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Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue
Boris T. Poljak was born in Moscow, U.S.S.R., in 1935. He was a graduate student at the Moscow State University and in 1964 he received a degree of Candidate in Physical Mathematical Science. From 1964 to 1971 he was with the Computer Center of the Moscow University. Since 1971 he has been with the Institute of Control Sciences where he is a senior scientific worker at present. B. T. Poljak's main research interests lie in the area of numerical analysis, optimization theory, mathematical programming, recurrent estimation. He is the author of 65 research papers, editor and translator of numerous books. He is a member of Editorial Board of Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization and Program Committee of International Symposium on Mathematical Programming.
Ali Durmaz was born in Denizli, Turkey, on 4 April 1944. He received the Diploma (Dipl.-Ing) in mechanical engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1970 and Ph.D. degree (Dr.-Ing) in ...... 1974 in the faculty of energy technique of the same university. He served as an assistant in the Institut ffir Verfahrenstechnik und Damplkesselwesen of University Stuttgart, from 1970 to 1974. There, he worked on modelling and control ol steam power plants in colloboration with some power plant companies and the German Research Association. In 1975, he joined EGO (Electrik-Gas-Citybus; Municipal Company, A n k a r a ) a n d worked in the design department of the power plant and gas supply units until September 1976. At the same time he was appointed as a part-time Lecturer in the Middle East Technical University (METU). He has been teaching in the Mechanical Engineering Department of METU as a full-time faculty member (Assistant Professor) since October 1976. His current research interests include economy of energy, power technology, modelling and control of power plants with an emphasis on control of non-stationary operation of power plants, combustion control, process optimization and optimum control. His main publications have been in the field of process dynamics, modelling and optimization. He is a member of the Turkish Mech. Eng. Institution and Thermal Science and Technology Society.
G&ard Joalland was born in 1952. In 1974, he graduated from Ecole des Mines de Nancy, France, (a high engineering school) with the Engineer degree and he joined the Centre d'Automatique et Informatique de l'Ecole Nationale Sup~rieure des Mines de Paris (located at Fontainebleau, France). Here, he has been involved in research on Large Scale Systems and particularly in optimal control of large water distribution networks. In 1978, he received the Doctor-Engineer degree from the University of Paris-9 Dauphine. At this date, he left the Centre d'Automatique-lnformatique and joined the Operations Research Group of Credit Lyonnais (a French Bank) in Paris. Guy Cohen was born in 1947. He graduated from Ecole Polytechtuque, Paris, France in 1968 and from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss6es, Paris, France in 1971 as a State Engineer in civil engineering and transportation problems. During this period (1970-1971), he was mainly involved in Operations Research applied to the study of new transportation systems. Since 1971, he has been with the Centre d'Automatique et Informatique de l'Ecole Nationale Sup6rieure des Mines de Paris (located at Fontainebleau, France) where he is now an Associate Director. In 1975 he received the Doctor-Engineer degree from the University of Paris 11-Orsay. Since 1977 he has been an external consultant of Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (IRIA), Le Chesnay, France. He also teaches at Ecole des Mines and at the University of Paris-9 Dauphine. His main research interest is in Large Scale Systems both in their theoretical aspects and their real life industrial applications. He has served as a referee of several Journals. He is now a French representative at the Systems Engineering Committee of IFAC.
Ya. Z. Tsypkin is a doctor of Engineering, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., a chief of a laboratory at the Institute of Control Sciences, and a protessor of the Moscow Physical Technical Institute. He is the author of more than 150 papers and 10 books among which are the following: Transient and Study Processes in Pulse Circuits, 1951 (translated into German, Chinese), Theory of Sampled Data Systems, 1958 and 1961 (translated into English, German, Chinese, Polish), Relay Control Systems, 1955, 1974 (translated into German, Japanese, French, Spanish), Adaptation and Learning in Automatic Control Systems, 1968 (translated into English, German, Japanese), Foundation of the Theory of Learning Systems, 1970 (translated into English, German, Japanese, Polish), Fundamentals of Control Systems, 1977. His scientific interest lies in the field of discrete automatic systems, adaptive and learning systems, and methods of optimization under uncertainty. 111
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O. Jacobs is a University Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science and a Tutorial Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford. Born m 1934 he studied Mechanical Sciences at Cambridge and stayed there to take a Ph.D. on Self Optimising Systems. He was System Analyst with Elliot Bros. (London) Ltd. for a year before becoming University Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Edinburgh. He moved to his present position in 1967. Hc was visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego, in 1973. Research interests centre on estimation and control and their interactions in theory, in ondine digital control of technological processes, and in other applications.
P. Saratchandran was born in Calicut, Kerala State, India. He received his B.Sc (Electrical Engineering) from Regional Engineering College, Calicut in 1969, M. Tech from I.I.T. Kharagpur in 197l, M.Sc IDistinction) fl'om City University, London in 1974 and D.Phil from Oxford University in 1978. From 1971 to 1973 he worked at the Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad, India and while at Oxl\)rd he was a Science Research Council Post graduate research assistant. He is at present with the Advance Technology G r o u p of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Bangalore, India. His interests include indentification and adaptive control.
J a m e s D. Schoeffler has been active in teaching, research, and consulting in the area of industrial computer control since 1960. This includes data acquisition systems, process control, realtime operating systems, process control languages and other application-oriented software. Currently, he is active in distributed minicomputer and microcomputer systems for industrial proccss and manufacturing control. In addition to his teaching and reasearch, he has been involved with continuing engineering education through short courses and IEEE sponsored tutorials. He was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve from 1960 until 1975 in the Department of Systems Engineering. In 1975 he joined Cleveland State University where he is currently Professor and Chairman of Computer and Information Science. He received his undergraduate education at Case Institute of Technology and his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, both in Electrical Engineering. He is a fellow of IEEE and member of ACM and several honorary organizations.
Bipin B. Mishra received lhc Bachelor of Technology dcgrcc in electronics and electrical communication engineering, x~ith [Ionor,~. from the Indian Institute of } Technology, Kharagpur, India and the Master of Sciencc dcglcc in } electrical engineering frum Virgmi:l ....... Polytechnic Institutc and Slalt2 University, Blacksburg. Virginia in ~lp, m ~ l v ~ , , 1968 and 1973 respcctixcl',. Bct~ccn 1968 and 1971 he ~a~ an Assistau! t.hagmccr (lllstrumcntation) with Shriram Chemical Industries. Kota. India. From July 1973 to July 1975 he was employed as an Engineer (Instrumentation and Control Systemsl in the Nuclear Power Generating Division of Babcock and Wilcox Company, Lynchburg, Virginia. Since July 1975 hc has been associated with the Metropolitan Denver Wastewater Treatment District No. 1. Denver, Colorado and provides part-time consultation in the areas of control systems and hardware design for wastewater, power and papcr pulp processes. Hc is a Senior Member of the Instrument Society of America (ISA). a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Registered Professiomtl Engineer. He received the Best Technical Paper award from ISA tWastewater l)ivisionl in 1078. FIe was a subject of biographical record in the sixteenth edition of W/lo's ~t4uJ in tiw West, and received the Persnnalitie~ of America Award i1978 79~ from the American Biographical lt~stitute. -
is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and a Rcscarch Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Iinivcrsity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. ttis research has been in inodeling, control and optimization of dynamic systems, with particular emphasis on sensitivity and order reduction methods. His degrees are from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1958 and 1963, and from the Institute for Automation and Tclemechanics, Moscow, IJ.S.S.R., 1965. Until 1966 he was with the Pupin Research Institute in Belgrade. He is a member of the Administrati,,e Com,nittee of the IEEE Control Systems Society and an Associate Editor of the lEA(" journal Aulomatica. ttc is a consultant to General Electric ('ompany, I. ord Motor Company, and Systems Control Inc. Peter V. Kokotovlc
John Allemong was born on 23 January 1951 in Harvey, Illinois. tie obtained the B.S.E.E degree with highest honors and University Honors in June, 1973, the M.S.E.E. degree in May 1974 and the P h . D . degree in Electrical Engineering in October 1978, all from the Ilniversity of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. From June 1974 to August 1975, he was employed as an Electrical Engineer by the consulting firm of Sargent and Lundy Engineers, Chicago, Illinois. In August 1978, he joined the American Electric Power Service Corporation, New York, New York, as an Electrical Engineer where he has been working on real time control of power systems. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical aml Vlcclronics l{nginccrs.
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James R. Winkelman was born on 2 August 1949 in Woodstock, Illinois. He received his B.S.E.E. with honors in 1972; his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1973 and 1976 respectively from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. From 1973 to 1976 he was employed as a research assistant by the Superconducting Energy Storage Project at the University of Wisconsin. Since 1976 he has been with the General Electric Company in the System Dynamics & Control subsection of the Electric Utility Systems Engineering Department where he has been involved in the study and simulation of power system dynamics. In addition to power systems, his interests include alternate energy sources and modern control theory. He is a member of IEEE, Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi.
Joe Hong Chow was born in Shanghai, on 1 August 1951. He received tile B.S.E.E. and B. Math. degrees from the Uni~ersit~ of Minnesota in 1974: his M.S. and Ph.l). degrees, both in Electrical Engineering from the Uni~ersit 5 of Illinois, Urbana, ill 1975 and 1977. respectively. From 1974 to 1977 he worked as a Research Assistant in tile Control System group at tile Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, where he was a Research Associate in 1978. Since June 1978, hc has been with the System Analysis subsection of the Electric Utility Systems Engineering Department of the General Electric Company. His interests include modern control theory, singular perturbations, power systems and numerical methods. He is a member of IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu and Phi Kappa Phi. He was the recipient of the 1979 Donald P. Eckman Award.
Mark D. Ardema has been employed by the Nasa Ames Research Centre, at Moffett Field, California, since 1965. During this time he has been engaged in studies of advanced transport aircraft systems, including VTOL, STOL, subsonic CTOL, supersonic, hypersonic and lighter-than-air. Dr. Ardema has worked in the technical areas of performance estimation, preliminary design, flight mechanics, trajectory optimization, heat-transfer analysis, structures, materials, systems analysis, applied mathematics and economics. He has published numerous papers and articles in these fields. Dr. Ardema currently has both project management and research responsibilities. His current research interest is in applying singular perturbation techniques to optimal control and aircraft flight dynamics. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974. In 1977 he was appointed a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California.
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Masato lnagaki was born on 22 November 1949, in Ogaki, Japan. He received the B.S. degree in Fine Measurement from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1974 and the M.S. degree and the Ph.D. degree in Information Science from Nagoya University in 1976 and 1979 respectively. Since 1979 he has been with t'he Automatic Control Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya University. His current interests include controllability problems and realization theory of bilinear and nonlinear systems, system theory and automata theory. He is a member of the Society of Instrument Control Engineers, Japan.
Yasuyuki Funahashi was born in Nagoya, Japan on April 17, 1940. He received the B.S. degree M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree, all from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Nagoya University, in 1963, 1965 and 1974 respectively. Since 1968 he has been with the Automatic Control Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya University. At the present time his research interests lie in multivariable control theory and system theory. He is a member of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, and the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan.
Adolf Hermann Glatffelder received his Diplomingenieurdegree in mechanical engineering in 1964 and his degree of Dr.sc.techn. in 1969 both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Since 1973 he has been Privatdozent in control engineering at the same institution and since 1976 he has been with the research department of Escher Wyss Limited in Zurich, Switzerland. His interests are in system modelling and in the design of adaptive control systems of the selfselecting and selftuning type.
Francois Huguenin was born August 19th, 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland. He received the diploma engineer degree (Dipl. Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH in Ziirich in 1975. Since then he has been assistant at the Institute for Automatic Control at ETH, and he began to work with microcomputers in 1976. His research interests are on complex and sophisticated applications using microcomputers. In his spare time he enjoys taking his camera along with him to make pictures. As an enthusiast of old steam locomotives, he is currently writing, together with his brother, a book about these very interesting and sometimes strange machines.
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Miomir Vukobratovi~: was born in Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia, in 1931. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and the Sc.D. degree from Moscow University, Moscow, U.S.S.R. He is presently Head of the Department of Robotics of Mihailo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, and a Visiting Professor teaching postgraduate courses at the Universities of Belgrade, Ljubljana and Novi Sad. He is the author of numerous papers and a number of Monographs on sensitivity analysis, locomotion robots and manipulator systems. His basic interest is in the development of methods for computer construction of the models of active spatial chains, his special interest being suboptimal and decoupled control of large-scale mechanical systems. Dr. Vukobratovi,5 is a Scientific Consultant of the Institute of Mathematics, Belgrade, the Chairman of Robotics Section of the Yugoslav Society for ETAN (Electronics, Telecommunications, Automation and Nuclear Engineering), a permanent member of Inlcrnational Committees of I F T O M M Symposium on Robols and Manipulators, IFAC IFIP Symposium on lnformarion Control Problems in Manufacturing Technology and International Congress of Biomechamcs. He is also a member of the Serbian Scientific Society, Belgrade.
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Dragan Stoki~ was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1950. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1973, and the M.S. degree from the Center of Multidisciplinary Studies, Belgrade, in 1976. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in manipulation system control. His research interest is in the modelling and control of large-scale, especially mechanical, systems. He is the co-author or author of several papers on modelling and control of active spatial mechanisms in locomotion and manipulation. He is also the co-author of two Monographs dealing with the control of robots and manipulators.
Walter Schaufelberger is Associale Professor of Control Engineering in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). Hc received his diploma degree in 1964 and his Ph.D. degree in 1969, both from ETH. He spent the academic year 1971.,:72 as a visiting lecturer at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada and became Assistant Profcssor at ETH in 1972. He is interested in new teaching methods such as group teaching and laboratory oriented teaching. His research interests are in the fields of adaptive control and system identification.
Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue
Boris T. Poljak was born in Moscow, U.S.S.R., in 1935. He was a graduate student at the Moscow State University and in 1964 he received a degree of Candidate in Physical Mathematical Science. From 1964 to 1971 he was with the Computer Center of the Moscow University. Since 1971 he has been with the Institute of Control Sciences where he is a senior scientific worker at present. B. T. Poljak's main research interests lie in the area of numerical analysis, optimization theory, mathematical programming, recurrent estimation. He is the author of 65 research papers, editor and translator of numerous books. He is a member of Editorial Board of Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization and Program Committee of International Symposium on Mathematical Programming.
Ali Durmaz was born in Denizli, Turkey, on 4 April 1944. He received the Diploma (Dipl.-Ing) in mechanical engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1970 and Ph.D. degree (Dr.-Ing) in ...... 1974 in the faculty of energy technique of the same university. He served as an assistant in the Institut ffir Verfahrenstechnik und Damplkesselwesen of University Stuttgart, from 1970 to 1974. There, he worked on modelling and control ol steam power plants in colloboration with some power plant companies and the German Research Association. In 1975, he joined EGO (Electrik-Gas-Citybus; Municipal Company, A n k a r a ) a n d worked in the design department of the power plant and gas supply units until September 1976. At the same time he was appointed as a part-time Lecturer in the Middle East Technical University (METU). He has been teaching in the Mechanical Engineering Department of METU as a full-time faculty member (Assistant Professor) since October 1976. His current research interests include economy of energy, power technology, modelling and control of power plants with an emphasis on control of non-stationary operation of power plants, combustion control, process optimization and optimum control. His main publications have been in the field of process dynamics, modelling and optimization. He is a member of the Turkish Mech. Eng. Institution and Thermal Science and Technology Society.
G&ard Joalland was born in 1952. In 1974, he graduated from Ecole des Mines de Nancy, France, (a high engineering school) with the Engineer degree and he joined the Centre d'Automatique et Informatique de l'Ecole Nationale Sup~rieure des Mines de Paris (located at Fontainebleau, France). Here, he has been involved in research on Large Scale Systems and particularly in optimal control of large water distribution networks. In 1978, he received the Doctor-Engineer degree from the University of Paris-9 Dauphine. At this date, he left the Centre d'Automatique-lnformatique and joined the Operations Research Group of Credit Lyonnais (a French Bank) in Paris. Guy Cohen was born in 1947. He graduated from Ecole Polytechtuque, Paris, France in 1968 and from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss6es, Paris, France in 1971 as a State Engineer in civil engineering and transportation problems. During this period (1970-1971), he was mainly involved in Operations Research applied to the study of new transportation systems. Since 1971, he has been with the Centre d'Automatique et Informatique de l'Ecole Nationale Sup6rieure des Mines de Paris (located at Fontainebleau, France) where he is now an Associate Director. In 1975 he received the Doctor-Engineer degree from the University of Paris 11-Orsay. Since 1977 he has been an external consultant of Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (IRIA), Le Chesnay, France. He also teaches at Ecole des Mines and at the University of Paris-9 Dauphine. His main research interest is in Large Scale Systems both in their theoretical aspects and their real life industrial applications. He has served as a referee of several Journals. He is now a French representative at the Systems Engineering Committee of IFAC.
Ya. Z. Tsypkin is a doctor of Engineering, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., a chief of a laboratory at the Institute of Control Sciences, and a protessor of the Moscow Physical Technical Institute. He is the author of more than 150 papers and 10 books among which are the following: Transient and Study Processes in Pulse Circuits, 1951 (translated into German, Chinese), Theory of Sampled Data Systems, 1958 and 1961 (translated into English, German, Chinese, Polish), Relay Control Systems, 1955, 1974 (translated into German, Japanese, French, Spanish), Adaptation and Learning in Automatic Control Systems, 1968 (translated into English, German, Japanese), Foundation of the Theory of Learning Systems, 1970 (translated into English, German, Japanese, Polish), Fundamentals of Control Systems, 1977. His scientific interest lies in the field of discrete automatic systems, adaptive and learning systems, and methods of optimization under uncertainty. 111
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O. Jacobs is a University Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science and a Tutorial Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford. Born m 1934 he studied Mechanical Sciences at Cambridge and stayed there to take a Ph.D. on Self Optimising Systems. He was System Analyst with Elliot Bros. (London) Ltd. for a year before becoming University Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Edinburgh. He moved to his present position in 1967. Hc was visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego, in 1973. Research interests centre on estimation and control and their interactions in theory, in ondine digital control of technological processes, and in other applications.
P. Saratchandran was born in Calicut, Kerala State, India. He received his B.Sc (Electrical Engineering) from Regional Engineering College, Calicut in 1969, M. Tech from I.I.T. Kharagpur in 197l, M.Sc IDistinction) fl'om City University, London in 1974 and D.Phil from Oxford University in 1978. From 1971 to 1973 he worked at the Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad, India and while at Oxl\)rd he was a Science Research Council Post graduate research assistant. He is at present with the Advance Technology G r o u p of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Bangalore, India. His interests include indentification and adaptive control.
J a m e s D. Schoeffler has been active in teaching, research, and consulting in the area of industrial computer control since 1960. This includes data acquisition systems, process control, realtime operating systems, process control languages and other application-oriented software. Currently, he is active in distributed minicomputer and microcomputer systems for industrial proccss and manufacturing control. In addition to his teaching and reasearch, he has been involved with continuing engineering education through short courses and IEEE sponsored tutorials. He was Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve from 1960 until 1975 in the Department of Systems Engineering. In 1975 he joined Cleveland State University where he is currently Professor and Chairman of Computer and Information Science. He received his undergraduate education at Case Institute of Technology and his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, both in Electrical Engineering. He is a fellow of IEEE and member of ACM and several honorary organizations.
Bipin B. Mishra received lhc Bachelor of Technology dcgrcc in electronics and electrical communication engineering, x~ith [Ionor,~. from the Indian Institute of } Technology, Kharagpur, India and the Master of Sciencc dcglcc in } electrical engineering frum Virgmi:l ....... Polytechnic Institutc and Slalt2 University, Blacksburg. Virginia in ~lp, m ~ l v ~ , , 1968 and 1973 respcctixcl',. Bct~ccn 1968 and 1971 he ~a~ an Assistau! t.hagmccr (lllstrumcntation) with Shriram Chemical Industries. Kota. India. From July 1973 to July 1975 he was employed as an Engineer (Instrumentation and Control Systemsl in the Nuclear Power Generating Division of Babcock and Wilcox Company, Lynchburg, Virginia. Since July 1975 hc has been associated with the Metropolitan Denver Wastewater Treatment District No. 1. Denver, Colorado and provides part-time consultation in the areas of control systems and hardware design for wastewater, power and papcr pulp processes. Hc is a Senior Member of the Instrument Society of America (ISA). a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Registered Professiomtl Engineer. He received the Best Technical Paper award from ISA tWastewater l)ivisionl in 1078. FIe was a subject of biographical record in the sixteenth edition of W/lo's ~t4uJ in tiw West, and received the Persnnalitie~ of America Award i1978 79~ from the American Biographical lt~stitute. -
is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and a Rcscarch Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Iinivcrsity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. ttis research has been in inodeling, control and optimization of dynamic systems, with particular emphasis on sensitivity and order reduction methods. His degrees are from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1958 and 1963, and from the Institute for Automation and Tclemechanics, Moscow, IJ.S.S.R., 1965. Until 1966 he was with the Pupin Research Institute in Belgrade. He is a member of the Administrati,,e Com,nittee of the IEEE Control Systems Society and an Associate Editor of the lEA(" journal Aulomatica. ttc is a consultant to General Electric ('ompany, I. ord Motor Company, and Systems Control Inc. Peter V. Kokotovlc
John Allemong was born on 23 January 1951 in Harvey, Illinois. tie obtained the B.S.E.E degree with highest honors and University Honors in June, 1973, the M.S.E.E. degree in May 1974 and the P h . D . degree in Electrical Engineering in October 1978, all from the Ilniversity of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign. From June 1974 to August 1975, he was employed as an Electrical Engineer by the consulting firm of Sargent and Lundy Engineers, Chicago, Illinois. In August 1978, he joined the American Electric Power Service Corporation, New York, New York, as an Electrical Engineer where he has been working on real time control of power systems. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical aml Vlcclronics l{nginccrs.
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James R. Winkelman was born on 2 August 1949 in Woodstock, Illinois. He received his B.S.E.E. with honors in 1972; his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1973 and 1976 respectively from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. From 1973 to 1976 he was employed as a research assistant by the Superconducting Energy Storage Project at the University of Wisconsin. Since 1976 he has been with the General Electric Company in the System Dynamics & Control subsection of the Electric Utility Systems Engineering Department where he has been involved in the study and simulation of power system dynamics. In addition to power systems, his interests include alternate energy sources and modern control theory. He is a member of IEEE, Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi.
Joe Hong Chow was born in Shanghai, on 1 August 1951. He received tile B.S.E.E. and B. Math. degrees from the Uni~ersit~ of Minnesota in 1974: his M.S. and Ph.l). degrees, both in Electrical Engineering from the Uni~ersit 5 of Illinois, Urbana, ill 1975 and 1977. respectively. From 1974 to 1977 he worked as a Research Assistant in tile Control System group at tile Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, where he was a Research Associate in 1978. Since June 1978, hc has been with the System Analysis subsection of the Electric Utility Systems Engineering Department of the General Electric Company. His interests include modern control theory, singular perturbations, power systems and numerical methods. He is a member of IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu and Phi Kappa Phi. He was the recipient of the 1979 Donald P. Eckman Award.
Mark D. Ardema has been employed by the Nasa Ames Research Centre, at Moffett Field, California, since 1965. During this time he has been engaged in studies of advanced transport aircraft systems, including VTOL, STOL, subsonic CTOL, supersonic, hypersonic and lighter-than-air. Dr. Ardema has worked in the technical areas of performance estimation, preliminary design, flight mechanics, trajectory optimization, heat-transfer analysis, structures, materials, systems analysis, applied mathematics and economics. He has published numerous papers and articles in these fields. Dr. Ardema currently has both project management and research responsibilities. His current research interest is in applying singular perturbation techniques to optimal control and aircraft flight dynamics. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974. In 1977 he was appointed a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California.
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Masato lnagaki was born on 22 November 1949, in Ogaki, Japan. He received the B.S. degree in Fine Measurement from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1974 and the M.S. degree and the Ph.D. degree in Information Science from Nagoya University in 1976 and 1979 respectively. Since 1979 he has been with t'he Automatic Control Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya University. His current interests include controllability problems and realization theory of bilinear and nonlinear systems, system theory and automata theory. He is a member of the Society of Instrument Control Engineers, Japan.
Yasuyuki Funahashi was born in Nagoya, Japan on April 17, 1940. He received the B.S. degree M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree, all from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Nagoya University, in 1963, 1965 and 1974 respectively. Since 1968 he has been with the Automatic Control Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya University. At the present time his research interests lie in multivariable control theory and system theory. He is a member of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, and the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers of Japan.
Adolf Hermann Glatffelder received his Diplomingenieurdegree in mechanical engineering in 1964 and his degree of Dr.sc.techn. in 1969 both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Since 1973 he has been Privatdozent in control engineering at the same institution and since 1976 he has been with the research department of Escher Wyss Limited in Zurich, Switzerland. His interests are in system modelling and in the design of adaptive control systems of the selfselecting and selftuning type.
Francois Huguenin was born August 19th, 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland. He received the diploma engineer degree (Dipl. Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH in Ziirich in 1975. Since then he has been assistant at the Institute for Automatic Control at ETH, and he began to work with microcomputers in 1976. His research interests are on complex and sophisticated applications using microcomputers. In his spare time he enjoys taking his camera along with him to make pictures. As an enthusiast of old steam locomotives, he is currently writing, together with his brother, a book about these very interesting and sometimes strange machines.
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Miomir Vukobratovi~: was born in Zrenjanin, Yugoslavia, in 1931. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and the Sc.D. degree from Moscow University, Moscow, U.S.S.R. He is presently Head of the Department of Robotics of Mihailo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, and a Visiting Professor teaching postgraduate courses at the Universities of Belgrade, Ljubljana and Novi Sad. He is the author of numerous papers and a number of Monographs on sensitivity analysis, locomotion robots and manipulator systems. His basic interest is in the development of methods for computer construction of the models of active spatial chains, his special interest being suboptimal and decoupled control of large-scale mechanical systems. Dr. Vukobratovi,5 is a Scientific Consultant of the Institute of Mathematics, Belgrade, the Chairman of Robotics Section of the Yugoslav Society for ETAN (Electronics, Telecommunications, Automation and Nuclear Engineering), a permanent member of Inlcrnational Committees of I F T O M M Symposium on Robols and Manipulators, IFAC IFIP Symposium on lnformarion Control Problems in Manufacturing Technology and International Congress of Biomechamcs. He is also a member of the Serbian Scientific Society, Belgrade.
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Dragan Stoki~ was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1950. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1973, and the M.S. degree from the Center of Multidisciplinary Studies, Belgrade, in 1976. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in manipulation system control. His research interest is in the modelling and control of large-scale, especially mechanical, systems. He is the co-author or author of several papers on modelling and control of active spatial mechanisms in locomotion and manipulation. He is also the co-author of two Monographs dealing with the control of robots and manipulators.
Walter Schaufelberger is Associale Professor of Control Engineering in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). Hc received his diploma degree in 1964 and his Ph.D. degree in 1969, both from ETH. He spent the academic year 1971.,:72 as a visiting lecturer at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada and became Assistant Profcssor at ETH in 1972. He is interested in new teaching methods such as group teaching and laboratory oriented teaching. His research interests are in the fields of adaptive control and system identification.