Systems, Models and Feedback: Theory and Applications

It is a great honor and privilege to have this opportunity of celebrating the 65th birthday of Professor Antonio Ruberti by holding an International Conference on Systems, Models and Feedback. The conference, and this volume which contains its proceedings, is a tribute to Professor Ruberti in acknowledgement of his major contributions to System Theory, at a time in which this area was emerging and consolidat ing as an independent discipline, his role as a leader of the Italian academic community, his activity in promoting and fostering close scientific relations between Italian and U.S. scholars in Systems and Control. The format of this conference is inspired by a series of seminars initi ated exactly twenty years ago under the direction of Professor Ruberti, in Italy, and Professor R. R. Mohler, in the U.S. By bringing together many authoritative talents from both countries, these seminars were instrumental in promoting the expansion of System Theory in new areas, notably that of Nonlinear Control, and were the key to successful scientific careers for many of the younger attendants.

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Robust Binary Control of Robotic Systems.- Trajectory Tracking in Flexible Robot Arms.- Variable Structure, Bilinear and Intelligent Control With Power System Application.- On Modeling and Adaptive Control of Underwater Robots.- A Generalization of the Kalman-Yakubovic Lemma.- PSICO Today.- Pulse Driven Dynamical Systems.- Polynomial MMSE Deconvolution and its Duality with LQGR.- Topics in 2D Systems Theory.- Complexity and Feedback.- Point Estimation, Stochastic Approximation and Robust Kalman Filtering.- Canonical Representations of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems.- Stochastic Model Reduction By Aggregation.- Feedback in a Behavioral Setting.- Learning Techniques and Neural Networks for the Solution of N-Stage Nonlinear Nonquadratic Optimal Control Problems.- Shock Waves for Riccati Partial Differential Equations Arising in Nonlinear Optimal Control.- Robust Stability and Performance in the Presence of Parametric and Norm Bounded Uncertainty.- Design and Comparison of Globally Stabilizing Controllers for an Uncertain Nonlinear System.- Nicely Nonlinear Modelling and Control.- Attenuation of Disturbances in Nonlinear Control Systems.- The Construction of Optimal Linear and Nonlinear Regulators.- Feedback Systems Stabilizability in Terms of Invariant Zeros.- High-Order Parameter Tuners for the Adaptive Control of Linear and Nonlinear Systems.- New Differential Geometric Methods in Nonholonomic Path Finding.- Stability Regions for Differential Algebraic Systems.