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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 65 NUMBER 1—10 SEPTEMBER The global control of a nonlinear wave equation M. H. FARAHI, J. E. RUBIO and D. A. WILSON A worst-case approach to optimal tracking control with robust performance H. T. TOIVONEN and J. PENSAR A polynomial solution to the scalar 4-block H_,, general distance problem A. CASAVOLA, D. FRAGOPOULOS and M. J. GRIMBLE Stable sequential identification of continuous nonlinear dynamical systems by growing radial basis function networks G. P. Lu, V. KADIRKAMANATHAN and S. A. BILLINGS Optimal design of robust controllers for uncertain discrete-time systems I. K. KONSTANTOPOULOS and P. J. ANTSAKLIS A subrate weighted minimum-variance control law A. W. TRUMAN On robustified adaptive minimum-variance controller V. Z. Fiipovic and B. D. Kovatcevié Balanced actuator and sensor placement for flexible structures W. GAWRONSKI and K. B. LIM Perspectives on the principle of matching and the method of inequalities V. ZAKIAN An improved computation of time-optimal control trajectory for robotic point-to- point motion YAOBIN CHEN and JIAN HUANG Causal and non-causal discrete-time transfer functions and their applications R. GESSING NUMBER 2—20 SEPTEMBER Dynamical adaptive pulse-width-modulation control of DC-to-DC power converters : a backstepping approach H. StRA-RAMiREZ, M. GARCiA-ESTEBAN and A. S. I. ZINOBER Appropriate realization of gain-scheduled controllers with application to wind turbine regulation D. J. LeitH and W. E. LEITHEAD On the corrective control of sequential machines J. HAMMER Iterative learning control using optimal feedback and feedforward actions N. AMANN, D. H. OwENs and E. ROGERS CONTENTS OF VOL. 65 PAGE Strong tracking filtering of nonlinear time-varying stochastic systems with coloured noise: application to parameter estimation and empirical robustness analysis D. H. ZHou and P. M. FRANK A bound for the magnitude characteristics of nonlinear output frequency response functions—Part 1: Analysis and computation S. A. BILLINGS and ZI-QIANG LANG Stable on-line parameter identification algorithms for systems with non-parametric uncertainties and disturbances Fu-MING LEE, I-KONG FonG and LI-CHEN Fu Stability of retarded delay differential systems S. ARUNSAWATWONG NUMBER 3—OCTOBER A bound for the magnitude characteristics of nonlinear output frequency response functions—Part 2: Practical computation of the bound for systems described by the nonlinear autoregressive model with exogenous input S. A. BILLINGS and ZI-QIANG LANG Maxwell’s treatment of governors fitted with differential gears A. T. FULLER Design of variable structure controllers with continuous switching control JIAN-XIN XU, TONG HENG LEE, MAO WANG and XING-Huo Yu Non-iterative computation of infimum in discrete-time H_-optimization and solvability conditions for the discrete-time disturbance decoupling problem B. M. CHEN,Y 1 Guo and ZONGLI LIN Exact linearization of nonlinear systems : trajectory tracking with bounded controls and state constraints J. L. MANCILLA AGUILAR, R. A. Garcia and C. E. D’ ATTELLIS Controller design with real parametric uncertainty Controllability and reachability criteria for discrete time positive systems M. E. VALCHER Quantitative feedback design of uncertain multivariable control systems CHING-CHENG CHENG, YIN-KUEI LIAO and TE-SHING WANG NUMBER 4—10 NOVEMBER Performance enhancement of wind turbine power regulation by switched linear control D. J. LEITH and W. E. LEITHEAD CONTENTS OF VOL. 65 Self-tuning control of a cold mill automatic gauge control system K. DuTTON and C. N. GROVES Decomposition of generalized frequency response functions for nonlinear systems using symbolic computation S. A. BILLINGs and M. I. YusoF State-space approach to stabilizing stochastic predictive control L. Cuisci, A. LOMBARDI, E. Mosca and J. A. ROSSITER Robust semi-global output tracking for nonlinear singularly perturbed systems P. D. CuRISTOFIDES, A. R. TEEL and P. DAOUTIDIS Nonlinear H,, method for Volterra systems P. Liu and A. S. I. ZINOBER Optimal parallel model solutions using the polynomial approach R. H. Mitocco and J. A.D E DoNA An interpolation approach to multiobjective W7,, design M. A. RoTEA and R. K. PRASANTH Correspondence Comment on ‘Eigenvalue placement in a specified sector for variable structure control systems’ YONGYAN CAO and YOUXIAN SUN NUMBER 5—20 NOVEMBER Adaptive learning control of uncertain robotic systems B. H. PARK, TAE- YONG Kuc and Jin S. LEE A new class of nonlinear robust adaptive controllers YOUPING ZHANG and P. A. IOANNOU An extension of the small gain theorem in 7, P. A. ANIGSTEIN and R. S. SANCHEZ PENA An improved Lyapunov function for power system stability analysis Y. J. Cao, Q. H. Wu and S. J. CHENG Vibrational control of a flexible beam A. FEUER and M. LEVINE On the controller and observer design of non-redundant linear mechanical systems including actuator dynamics XIAOHANG ZHANG State bounding with ellipsoidal set description of the uncertainty D. G. Maksarov and J. P. NORTON J-lossless conjugation and factorization for discrete-time systems W. KONGPRAWECHNON and H. KIMURA A graph theoretic method for computing a formal representation of the largest controlled invariant subspace of a structured system J. W. VAN DER WOUDE CONTENTS OF VOL. 65 NUMBER 6—DECEMBER Editorial J. O’ REILLY and P. C. YOUNG A redundant dynamical sliding mode control scheme for an asymptotic space vehicle stabilization H. SirRA-RAMiREZ and H. B. SIGUERDIDJANE Guaranteed level-y #,, control in uncertain linear systems via linear matrix inequalities POOGYEON PARK and T. KAILATH Application of the minimal control synthesis algorithm to the control and synchronization of chaotic systems D. P. STOTEN and M. DiI BERNARDO Robustness properties of repetitive controllers G. HILLERSTROM and J. STERNBY H,, output feedback control for linear discrete time-varying systems via the bounded real lemma J. M. A. SCHERPEN and M. H. G. VERHAEGEN Robust end-point optimizing feedback for nonlinear dynamic processes P. TERWIESCH and A. ASTOLFI Decentralized robust control design with insufficient number of controllers WEN-JUNE WANG and Y. H. CHEN Balanced model reduction of symmetric composite systems J. LAM and GUANG-HONG YANG Robust controller design for uncertain linear systems with circular pole constraints WANG ZIDONG, TANG GUOQING and CHEN XUEMIN Subject Index Author Index