This book comprises a selection of papers that were first presented at the Robustness in Identification and Control Workshop, held in Siena, July 30 - August 2, 1998. These are the latest contributions to the field, from leading researchers worldwide. The common theme underlying all of the contributions is the interplay between information, uncertainty and complexity in dealing with modelling, identification and control of dynamical systems. Papers cover recent developments in research areas such as identification for control and the classical area of robust control. There are a number of real-world case studies where the most advanced robustness analysis and synthesis techniques are applied to resolve previously unsolved problems. The relevance of the topic to the system engineering field, and the excellent scientific level of the contributions combine to make this book an important acquisition for engineers, control theorists and applied mathematicians.

The tutorial style makes this an important and accessible book for engineers, control theorists and applied mathematicians Various real-world case studies are included All contributions come from worldwide leading researchers in this field

Inhalt
Robustness in identification.- Comments on model validation as set membership identification.- SM identification of model sets for robust control design from data.- Robust identification and the rejection of outliers.- Semi-parametric methods for system identification.- Modal robust state estimator with deterministic specification of uncertainty.- The role of experimental conditions in model validation for control.- Modeling and validation of nonlinear feedback systems.- Towards a harmonic blending of deterministic and stochastic frameworks in information processing.- Suboptimal conditional estimators for restricted complexity set membership identification.- Worst-case simulation of uncertain systems.- On performance limitations in estimation.- Design criteria for uncertain models with structured and unstructured uncertainties.- Robustness and performance in adaptive filtering.- Nonlinear identification based on unreliable priors and data, with application to robot localization.- Robust model predictive control: A survey.- Intrinsic performance limits of linear feedback control.- Puzzles in systems and control.- Robust regional pole placement: An affine approximation.- On achieving L p (?p) performance with global internal stability for linear plants with saturating actuators.- Control under structural constraints: An input-output approach.- Multi-objective MIMO optimal control design without zero interpolation.- Robustness synthesis in l 1: A globally optimal solution.- Optimal control of distributed arrays with spatial invariance.- Numerical search of stable or unstable element in matrix or polynomial families: A unified approach to robustness analysis and stabilization.- A convex approach to a class of minimum norm problems.- Quantified inequalities and robustcontrol.- Dynamic programming for robust control: Old ideas and recent developments.- Robustness of receding horizon control for nonlinear discrete-time systems.- Nonlinear representations and passivity conditions in discrete time.- Robust ripple-free output regulation and tracking under structured or unstructured parameter uncertainties.- An experimental study of performance and fault-tolerance of a hybrid free-flight control scheme.