Mechanics and Control

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • J. M. Skowronski, H. Flashner, R. S. Guttalu

   Pages 1-2

3. In honor of George Leitmann

   • A. Miele

   Pages 3-9

4. A few words for the 65 th anniversary of George Leitmann at the dinner of the third workshop on control mechanics: Sunday night, January 21, 1990

   • Austin Blaquiere

   Pages 10-14

5. Adaptive control of flexible joint robots derived from arm energy considerations

   • Shaheen Ahmad, Fouad Mrad

   Pages 15-36

6. Perturbation method for improved time-optimal control of disk drives

   • Mark D. Ardema, Evert Cooper

   Pages 37-49

7. Robustness analysis in the time domain and output space

   • C. C. Blackwell

   Pages 50-63

8. Sufficiency conditions for existence of an optimal feedback control in stochastic mechanics

   • A. Blaquière

   Pages 64-84

9. Avoidance control mechanics for food-chain models subject to uncertainties

   • G. Bojadziev, J. Skowronski

   Pages 85-96

10. Robust control of uncertain systems with time-varying uncertainty: A computer-aided setting

    • Y. H. Chen, J. S. Chen

    Pages 97-114

11. Asymptotic stability of singularly perturbed systems which have marginally stable boundary layer systems

    • Martin Corless

    Pages 115-126

12. Robot trajectory control: Robust outer loop design using linear controller

    • R. M. Dolphus, W. E. Schmitendorf

    Pages 127-148

13. Nonlinear adaptive control of robotic manipulators

    • H. Flashner, J. M. Skowronski

    Pages 149-156

14. Delta algorithm for global optimal control

    • Efim A. Galperin

    Pages 157-162

15. Development of guidance laws for accelerating missile

    • R. Gazit, S. Gutman

    Pages 163-191

16. On the existence of a solution of riccati equation and the mismatch threshold in practical stabilization of uncertain dynamical systems

    • F. Hamano

    Pages 192-200

17. Vector channel lattice filters for the delta operator: Complete derivation

    • Faryar Jabbari

    Pages 201-215

18. Application of robust deterministic control to robotic manipulators

    • Chul Goo Kang, Roberto Horowitz, George Leitmann

    Pages 216-228

19. Estimation of regions of asymptotic stability with sliding for relay-control systems

    • S. Mehdi Madani-Esfahani, Stefen Hui, Stanislaw H. Żak

    Pages 229-253

20. Theory of residence time control by output feedback

    • S. M. Meerkov, T. Runolfsson

    Pages 254-270

The three Workshops on Control Mechanics held annually since 1988 at the University of Southern California made substantial contribution to the above set of topics and have established a tradition in the interface between mechanics and control. The Workshop gained considerable international significance, with participants coming from USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Sweden, France, Germany and USSR. This Volume is also special by producing papers dedicated to G. Leitmann, one of the founders of the study on dynamics of uncertain systems, and thus emphasising this recently rapidly developing discipline. The three major sets of topics presented deal successively with the general control theory of uncertain systems, with new theoretic methods in control, and with applications to control of robotic manipulators, aircraft control and flexible structures, all well integrated.

• Liapumer Design
• Mechanik
• Regelung
• Regelungstheorie
• control
• control theory
• flexible structures
• manipulator control
• mechanics
• robot
• uncertain systems

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