Nonlinear control systems design, 1995 : a postprint volume from the 3rd IFAC Symposium, Tahoe City, California, USA, 25-28 June 1995

Abstract

Selected chapter headings and selected papers - Nonlinear control of chemical processes - Nonlinear control of distributed parameter processes with disturbances, P.D. Christofides, P. Daoutidis Optimal control 1 - Again on tangent cones and high order maximum principles, R.M. Bianchini H-infinity control - Nonlinear L2-gain suboptimal control, L. Baramov, H. Kimura Feedback linearization - Definition and computation of a nonlinearity measure, F. Allgower. Control of mobile robots - On the quadratic modelling of nonlinear plants with application to an electro-hydraulic drive, M. Jelali, H. Scharz. Nonholonomic systems I - The lagrange problems with nonholonomic constraints, S. Nikitin, P. Crouch. New directions - Finite-gain stabilization of nonlinear systems, Zhengzhi Han, Ming Rao. Model predictive control - architecture and operations of the VLSI array processors for implementing a receding horizon controller, S.-Y. Lin. Bilinear and operator differential systems - Control and state space adjustments for nonlinear systems, J.F. de Souza. Plenary paper V - Adaptive control of nonlinear systems: basic results and applications, R. Marino.