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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 58 NUMBER 1—JULY PAGE Flexible structure experiments at JPL and WPAFB: H.. controller designs. S. A. Buppie, T. T. Georciou, C. OzGUNER and M. C. SmiTH Algorithms or identification in H.. with unequally spaced function measure- ments. J. R. PARTINGTON A new general state-space representation for discrete-time systems. D. KAvRANOGLU and M. BETTAYEB Stable model reference adaptive control for periodicaily LTV systems based on the maximal error evaluation. K. Iramrya, S. SHIN and K. ANDo ... 51 Null-controllability of discrete-time positive control systems. B. G. ZASLAVSKY Control of a collection of linear systems by linear state feedback control. G. D. Howrrr and R. Luus A new Nyquist test for the stability of control systems. Hs1ao-PING HUANG, CHUNG-TARNG JIANG and YUNG-CHENG CHAO On the design of an optimal automatic generation controller for inter- connected power systems. C. M. Liaw and K. H. CHao Multiplicative Hankel norm approximation of linear multivariable systems. J. B. Matson, J. Lam, B. D. O. ANDERSON and B. JAMEs Design of reduced-order multirate input compensators for output injection feedback laws. M. J. Er and B. D. O. ANDERSON Overlapping decentralized dynamic optimal control. A. IFTAR Computation of the GCD of polynomials using gaussian transformations and shifting. M. Mirrou.i and Nicos KARCANIAS Moving switching surfaces for robust control of second-order variable structure systems. SEUNG-BoK CHo1, CHAE-CHEON CHEONG and _ Donc-Won Park Correspondence Stability condition for a delay differential system. G. M. ScHOEN and H. P. GEERING NUMBER 2—AUGUST Optimal hybrid position/force tracking control of a constrained robot. LeE-SHIN You and Bor-SEN CHEN Generalized state variable representation for a simplified crane description. M. Futess, J. Levine and P. RouCHON Variable structure control of robot manipulators with nonlinear sliding manifolds. Y. STEPANENKO and CHuNn-Y1 Su PAGE Robust output tracking for nonlinear systems with weakly non-minimum phase. KUANG-Yow LIAN, Li-CHEN Fu and Tex-Lu Liao Adaptive control of non-linear continuous-time systems using neural net- works—general relative degree and MIMO cases. CHEN-CHUNG LIU and Fu-CHUANG CHEN Necessary and sufficient conditions under which an H, optimal control problem has a unique solution. B. M. CHEN and A. SABERI Polynomial and rational matrix interpolation: theory and control applica- tions. P. J. ANTSAKLIS and ZHIQIANG GAO Characterization and use of the degrees of freedom in the H” problem. M. Crews and B. KouvarirAkIs Output feedback control of uncertain coupled systems. J. RODELLAR, G. LeITMANN and E. P. Ryan An FIR prefilter leading to bounded overshoot and undershoot with application to deadbeat control. YouBIN PENG and R. HANus Approximate pole assignment. KiInG-WAH E. CHu On the mechanism of recursive stability-test algorithms. A. LepscHy and Symbolic computation approach for absolute stability. RONGDONG WANG ... NUMBER 3—SEPTEMBER Nonlinear dynamics and control of INSAT-II: application of a general formulation. V. J. Mopi, A. C. Nc and F. Karray Adaptive control of flexible multilink manipulators. M. Bopur and A robust disturbance-based control and its application. H. X. Li and P. P. J. VAN DEN BoscH Subspace model identification. Part 3: Analysis of the ordinary output-error state-space model identification algorithm. M. VERHAEGEN Tracking control designs for both holonomic and non-holonomic constrained mechanical systems: a unified viewpoint. LEE-SHIN You and Bor-SEN Moving horizon control of linear systems with input saturation and plant uncertainty. Part 1: Robustness. E. PoLAk and T. H. YANG Moving horizon control of linear systems with input saturation and plant uncertainty. Part 2: Disturbance rejection and tracking. E. PoLAk and T. H. YANG Robust approximate modelling of stable linear systems. P. M. MAKILA and J. R. PARTINGTON The minimal control synthesis identification algorithm. D. P. StoTrEN and H. BENCHOUBANE The influence of uncertainty on stability and compensatability. W. L. De KONING PAGE BIBO stability criteria for a certain class of discrete nonlinear systems. St. Kotsios and N. KALouptsip1s Correspondence Comment on ‘Robust linear quadratic optimal control for systems with linear uncertainties’. MAo-Lin Ni and YING CHEN Comment on ‘Functional reproducibility of general multivariable analytic nonlinear systems’. CHUN-WEN Li, YUAN-KUN FENG and YUN GONG Frequency-domain finite spectrum assignment for delay systems with multiple poles. QiInc-GUuo WanGc, TonGc HenG Lee and CHANG CHIEH HANG NUMBER 4—OCTOBER Tutorial review. H* optimal controller design for a class of distributed parameter systems. H. OzBay On decentralized stabilizing controllers. A. N. GUNDEs Full and reduced-order observer-based controller design for H,-optimiza- tion. A. A. StroorvoGEL, A. SABERI and B. M. CHEN Adaptive generalized model-based control of robot manipulators. S. R. PANDIAN and M. HANMANDLU Robust control of robot arms including motor dynamics. M. S. MAHMOUD... Moving horizon control of nonlinear systems with input saturation, disturbances and plant uncertainty. T. H. YANG and E. PoLak On a general concept of forgetting. R. KULHAvy and M. B. ZARRopP Modified Mikhailov plots for robust absolute stability with non-parametric perturbations and uncertain nonlinearity. MinyuE Fu and Y. Z. TsYPKIN Spatial discretization and approximation of distributed feedback loops and inputs. Y. KANNAI, M. KELEMEN and I. Horowitz ASMOD—an algorithm for adaptive spline modelling of observation data. T. Kavu Sufficient conditions for the stability of interval matrices. YUGUANG FANG, K. A. Loparo and XIANGBO FENG NUMBER 5—NOVEMBER Robust control of a brushless servo motor via sliding mode techniques. A. GLuMINEAU, M. Hamy, C. Lanier and C. H. MooG Robust model following control with prescribed accuracy for uncertain nonlinear systems. TOSHIHARU SUGIE and KoIcH! OsuKA Asymptotically stable multiple-input multiple-output direct model reference adaptive controller for processes not necessarily satisfying a positive real constraint. H. KAUFMAN and G. W. NEatT PAGE Mean levels in nonlinear analysis and identification. J. C. PEyton JoNEs and S. A. BILLINGs Theoretical analysis of unconstrained nonlinear model predictive control. M. A. Henson and D. E. SEBoRG Applied heuristic optimal control. NINGJIAN HUANG and Ka C. CHEOK Deterministic adaptive control of SISO processes using model weighting adaptive control. S. GENDRON, M. PerRriER, J. BARRETTE, M. AMJAD, A. Hotxo and N. LEGAULT Constructing NARMAX models using ARMAX models. T. A. JOHANSEN and B. A. Foss Coupled polynomial equations for LQ control synthesis and an algorithm for solution. J. Jezex and K. J. Hunt Time-domain QFT based on fixed points and homotopic invariance in L... R. D. BARNARD Robust discrete-time adaptive control subject to a control input amplitude constraint. HUA-JyeE PENG and Bor-SEN CHEN H, optimal control with an a-shifted pole constraint. Y. W. WANG and D. S. BERNSTEIN NUMBER 6—DECEMBER A self-tuning controller with accommodation of time delay variations. K. BEHBEHANI, J. S. DELPAssE and K. KLEIN Wiener—Hopf design of optimal decoupling controllers for plants with non-square transfer matrices. Hai-Pinc Lee and J. J. BoNGIoRNo Sliding order and sliding accuracy in sliding mode control. A. LEVANT Trade-offs in robust controller design. J. L. Figueroa, A. C. DESAGEs, A. PALAzoGLu and J. A. ROMAGNOLI Dynamic compensation of measurable disturbances in non-linear multivariable systems. P. DAaoutipis and C. KRAVARIS Computationally efficient optimal output decentralized estimation. BassONG-ONANA, M. DAROUACH and M. ZASADZINSKI Stability of the limiting zeros of sampled-data systems with zero- and first-order holds. TomMomicHit HAGIWARA, TOSHIYUKI YUASA and MITUHIKO ARAKI Robust output regulator for nonlinear systems. JING SHi A new computational approach to solving a class of optimal control problems. YAOBIN CHEN and JIAN HUANG Almost decoupling of uncertain multivariable systems. CHIN-HORNG YAU and O. D. I. NwokaH Constant-ratio trajectories in optimal control systems. A. T. FULLER General lemmas for stability analysis of linear continuous-time systems with slowly time-varying parameters. Ji-FENG ZHANG Vii PAGE Decentralized adaptive stabilization on nonlinear systems. V. VESELY and New robust stability bounds of linear discrete-time systems with time- varying uncertainties. JuiInG-Hue! Su and I-KonG FonG Robust stability of singularly perturbed systems. Z. H. SHAo and M. E. Subject Index Author Index