Robust Control of Linear Systems and Nonlinear Control: Proceedings of the International Symposium MTNS-89, Volume II

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Nonlinear H ∞ Control Theory: A Literature Survey....Pages 1-12
Primitives for Robot Control....Pages 13-31
Optimal Frequency Domain Design vs. an Area of Several Complex Variables....Pages 33-59
Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems....Pages 61-81
A Monotonicity Result for the Periodic Riccati Equation....Pages 83-93
Results on Generalised Riccati Equations Arising in Stochastic Control....Pages 95-102
LQ-Problem: The Discrete-Time Time-Varying Case....Pages 103-112
The output-stabilizable subspace and linear optimal control....Pages 113-120
The Decomposition of (A,B)-Invariant Subspaces and Its Applications....Pages 121-128
The Set of Feedback Matrices that Assign the Poles of a System....Pages 129-134
Model matching for linear Hamiltonian systems....Pages 135-142
Connective Stabilization of Large-Scale Systems: A Stable Factorization Approach....Pages 143-150
Riccati Equations, Algebras, and Invariant Systems....Pages 151-157
Maximal order reduction of proper transfer function matrices....Pages 159-176
The Matching Condition and Feedback Controllability of Uncertain Linear Systems....Pages 177-187
Convergence Properties of Indefinite Linear Quadratic Problems with Receding Horizon....Pages 189-196
Generalized Stability of Linear Singularly Perturbed Systems Including Calculation of Maximal Parameter Range....Pages 197-203
Convex Combinations of Hurwitz Functions and Its Applications to Robustness Analysis....Pages 205-213
Designing Strictly Positive Real Transfer Function Families: A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Low Degree and Structured Families....Pages 215-227
Quadratic Stabilizability of Linear Systems with Structural Independent Time Varying Uncertainties....Pages 229-237
A Finite Zero Exclusion Principle....Pages 239-245
Design of Controller with Asymptotic Disturbance Attenuation....Pages 247-254
Gas Turbine Control Using Mixed Sensitivity H∞-Optimisation....Pages 255-265
Nonlinear H ∞ Theory....Pages 267-276
A J-Spectral Factorization Approach to H ∞ Control....Pages 277-284
Vector Interpolation, H ∞ Control and Model Reduction....Pages 285-292
Sensitivity Minimization and Robust Stabilization by Stable Controller....Pages 293-300
Conjugation and H ∞ Control....Pages 301-308
Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of H∞-optimal controllers: An interpolation approach....Pages 309-316
On H ∞ Control, LQG Control and Minimum Entropy....Pages 317-327
Optimal H ∞ — SISO-controllers with structural constraints....Pages 329-338
Super-Optimal H ∞ Design....Pages 339-346
H ∞ Control with State Feedback....Pages 347-354
Convergence Analysis of Self-Tuning Controllers by Bayesian Embedding....Pages 355-359
On Bounded Adaptive Control with Reduced Prior Knowledge....Pages 361-368
Indirect Techniques for Adaptive Input Output Linearization of Nonlinear Systems....Pages 369-386
Interpolation Aproach To the H ∞ Filter Problem....Pages 387-395
Stochastic Disturbance Decoupling....Pages 397-406
Discrete-Time Filtering for Linear Systems in Correlated Noise with Non-Gaussian Initial Conditions: Formulas and Asymptotics....Pages 407-419
Boundary Feedback Stabilization of Distributed Parameter Systems....Pages 421-428
Optimal Nonlinear Feedback System Design for a General Tracking Problem....Pages 429-436
Stability Theory for Differential/Algebraic Systems with Application to Power Systems....Pages 437-445
Feedback Equivalence of Planar Systems and Stabilizability....Pages 447-456
Topologigal Dynamics of Discrete-Time Systems....Pages 457-463
Another Approach to the Local Disturbance Decoupling Problem with Stability for Nonlinear Systems....Pages 465-472
Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems and Coprime Factorization....Pages 473-482
Identification of Linear Systems by Prony’s Method....Pages 483-488
On observability of chaotic systems: an example....Pages 489-496
Interpolating Uniquely with Only a Finite Class of Polynomials....Pages 497-505
Sinc Approximation Method for Coefficient Identification in Parabolic Systems....Pages 507-514
Observability and Harish-Chandra Modules....Pages 515-522
Modelling and Nonlinear Control of an Overhead Crane....Pages 523-529
On Adaptive Linearizing Control of Omnidirectional Mobile Robots....Pages 531-538
Robot Control via Nonlinear Observer....Pages 539-551
Modelling and Simulation of Flexible Beams using Cubic Splines and Zero-Order Holds....Pages 553-564
Towards a differential topological classification of robot manipulators....Pages 565-574
An Adaptive PD Control Algorithm for Robots....Pages 575-582
Comparison of Robustness Measures for a Flexible Structure....Pages 583-590
Robust Stabilization for Infinite-Dimensional Linear Systems Using Normalized Coprime Factorizations....Pages 591-598
Standard Problem for Distributed Systems....Pages 599-608
Robust Stabilization of Delay Systems....Pages 609-616
Topological Aspects of Transfer Matrices with Entries in the Quotient Field of H ∞ ....Pages 617-625
On the Nyquist Criterion and Robust Stabilization for Infinite-Dimensional Systems....Pages 627-634
Real Stability Radii for Infinite Dimensional Systems....Pages 635-646
Robust Stability Condition for Infinite-Dimensional Systems with Internal Exponential Stability....Pages 647-654