Control and Modeling of Complex Systems: Cybernetics in the 21st Century Festschrift in Honor of Hidenori Kimura on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday (Trends in Mathematics)

Hidenori Kimura, renowned system and control theorist, turned 60 years of age in November, 2001. To celebrate this memorable occasion, his friends, collaborators, and former students gathered from all over the world and held a symposium in his honor on November 1 and 2, 2001, at the Sanjo Conference Hall at the University of Tokyo. Reflecting his current research interests, the symposium was entitled "Cybernetics in the 21st Century: Information and Complexity in Control Theory," and it drew nearly 150 attendees. There were twenty-five lectures, on which the present volume is based. Hidenori Kimura was born on November 3, 1941, in Tokyo, just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. It is not hard to imagine, then, that his early days, like those of so many of his contemporaries, must have been difficult. Fortunately, the war ended in 1945, and his generation found itself thoroughly occupied with the rebuilding effort and with Japan's uphill journey in the last half-century. He entered the University of Tokyo in 1963, received a B. S. in 1965, an M. S. in 1967, and, in 1970, a Ph. D. degree for his dissertation "A Study of Differential Games. " After obtaining his doctorate, he joined the Department of Control En­ gineering at Osaka University as a research associate, and in 1973 he was promoted to an associate professor. Front Matter....Pages i-xxix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 A Convex Optimization Approach to Generalized Moment Problems....Pages 3-21 Toeplitz Covariance Matrices and the von Neumann Relative Entropy....Pages 23-29 Digital Filter Design via Sampled-Data Control Theory....Pages 31-43 Time-Domain FIR Filters for Stochastic and Deterministic Systems....Pages 45-62 Front Matter....Pages 63-63 Learning H ∞ Model Sets from Data: The Set Membership Approach....Pages 65-87 System Identification: A Learning Theory Approach....Pages 89-104 Distribution-Free Approach to Probabilistic Model-Set Identification....Pages 105-117 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 Analysis of Weight Change in H ∞ Control Design....Pages 121-138 Performance Limits under Control Effort Constraints....Pages 139-151 Complexity of Systems and Controllers....Pages 153-168 Off Line Reference Shaping for Systems with State and Control Constraints....Pages 169-182 Finite Frequency Characterization of Easily Controllable Plant toward Structure/Control Design Integration....Pages 183-196 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 On Stabilization of Switched Linear Systems....Pages 199-211 Well-Posedness of a Class of Piecewise Affine Systems....Pages 213-228 Robust Stabilization of Chaos via Delayed Feedback Control....Pages 229-243 Time Varying Deadbeat Control of High Order Chained Systems with Applications to the Control of Underactuated Manipulators....Pages 245-262 Control of Nonholonomic Systems with Bad Controllability Structure....Pages 263-279 Front Matter....Pages 281-281 Computer Control of Vehicles: Overcoming Limitations of Human Drivers....Pages 283-301 Modeling, Control and Experiment of a Feedback Active Noise Control System for Free Sound Fields....Pages 303-322 Visuomotor Architecture for High-Speed Robot Control....Pages 323-337 Hidenori Kimura, renowned system and control theorist, turned 60 years of age in November, 2001. To celebrate this memorable occasion, his friends, collaborators, and former students gathered from all over the world and held a symposium in his honor on November 1 and 2, 2001, at the Sanjo Conference Hall at the University of Tokyo. Reflecting his current research interests, the symposium was entitled "Cybernetics in the 21st Century: Information and Complexity in Control Theory," and it drew nearly 150 attendees. There were twenty-five lectures, on which the present volume is based. Hidenori Kimura was born on November 3, 1941, in Tokyo, just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. It is not hard to imagine, then, that his early days, like those of so many of his contemporaries, must have been difficult. Fortunately, the war ended in 1945, and his generation found itself thoroughly occupied with the rebuilding effort and with Japan's uphill journey in the last half-century. He entered the University of Tokyo in 1963, received a B.S. in 1965, an M.S. in 1967, and, in 1970, a Ph. D. degree for his dissertation "A Study of Differential Games." After obtaining his doctorate, he joined the Department of Control EnƯ gineering at Osaka University as a research associate, and in 1973 he was promoted to an associate professor

This festschrift volume pays tribute to Hidenori Kimura and his outstanding achievements in control theory, signal processing, and modeling. The 20 invited contributions presented here are an outgrowth of a symposium held in November 2001 in Tokyo, Japan, celebrating Kimura's 60th birthday. Reflecting his recent research interests, the symposium was entitled Cybernetics in the 21st Century: Information and Complexity in Control Theory. The chapters are classified into five main areas related to Kimura's work: signal processing, identification, robust control, hybrid, chaotic and nonlinear systems, and control applications. Many of the contributions highlight real-world and industrial applications.