Learning, Control and Hybrid Systems: Festschrift in honor of Bruce Allen Francis and Mathukumalli Vidyasagar on the occasion of their 50th birthdays(241 Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

This volume covers a wide variety of papers on learning, control and hybrid systems. The papers are the proceedings of the Bangalore Workshop held in January 1998, that honoured the 50th birthdays of Mathukumalli Vidyasagar and Bruce Allen Francis. The 27 papers, written by international specialists in the field, cover a variety of interests. The editors have grouped these into the following 4 categories: a) Learning and Computational Issues b) Hybrid Systems c) Modeling, Identification and Estimation d) Robust Control. The research areas are diverse and comprehensive, giving the reader a unique opportunity to explore a variety of fields in which control/system theorists will be interested. Specific topics include: learning in dynamical systems, randomized algorithms in robust control design, identification of systems, digital signal processing, robust and H-infinity control, control of hybrid systems and supervisory control. This book will also provide readers with an insight into future directions in control and system theory, as they are predicted by experts from around the world. Readers will also benefit from being able share with the participants in the exciting new approaches to control and system theory that were discussed at the workshop. Future directions are predicted by experts from around the world.

Table of Contents:
Randomized algorithms for robust controller synthesis using statistical learning theory.- Probabilistic search algorithms for robust stability analysis and their complexity properties.- Overview of complexity and decidability results for three classes of elementary nonlinear systems.- Computational complexity in robust controller synthesis.- Switching surfaces and groebner bases.- From digital control to digital signal processing.- From sampled-data control to signal processing.- Optimum biorthogonal subband coders.- Controller switching based on output predictions.- Hybrid control of inverted pendulums.- Variable structure control for sampled-data systems.- A control engineer’s perspective on fuzzy control.- Identification for control — What is there to learn?.- Identification of complex systems.- Recent results on the analytic center approach for bounded error parameter estimation.- Universal output prediction and nonparametric regression for arbitrary data.- Model reduction for classes of uncertain, multi-dimensional, parameter varying and non-linear systems.- Information and control: Witsenhausen revisited.- A control problem for gaussian states.- Frequency domain solution of the H ? problem for descriptor systems.- A unified approach to H ? control by J-causal-anticausal factorization.- H ? in flight.- ?-Analysis and synthesis based on parameter dependent multipliers.- Optimal controllers which ‘work’ in presence of plant & controller uncertainty.- Time domain characterizations of performance limitations of feedback control.- Loopshaping by quadratic constraints on open-loop transfer functions.- Control of hysteretic systems: A state-space approach.