Progress in System and Robot Analysis and Control Design

Weakly positive continuous-time linear systems.- Harmonic analysis of linear sampled-data systems.- Singular value properties of the discrete-time LQ optimal regulator.- Identification of non-minimum phase finite impulse response systems using the fourth-order cumulants.- A robust frequency domain identification method revisited: Application in steel casting.- Fault detection in flight control systems via innovation sequence of kalman filter.- Analysis of properties of multitime-scale systems in 2D approach.- Bridging the gap.- Control system design using global optimization techniques.- An optimal model-following problem for linear systems.- Optimal control of time-varying dynamic systems.- Response optimization of a discrete-time bang-bang optimal control problem.- Adaptive LQ optimal autopilots for tankers based on two-point multirate controllers.- Design of adaptive LQ optimal trackers based on multirate sampling of the plant output.- Control of an automaton using uncertain information.- Learning processes and logic-algebraic method in knowledge-based control systems.- A practical approach to motion control for varying inertia systems.- Iterative model based H2/H? synthesis for active suspension system.- A matlab-based user-friendly graphical environment for control system analysis and design (COSAD).- Smith predictor for uncertain systems in the QFT framework.- Nonlinear QFT Based on Local Linearization.- Frequency domain control structure design tools.- Quantitative pressure controller design for a gas recovery system.- Driving simulators as research and training tools for improving road safety.- Critical judgements on feasible emergency manoeuvres: A comparative study between test track and driving simulator.- A historical perspective of the use of drivingsimulators in road safety research.- Multimodal driving simulation in realistic urban environments.- An architecture for optimal management of the traffic simulation complexity in a driving simulator.- Software challenges for high fidelity driving simulators.- Trends in robot control: Autonomous behavior and remote control - the VR contribution.- Robust control of a non-holonomic underactuated SCARA robot.- Kinesthetic feedback on the human hand interacting with virtual environments.- Modular robotics design: System integration of a robot for disabled people.- Design of an active arm support for assisting arm movements.- Enhancement of a telemanipulator design with a human arm model.- H? robust control system design for a 3-DOF robot manipulator.- Response optimization of a nonlinear controlled flexible robot arm carrying a variable mass.- Development of an application platform for mobile robots.- A framework for the integration of perception and localization systems over mobile platforms.- Creating dynamic mobile robot environments from an intelligent building.- Robot path planning using models of fluid mechanics.- Motion planning of mobile robots under a control constraint.- Obstacle detection and decision making for intelligent mobile robot.- Dynamic control for an holonomic omnidirectional mobile manipulator.- Intelligent control of an extension-cableless robotic unicycle: A study of mechanical controllabilty via minimum entropy.- About one way of increasing stability of climbing robots.