Festschrift volume honoring H. Kimura's 60th birthday and his outstanding achievements in control theory, modeling, and signal processing. Invited articles focus on topics related to Kimura's work: signal processing, identification, robust control, hybrid, chaotic and nonlinear systems, and control applications. Many of the contributions highlight real-world and industrial applications. For graduate students and researchers in a variety of subject areas involving control.

"All too often, Festschriften consist of contributions on all sorts of unrelated topics, and result in a charming mixture of extravagance and indulgence, which is supposed to be enjoyed first and foremost by the recipient. Sometimes such books serve as repositories for articles too eccentric in subject or in approach, or too sloppy in execution, to be published in scientific journals: what the journals cannot appreciate, the Festschrift editor often cannot refuse.

This is absolutely not the case with this volume, which is by any standard an outstanding one. Its excellent quality and timely publication owe much to the efforts of the editors...and of the publishing house Birkhäuser. They have produced a Festschrift worthy of its ceremonial function in the career of an extremely influential scientist, educator, and engineer, and a book that also manages to give us a glimpse of the state-of-the-art in several important areas of signal processing and system and control theory.... A large number of readers will find in this volume a great deal to be learned and to be informed about, and the modest price of the book puts it within reach of the wide readership (graduate students, scientists, and engineers) it deserves."

A large number of readers will find in this volume a great deal to be learned and to be informed about, and the modest price of the book puts it within reach of the wide readership (graduate students, scientists, and engineers) it deserves. It has been a pleasure and an honour for the reviewer to be invited, albeit indirectly, to Kimura sensei's feast." International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Inhalt
I. Signal Processing.- A Convex Optimization Approach to Generalized Moment Problems.- Toeplitz Covariance Matrices and the von Neumann Relative Entropy.- Digital Filter Design via Sampled-Data Control Theory.- Time-Domain FIR Filters for Stochastic and Deterministic Systems.- II. Identification.- Learning H?Model Sets from Data: The Set Membership Approach.- System Identification: A Learning Theory Approach.- Distribution-Free Approach to Probabilistic Model-Set Identification.- III. Robust Control.- Analysis of Weight Change in H?Control Design.- Performance Limits under Control Effort Constraints.- Complexity of Systems and Controllers.- Off-Line Reference Shaping for Systems with State and Control Constraints.- Finite Frequency Characterization of Easily Controllable Plant toward Structure/Control Design Integration.- IV. Hybrid, Chaotic, and Nonlinear Systems.- On Stabilization of Switched Linear Systems.- Well-Posedness of a Class of Piecewise Affine Systems.- Robust Stabilization of Chaos via Delayed Feedback Control.- Time Varying Deadbeat Control of High Order Chained Systems with Applications to the Control of Underactuated Manipulators.- Control of Nonholonomic Systems with Bad Controllability Structure.- V. Control Applications.- Computer Control of Vehicles: Overcoming Limitations of Human Drivers.- Modeling, Control and Experiment of a Feedback Active Noise Control System for Free Sound Fields.- Visuomotor Architecture for High-Speed Robot Control.