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This volume is the proceedings of an IIASA conference held in Sopron, Hungary, whose purpose was to bring together prominent control theorists and practitioners from the east and west in order to focus on fundamental systems and control problems arising in the areas of modelling and adaptive control.

Procedures and results are determined which constitute the first successful synthesis procedure for associative memories by means of artificial neural networks with arbitrarily pre-specified full or partial interconnecting structure and with or without symmetry constraints for the connection matrix.

This conference, organized jointly by UTC and INRIA, is the biennial general conference of the IFIP Technical Committee 7 (System Modelling and Optimization), and reflects the activity of its members and working groups.

Papers in this book address the relationship between society and traffic, the potential of demand management and methods of mathematical modelling of traffic flows. Examples of advanced new concepts and products using machine intelligence for the optimization of ATF are described.

The conference, coorganized by INRIA and Ecole des Mines de Paris, focuses on Discrete Event Systems (DES) and is aimed at engineers, scientists and mathematicians working in the fields of Automatic Control, Operations Research and Statistics who are interested in the modelling, analysis and optimization of DES.

This volume is the proceedings of a conference held May 6 and 7, 1994 at McGill University in Montreal in honour of Professor George on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Their papers cover various aspects of linear multivariable feedback control, nonlinear systems and the complexity of systems.

Macrosystems are systems in which the stochastic behaviour of the elements is transformed into deterministic behaviour of the system as a whole. The author has developed new computational methods for the computer-aided realization of stationary state models.

This book is designed to be a comprehensive treatment of linear methods to optimal control of bilinear systems. The book also examines two special classes of bilinear-quadratic control problems: namely singularly perturbed and weakly coupled bilinear control systems.

The papers in this text cover a wide variety of topics in control and applications. These topics include: using sensitivity methods to design an adaptive controller for automotive speed control; advances in adaptive nonlinear control; and hardware implementation schemes for fuzzy control systems.

Experimental robotics is at the core of validating robotics research for both its system science and theoretical foundations. Robotics experiments serve as a unifying theme for robotics system science and theoretical foundations. This book collects papers on the state of the art in experimental robotics.

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This book provides a comprehensive view of current developments in the theory of recursive reduced-order methods for singularly perturbed and weakly coupled linear control systems.

The algebraic theory of linear, time-invariant, multiinput-multioutput (MIMO) feedback systems has developed rapidly during the past decade. it is suitable for both continuous-time and discrete-time lumped-parameter system models, and many of its results apply directly to distributed-parameter systems.

Directed towards graduate students and researchers in modern theory control, this text presents a general technique for the synthesis of controllers, and indicates areas where further research is indicated.

This monograph is concerned with the design of feedback controllers for linear multivariable systems, which are robust to system uncertainty. Explicit formulae are obtained for the minimum enthropy solution, which is a precisely defined compromise between the Linear Quadratic Gaussian optimal solution and the H?-optimal solution.

The author presents a topological approach to the problem of robustness of dynamic feedback control. Furthermore, it is possible to solve the problem of optimally robust control in this setting. Several algorithms for computing an optimally robust controller in the gap-topology are presented and worked out.

The seminar papers which comprise this book deal with advanced methods in adaptive control in industrial applications. Real time computer control methods are considered and system resilience is viewed as an important factor.

The IFIP-TC7, WG 7.2 Conference on Control Theory of Distributed Parameter Systems and Applications was held at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May 6-9, 1990.

These papers, the proceedings of the First European Conference in Algebraic Computing and Control held in Paris, present the main actual methods for analysis and control of systems which naturally lead to the use of algebraic computing.

These lecture notes focus on the synthesis of robust con-trollers for feedback systems, in the presence of unstruc-tured perturbations. While the interpolation approach isawkward for multivariable systems, it provides a very natu-ral and simple approach for SISO systems.

The purpose of this monograph is to describe a class of com-putational methods, based on polynomial matrices, for thedesign of dynamic compensators for linear multi-variablecontrol systems.

Industrial processes such as long-wall coal cutting and me-tal rolling, together with certain areas of 2D signal andimage processing, exhibit a repetitive, or multipass struc-ture characterized by a series of sweeps of passes through aknown set of dynamics.

This volume comprises selected papers presented at the IFIPWG 7.2 Working Conference on Boundary Control and BoundaryVariation held in Sophia-Antipolis, France in October 1990. Zol sio: Boundary Control for Inverse FreeBoundary Problems; Glowinski: Boundary ControllabilityProblems for the Wave and Heat Equations;

Methods of structural control and dynamics are introduced in this text; these include reduction of large structural models by balanced truncation, placement of actuators and sensors for dynamic testing and control, and structural identification of the minimum-order balanced representation

The operation of process plants involves a large number of event-driven activities, such as the start-up and shut-down of the plant, the execution of emergency procedures and equipment interlocking. Despite the extent to which these control systems are used in practice, limited theoretical frameworks exist to support their analysis and design.

Comprising six invited lectures by recognised experts in the field of control the Colloquium on Automatic Control presents a number of well-balanced theoretical and engineering-oriented elements which will be accessible to many readers ranging from non-specialists to experts and professionals in the field.