Perspectives in Control

Control: From Research to Industry, from Theory to Application.- 1: Adaptive Control.- its expectations, open questions and perspectives.- Fundamental Problems in Adaptive Control.- A Bound for the Disturbance-to-Tracking-Error Gain of a Supervised Set-Point Control System.- A Discrete-Time Algorithm for Identification and Adaptive Control.- 2: Passivity.- a wide concept.- Backstepping and Passivation in the Presence of an Integrator with Throughput.- Robust H?, Control of Time-Delay Systems: A Generalized Popov Theory Approach.- Passivity-Based Control of the Inverted Pendulum.- Feedback Linearization, Integrator Backstepping and Passivity-Based Controller Designs: A Comparison Example.- 3: Control Design Methodologies.- robustness issues.- A Paradox in Pole Placement Design.- Stabilization by Output Feedback Revisited.- Regulating Non-Minimum Phase Outputs: A Flatness-Based Approach.- 4: State.- a fundamental concept.- State and Storage.- Concepts of "State" in Introductory Control Education.- Discrete-Time State Representations; a New Paradigm.- 5: Identification - Supervision - Diagnosis.- towards the future.- Bias, Variance and Optimal Experiment Design: Some Comments on Closed Loop Identification.- Diagnostics and Monitoring as Tightly Coupled to Identification.- 6: Advanced Applied Areas.- theory versus applications.- Applications of Digital Control and Adaptive Control Theories to Mechatronic Systems.- Advanced Estimation and Optimization for Air Traffic Surveillance.- Why Wide Webs Wrinkle.- Classical/Advanced Control for Hydraulic Power Plants.- Conclusion.- Competition, Interaction and Control.- Publications.