Table of Contents
Chapter headings and selected papers: Volume I. Plenary Paper I. Time-Delay Systems. Block decoupling with coefficient assignment and stability for linear systems over Noetherian rings (G. Conte et al.). Plenary Paper II. Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems. H-Infinity and Robust Synthesis. A more practical formulation for robustness analysis (G. Scorletti). Structure and Control of Linear Systems. On Structural Features of Linear Systems. Interactor extraction for strictly proper transfer matrices (K. Sugimoto). Robustness. Non Integer Differentiation in Modeling Identification and Control I. Diffusive realisations of fractional integrodifferential operators: structural analysis under approximation (D. Heleschewitz, D. Matignon). Linear Systems I. Nonlinear Systems I. Plenary Paper III. Non Integer Differentiation in Modeling Identification and Control II. Linear Systems II. Nonlinear Systems II. Plenary Paper IV. Robust Control and Numerical Methods. Volume 2. Time-Varying Systems. Sufficient conditions for robust stability of discrete-time systems subject to time-varying parameters (F. Amato et al.). Control of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems. 60th Anniversary of the PID Control. Periodic Systems. Periodic balanced realizations (E.I. Verriest, U. Helmke). Robots, Manipulators and Vehicles. Vibration control of flexible robots - theoretical and experimental results (W. Bernzen). Applications I. Time-Delay Systems I. Max-Plus Linear Systems I. Plenary Paper V. Applications II. Time-Delay Systems II. Max-Plus Algebra, Theory and Applications. Plenary Paper VI. Structure Based Algorithms for the Analysis and Synthesis of Linear Control Systems. Structure and Control of Nonlinear Systems. Control of Chemical and Biological Reactors. From open-loop trajectories to stabilizing state feedback - application to a CSTR (N. Marchand, M. Alamir). Author index.