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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 63 NUMBER 1—10 JANUARY Stability of dynamic inversion control laws applied to nonlinear aircraft pitch-axis models B. Morton, D. ENNs and BING-YU ZHANG Attenuation of nonlinearly state-dependent uncertainties: robust control design and its application to robotic manipulators Z. Qu and J. KALOUST Adaptive motion tracking control of robot manipulators—non-regressor based approach Y. D. SONG Literal Nyquist stability criterion for MIMO control systems M. PACHTER, T. KOBYLARZ and C. H. Houpis Passivity-based analysis of the minimal control synthesis algorithm S. P. HopGson and D. P. STOTEN Design of unknown input observers and robust fault detection filters JiE CHEN, R. J. PATTON and HONG- YUE ZHANG Adaptive stabilization using a variable sampling rate D. H. OWENS A continuous-time formulation of nonlinear model predictive control M. SorousH and C. KRAVARIS Generalized minimum variance adaptive control and parameter convergence for stochastic systems D. Down and R. H. KwonG H,, norm computation for LTV systems using nonlinear optimal control algorithms J. IMAE and GAKIO WANYOIKE Robust adaptive stabilization of a class of systems under structured nonlinear perturbations with application to interconnected systems Runy! WEI, M. E. SEZER and O. OCALI Feedback representation of precompensators: the general case S. Boussaip and J. P. GUERIN Feedback representation of precompensators: application to decoupling linear multi-input multi-output plants S. Boussaip and J. P. GUERIN Announcement CONTENTS OF VOL. 63 NUMBER 2—20 JANUARY Parameter identification of robot arm with repetitive control H. TINONE and N. AOSHIMA Robust digital tracking with perturbation estimation via the Euler operator ADDISU TESFAYE and MASAYOSHI TOMIZUKA Dynamic integrated system optimization parameter estimation for discrete time optimal control of nonlinear systems V. M. BECERRA and P. D. ROBERTS A robust-model reference tracking design for non-holonomic mechanical control systems Bor-SEN CHEN, TZANN-SHIN LEE and WEI-SHENG CHANG Generalized PI controllability D. MustTAFA and T. N. DAVIDSON Identifying MIMO Hammerstein systems in the context of subspace model identification methods M. VERHAEGEN and D. WESTWICK The effect of sampling period on the behaviour of systems incorporating state feedback S. M. Karsassi and D. J. BELL An analysis of sub-rate control systems A. W. TRUMAN Design of a static reactive power compensator using fuzzy sliding mode control SHUN-YUAN WANG, CHIN-MING HONG, CHUN-CHANG LIU and WEI-TZEN YANG. .... Announcement NUMBER 3—FEBRUARY Tracking the gradient of artificial potential fields: sliding mode control for mobile robots J. GULDNER and V. I. UTKIN Online learning neural architectures and cross-correlation analysis for actuator failure detection and identification M. R. NAPOLITANO, VAN CASDORPH, C. NEPPACH, S. NAYLOR, M. INNOCENTI and G. SILVESTRI Stability of discrete non-unit memory linear repetitive processes—a two-dimensional systems interpretation P. Rocua, E. RoGers and D. H. OWENS CONTENTS OF VOL. 63 Smoothing data with local instabilities for the identification of chaotic systems L. A. AGUIRRE, E. M. MENDES and S. A. BILLINGS Extensions to generalized LQG and H_, multivariable controllers A. CASAVOLA, M. J. GRIMBLE and E. Mosca H_,, optimal multichannel linear deconvolution filters, predictors and smoothers M. J. GRIMBLE Controller design for partial decoupling of linear multivariable systems S. R. WELLER and G. C. GOODWIN Optimal robust filtering with time-varying parameter uncertainty P. BOLZERN, P. COLANERI and G. DE NICOLAO Multivariable stability margin optimization: a spectral tangential interpolation approach J. C. COCKBURN and A. R. TANNENBAUM Decentralized control of large-scale power systems with anknown interconnections S. JAIN, F. KHORRAMI and B. FARDANESH Design of redundancy relations for failure detection and isolation by constrained optimization Recursive information forgetting with augmented UD identification S. S. Niu and D. GRANT FISHER Announcement NUMBER 4—10 MARCH Performance enhancement methods for unstable bank-to-turn (BTT) missiles with saturating actuators A. A. RODRIGUEZ and YANZHUO WANG Control of non-minimum phase singularly perturbed systems with application to flexible-link manipulators K. H. ZAAD and K. KHORASANI Two-degree-of-freedom design method of LQI servo systems: disturbance rejection by constant state feedback TOMOMICHI HAGIWARA, TOSHIYUKI YAMASAKI and MITUHIKO ARAKI Genetic zlgorithm automated approach to the design of sliding mode control systems Yun Li, KIM CHWEE NG, D. J. MurRAY-SMITH, G. J. GRAY and K. C. SHARMAN..... 721 Output feedback H_,, control of systems with parameter uncertainty LIHUA XIE Decoupling with stability for linear periodic systems O. M. GRASSELLI and P. VALIGI State-space supervisory control of reconfigurable discrete event systems H. E. Garcia and A. Ray CONTENTS OF VOL. 63 PAGE A state-set estimation algorithm for linear systems in the presence of bounded disturbances M. P. SPATHOPOULOS and I. D. GROBOV Structured singular value controller synthesis using constant D-scales without D-K iteration W. M. Happap, E. G. CoLLins and R. MOSER Announcement NUMBER 5—20 MARCH The optimal control of the linear wave equation M. H. FaRAHI, J. E. Rubio and D. A. WILSON Gain optimization under control structure and stability region constraints M. S. PHaTAK and S. S. KEERTHI A hierarchical multivariable fuzzy controller for learning with genetic algorithms D. A. LINKENS and H. OKOLA NYONGESA Stability of nonlinear polynomial ARMA models and their inverse E. HERNANDEZ and Y. ARKUN Strong consistency and convergence rate of parameter identification for bilinear systems HUIXIN CHEN, A. S. I. ZINOBER and RONGYAO RUAN Hermitian solutions of the discrete-time algebraic Riccati equation H. K. WIMMER Adaptive control of a class of time-delay systems with uncertain parameters M. S. MAHMOUD Adaptive control for time optimal tracking systems KYIHWAN PARK, SOO-HYUN KIM and YOON KEUN KWAK Feedback control of two-time-scale nonlinear systems P. D. CHRISTOFIDES and P. DAOUTIDIS Bibliography of secondary sources for the history of control engineering: update 1995 C. C. BISSELL Announcement NUMBER 6—APRIL On the control of incompletely described sequential machines J. HAMMER The H,, control problem with zeros on the boundary of the stability domain A. A. STOORVOGEL CONTENTS OF VOL. 63 Linear quadratic regulator loop shaping for high frequency compensation O. Geray and D. P. LoozeE Non-minimal factorization of nonlinear systems: the observable case A. BEN-ARTZI, J. W. HELTON and H. J. WOERDEMAN On the structure of a two-degree-of-freedom H® loop shaping controller D. J. WALKER Elementary operations and equivalence of two-dimensional systems K. GALKOWSKI Use of symmetry groups in sliding mode control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems E. M. HANCzyc and A. PALAZOGLU H ,,-control with output feedback for time-varying discrete systems HITOSHI KATAYAMA and AKIRA ICHIKAWA Subject Index Author Index Announcement