(Mailing service will be available at the Conference,
domestic as well as international.)
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Contributed by: Francois.Tapissier@inria.fr
IFIP Conf Sys Modelling Opt, July 5-9, 1993, Compiegne, France
16e IFIP Conference on system modelling and optimization,
July 5-9, 1993, Compiegne, France
Requested sponsorships
SMF (Societe Mathematique de France)
ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathmeatics)
AFCET (Association Frangaise des Sciences et TEchnologies de l'Information et
des Systhmes)
IFAC (Internation Federation of Automatic Control)
SMAI (Sociiti de Mathimatiques Apppliquies et Industrielles)
Presentation
IFIP TC-7 aims to foster theoretical and practical research into modelling and
optimization problems in complex systems. Every two years it organizes its
general conference which brings togerther its working groups and more widely
researchers from the whole scientific community interested in optimization.
This conference presents the state of the art of recent methodological
developments in optimzation and modelling and examines these methods in the
light of real implementations and applications in various domains.
Information
The conference will be held at the University of Technology of Compihgne.
Accommodation will be provided in hotels or in student hostels. A social
programme will also be organized. Refered papers will subsequently be
publiqhed in conference proceedings. The second announcement will be sent
only to people who have returned the attached reply-card.
International programme committee
Chairman
P. THOFT CHRISTENSEN, University of Aalborg, DK
A.V. BALAKRISHNAN, University of California, USA
A. BENSOUSSAN, INRIA, F
R.E. BURKARD, Technische Universitdt Grdz, A
J. DOLEZAL, Czecholslovak Acad. Sciences, CS
I.V. EVSTIGNEEV, Academy of Sciences, Russia
E.G. EVTUSHENKO, Academy of Sciences, Russia
S.D. FLAM, Universita di Trento, I
U.G. HAUSSMANN, University of British Columbia, CND
J. HENRY, INRIA-Rocquencourt, F
M. IRI, University of Tokyo, J
P. KALL, University of Zurich, CH
A. KALLIAUER, Oesterr. Elekt. Wirtsch, A
W. KRABS, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, D
A.B. KURZHANSKI, IIASA, A
I. LASIECKA, University of Virginia, USA
C. LEMARECHAL, INRIA-Rocquencourt, F
M. LUCERTINI, Universita di Roma, I
K. MALANOWSKI, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
M. MANSOUR, ETH-Zentrum, CH
M.J.D. POWELL, University of Cambridge, GB
R.T. ROCKAFELLAR, University of Washington, USA
W.J. RUNGGALDIER, Univ. degli Studi di Padova, I
H.J. SEBASTIAN, Tech. Hochschule Leipzig, D
J. STOER, Universitbt W{rzburg, D
J.P. VIAL, Universiti de Genhve, CH
J.P. YVON, UTC et INRIA-Rocquencourt, F
J. ZOWE, Universitbt Bayreuth, D
Organization
C. GENEST, INRIA-Rocquencourt
F. TAPISSIER, INRIA-Rocquencourt
C. DEBLOIS, UTC
C. FERET, UTC
Local Organizing Committee
A. BAMBERGER, IFP
J. BLUM, Universiti de Grenoble
J.-D. BOISSONNAT, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis
J. CARLIER, UTC
G. COHEN, Ecole des Mines de Paris
B. CORNET, Ecole Polytechnique
J.-C. DODU, EDF
N. EL KAROUI, Universiti Paris VI
G. FAYOLLE, INRIA-Rocquencourt
J. HENRY, INRIA-Rocquencourt
J.-B. HIRIART-URRUTY, Universiti Paul Sabatier
G; JOLY-BLANCHARD, UTC
C. LEMARECHAL, INRIA-Rocquencourt
C. MALIVERT, Universiti de Limoges
E; PARDOUX, Universiti de Provence
M.-C. PORTMANN, Ecole des Mines de Nancy
E. ROFMAN, INRIA-Rocquencourt
C. ROUCAIROL, INRIA-Rocquencourt
J.-P. UHRY, ALMA
J.-P. YVON, UTC et INRIA-Rocquencourt
Plenary speakers (preliminary list)
J.I. DIAZ, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, E
C. GONZAGA, University of Rio de Janeiro, BR
P. KALL, University of Zurich, CH
V. KUMAR, University of Minnesota, USA
W.S. LEVINE, University of Maryland, USA
K. MALANOWSKI, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL
B. POLYAK, Inst. of Control Sciences, Russia
R. TRIGGIANI, University of Virginia, USA
Topics of the Conference Authors are invited to submit contributions on their
most recent results. The main topics of the conference are listed bellow:
A-Optimization and Systems - Theory
Duality and optimality, stability and sensitivity, system analysis
B-Optimal Control
Distributed parameter systems, game theory, nonlinear systems, control and
estimation, inverse problems, singularity perturbed systems.
C-Linear and Nonlinear Programming Algorithms
Global optimization, interior point methods, multicriteria programming,
nonsmooth optimization, parallel computing, computational geometry, large
programming problems.
D-Discrete Systems
Combinatory optimization, integer programming, discrete event systems.
E- Stochastic Optimization
Stochastic control theory, stochastic programming.
F-Applied Modelling and Optimization
Computer system modelling. Modelling and optimization in biomedicine,
communication, ecology, economics, energy and engineering. Reliability and
optimization of structural systems. Optimization based computer aided
modelling. Modelling and optimization of flexible production systems.
Distribution and logistic systems.
Instructions to authors
Five copies of extended abstracts should be sent to the Conference Office
before October 15, 1992. They should be of 2-4 pages in length (typewirteen,
single-spa ced) and should present original unpublished results. It would be
appreciated to specify the reference IFIP 93 when sending papers.
Important dates
October 15, 1992 Extended abstracts available at the Conference Office
January 15, 1993 Notification to authors
February 8, 1993 Confirmation of participation by authors
Conference Office
INRIA-Rocquencourt
Bureau des Cours et Colloques
IFIP 93
Domaine de Voluceau
B.P. 105
78153 LE CHESNAY Cedex (France)
Til. +33-1- 39 63 56 00
Fax +33-1-39 63 56 38
e-mail: symposia@inria.fr
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Contributed by: moayeri@alvand.rutgers.edu (Nader Moayeri)
Workshop on Coding and Quantization, Rutgers Univ., 10/92
Following this message is the Preliminary Program for the Joint
DIMACS/IEEE Workshop on Coding and Quantization, October 19-21, 1992,
at Rutgers University. The organizers have done their best to distill
the submissions into sessions with a common theme.
Travel Support- DIMACS and the IEEE Information Theory Society
have made some funds available for travel support. DIMACS is funded
by the National Science Foundation and can only reimburse air travel
on US airlines. The funds provided by the IT Society are reserved for
members of that society. Both organizations prefer that travel support
go to graduate students and to researchers without other means of
travel support. Please apply to the organizers at this time for travel
support, requesting a specific amount and giving IEEE membership number
if appropriate.
Lodging- Rooms have been reserved for the workshop participants
at two hotels in the vicinity of the Rutgers Busch Campus. Both
hotels provide free transportation to and from the location of
the Workshop, once in the morning and once in the evening. One
hotel is the Ramada Renaissance Hotel in East Brunswick, which
charges \$81 per night, single or double occupancy. The other one
is the Howard Johnson Lodge in Piscataway, which charges \$45 per
night, single or double occupancy. To make reservations for
rooms at the above special rates, call Ramada Renaissance at
(908) 828-2000 and Howard Johnson's at (908) 561-4488. You should
make your reservations before September 28, 1992, and make sure
to mention that you are attending the Joint DIMACS/IEEE Workshop.
Conference Services- DIMACS has developed considerable
experience in hosting workshops of this type. Lunch and fruit
platters in afternoon will be provided at no cost to the participants.
There will also be a continuous hot beverage service. The organizers
are in the process of arranging a banquet to be held in the evening
of Tuesday, October 20. The banquet will certainly be free to all
authors and quite possibly to all workshop participants. Please
inform the organizers at this time if you expect to be attending the
banquet.
We look forward to seeing you in October at the Workshop. If you do
plan to attend please inform the organizers ahead of time so that
conference services can be matched to the number of participants.
Questions regarding the workshop may be addressed to any of its
organizers:
Robert Calderbank G. David Forney, Jr. Nader Moayeri
AT&T Bell Laboratories Motorola Codex Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng.
600 Mountain Ave. 20 Cabot Blvd. Rutgers University
Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 Mansfield, MA 02048-1193 Piscataway, NJ 08855-0909
(908) 582-5800 (617) 821-7500 (908) 932-5253
(908) 582-3340 (FAX) (617) 821-4211 (FAX) (908) 932-5313 (FAX)
rc@research.att.com david_forney@mcimail.com moayeri@winlab.rutgers.edu
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Joint DIMACS IEEE Workshop on Coding and Quantization
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
October 19-21, 1992
Session I: LATTICES, DUALITY, AND SHANNON
Monday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Chair: N.J.A. Sloane
9:00-9:30 Can you hear the shape of a lattice?
N.J.A. Sloane
9:30-9:50 Existence proofs for good Euclidean space codes
A. Loeliger
9:50-10:10 Asymptotically optimal noisy channel quantization via
random coding
K. Zeger and V. Manzella
10:10-10:30 BREAK
10:30-10:50 Duality between packing and covering problems for lattices
G.D. Forney, Jr.
10:50-11:10 Generalized theta functions for lattice vector quantization
P. Sole
11:10-11:30 A coding theorem for low-rate transform codes
D.F. Lyons and D.L. Neuhoff
11:30-12:00 Tree structured signal space codes
C.F. Barnes
Session II: QUANTIZATION
Monday Afternoon, 2:00-5:00
Chair: D.L. Neuhoff
Part A: HIGH RATE THEORY
2:00-2:30 The other asymptotic theory of lossy source coding
D.L. Neuhoff
2:30-2:50 Block-constrained quantizers: introduction and asymptotic analysis
A.S. Balamesh and D.L. Neuhoff
2:50-3:10 Syndrome-based VQ codebooks
P.F. Swaszek
3:10-3:30 BREAK
Part B: FUNDAMENTALS AND COMBINED SOURCE-CHANNEL CODING
3:30-4:00 The quantization problem for coded systems
E. Zehavi
4:00-4:20 The optimality of the natural binary code
S.W. McLaughlin, D.L. Neuhoff, and J. Ashley
4:20-4:40 Multiple description scalar quantizer design: good index
assignments
V. Vaishampayan
4:40-5:00 Structured vector quantizers as generalized product codes
W.-Y. Chan and A. Gersho
Session III: TRELLIS-CODED QUANTIZATION
Tuesday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Chair: T.R. Fischer
9:00-9:30 Pyramid cubic lattice and trellis codes
T.R. Fischer and J. Pan
9:30-9:50 A new construction of trellis-coded quantizers
R.J. van der Vleuten and J.H. Weber
9:50-10:10 Wavelet coding of images using trellis coded quantization
P. Sriram and M.W. Marcellin
10:10-10:30 BREAK
10:30-11:00 Trellis-based scalar-vector quantizer for memoryless sources
R. Laroia and N. Farvardin
11:00-11:20 Vector quantization using lattice and trellis bounded codebooks
M.V. Eyuboglu and A. Balamesh
11:20-11:40 Bounds on the sizes of constant weight covering codes
T. Etzion, V.K. Wei and Z. Zhang
Session IV: FINITE-STATE MACHINES
Tuesday Afternoon, 2:00-3:30
Chair: A.R. Calderbank
2:00-2:30 Sliding block codes for finite state machines with forbidden
submachines
R. Karabed and P.H. Siegel
2:30-2:50 Covering properties of convolutional codes and associated lattices
A.R. Calderbank, P.C. Fishburn, and A. Rabinovich
2:50-3:10 Trellis codes, symbolic dynamics, and isometries
C. Heegard and E. Rossin
3:10-3:30 The design of finite state machines for quantization using
simulated annealing
E. Ayanoglu and E.E. Kuroglu
3:30-3:50 BREAK
3:50-5:00 TENTATIVELY RESERVED FOR DISCUSSIONS.
WORKSHOP BANQUET
Tuesday Evening, 7:00-10:00
Session V: CODING APPLICATIONS
Wednesday Morning, 9:00-12:00
Chair: D.J. Costello, Jr.
9:00-9:30 The M-algorithm, the failure of reduced-state
sequence detection with good convolutional codes,
and some implications for trellis coding
J.B. Anderson and E. Offer
9:30-9:50 An algebraic approach to constructing convolutional codes
from quasi-cyclic codes
Y. Levy and D.J. Costello, Jr.
9:50-10:10 Table driven decoding of convolutional codes with soft decisions
H. Koorapaty, D.L. Bitzer, A. Dholokia, and M.A. Vouk
10:10-10:30 BREAK
10:30-10:50 Rotationally invariant multilevel codes
J.N. Livingston
10:50-11:10 Constellations for diversity
K. Kerpez
11:10-11:30 Bounded expansion codes for error control
A.S. Khayrallah
11:30-11:50 A bound on zero-error list coding capacity
E. Arikan
Session VI: QUANTIZATION APPLICATIONS
Wednesday Afternoon, 2:00-4:00
Chair: J. Johnston
2:00-2:30 Geometric vector quantization for subband-based video coding
C. Podilchuk and A. Jacquin
2:30-2:50 Quantization analysis in multirate filter banks by spectral theory
C.W. Kok and S.H. Leung
2:50-3:10 Recursively indexed differential pulse code modulation
K. Sayood and S. Na
3:10-3:30 BREAK
3:30-4:00 Quantization with perceptual criteria
J. Johnston
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Contributed by: R. Ravi (ravi@crd.ge.com)
Joint Propulsion Conference, Monterey, CA, 6/28/93-7/1/93.
CALL FOR PAPERS
ASME Session on
CONTROL AND ANALYSIS OF PROPULSION SYSTEMS
at the
29th AIAA/SAE/ASME/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference
and Exhibit
28 June -- 1 July 1993
Doubletree and Marriott Hotels
Monterey, California
Papers are invited in all areas of linear and nonlinear
control law design, system analysis and simulation, related
mathematical sciences such as detection and identification
lgorithms, and dynamic modeling for control purposes. Both
theory and application papers are welcome, provided there is
a connection to air, land, sea, or space propulsion.
Send a two-page abstract to:
Rajamani Ravi
Control Systems Laboratory
KW-D209, GE--Research & Development Center
P.O. Box 8, Schenectady NY 12301
Ph: (518) 387 5354
Fax: (518) 387 5164
email: ravi@crd.ge.com
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: October 21, 1992.
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Contributed by: Juergen Ackermann <df57@DLRVM.Bitnet>
Short Course on Robust Control in Oberpfaffenhofen
SHORT COURSE ON ROBUST CONTROL
September 14-18, 1992 in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Course Description
Four-wheel steering of cars, automatic steering of cars, a crane and
a flight control problem are used as benchmark examples to illustrate
analysis and design of control systems with uncertain physical
parameters like velocity, vehicle mass and road surface condition,
rope length and load of a crane, altitude and Mach number of the airplane.
A first message of this short course is that it is worthwhile to trace
the uncertainty in physical parameters through plant modelling,
appropriate forms of the closed-loop characteristic polynomial,
discretization etc. whenever possible. Thus results of robustness
analysis are nonconservative (in contrast to the common over-
bounding approaches that assume coefficient uncertainties in
nominal mathematical models). Two tools for nonconservative
design of robust control systems are introduced. Both are based
on simultaneous design for a finite number of parameter sets
(e.g. vertices of ''uncertainty box'') and subsequent robustness
analysis for the continuum of parameters.
A second message is that modern approaches for robustness
analysis like Kharitonov's theorem, the edge theorem, the
Tsypkin-Polyak locus, and the construction of value sets by tree-
structured decomposition of the characteristic polynomial can
make the robustness analysis more efficient and safe than
brute-force gridding of all uncertain parameters. The
application of the theory is illustrated by Matlab exercises.
Lecturers: Juergen Ackermann, Dieter Kaesbauer,
Wolfgang Sienel, Reinhold Steinhauser
For course program and registration please fax to
Carl-Cranz-Gesellschaft +49-8153-281345
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Contributed by: Christos G. Cassandras <cassandras@ecs.umass.edu>
PROPOSALS SOLICITED FOR WORKSHOPS AT THE
1993 IEEE CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL
The Program Committee of the 1993 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
is soliciting short proposals for one-day Workshops to be held during the two
days (Monday and Tuesday) prior to the conference. The 1993 IEEE
CDC will be held in San Antonio, Texas, on December 15-17.
The Workshops are intended to cover areas of current interest to CDC
participants, and should provide comprehensive coverage of a specific area,
including theoretical foundations, solution methodologies, and
applications. The Committe is particularly interested in seeing Workshops
where explicit software or hardware tools are presented for the benefit
of the attendees.
The Organizing Committee will select the Workshops to be included in the
Conference during its next meeting in December 1992. Decisions will be based
on the following material:
1. A Workshop Title.
2. A brief statement (no more than 5 lines) of the Workshop objectives.
3. A brief summary (no more than 1/2 page) describing the Workshop
content.
4. A brief tentative outline of the Workshop.
5. A brief Biographical Note (no more than 1 page) of the Workshop
Organizer(s).
6. A list of other or similar Workshops/Courses on the same topic
offered within the last 3 years.
This material should be submitted to the 1993 CDC Workshop Chair by November
30, 1992:
Christos G. Cassandras
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
You may submit this material by FAX at (413) 545-1993, or electronically
at cassandras@ecs.umass.edu.
For additional information, you may contact the Workshop Chair above
by FAX, e-mail, or telephone (413-545-1340).
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End of Eletter 53, Part 1 (of 2); Aug 92
E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 53, Part 2 (of 2); 3 Aug 1992
Editors: Bradley W. Dickinson
bradley@princeton.edu or bradley@pucc.bitnet
Eduardo D. Sontag
sontag@hilbert.rutgers.edu or sontag@pisces.bitnet
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Contents of Part 2
UPATE ON SCAD DATABASE -- 92 CDC PROGRAM ABAILABLE ONLINE ***NOW*** !!
Misc:
Input for Spectrum Article WANTED URGENTLY
Call for Votes -- Discussion Group on Control Engineering
Mailing list on wavelets
DSP E-Letter -- Aug. 1 issue contents and information
Technical Reports available via anonymous ftp
COSY_PAK = Mathematica based COntrol SYstems PAKage
Preprints & Programs: Nonlinear Dynamics, Signal Processing...
MATLAB Primer, 2nd Edition
Request for references --a priori knowledge in adaptive control
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Contributed by Raimund J. Ober <ober@utdallas.edu>
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papers
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contains the program of the 1992 CDC of invited
sessions
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Contributed by: Kishan Baheti <rbaheti@nsf.gov>
Input for Spectrum Article
Input for Spectrum Article
Dear Colleague:
IEEE SPECTRUM Magazine is soliciting inputs from various IEEE Societies
for January 1993 issue "Technology 93". The focus is on recent successes
of technology that have made significant impact on
devices/equipments/software and may contribute to further developments.
We need your help in documenting technological successes of Control
Engineering. Specifically, examples of how modern multivariable/adaptive,
nonlinear and other control design methods have impacted new products,
processes and systems. You may consider specific examples from the
following:
Aircraft Control System
Jet Engine Control System
Chemical Process Control System
Automotive Control System
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Intelligent Highways
Others
A letter from Spectrum is attached that provides more details.
Please e-mail or FAX one or two pages of material ducumenting a specific
application. Since time is very short, please give this task high
priority and send the information as soon as possible (no later than
August 10).
Please indicate by e-mail if you are interested in responding to this
request. You may send your reply to:
Kishan Baheti Tim Johnson
e-mail: rbaheti@nsf.gov e-mail: johnsontl@crd.ge.com
FAX: 202-357-9498 FAX: 518-387-5164
Tel: 202-357-9618 Tel: 518-387-5096
Abe Haddad
e-mail: ahaddad@eecs.nwu.edu
FAX: 708-491-4455
Tel: 708-491-3641
SPECTRUM LETTER:
Prof. Abraham Haddad
Department of EE/CS
2145 Sheridan Road
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208-3118
Re: Control Systems Society
Dear Prof. Haddad:
Spectrum is beginning work on its January 1993 issue, "Technology 93".
This year we will call upon those experts in your own field, particularly
those members of your control Systems Society who have the time and
experience to contribute. The final due date for submitted material is
September 14. I hope you can provide background material (not a bylined
manuscript) on the "status of technology" pertinent to your society that
our editors can examine for possible use in preparing this issue.
We want to highlight developments that are at the "cutting edge" of
technology, but that are nevertheless real, not theoretical; hence we will
be emphasising hardware and real (existing) software. It is our intention
to cite actual systems, products, and manufacturesr where helpful and
appropriate.
The material each contributor submits may be of any length ; we will
review, organize, and edit to suit. A final target length (8 words per
line) might be 120-150 lines (1000-2000 words) , but this is nominal and
will vary according to the relative significance of the material. You may
wish to have several Control Systems Society members send separate inputs
through direct staff contacts with manufacturers and/or users.
While we will attempt to circulate final copy to all contributors, that may
well prove a logistic impossibility. Therefore, we urge careful checking
of material prior to submission. Whenever possible, however, final copy
will be sent to the President of the germane Society.
The information covered should help the reader answer these questions:
(1) What existing technologies were best exploited during 1992 (or more
accurately, September 1991 to September 1992) to improve
devices/equipment/software or generate new devices/equipment/software?
(2) Identify the improvements, or the characteristics of such
hardware/software, explicitly.
(3) What new or advanced applications does said hardware/software permit
or suggest ?
(4) Does the progress made in 1992 suggest further improvements in the
same or similar areas in 1993? Cite what they might be.
(5) What are the broad implications of the foregoing actual and/or
projected developments on solutions to long-standing technical problems or
needs, or to current sociotechnical (public interest) problems?
Some of the areas with which your Society is concerned will undoubtedly not
lend themselves to this treatment -- so please omit them.
Finally, if you can obtain or suggest charts, illustrations or diagrams
that will complement your submission, please do so.
One of our staff editors will call you to discuss this project in greater
detail.
Thank you so much for your time.
Sincerely,
Trudy E. Bell
Senior Editor
Phone: 212-705-7575
fax: 212-705-7453
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Contributed by: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence)
(Editor's note: this was extracted from a bboard)
CALL FOR VOTES -- DISCUSSION GROUP ON CONTROL ENGINEERING
This is the first call for votes for an unmoderated group for discussion
of topics related to the theory and practice of control engineering.
The request for discussion (RFD) was published
about one month ago, and the discussion surrounding the group's
creation was generally positive. It's now time to put it to a vote.
NAME:
sci.engr.control
STATUS:
unmoderated
CHARTER:
This forum aims to encourage discussion and free exchange of ideas
amongst practicing control engineers, researchers and students on any
subject related to the practice or theory of control systems and
control engineering.
The group aims to cover any subject related to control engineering including
theory, research, and practice but particularly the use and future development o
f computer-based applications for the analysis, design, simulation and
implementation of control systems. Examples of suitable topics would be
o data definitions for control systems design packages
o user interfaces for control systems design packages
o system modelling languages
o simulation packages
o environments for the integration of CAD tools for control
o the application of new computer science techniques
in control systems design and implementation
o commercial control systems design and analysis packages
o new theories
o applications of control (e.g. process industries, aerospace,
transport, manufacturing, ...)
o real-time software
o social and environmental impact of control systems
o non-engineering applications (e.g. economics, social, ...)
o control systems education
* One aim is to stimulate the exchange of ideas about what software
systems should be devloped to support the analysis, design and
implementation of control systems with a longer term-aim of the
development of guidelines or examples of good practice that will
eventually bring freedom to users and developers of computer-based
tools.
* Another aim is to provide timely notice of new academic ideas and
control methods and to encourage the take-up of advanced control by
industry.
* A further implicit aim is to try to break down the communication
barriers that traditionally exist in the control community and to
introduce them to the joys of the Internet, thereby widening their
horizons and opening their eyes to the benefits of the free exchange of
ideas that other users of computers have known for some time.`
VOTING PROCEDURE:
Send votes to: eeantono@pyr.swan.ac.uk
Preferably your message should include one of the following lines
in the body of the text:
I vote YES for sci.engr.control
I vote NO for sci.engr.control
We will be flexible in accepting other wording providing your vote
is made clear and unambiguous. If we receive more than one vote
from the same account;
o If the votes are for the same side of the issue, We will
count the votes as one vote. We will send email informing
the voter that their vote is only being counted once.
o If the votes are for opposite sides of the issue, We will
throw out both votes. I will send email informing the
voter that their vote is being discounted in this case.
The voting period ends at 00:00 BST (01:00 GMT) on Monday, Aug 31, 1992.
In order for your vote to be counted we must receive it before then.
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Contributed by: wavelet@isaac.math.scarolina.edu (Wavelets Mailing List)
"WAVELET DIGEST" available by EMAIL
Nowadays, wavelets are one of the most rapidly developing research areas
both in pure/applied mathematics and signal/image processing.
More and more people are becoming interested in using wavelets
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Contributed by the DSP E-LETTER editors
Table of Contents
E-LETTER on Digital Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 4, August 1, 1992
o Journal Table of Contents:
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing: September 1992
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing: October 1992
o Conference Registration/Submission Information:
IEEE 1993 International Conference on Acoustic, Speech
and Signal Processing (ICASSP) -- CALL FOR PAPERS
ICASSP-93, Special Session on Education in Signal Processing --
CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Fifth DSP Workshop - Announcement
IEEE Sixth SP and Array Processing Workshop - Announcement
IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing --
ADVANCE PROGRAM
o Book Announcements:
Symbolic and Knowledge-based Signal Processing
Alan V. Oppenheim and S. Hamid Nawab, editors
Anatomy of a Silicon Compiler
Robert W. Brodersen, editor
Elements of Information Theory
By Thomas M. Cover and Joy Thomas
o Thesis Abstracts
"Principal Component Learning Networks and Applications"
By Konstantinos I. Diamantaras
(Thesis Advisor: S. Y. Kung)
To subscribe, please contact one of the editors:
Editors: Vijay K. Madisetti Douglas B. Williams
vkm@eedsp.gatech.edu dbw@eedsp.gatech.edu
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Contributed by: roger@isy.liu.se (Roger Germundsson)
Technical Reports available via anonymous ftp
Some of the technical reports produced by Reglerteknik at
Linkoping University (i.e. Lennart Ljung, Torkel Glad et.al.)
are now available through anonymous ftp at:
joakim.isy.liu.se (130.236.24.1)
Check the README file under /pub/reports for more information.
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Contributed by: Narasingarao Sreenath <sree@mishna.esys.cwru.edu>
COSY_PAK = Mathematica based COntrol SYstems PAKage
Announcing
COSY_PAK
(A symbolic COntrol SYstems analysis PAcKage)
Version 0.81
(NO USER FEE RELEASE)
for
Mathematica Version 2.0 and higher
by
C.K.Chen N. Sreenath
==> INTRODUCTION
COSY_PAK is set of packages and notebooks for classical control and (some)
modern (state space) control analysis and design methods. The notebooks in
COSY_PAK follow a typical`Control Engineering I' course taught at many
universities around the world for the junior/senior level undergraduates.
There is NO FEE to use COSY_PAK but certain responsibilities are expected of
the user (see Copyright notice in the README file included below).
COSY_PAK is available via `anonymous ftp' from
veda.esys.cwru.edu (INTERNET No : 129.22.40.9)
in the /pub directory.
P.S.: A typical ftp session in UNIX is given after the README file.
==> FUTURE RELEASES
If you would like to receive updates and newer versions of COSY_PAK please
send mail to the address below. In addition, your comments and suggestions are
appreciated and are invaluable to us. We will do our best to fix any reported
bugs. However, we cannot fix those bugs that have not been reported to us and
those we do not know of. We would very much apprecite you taking a few minutes
to communicate to us via e-mail / US Mail / Telephone / FAX. This will help us
to release bug-free versions in the future. Comments are welcome
N. Sreenath
Systems Engineering Department
Case School of Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
******************
e-mail: sree@veda.cwru.edu
U.S. Mail:
Prof. N. Sreenath Tel.: (216) 368-6219
Systems Engg., Crawford Hall FAX: (216) 368-3123
Case Western Reserve Univ.
Cleveland OH 44106-7070
...from README file (parts omitted --the editors):
--> Copyright
:Copyright: Copyright 1992 by C. K. Chen and N. Sreenath, Case
Western Reserve University.
Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that
the above copyright notice appear in supporting documentation, and the name of
the Case Western Reserve University, Case School of Engineering not be used in
advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without
specific, without prior permission. Case Western Reserve University makes no
representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is
provided "as is" with out express or implied warranty.
--> Acknowledgements
Support from CWRU Information and Network Services - Dr. Ray Neff, Case
Alumni Association, The Lilly Foundation and the Systems Engineering
Department of Case Western Reserve University is gratefully acknowledged.
Special thanks to Brian Evans of Georgia Tech for letting us use the LaPlace
transform and signals packages which is a part of the Signal Processing
Packages :Copyright: Copyright 1989-1991 by Brian L. Evans, Georgia Tech
Research Corporation.
---> Version Update from 0.8 to 0.81
The directory structure where the packages reside have been changed in the
notebooks. Now the directories are in line with the Signal Processing Packages
by Brian Evans of Georgia Tech. Thus a user already using the Signal
Processing Packages just have to set the correct path rather than having
duplicate package files.
--> Introduction
This is an unsupported release of COSY_PAK - a COntrol SYstems analysis
PAcKage for symbolic control systems analysis using Mathematica 2.0 and
higher. Classical control systems analysis and design methods and some modern
control systems methods have been implemented in this package.
This package and the attendant notebooks were developed on a NeXT (TM)
computer (an UNIX based workstation). They have been used as a supplementary
teaching aid along with a standard control engineering text (Ogata [1991]) for
an undergraduate course in `Control Engineering I' taught at the Systems
Engineering Department of CWRU. In addition to the NeXT, they have also been
tested successfully on Apple Macintosh computers (TM), and, IBM PC's (TM)
running MS Windows(TM). We would be very much interested to hear from you if
you or anybody you know uses this software on platforms not mentioned above.
IBM users however will have to evaluate the notebooks first to visualize the
graphics.
Once installed (see below for instructions), this collection of
Mathematica packages can be loaded by any user. Bundled with the packages are
many notebooks ("COSY_Notes") which demonstrate the functionality of these
packages. The notebooks follow a plan of many fine, standard, undergraduate
Control Engineering text books listed in the references. Examples used in
these notebooks have been collected from the various references given at the
end of this file. The contents of the notebooks in the "COSY_Notes" directory
are given below.
----------- Begin "COSY_Notes" Contents -----------
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 01_Introduction.ma
CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Control Systems
Sections:
Analyticity
Poles and Zeros
Signals
Forward Laplace Transforms
Inverse Laplace Transforms
Differential Equation With Zero-Valued Initial Conditions
Differential Equation With Initial Conditions
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 02_Math_Models.ma
CHAPTER 2: Mathematical Modeling of Dynamic Systems
Sections:
ODE to State Space
Linearization of a Nonlinear System of Equations
State Space to Transfer Function
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 03_Transient_Response.ma
CHAPTER 3: Transient-Response Analysis
Sections:
Time Response Analysis
First order System
First Order System (Step Response vs. Time Const)
Second Order System
Second Order System (Step Response vs. Damping Ratio)
Third Order and Higher Order Systems
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 04_Steady_State_Response.ma
CHAPTER 4: Steady-State Response
Sections:
Routh's Stability
Steady-State Error Analysis
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 05_Root_Locus.ma
CHAPTER 5: Root-Locus Analysis
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 06_Freq_Response.ma
CHAPTER 6: Frequency-Response Analysis
Sections:
Bode Plot Analysis
Magnitude vs. Phase Plot (Nichols Plot)
Polar Plot
Nyquist Plot
Combined Example
NOTEBOOK FILE NAME: 07_State_Space.ma
CHAPTER 7: State Space Methods
Sections:
Introduction
State Transition Matrix
Time Response Using State Space Methods
Controllability
Observability
Output Controllability
Pole Placement Design
Observer Design
----------- End Notebook Contents -----------
--> Compressed Files
The files that contain a complete set of the COSY_PAK packages and
Notebooks for Mathematica are:
COSY_PAK_081.tar.Z compressed tar file for Unix systems
COSY_PAK_081.sit.hqx compressed archived .sit.hqx file for
Macintosh systems (requires the
shareware Stuffit file v 1.5.1
or higher)
COSY_PAK_081.sit compressed sit (requires the shareware
Stuffit file v 1.5.1 or higher) file
for Macintosh systems
COSY_PAK_IBM_081.zip zip file for the IBM PC running MS-DOS
Once expanded the Mathematica files can also be used on
Macintosh / IBM PC / Unix systems also.
--> Installation of COSY_PAK, how to submit bug reports, etc...
[Note: we omitted this -- readers should download this info --the Editors]
NOTE : The files in "Laplace" directory are from the very fine Signal
Processing Packages courtesy Brian Evans of Georgia Institute of Technology.
We use their Laplace and Inverse Laplace transform in our packages instead of
the buggy one in Mathematica 2.0. The complete Signal Processing packages are
available in anonymous ftp site (gauss.eedsp.gatech.edu or IP#130.207.226.24).
In addition we also use standard signals such as `impulse', `step' and
`ramp' from this package.
TYPICAL `ftp' session :
-----------------------
%ftp veda.esys.cwru.edu
Connected to veda.
220 veda FTP server (Version 5.20 (NeXT 1.0) Sun Nov 11, 1990) ready.
Name (veda.esys.cwru.edu:sree): anonymous
Password:
ftp> cd /pub
ftp> binary
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
COSY_PAK_08.tar.Z
COSY_PAK_IBM_08.zip
Index
README
.places.wmd
COSY_PAK_untar
226 Transfer complete.
78 bytes received in 0 seconds (15.35 Kbytes/s)
ftp> get COSY_PAK_08.tar.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for COSY_PAK_08.tar.Z (460822
bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
local: COSY_PAK_08.tar.Z remote: COSY_PAK_08.tar.Z
460822 bytes received in 1.33 seconds (3.38e+02 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
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Contributed by: the editors
PREPRINTS & PROGRAMS: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS, SIGNAL PROCESSING, ETC
This may be of interest to our readership
(extracted from comp.theory.dynamic-sys)
Hello there! I'm running an archive site of a preprints and programs
for nonlinear dynamics, signal processing, and related subjects The node
name is "lyapunov.ucsd.edu" (132.239.86.10) at the Institute for Nonlinear
Science, UC San Diego. Login in with anonymous FTP, username "anonymous" and
password = your email address. You are looking at the pub/README file.
I encourage other people to contribute what they might find useful. If you
wish to do so, contact me at the email address below.
Matt Kennel
mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu
5/31/92
PS: It would be considerate if you download things and seriously use them,
that you email me or whoever the contact is, perhaps to discuss what you're
working on, or to clarify things. Just a way of keeping in touch with the
others in this business. Thanks, matt.
==========================================================================
New Things: 7/28/92
In directory "inls-ucsd"
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1) In directory "lyp-noise":
Paper: Reggie Brown, "Computing Lyapunov Exponents for Short and/or
Noisy Data Sets". Preprint submitted to PRL.
This paper in fact describes a procedure for modelling using orthogonal
polynomials that seems quite robust to noise and relatively easy to
implement. The orthogonal function expansion ought to be useful for
general modelling problems as well. *** NEW 7/28/92 ***
In directory "univ-melbourne"
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1) In directory "embed", a program to do the Broomhead-King SVD embedding
procedure, by Louis Mittoni.
Completely self contained. *** NEW 7/28/92 ***
In directory "univ-portland"
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1) In directory "mutinfo_fraser", Andy Fraser's program to compute
mutual information. *** NEW 7/28/92 ***
==========================================================================
Contents as of 7/28/92
=======================
In directory "univ-wuerzberg-germany"
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1) In directory "mutinfo-1.21" and tar file "mutinfo-1.21.tar.Z":
And also directory "redund-1.0" and tar file "redund-1.0.tar.Z"
Program to compute Mutual Information, using Andy Fraser's algorithm.
Program package kindly provided by Thomas-Martin Kruel, Institute
for Physical Chemistry, Wuerzburg University, Germany. Program
"redund" is for higher dimensions. (Ed: Watch out though--mutual information
requires lots of data in high dimensions)
2) In directory "hyperchaos_in_a_surface_reaction" and tar file
hyperchaos_in_a_surface_reaction.tar. *NEW 7/16/92*
This is a poster presented at the international conference
"Dortmunder Dynamische Woche: Spatio-Temporal Organization in
Nonequilibrium Systems"
held at Herdecke near Dortmund (Germany) from June 21 to 26, 1992.
Thomas-Martin Kruel, July 10th, 1992.
<kruel@phys-chemie.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de>
3) In directory "lce-1.10" and tar file "lce-1.10.tar.Z":
This is LCE, a program package to compute the complete spectrum
of Lyapunov exponents from time series of experimental data.
The current version is 1.10 as of Oct 11, 1991. *NEW 7/16/92*
For a complete description of theory and algorithms, see:
Th.-M. Kruel, M. Eiswirth und F.W. Schneider, "Computation of Lyapunov
Spectra: Effect of Interactive Noise and Application to a Chemical
Oscillator", Physica D, to appear (1992).
See also:
M.Sano and Y.Sawada, "Measurement of the Lyapunov Spectrum from a Chaotic
Time Series", Prog.Theor.Phys. 55, 1082 (1985).
where the basic idea appeared first.
{editorial note: See also "local_exponents" paper and
"lyp-noise" paper below and references therein---mbk}
In directory "inls-ucsd"
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1) In directory "lyp-noise":
Paper: Reggie Brown, "Computing Lyapunov Exponents for Short and/or
Noisy Data Sets". Preprint submitted to PRL.
This paper in fact describes a procedure for modelling using orthogonal
polynomials that seems quite robust to noise and relatively easy to
implement. The orthogonal function expansion ought to be useful for
general modelling problems as well. *** NEW 7/28/92 ***
2) In directory "embedding" and tar file "embedding.tar.Z":
Program and paper text for minimum embedding dimension
calculation. Paper by MB Kennel, R Brown, and HDI Abarbanel,
program by MB Kennel. Published: Phys Rev A March 15 (1992).
3) In directory "fractal_image_processing", and tar file
"fractal_image_processing.tar":
Demo programs, and expository paper for fractal image
decompression, SPARC & PC, by Yuval Fisher, UCSD
4) In directory "local_exponents" and tar fiel "local_exponents.tar.Z":
Paper, "Local Lyapunov Exponents Computed from Observed Data",
by HDI Abarbanel, R Brown, and MB Kennel, UCSD. To be published
in Journal of Nonlinear Science, 1992.
5) In directory "noise_vs_chaos", and tar file "noise_vs_chaos.tar.Z"
Paper, "A Method to Distinguish Possible Chaos From Colored Noise
and Determine Embedding Parameters", by MB Kennel, and S Isabelle, UCSD & MIT
To be published in Phys Rev A.
In directory "univ-melbourne"
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1) In directory "embed", a program to do the Broomhead-King SVD embedding
procedure, by Louis Mittoni.
Completely self contained. *** NEW 7/28/92 ***
In directory "univ-portland"
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1) In directory "mutinfo_fraser", Andy Fraser's program to compute
mutual information. *** NEW 7/28/92 ***
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Please note that all subdirectories have their entire contents duplicated
in a ".tar.Z" file, so if you're getting the whole thing, it's faster and
easier on my logs to just to pick up the single file instead. If you're
downloading a .Z file, make sure to type "binary" on a line by itself
to the FTP program before you download! Also note that this machine is
just another workstation on our network and is sometimes slow because
somebody's working on the console.
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Good luck.
If you're interested in submitting things and just have general questions,
feel free to contact me,
Matt Kennel
mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu
--
-Matt Kennel mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu
-Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego
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Contributed by: sigmon@math.ufl.edu (Kermit Sigmon)
MATLAB Primer, 2nd Edition
The Second Edition of the MATLAB Primer is now available.
The plain TeX source of the latest version of the Primer will always
be available via
---Anonymous ftp from math.ufl.edu as the file
primer.tex in the directory pub/matlab, and
---Listserv: Send an email message to listserv@math.ufl.edu
containing the single line: send matlab/primer.tex
It should soon be available from NetLib by sending an email message to
netlib@ornl.gov containing the single line:
send primer.tex from matlab/teaching
However, I cannot assure you that this file will be the latest version.
It can also be obtained by sending a request to the author at the
address below.
The Matlab Primer is intended to help students---and others---learn to
use Matlab. Extensive experience has shown that the Primer, along
with the on-line help facility, usually suffice for the students to
use MATLAB in a classroom setting. It is not intended to replace the
complete MATLAB User's Guide which is assumed to be available for
review at certain locations as a source of more in-depth information.
The second edition retains the character of the first as described
above. The primary changes from the first edition are inclusion of
more informative examples of M-files and a much more complete section
on graphics.
While the Primer is based on version 3.5 of MATLAB, it is compatible
with version 4.0 with the fundamental differences noted. An edition
of the Primer based on version 4.0 is under development.
The most convenient method of distribution seems to be through a local
copy center where the student can purchase it spiral bound for about $3.
Kermit Sigmon sigmon@math.ufl.edu
Department of Mathematics
University of Florida 904-392-6719 (my office)
Gainesville, FL 32611 904-392-0281 (message)
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Contributed by: Christian Omlin <omlinc@cs.rpi.edu>
Request for references --a priori knowledge in adaptive control
Request for references --a priori knowledge in adaptive control
I am interested in the incorporation of a priori knowledge in
(adaptive) control and signal processing problems. I would appreciate any
references to such work. Replies will be summarized and reposted
to all who respond.
Thank you very much in advance.
Christian
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End of Eletter 53, Part 2 (of 2); Aug 1992