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

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Parametric Stability....Pages 1-20
Asymptotic Tracking and Disturbance Rejection in Nonlinear Systems....Pages 21-34
Bifurcation Control of Nonlinear Systems....Pages 35-41
New Results in the Stability Analysis of Two-Dimensional Systems....Pages 42-49
Stability and Convergence Properties of a Learning Technique for the Control of Robotic Systems....Pages 50-56
The Use of Neural Networks in the Solution of Dynamic Routing Problems....Pages 57-64
Multivariable Robust Control of a Power Plant Drum Level....Pages 65-72
Instrumental Variables Estimators for State Space Models of Time Series....Pages 73-80
Transfer Functions with a Given Local Zero-Pole Structure....Pages 81-88
A Simplified Direct Approach to the Problem of Adaptive Pole Assignment....Pages 89-96
Control of Deterministically Uncertain Systems....Pages 97-104
The Auction Algorithm for Assignment and Other Network Flow Problems....Pages 105-112
A Note on the Reachable Sets of Control Systems....Pages 113-119
Realization and partial realization of 2D input/output maps....Pages 120-127
On The Dynamics of Rotating Elastic Beams....Pages 128-135
“Advanced Control of Continuous Processes: Products and Development Trends in Bailey — Esacontrol”....Pages 136-146
Using the Recurrent AIM Inequalities Method for Adaptive Control of Nonminimumphase Systems....Pages 147-154
Time Optimality of Singular Trajectories and Feedback Equivalence....Pages 155-162
Nonprobabilistic Filtering....Pages 163-169
A Gradient Flow for the Assignment Problem....Pages 170-177
Robot Control Via Robust State Estimate Feedback....Pages 178-185
Development and Theoretical Analysis of Direct Variational Adaptive Control Schemes....Pages 186-193
Lyapunov Functions for “Attractive” Discrete Time Boolean Dynamical Systems....Pages 194-201
Unmodeled Dynamics in Adaptive Control Systems Revisited....Pages 202-209
A Computational Lemma in the Module Theory of Linear Systems....Pages 210-217
On the Global Tracking Problem for Nonlinear Systems....Pages 218-224
Nonlinear Regulation of End-Effector Motion for a Flexible Robot Arm....Pages 225-228
Robot Motion Planning Using Vortex Fields....Pages 229-236
Stable Block Decoupling Invariants Geometric and Transfer Matrix Characterizations....Pages 237-244
On the internal model principle....Pages 245-252
Scaled Gradient Projection Methods for Optimal Control Problems and Other Structured Nonlinear Programs....Pages 253-260
L-Q-R Approach to a Class of Non Well Posed Parabolic Systems....Pages 261-267
Some Results on Attractivity Properties for Nonautonomous Nonlinear Systems....Pages 268-275
Continuous Output Dead-Beat Control of Multivariable Multirate Sampled-Data Systems....Pages 276-283
Robust Linear Multivariable Regulators under Perturbations of Physical Parameters....Pages 284-291
Interconnected Zero Dynamics in Nonlinear Systems and their Role in Dynamic Noninteracting Control with Stability....Pages 292-299
A New Methodology for Adaptive pH Control....Pages 300-307
Some Results about Nonlinear Systems Equivalence for the Observer Synthesis....Pages 308-315
On Systems Equivalence and Observer Synthesis....Pages 316-323
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Adaptive Stabilization....Pages 324-331
Adaptive Synchronization of Interconnected Linear Systems....Pages 332-339
On the PLS Criterion for Order Estimation of ARMA Processes with AML and a Posteriori Prediction Error....Pages 340-347
Strongly Consistent Estimation of the Order of Stochastic Control Systems with Correlated Noise....Pages 348-354
Stabilization Via Optimization....Pages 355-362
The Orbit Closure Problem for Matrix Pencils: Neccessary Conditions and an Application to High Gain Feedback....Pages 363-370
On the robustness of stable discrete time linear systems....Pages 371-378
Evaluation transform and its implementation in MACSYMA....Pages 379-385
The Use of Model Reduction via Balanced Realizations in the Description of Ship Motion....Pages 386-392
Asymptotic Tracking with Stability in The Large for a Planar Nonlinear System....Pages 393-400
A Unified Study of the Fixed Modes of Systems Decoupled via Regular Static State Feedback....Pages 401-408
Stability of Asynchronous Systems and Nonsymmetric Neural Networks....Pages 409-416
Solving Initial and Two-Point Boundary Non-Monic Second Order Difference Matrix Problems without Increasing the Data Dimension....Pages 417-424
Equivalence and Similarity for Singular 2-D Linear Systems....Pages 425-432
Imposition of Kinematic Constraints for Robotic Stability and Support....Pages 433-440
Homogeneous Feedback Stabilization....Pages 441-447
Distributed Computing for Basis Weight Control in Paper Production....Pages 448-455
A Note on Hankel Operators for Infinite Dimensional Systems....Pages 456-463
Boundary Control of Parabolic Delay System....Pages 464-471
New Approximants for Nonlinear Functional Expansions....Pages 472-480
Split Stability-Test Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis....Pages 481-488
Nash and Stackelberg Equilibrium Points in Constrained Minimization and Games....Pages 489-496
Bernstein Polynomials For Robustness Analysis of Perturbed Control Systems....Pages 497-504
Innovative Technical Applications and Experiences in Ansaldo Ricerche — New Technology Division of Ansaldo Group....Pages 505-512
Control of Robots by Dynamic Position Feedback....Pages 513-520
Bilinear Models in Parameter Estimation and Control of Flexible Robot arms....Pages 521-529
On Global Stabilization of Cascaded Nonlinear Systems....Pages 530-537
Feedback Control and Hierarchical Modeling of Discrete-Event Dynamic Systems....Pages 538-545
“On the Optimal Control, Relaxation and Variational Stability of Nonlinear Distributed Parameter Systems”....Pages 546-553
A Non-linear Adaptive Control Algorithm Based on System Flow Approximations....Pages 554-559
The Disturbance Decoupling Problem for Systems Over a Principal Ideal Domain....Pages 560-567
A Method of Centers Based on Barrier Functions for Solving Optimal Control Problems with Continuum State and Control Constraints....Pages 568-575
Partial Differential Control Theory and Causality....Pages 576-582
Optimal impulsive controls with a constraint on the total variation....Pages 583-590
Minimal Testing Sets: A Generalization of Kharitonov’s Theorem....Pages 591-598
Almost Input-Output Decoupling with Stability....Pages 599-605
Representation of noncausal 2D systems....Pages 606-613
Dependence on Time Derivatives of the Input in the Nonlinear Controller Canonical Form....Pages 614-621
ELSAG’s Research on Innovative Elements for the Automation of Complex Systems....Pages 622-629
Module Theoretic Results For Feedback System Matrices....Pages 630-635
2-D Kalman-Bucy Filtering Problem: 2-D Polynomial Approach....Pages 636-643
Controllability and Graphs....Pages 644-651
On Sampled Control with Distributed Processing....Pages 652-659
Input/Output and State-Space Stability....Pages 660-667
Further Results on the State and Output Stabilization....Pages 668-675
Dissipative Dynamical Systems: A Behavioral Approach....Pages 676-683
Global Observability Indices: A Provisional Study....Pages 684-691
Back Matter....Pages 692-699
....Pages 700-706