Nonlinear control in the Year 2000

Abstract

Control of a reduced size model of US navy crane using only motor position sensors.- Algorithms for identification of continuous time nonlinear systems: a passivity approach. Part I: Identification in open-loop operation Part II: Identification in llosed-loop operation.- Flatness-based boundary control of a nonlinear parabolic equation modelling a tubular reactor.- Dynamic feedback transformations of controllable linear time-varying systems.- Asymptotic controllability implies continuous-discrete time feedback stabilizability.- Stabilisation of nonlinear systems by discontinuous dynamic state feedback.- On the stabilization of a class of uncertain systems by bounded control.- Adaptive nonlinear excitation control of synchronous generators with unknown mechanical power.- Nonlinear observers of time derivatives from noisy measurements of periodic signals.- Hamiltonian representation of distributed parameter systems with boundary energy flow.- Differentiable lyapunov function and center manifold theory.- Controlling self-similar traffic and shaping techniques.- Diffusive representation for pseudo-differentially damped nonlinear systems.- Euler's discretization and dynamic equivalence of nonlinear control systems.- Singular systems in dimension 3: Cuspidal case and tangent elliptic flat case.- Flatness of nonlinear control systems and exterior differential systems.- Motion planning for heavy chain systems.- Control of an industrial polymerization reactor using flatness.- Controllability of nonlinear multidimensional control systems.- Stabilization of a series DC motor by dynamic output feedback.- Stabilization of nonlinear systems via forwarding mod{L g V}.- A robust globally asymptotically stabilizing feedback: The example of the artstein's circles.- Robust stabilization for the nonlinear benchmark problem (TORA) using neural nets and evolution strategies.- On convexity in stabilization of nonlinear systems.- Extended goursat normal form: a geometric characterization.- Trajectory tracking for ?-flat nonlinear delay systems with a motor example.- Neuro-genetic robust regulation design for nonlinear parameter dependent systems.- Stability criteria for time-periodic systems via high-order averaging techniques.- Control of nonlinear descriptor systems, a computer algebra based approach.- Vibrational control of singularly perturbed systems.- Recent advances in output regulation of nonlinear systems.- Sliding mode control of the prismatic-prismatic-revolute mobile robot with a flexible joint.- The ISS philosophy as a unifying framework for stability-like behavior.- Control design of a crane for offshore lifting operations.- New theories of set-valued differentials and new versions of the maximum principle of optimal control theory.- Transforming a single-input nonlinear system to a strict feedforward form via feedback.- Extended active-passive decomposition of chaotic systems with application to the modelling and control of synchronous motors.- On canonical decomposition of nonlinear dynamic systems.- New developments in dynamical adaptive backstepping control.