Control Systems, Robotics, and Automation

Edited by : Heinz Unbehauen,

Control Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Control Systems, Robotics, and Automation

Heinz Unbehauen, Control Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Elements of Control Systems

Ganti Prasada Rao, International Centre for Water Science and Technology, UAE

Basic Elements of Control Systems

Ganti Prasada Rao, International Centre for Water Science and Technology, UAE

General Models of Dynamical Systems

Ganti Prasada Rao, International Centre for Water Science and Technology, UAE

Description of Continuous Linear Time-Invariant Systems in Time-Domain

Heinz Unbehauen, Control Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Ganti Prasada Rao, International Centre for Water Science and Technology, UAE

Description of Continuous Linear Time-Invariant Systems in Frequency Domain

Heinz Unbehauen, Control Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Closed-loop Behaviour of Continuous Linear Time-Invariant Systems

Heinz Unbehauen, Control Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Stability Concepts

Alexander B. Kurzhanski, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Russia
Irina F. Sivergina, Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of Ural Department of Russian Academy of Science, Russia

Classical Design Methods for Continuous LTI-Systems

Raymond T. Stefani, Department of Electrical Engineering, California State University, USA

Controller Design in Time-Domain

Heinz Unbehauen, Control Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Design in Frequency Domain

Raymond T. Stefani, Department of Electrical Engineering, California State University, USA

PID Control

Mituhiko Araki, Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan

Internal Model Control

Daniel E. Rivera, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University, USA
Melvin E. Flores, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, USA

Smith Predictor and its Modifications

Chang Chieh Hang, Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Digital Control Systems

P.N. Paraskevopoulos, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Discrete-Time, Sampled-Data, Digital Control Systems and Quantization Effects

P.N. Paraskevopoulos, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Discrete-Time Equivalents to Continuous-Time Systems

Mohammed S. Santina, The Boeing Company, USA
Allen R. Stubberud, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California Irvine, USA

Design Methods for Digital Controllers, Sample-Rate

P.N. Paraskevopoulos, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Real-Time Implementation

Ulrich Kiffmeier, dSPACEGmbH, Germany

Design of State Space Controllers (Pole Placement) for SISO Systems

Boris Lohmann, Institut fur Automatisierungstechnik, Universitat Bremen, Germany

Description and Analysis of Dynamic Systems in State Space

Boris Lohmann, Institut fur Automatisierungstechnik, Universitat Bremen, Germany

Controller Design

Boris Lohmann, Institut fur Automatisierungstechnik, Universitat Bremen, Germany

Observer Design

Boris Lohmann, Institut fur Automatisierungstechnik, Universitat Bremen, Germany

Extended Control Structures

Boris Lohmann, Institut fur Automatisierungstechnik, Universitat Bremen, Germany

Basic Nonlinear Control Systems

D.P. Atherton, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Department of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Sussex, UK

Describing Function Method

D.P. Atherton, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Department of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Sussex, UK

Second Order Systems

D.P. Atherton, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Department of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Sussex, UK

Stability Theory

Peter C. Müller, Safety Control Engineering, University of Wuppertal, Germany

Popov and Circle Criterion

Peter C. Müller, Safety Control Engineering, University of Wuppertal, Germany

Control by Compensation of Nonlinearities

Gang Tao, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, USA
Avinash Taware, GE Global Research Center, USA

Estimation and Compensation of Nonlinear Perturbations by Disturbance Observers

Peter C. Müller, Safety Control Engineering, University of Wuppertal, Germany

Anti Windup and Override Control

Adolf Hermann Glattfelder, Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Walter Schaufelberger, Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Gain-Scheduling

Douglas J. Leith, Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
William E. Leithead, Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth/University of Strathclyde, Ireland

Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems

Inge Troch, Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Felix Breitenecker, Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Some Basics in Modeling of Mechatronic Systems

Andreas Kugi, Saarland University, Germany

Modeling and Simulation of Distributed Parameter Systems

Alain Vande Wouwer, Laboratoire d'Automatique, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium

Modeling and Simulation of Large-Scale Hybrid Systems

Manuel A. Pereira Remelhe, Process Control Group, Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, University of Dortmund, Germany
Sebastian Engell, Process Control Group, Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, University of Dortmund, Germany

Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems using Bond Graphs

Peter C. Breedveld, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Rapid Prototyping for Model and Controller Implementation

Peter Schwarz, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Design Automation Division EAS Dresden, Germany
Jörg Uhlig, Institute of Automation and Computer Control, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Modeling Languages for Continuous and Discrete Systems

Peter Schwarz, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Design Automation Division EAS Dresden, Germany

Simulation Software - Development and Trends

Felix Breitenecker, Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Inge Troch, Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Frequency Domain System Identification

Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dept. ELEC, Belgium
Rik Pintelon, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dept. ELEC, Belgium

Measurements of  Frequency Response Functions

Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dept. ELEC, Belgium
Rik Pintelon, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dept. ELEC, Belgium

Estimation with known Noise Model

Rik Pintelon, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dept. ELEC, Belgium
Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dept. ELEC, Belgium

Frequency Domain Subspace Algorithms

Rik Pintelon, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dept. ELEC, Belgium
Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dept. ELEC, Belgium

Estimation with unknown Noise Models

Rik Pintelon, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dept. ELEC, Belgium
Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dept. ELEC, Belgium

Modal Analysis

Patrick Guillaume, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Acoustics & Vibration Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium

Identification of Linear Systems in Time Domain

Torsten Söderström, Systems and Control Group, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden

Least Squares and Instrumental Variable Methods

Tomas McKelvey, Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Prediction Error Methods

Torsten Söderström, Systems and Control Group, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden

Subspace Identification Methods

Katrien De Cock, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University, USA
Bart de Moor, K.U.Leuven, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT-SCD), Belgium

Recursive Algorithms

Han-Fu Chen, Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China

Identification for Control

Paul M.J. Van den Hof, Signals, Systems and Control Group, Department of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Raymond A. de Callafon, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA

Continuous-time Identification

Rolf Johansson, Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

Identifiability of Linear Closed-Loop Systems

Georg Bretthauer, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute of Applied Computer Science(IAI), Germany
Michael H. Kaufmann, Institute for Applied Computer Science/Automatic Control, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Relations Between Time Domain and Frequency Domain Prediction Error Methods

Tomas McKelvey, Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Identification of Time Varying Systems

Peter Colin Young, Center for Research on Environmental Systems and Statistics(CRES), University of Lancaster, UK, and Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, UK

Identification of Nonlinear Systems

Heinz Unbehauen, Control Engineering Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Nonparametric System Identification

H. Kashiwagi, Faculty of Engineering, Kumamoto University, Japan

Identification of Block-Oriented Models

Ronald K. Pearson, Daniel Baugh Institute for Functional Genomics and Computational Biology, Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, USA

Identification of NARMAX and Related Models

Stephen A. Billings and Daniel Coca, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK

System Identification Using Neural Networks

Abid Ali, Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Christian Schmid, Institute of Automation and Computer Control, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

System Identification Using Fuzzy Models

Robert Babuska, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

System Identification Using Wavelets

Stephen A. Billings, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK
Daniel Coca, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK

Parameter Estimation for Differential Equations

Amit Patra, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Parameter Estimation for NonLinear Continuous-Time State-Space Models from Sampled Data

Christian Bohn, Continantel AG, Strategic Technology Department, Germany

Identification in the Frequency Domain

Julius S. Bendat, J. S. Bendat Company, USA

Parametric Identification using Sliding Modes

Fabienne Floret-Pontet and Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Laboratoire des Signaux et Syst`emes, CNRS, Supelec, France

Bound-based Identification

Eric Walter, Laboratoire des Signaux & Systemes, CNRS, Universitte Paris-Sud, France

Linear-Model Case

John P. Norton, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK

Nonlinear-Model Case

Karel J. Keesman, Systems and Control Group, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Practical Issues of System Identification

Lennart Ljung, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden

Control of Linear Multivariable Systems

Katsuhisa Furuta, Tokyo Denki University, Department of Computers and Systems Engineering, Japan

Description and Classification in Mimo Design

David H. Owens, Automatic Control and Systems Engineering Department, The University of Sheffield, UK
Jari Hätönen, Automatic Control and Systems Engineering Department, The University of Sheffield, UK

Canonical Forms for State Space Descriptions

Nicos Karcanias, Control Engineering Research Centre, School of Engineering, City University, UK
Dimitris Vafiadis, Control Engineering Research Centre, School of Engineering, City University, UK

Multivariable Poles and Zeros

Nicos Karcanias, Control Engineering Research Centre, School of Engineering, City University, UK

Frequency Domain Representation and Singular Value Decomposition

Athanasios C. Antoulas, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, USA

Polynomial and Matrix Fraction Description

Didier Henrion, Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Michael Šebek, Center for Applied Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

System Characteristics: Stability, Controllability, Observability

Jerzy Klamka, Institute of Automatic Control, Silesian Technical University, Faculty of Automatics, Poland

Model Reduction

Robert E. Skelton, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Structural Systems and Control Lab, University of California at San Diego, USA
Mauricio C. de Oliveira, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Structural Systems and Control Lab, University of California at San Diego, USA

Full Order State-Observers

Bernhard Friedland, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Reduced Order State-Observers

Bernhard Friedland, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Kalman Filters

Mohinder Singh Grewal, College of Engineering and Computer Science, California State University, USA

Pole Placement Control

J.E. Ackermann, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, Germany

Eigenstructure Assignment for Control

Guo Ping Liu, School of Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing Engineering and Management, University of Nottingham, UK
Ronald John Patton, School of Engineering, University of Hull, UK

Optimal Linear Quadratic Control

João Miranda Lemos, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal

Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle

Alexander B. Kurzhanski, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, Russia

Decoupling Control

Miroslav Fikar, Department of Process Control, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Controller Design using Polynomial Matrix Description

Didier Henrion, Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Michael Šebek, Center for Applied Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

Design Techniques in Frequency Domain

John Meirion Edmunds, Control Systems Centre, UMIST, UK
Neil Munro, Control Systems Centre, UMIST, UK

Design Techniques for Time-Varying Systems

Pablo A. Iglesias, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, USA

Servo Control Design

Timothy Chang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Robust Control

Shankar P. Bhattacharyya, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA

Uncertainty Models for Robustness Analysis

Andrea Garulli, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universita' di Siena, Italy
Alberto Tesi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universita' di Siena, Italy
Antonio Vicino, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universita' di Siena, Italy

Robustness Under Real Parameter Uncertainty

L.H. Keel, Center of Excellence in Information Systems, Tennessee State University, USA

H∞ Optimal Control

Huibert Kwakernaak, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, The Netherlands

L1 Robust Control

Mustafa Khammash, Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, USA

mu-Synthesis

Gary J. Balas, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, USA

Controller Design using Linear Matrix Inequalities

Herbert Werner, Institute of Control Engineering, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany

Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems: A Control Lyapunov Function Approach

Petar V. Kokotovic, Center for Control Engineering & Computation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Murat Arcak, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Fundamentals of the Quantitative Feedback Theory Technique

Constantine H. Houpis, Air Force Institute of Technology, Department o Electrical & Computer Engineering, Wright-Pattersonn Air Force Base, USA

Adaptive Control

Kumpati S. Narendra, Center for Systems Science, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, USA

Relay Autotuning of PID Controllers

D.P. Atherton, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Department of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Sussex, UK

Self-Tuning Control

Peter J. Gawthrop, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Model Reference Adaptive Control

Anuradha M. Annaswamy, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Adaptive Predictive Control

David William Clarke, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
Ulfur Ron Halldorsson, Control Engineering Laboratory, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Stochastic Adaptive Control

Tyrone E. Duncan, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, USA

Adaptive Dual Control

Björn Wittenmark, Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

Adaptive Nonlinear Control

Petar V. Kokotovic, Center for Control Engineering & Computation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Miroslav Krstic, Department of Mechanical and Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego, USA

Control of Intermittent Processes

Madhukar Pandit, Control Systems and Signal Theory Group, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Heiko Hengen, Control Systems and Signal Theory Group, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Model-based Predictive Control

Edoardo Mosca, Adaptive Systems Laboratory, DSI, University of Florence, Italy

Model-based Predictive Controllers for Linear Systems

Robin De Keyser, EeSA-department of Electrical energy, Systems & Automation, Ghent University, Belgium

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

Frank Allgöwer, Rolf Findeisen, and Christian Ebenbauer, Institute for Systems Theory in Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Controls of Large Scale Systems

M. Jamshidi, ACE Center, The University of New Mexico, USA

Control of Stochastic Systems

P. R. Kumar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, USA

Models of Stochastic Systems

Andrzej W. Ordys, Industrial Control Centre, University of Strathclyde, UK
Joseph Bentsman, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Stochastic Stability

Harold J. Kushner, Applied Mathematics Department, Brown University, USA

Minimum Variance Control

Peter J. Gawthrop, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Glasgow, UK

LQ-stochastic Control

João Miranda Lemos, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal

Dynamic Programming

P. R. Kumar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, USA

Distributed Parameter Systems: An Overview

David L. Russell, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Controllability and Observability of Distributed Parameter Systems

Jerzy Klamka, Institute of Automatic Control, Silesian Technical University, Faculty of Automatics, Poland

Controller Design for Distributed Parameter Systems

Youssoufi Toure', Laboratoire Vision et Robotique UPRES EA 2078, Universite d'Orleans --- IUT de Bourges, France
Joachim Rudolph, Institut fur Regelungs- und Steuerungstheorie, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany

State Estimation in Distributed Parameter Systems

Alain Vande Wouwer, Laboratoire d'Automatique, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
Michael Zeitz, University of Stuttgart, Institut für Systemdynamik und Regelungstechnik, Germany

Time Delay Systems

Hugues Mounier, Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, Universite' de Paris Sud and Centre de Robotique, E'cole Nationale Supe'rieure des Mines de Paris, France
Joachim Rudolph, Institut fur Regelungs- und Steuerungstheorie, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany

Control of 2-D Systems

Tadeusz Kaczorek, Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Warsow University of Technology, Poland

Generalised Multidimentional Discrete, Contiuous-Discrete and Positive Systems

Tadeusz Kaczorek, Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Warsow University of Technology, Poland

Controllability and Observability of 2D Systems

Jerzy Klamka, Institute of Automatic Control, Silesian Technical University, Faculty of Automatics, Poland

Industrial Applications of 2D Control Systems

P.E. Wellstead, Control Systems Centre, UMIST, UK

Stability of 2D Systems

Peter Alistair Cook, Control Systems Centre, Department of Electrical Enginnering & Electronics, UMIST, UK

Control of Nonlinear Systems

Hassan K. Khalil, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, USA

Analysis of Nonlinear Control Systems

Hassan K. Khalil, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, USA

Lie Bracket

Kurt Schlacher, Department for Automatic Control and Control Systems Technology, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Differential Geometric Approach and Application of Computer Algebra

Kurt Schlacher, Department for Automatic Control and Control Systems Technology, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Volterra and Fliess Series Expansion

Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Laboratoire des Signaux et Syst`emes, CNRS, Supelec, France

Lyapunov Stability

Hassan K. Khalil, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, USA

Input-output Stability

Stephen Paul Banks, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK

Controllability and Observability of Nonlinear Systems

Henri Huijberts, Department of Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Henk Nijmeijer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Design of Nonlinear Control Systems

Alberto Isidori, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza" / Washington University in St. Louis, Italy

Feedback Linearization of Nonlinear Systems

Alberto Isidori, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza" / Washington University in St. Louis, Italy
Claudio De Persis, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza" / Washington University in St. Louis, Italy

Nonlinear Output Regulation

Alberto Isidori, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza" / Washington University in St. Louis, Italy
Claudio De Persis, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza" / Washington University in St. Louis, Italy

Nonlinear Zero Dynamics in Control Systems

Pramit Sarma, Advanced Process Control, Corporate Technology, Birla Management Corporation, India
Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, Interdisciplinary Programme in Systems and Control Enginnering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Flatness-Based Design

Ph. Martin, Ecole des Mines de Paris, CAS, France
Richard M. Murray, California Institute of Technology, CDS, USA
Pierre Rouchon, Ecole des Mines de Paris, CAS, France

Lyapunov Design

Shuzhi Ge, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The National University of Singapore, Singapore

Sliding Mode Control

Vadim Utkin, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA

Nonlinear Observers

Arthur J. Krener, Department of Mathematics, University of California, USA

State Reconstruction in Nonlinear Stochastic Systems by Extended Kalman Filter

Rolf Unbehauen, Institut für Allgemeine und Theoretische Elektrotechnik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Passivity Based Control

Antonio Loria, CNRS, LSS-Supe'lec, France
Henk Nijmeijer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Fundamentals of the Quantitative Feedback Theory Technique

Constantine H. Houpis, Air Force Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Wright-Pattersonn Air Force Base, USA

Control of Chaos and Bifurcations

Alexander L. Fradkov, Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Guanrong Chen, Center for Chaos Control and Synchronization, City University of Hong Kong, China

Control of Bifurcations

Guanrong Chen, Center for Chaos Control and Synchronization, City University of Hong Kong, China

Analysis of Chaotic Systems

Alexander L. Fradkov, Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Control of Chaotic Systems

Alexander L. Fradkov, Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Fuzzy Control Systems

Jens Jäkel, Ralf Mikut and Georg Bretthauer, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute of Applied Computer Science(IAI), Germany

Data-Based Fuzzy Modeling

Timo Slawinski and Harro Kiendl, Department of Control Engineering, University of Dortmund, Germany

Optimization of Fuzzy Controllers

Jürgen Wernstedt, Department of Automatic Control and System Engineering, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany

Analysis and Stability of Fuzzy Systems

Ralf Mikut and Georg Bretthauer, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute of Applied Computer Science(IAI), Germany

Fuzzy System Applications

Jens Jäkel and Georg Bretthauer, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute of Applied Computer Science(IAI), Germany

Neural Control Systems

Javier Campos, Montavista Software Inc., USA
Frank L. Lewis, Automation and Robotics Research Institute, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Expert Control Systems

Spyros G. Tzafestas, Intelligent Robotics and Automation Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Expert Control Systems: An Introduction with Case Studies

Spyros G. Tzafestas, Intelligent Robotics and Automation Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Knowledge-Based and Learning Control Systems

Z. Bubnicki, Institute of Control and Systems Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Fuzzy Expert Control Systems: Knowledge Base Validation

Pedro Albertos and Antonio Sala, Dept. Systems Engineering and Control, Universidad Politécnica Valencia, Spain

Expert Control Systems with Anticipatory Inputs

L. H. Tsoukalas, USA

Blackboard Architecture for Intelligent Control

Grantham Kwok-Hung Pang, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, China

Genetic Algorithms in Control Systems Engineering

Peter John Fleming and Robin Charles Purshouse, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK

Discrete Event Systems

Christos G. Cassandras, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University, USA

Modeling of Discrete Event Systems

Stephane Lafortune, College of Engineering, The University of Michigan, USA

Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems

Stephane Lafortune, College of Engineering, The University of Michigan, USA

Sample Path Analysis of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS)

Yu-Chi Ho, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA
Xi-Ren Cao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Hybrid Control Systems

Karl Henrik Johansson, Dept. of Signals, Sensors & Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Modelling of Hybrid Systems

Karl Henrik Johansson, Dept. of Signals, Sensors & Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
John Lygeros, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
Shankar Sastry, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Well-posedness of Hybrid Systems

M. Kanat Camlibel, Department of Electronics and Communication Eng., Dogus University, Turkey
W.P.M.H. Heemels, Embedded Systems Institute /(Old: Department of Electrical Eng., Eindhoven University of Technology), The Netherlands
A. J. van der Schaft, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Twente, The Netherlands
J. M. Schumacher, Department of Econometrics and Operations Research, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Stability of Hybrid Systems

Michael S. Branicky, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Bisimulations Of Discrete, Continuous, and Hybrid Systems

George J. Pappas, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems

Sven Hedlund, Lund University, Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
Anders Rantzer, Lund University, Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

Verification of Hybrid Systems

Claire J. Tomlin, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, USA
Ian Mitchell, Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia, Canada
Alexandre M. Bayen, The Autonomous Navigation Laboratory at the Delegation Generale de l'Armement, The Department of Defense, France
Meeko M. K. Oishi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, USA

Stabilization through Hybrid Control

João Pedro Hespanha, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, USA

Case Study - Air Traffic Management Systems

Alexandre M. Bayen, The Autonomous Navigation Laboratory at the Delegation Generale de l'Armement, The Department of Defense, France
Claire J. Tomlin, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, USA

Architectures and Methods for Computer-based Automation

Peter Göhner, Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Supervisory Distributed Computer Control Systems

Ulrich Epple, Lehrstuhl fur Prozebleittechnik der RWTH Aachen, Germany

Fault Diagnosis and Fault-tolerant Control

Paul M. Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Mogens Blanke, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Fault Diagnosis for Linear Systems

Paul M. Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Fault Diagnosis for Nonlinear Systems

Michel Kinnaert, Service d’Automatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes, CP165/55, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Joseph J. Yame, Service d’Automatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes, CP165/55, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Design Methods for Robust Fault Diagnosis

Ronald John Patton, School of Engineering, University of Hull, UK
Jie Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brunel University, UK

Qualitative Methods for Fault Diagnosis

Jan Lunze, The Institute of Automation and Computer Control, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Statistical Methods for Change Detection

Michele Basseville, IRISA, France

Industrial Application of Fault Diagnosis

Rolf Isermann, Dominik Füssel and Harald Straky, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Off-Line Methods for Fault Diagnosis and Inspection

Dieter Filbert, Institute of Measurement and Control Science, Technical University Berlin, Germany

Experience with Knowledge-Based Systems for Maintenance Diagnosis

Dieter H. Wach, Institute for Safety Technology (ISTec), Germany

Fault Tolerant Systems

Marcel Staroswiecki, Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille, University Lille I, France

Fault-Tolerant Control Using LMI Design

Jie Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brunel University, UK
Ronald John Patton, School of Engineering, University of Hull, UK

Structural Analysis for Fault Detection and Isolation and for Fault Tolerant Control

Marcel Staroswiecki, Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille, University Lille I, France

Fault Accommodation Using Model Predictive Methods

Jovan D. Bošković and Raman K. Mehra, Scientific Systems Company, Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts, USA

Control Reconfiguration

Jan Lunze, The Institute of Automation and Computer Control, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Adaptive and Neural Approaches to Fault-tolerant Control

Amit Patra, S. Mukhopadhyay and S. Sen, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Automation and Control of Thermal Processes

Reinhard Leithner, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Steam Generators and Steam Distribution Networks

Reinhard Leithner, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Automation and Control of HVAC Systems

Albert Ting Pat So, Department of Building and Construction, City University of Hong Kong, China

Automation and Control of Electrical Power Generation and Transmission Systems

Hans Glavitsch, Department of Electrical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

Control of Synchronous Generators

Jörg Hugel, Electrical Engineering and Design Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

Gas Turbines

Hans-Kaspar Scherrer, Christopher Ganz and Wolfgang Weisenstein, ABB Switzerland, Power Technologies Division, Switzerland

Automation and Control of Electric Power Generation and Distribution Systems: Steam Turbines

Bennauer M., Egener E.-G., Schlehuber R., Werthes H. and Zimmer G., Siemens AG, PG, Mülheim, Germany

Automatic Control for Hydroelectric Power Plants

Adolf Hermann Glattfelder, Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Ludwig Huser and Peter Dörfler, Transients and Safety, VA TECH ESCHER WYSS AG, Switzerland
Johann Steinbach, VA TECH ESCHER WYSS AG, Switzerland

Electrical Network Control

Edmund Handschin, Lehrstuhl für Elektrische Energieversorgung, University of Dortmund, Germany

Combined Cycle and Combined Heat and Power Processes

Andrzej W. Ordys and Michael J. Grimble, Industrial Control Centre, University of Strathclyde, UK
Ilhan Kocaarslan, Faculty of Engineering, Kirikkale University, Turkey

Control of Large Nuclear Reactors by State and Output Feedback Techniques

A. P. Tiwari, Reactor Control Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, Interdisciplinary Programme in Systems and Control Enginnering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Automation and Control in Process Industries

Ján Mikleš, Department of Information Engineering and Process Control, Faculty of Chemical and Food Engineering, Slovak Technical University, Slovakia

Automation and Control in Iron and Steel Industries

Jürgen Heidepriem, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Wuppertal, Germany

Automation and Control of Chemical and Petrochemical Plants

Dale E. Seborg, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Automation and Control in Cement Industries

Laszlo Keviczky, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Automation and Control of Pulp and Paper Processes

Heikki Niilo Koivo, Department of Automation and Control Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Automation in Wastewater Treatment

Gustaf Olsson and Christian Rosen, Department of Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation, Lund University, Sweden

Modelling and Control of Complex River and Water Reservoir Systems

Jürgen Wernstedt, Department of Automatic Control and System Engineering, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany

Automation and Control in Production Processes

D. Popovic, Institute of Automation Technology, University Of Bremen, Germany

Automation and Control in Food Production

Antonio Delgado, Technische Universität München, Germany

Machine Tool

D. Popovic, Institute of Automation Technology, University Of Bremen, Germany

Welding

Stefan Nordbruch, Institute of Automation Technology, University Of Bremen, Germany

Automation and Control in Electronic Industries

D. Popovic, Institute of Automation Technology, University Of Bremen, Germany

Advanced Technologies and Automation in Agriculture

Josse De Baerdemaeker, Herman Ramon and Jan Anthonis, Laboratory of Agro-Machinery and Processing, Faculty of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Hermann Speckmann and Axel Munack, Federal Agricultural Research Centre (FAL), Institute for Technology and Biosystems Engineering, Germany

Automation in Fisheries and Aquaculture Technology

Jens G. Balchen, Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Automation and Control in Traffic Systems

Ernst Dieter Dickmanns, Univrsitat der Bundeswehr Munchen, Fakultät fuer Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik (LRT), Institut fuer Systemdynamik und Flugmechanik (ISF), Germany

Automotive Control Systems

Uwe Kiencke, Institut für Industrielle Informationstechnik, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

Intelligent Control of Road Vehicles for Automated Driving: Path Architecture for Automated Highway Systems and Lateral Guidance

M. Tomizuka, P. Hingwe, J.-Y. Wang, M. Tai, University of California, Berkeley, Calfiornia, U.S.A

Ship Steering

Job van Amerongen, Control Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Control for Railway Vehicles

Tian-Xiang Mei and Roger M. Goodall, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University, UK

Train and Railway Operations Control

Eckehard Schnieder, Institute for Control and Automation, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

Aerospace

Donald McLean, School of Engineering Sciences, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Southampton University, UK

Elements of Automation and Control

Tariq Samad, Honeywell Laboratories, USA

Sensors in Control Systems

David Zook, Dresden Associates, Golden Valley, MN, U.S.A
Ulrich Bonne, Honeywell Laboratories, Plymouth, MN, U.S.A
Tariq Samad, Honeywell Laboratories, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A

Self-Sensing Solid-State Actuators

K. Kuhnen and H. Janocha, Saarland University, Germany

Bus Systems

Klaus Bender, Rolf Birkhofer, and Markus Bregulla, Institute for Information Technology in Mechanical Engineering (itm), Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstrasse 15, Germany
Peter Wenzel, Profibus International, Germany

Programmable Logic Controllers

Thiele G., Renner L. and Neimeier R., Institute of Automation, University of Bremen, Germany

Computer-Aided Control System Engineering Tools

Christian Schmid, Institute of Automation and Computer Control, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Human-Machine Interaction

Gunnar Johannsen, Institute for Measurement and Automation (IMAT), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kassel, Germany

Control of Electrical Machines for Drives

Jörg Hugel, Electrical Engineering and Design Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

Robotics

Tokuo Fukuda, Faculty of Management, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan
Naoyuki Kubota, Department of Human and Artificial Intelligent Systems, Fukui University, Japan

Robot Kinematics and Dynamics

Haruhisa Kawasaki, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Japan

Trajectory and Task Planning

Toshio Fukuda, Department of Micro Systems, Nagoya University, Japan
Naoyuki Kubota, Department of Human and Artificial Intelligent Systems, Fukui University, Japan

Robot Control and Programming

Haruhisa Kawasaki, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Japan

Intelligent Robots

Naoyuki Kubota, Department of Human and Artificial Intelligent Systems, Fukui University, Japan
Toshio Fukuda, Department of Micro Systems, Nagoya University, Japan

Robotic Applications to Life Support Systems

Axel Gräser, Institut für Automatisierungstechnik, Universität Bremen, Germany

Evolution Of Wind Turbine Control Systems

Hoa M. Nguyen, Department of Electrical Engineering, and Measurement and Control Engineering Research Center, Idaho State University, Pocatello, USA.
D. Subbaram Naidu, Department of Electrical Engineering, and Measurement and Control Engineering Research Center, Idaho State University, Pocatello, USA.