New Trends in Systems Theory: Proceedings of the Università di Genova-The Ohio State University Joint Conference, July 9–11, 1990

Abstract

Main Lectures.- Parametric Stability.- Asymptotic Tracking and Disturbance Rejection in Nonlinear Systems.- Papers.- Bifurcation Control of Nonlinear Systems.- New Results in the Stability Analysis of Two Dimensional Systems.- Stability and Convergence Properties of a Learning Technique for the Control of Robotic Systems.- The Use of Neural Networks in the Solution of Dynamic Routing Problems.- Multivariable Robust Control of a Power Plant Drum Level.- Instrumental Variables Estimators for State Space Models of Time Series.- Transfer Functions with a Given Local Zero-Pole Structure.- A Simplified Direct Approach to the Problem of Adaptive Pole Assignment.- Control of Deterministically Uncertain Systems.- The Auction Algorithm for Assignment and Other Network Flow Problems.- A Note on the Reachable Sets of Control Systems.- Realization and Partial Realization of 2D Input/Output Maps.- On the Dynamics of Rotating Elastic Beams.- Advanced Control of Continuous Processes: Products and Development Trends in Bailey-Esacontrol.- Using the Recurrent AIM Inequalities Method for Adaptive Control of Nonminimumphase Systems.- Time Optimality of Singular Trajectories and Feedback Equivalence.- Nonprobabilistic Filtering.- A Gradient Flow for the Assignment Problem.- Robot Control via Robust State Estimate Feedback.- Development and Theoretical Analysis of Direct Variational Adaptive Control Schemes.- Joint H2/H? LQ Stochastic Tracking and Servo Problems.- Lyapunov Functions for Attractive Discrete Time Boolean Dynamical Systems.- Unmodeled Dynamics in Adaptive Control Systems Revisited.- A Computational Lemma in the Module Theory of Linear Systems.- On the Global Tracking Problem for Nonlinear Systems.- Nonlinear Regulation of End-Effector Motion for a Flexible Robot Arm.- Robot Motion Planning Using Vortex Fields.- Stable Block Decoupling Invariants Geometric and Transfer Matrix Characterizations.- On the Internal Model Principle.- Scaled Gradient Projection Methods for Optimal Control Problems and Other Structured Nonlinear Programs.- Worst-Case H? Performance Under Structured Perturbations with Known Bounds.- L-Q-R Approach to a Class of Non Well Posed Parabolic Systems.- Some Results on Attractivity Properties for Nonautonomous Nonlinear Systems.- A Transformation for Solving a Discrete Time Singular State Estimation Problem.- Continuous Output Dead-Beat Control of Multivariable Multirate Sampled-Data Systems.- Robust Linear Multivariable Regulators Under Perturbations of Physical Parameters.- Interconnected Zero Dynamics in Nonlinear Systems and their Role in Dynamic Noninteracting Control with Stability.- A New Methodology for Adaptive pH Control.- Some Results About Nonlinear Systems Equivalence for the Observer Synthesis.- On Systems Equivalence and Observer Synthesis.- Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Adaptive Stabilization.- Adaptive Synchronization of Interconnected Linear Systems.- On the PLS Criterion for Order Estimation of ARMA Processes with AML and a Posteriori Prediction Error.- Strongly Consistent Estimation of the Order of Stochastic Control Systems with Correlated Noise.- Stabilization via Optimization.- The Orbit Closure Problem for Matrix Pencils: Necessary Conditions and an Application to High Gain Feedback.- On the Robustness of Stable Discrete Time Linear Systems.- Evaluation Transform and its Implementation in MACSYMA.- The Use of Model Reduction via Balanced Realizations in the Description of Ship Motion.- Asymptotic Tracking with Stability in The Large for a Planar Nonlinear System.- A Unified Study of the Fixed Modes of Systems Decoupled via Regular Static State Feedback.- Stability of Asynchronous Systems and Nonsymmetric Neural Networks.- Solving Initial and Two-Point Boundary Non-Monic Second Order Difference Matrix Problems Without Increasing the Data Dimension.- Equivalence and Similarity for Singular 2-D Linear Systems.- Imposition of Kinematic Constraints for Robotic Stability and Support.- Homog