Mechanics and control : proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Control Mechanics, in honor of the 65th birthday of George Leitmann, January 22-24, 1990, University of Southern California

The three Workshops on Control Mechanics held annually since 1988 at the University of Southern California made substantial contribution to the above set of topics and have established a tradition in the interface between mechanics and control. The Workshop gained considerable international significance, with participants coming from USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Sweden, France, Germany and USSR. This Volume is also special by producing papers dedicated to G. Leitmann, one of the founders of the study on dynamics of uncertain systems, and thus emphasising this recently rapidly developing discipline. The three major sets of topics presented deal successively with the general control theory of uncertain systems, with new theoretic methods in control, and with applications to control of robotic manipulators, aircraft control and flexible structures, all well integrated. Introduction....Pages 1-2 In honor of George Leitmann....Pages 3-9 A few words for the 65 th anniversary of George Leitmann at the dinner of the third workshop on control mechanics: Sunday night, January 21, 1990....Pages 10-14 Adaptive control of flexible joint robots derived from arm energy considerations....Pages 15-36 Perturbation method for improved time-optimal control of disk drives....Pages 37-49 Robustness analysis in the time domain and output space....Pages 50-63 Sufficiency conditions for existence of an optimal feedback control in stochastic mechanics....Pages 64-84 Avoidance control mechanics for food-chain models subject to uncertainties....Pages 85-96 Robust control of uncertain systems with time-varying uncertainty: A computer-aided setting....Pages 97-114 Asymptotic stability of singularly perturbed systems which have marginally stable boundary layer systems....Pages 115-126 Robot trajectory control: Robust outer loop design using linear controller....Pages 127-148 Nonlinear adaptive control of robotic manipulators....Pages 149-156 Delta algorithm for global optimal control....Pages 157-162 Development of guidance laws for accelerating missile....Pages 163-191 On the existence of a solution of riccati equation and the mismatch threshold in practical stabilization of uncertain dynamical systems....Pages 192-200 Vector channel lattice filters for the delta operator: Complete derivation....Pages 201-215 Application of robust deterministic control to robotic manipulators....Pages 216-228 Estimation of regions of asymptotic stability with sliding for relay-control systems....Pages 229-253 Theory of residence time control by output feedback....Pages 254-270 Maximum-miss aircraft collision avoidance....Pages 271-280 Aircraft survival in windshear flight....Pages 281-294 Properties of the recursive Lyapunov equation....Pages 295-309 Steady state feedforward compensation for discrete-time multivariable systems....Pages 310-334 Dynamic modeling of flexible appendage and single-link structures with rigid payload....Pages 335-367 Multivariable control of an integrated propulsion — airframe system....Pages 368-405 Finite-time stabilization of uncertain nonlinear planar systems....Pages 406-414 Stabilizing uncertain systems with bounded control....Pages 415-428 Controllability implications of Newton's third law....Pages 429-443 Control of chaos in nonlinear dynamical systems....Pages 444-450 Control of a chaotic system....Pages 451-465 Introduction to suggestion theory....Pages 466-474 Stability of controllers with on-line computations....Pages 475-497 J.m. Skowroński, H. Flashner, R.s. Guttalu, (eds.) Includes Bibliographical References.