Table of Contents

Invited Papers.- Nonlinear H-infinity control theory: A literature survey.- Primitives for robot control.- Optimal frequency design vs. an area of several complex variables.- Feedback stabilization of nonlinear systems.- Multivariable Feedback.- A monotonicity result for the periodic Riccati equation.- Results on generalized Riccati equations arising in shastic control.- LQ-Problem: The discrete-time time-varying case.- The output-stabilizable subspace and linear optimal control.- The decomposition of (A,B) invariant subspaces and its application.- The set of feedback matrices that assign the poles of a system.- Model matching for linear Hamiltonian systems.- Connective stabilization of large-scale systems: A stable factorization approach.- Riccati equations, algebras, and invariant systems.- Maximal order reduction of proper transfer function matrices.- The matching condition and feedback controllability of uncertain linear systems.- Convergence properties of indefinite linear quadratic problems with receding horizon.- Robust Control.- Generalized stability of linear singularly perturbed systems including calculation of maximal parameter range.- Convex combinations of Hurwitz functions and its applications to robustness analysis.- Designing strictly positive real transfer function families: A necessary and sufficient condition for low degree and structured families.- Quadratic stabilizability of linear systems with structural independent time varying uncertainties.- A finite zero exclusion principle.- Design of controller with asymptotic disturbance attenuation.- H-infinity Control.- Gas turbine control using mixed sensitivity H-infinity optimisation.- Nonlinear H-infinity Theory.- A J-spectral factorization approach to H-infinity control.- Vector interpolation, H-infinity control and model reduction.- Sensitivity minimization and robust stabilization by stable controller.- Conjugation and H-infinity control.- Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of H-infinity con trollers: An interpolation approach.- On H-infinity contro4 LQG control and minimum entropy.- Optimal H-infinity SISO-controllers with structural constraints.- Super optimal H-infinity design.- H-infinity control with state feedback.- Adaptive Control.- Convergence analysis of self-tuning controllers by Bayesian embedding.- On bounded adaptive control with reduced prior knowledge.- Indirect techniques for adaptive input output linearization of nonlinear systems.- Shastic Control and Filtering.- Interpolation approach to the H-infinity filter problem.- Shastic disturbance decoupling.- Discrete-time filtering for linear systems in correlated noise with non-Gaussian initial conditions: Formulas and asymptotics.- Nonlinear Control.- Boundary feedback stabilization of distributed parameter systems.- Optimal nonlinear feedback system design for a general tracking problem.- Stability theory for differential/algebraic systems with application to power systems.- Feedback equivalence of planar systems and stabilizability.- Topological dynamics of discrete-time systems.- Another approach to the local disturbance decoupling problem with stability for nonlinear systems.- Stabilization of nonlinear systems and coprime factorization.- Observability and Identification of Nonlinear Systems.- Identification of linear systems via Prony’s method.- On observability of chaotic systems: an example.- Interpolating uniquely with only a finite class of polynomials.- Sinc approximation method for coefficient identification in parabolic systems.- Observability and Harish-Chandra Modules.- Robotics.- Modelling and nonlinear control of an overhead crane.- On adaptive linearizing control of omnidirectional mobile robots.- Robot control via nonlinear observer.- Modelling and simulation of flexible beams using cubic splines and zero-order holds.- Towards a differential topological classification of robot manipulators.- An adaptive PD control algorithm for robots.- Robustness of Infinite-Dimensional Systems.- Comparison of robustness measures for a flexible structure.- Robust stabilization for infinite-dimensional linear systems using normalized co-prime factorizations.- Standard problem for distributed systems.- Robust stabilization of delay systems.- Topological aspects of transfer matrices with entries in the quotient field of H-infinity.- On the Nyquist criterion and robust stabilization for infinite-dimensional systems.- Real stability radii for infinite dimensional systems.- Robust stability condition for infinite-dimensional systems with internal exponential stability.