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Lorenz T. Biegler is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has worked since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1981. His research interests inclyde flowsheet optimization, optimization of systems of differential and algebraic equations, reactor network synthesis and algorithms for constrained, nonlinear process control. He has authored or co-authored over 95 technical publications and presented numerous papers at national and international conferences.
Hyun-Sik Abn was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1959. He received the MS. degree and the Ph.D. degree in 1984 and 1992, respectively, both in Control and Instrumentation Engineering, from Seoul National University, Seoul. He was a researcher in Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, from 1985 to 1992. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Department of Electronic Engineering at Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea. His research interests include various aspects of learning control systems, direct drive robot control, and applications of advanced control theory to industrial processes. Professor Ahn was presented the KIEE Paper Award in 1990 from the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Georges Bitsoris was born in Athens, Greece, in 1950. He received the Diploma of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Athens in 1973, the Diploma of Advanced Studies and the Doctorat d’Etat both from the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, in 1974 and 1978, respectively, and the Habilitation degree from the University of
Brian D. 0. Anderson was born in Sydney, Australia, and received his undergraduate eduction at the University of Sydney, with majors in Pure Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from StanFollowing ford University. completion of his education, he worked in industry in Silicon Valley and served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. He was Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia from 1%7 till 1981 and is now Professor of Systems Engineering at the Australian National University and Acting Director of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering. His interests are in control and signal processing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He holds doctorates (honoris causa) from the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Ziirich. He served a term as President of the International Federation of Automatic Control from 1990 to 1993.
Patras, Greece, in 1982. From 1974 to 1978, he worked as a research assistant in the Laboratoire d’Automatique et d’Analyse des SystemesC.N.R.S. in France. Since 1978 he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Patras. He was an assistant professor until 1982 and an associate professor until 1989. Currently, he is a professor of Systems Analysis and Control. Since 1984, he has been a Director of the Control Systems Laboratory. During the academic year 1985-86, he was on sabbatical leave as a Maitre de Recherche at the L.A.A.S.-C.N.R.S., Toulouse, France and during 1993, he was a visiting professor at the Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. His research interests include the stability and control of nonlinear and large-scale systems, the theory of constrained control of multivariable systems, the dynamics of neural networks and their industrial applications.
Ravi Aripirala was born in India on 1 June 1971. He received the Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1992, the M.S. degree from the University of Hawaii in 1993 and is currently a Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of robust control theory and numerical methods for system theory. He is a member of SIAM.
Richard D. Bra& is an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received the B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1991 and 1993 from the California Institute of Technology. He has worked at the Chevron Research Company on separating azeotropic mix357
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tures, with researchers at the Avery-Dennison Research Center on the control of liquid coating processes. and at the DuPont Experimental Station on the control of polymer extrusion processes. His interests are in the development of general approaches for the design, modeling, and control of industrial processes which manage the complexity and inaccuracy of these large-scale systems. Dr Braatz received the Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize in 1993.
C. I. Byrnes was born in New York, NY, on 28 June 1949. He received the B.S. degree from Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, in 1971 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1973 and 1975, respectively. He served as an Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, from 1975 to 1978, then he was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and in the Division of Applied Science at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. From 1982 to 1985, he was Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics on the Gordon McKay Endowment at Harvard University. In 1984, he joined Arizona State University, Tempe, as a Research Professor of Engineering and Mathematics and also served as Adjunct Professor of Mathematics System Theory at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden from 1986 to 1990. From 1989 to 1991, he was Chairman and Professor in the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics at Washington University, St. Louis, MO, where he is currently Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has also held visiting positions at Bremen, Groningen, Harvard, IIASA, Kansas. KTH, Osaka, Paris-Dauphine, Rome-La Sapienza, Stanford, Tokyo, and with the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. His research interests include adaptive control, algebraic system theory, distributed parameter systems, linear multivariable control, nonlinear control, and the applications of nonlinear dynamics in control and estimation. Dr. Byrnes is an editor of 11 research volumes and the author of over I40 technical articles. He has served as an Associate Editor of four journals and is currently Editor of the two-book series, Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications and Progress in Systems and Control (Birkhauser).
Chien Chern Cheah was born in Singapore. He received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore 1990, and the Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 1993. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree at Nanyang Technological University. From 1990 to 1991, he worked as a Design Engineer at Singapore Technologies Industrial Corporation. He joined Nanyang Technological University in August 1991, and is presently a Teaching Assistant of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. His research interests are in learning control and manipulator control.
Chong-Ho Choi received the B.S. degree from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1970, and the MS. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, in 1975 and 1978, respectively. He was a Senior Researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, from 1978 to 1980. He is currently a Professor of Control and Instrumentation Engineering at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. He is also affiliated with the Automatic Systems Research Institute (ASRI) and the Engineering Research Center for Advanced Control and Instrumentation, Seoul National University. His research interests include system identification, adaptive control, learning control and neural networks.
Olav Egeland was born in Trondheim, Norway, in 1959. He received the Siv.Ing. degree in 1984 and the Dr.Ing. degree in 1987 in Electrical Engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway. He became Assistant Professor in 1987 and Professor of Robotics in 1989 at the Division of Engineering Cybernetics, the Norwegian Institute of Technology. In the academic year 1988/89 he was a Visiting Scientist at the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. His research interests include control of manipulators, surface vessels, flexible structures and nonholonomic vehicles.
Meng Joo Er received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1985 and 1988, respectively and a Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from the Australian National University in 1992. From 1987 to 1989, he worked as a Research and Development Engineer in Chartered Electronics Industries Pte Ltd and a Software Engineer in Telerate Research and Development Pte Ltd, respectively. He is currently a Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include control theory and applications, robotics, fuzzy logic and neural network, power electronics and drives, and microprocessor applications.
Michael K. H. Fan was born in Taiwan, Republic of China, on 1.5 August, 1958. He received the B.S. degree in Control Engineering from the National Chiao-Tung University, Republic of China, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1980, 1984, and 1986, respectively. From 1986 to 1989, Dr Fan was associated with the
Biographical Systems Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park. Since September 1989, he has been with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His research interests include convex optimization, robust control, system theory and optimization-based engineering system design.
Bjarne
A. Foss was born in 1957 in Tonsberg, Norway. He obtained the Siv.Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in 1980 and Ph.D. degree in 1987 from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH). He was previously Head of the Control Systems Section at the Research Company SINTEF. He is currently a Professor at the University of Trondheim-NTH. His research interests are modeling techniques for process control and supervision.
James
S. Freudenberg was born in Gibson County, IN, U.S.A. in 1956. He received the B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Rose-Hulman Institue of Technology in 1978 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1982 and 1984, respectively. In 1984 he joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Dr Freudenberg worked from 1978-1979 for the Navigation Systems Technology Group of Rockwell-Collins Avionics, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has consulted at the Honeywell Systems Research Center, Minneapolis. During the first six months of 1993, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Newcastle, Australia. In 1988, he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award. His research interests are in robust multivariable control, sampled-data control, feedback design limitations, and applications to automotive, semiconductor manufacturing and aerospace problems.
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Bonnie S. He& was born in Michigan City, Indiana in 1960. She received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1981, the M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1984 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1988. She worked for Honeywell Inc. as an Engineer from 1983 to 1985. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr Heck’s research interests include numerical methods, large scale systems, nonlinear control, power systems, measurement systems and singular perturbation theory.
Tae-Jeoeg
Jang was born in Korea in 1964. He received the B.S. degree and the M.S. degree in 1986 and 1988, respectively, both in Control and Instrumentation Engineering, from Seoul National University, Seoul. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate from the same university. His research interests include learning control, neural nehvork control, robust control, and implementations of these control theories to machine tools.
Tor
A. Johamen was born in Steinkjer, Norway in 1966. He received the Siv.Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), Trondheim, in 1989. In 1990 he was at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) at Kjeller, and since 1990 he has been a graduate student at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics at the University of Trondheim-NTH. During 1992 he was at the Department of Electrical Engineering (Systems) at the University of Southern California as a research visitor. His research interests include model representation, empirical and semi-mechanistic modeling techniques for industrial processes, system identification, and nonlinear model-based and adaptive control.
Eliana
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Gravalou was born in Athens, Greece on 29 August 1966. She received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1989. Since 1990 she has been a Ph.D. student and has been employed as a research and teaching assistant at the Control Systems Laboratory, University of Patras, Greece. Her research interests include linear and control theory and applications.
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Pramod P. Kharpdw received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1977, and the M.S. degree in Mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1980 and 1981, respectively. From 1981 to 1984, Dr Khargonekar was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University
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of Florida, and from 1984 to 1984, he was with the of Electrical Engineering, University of Department Minnesota. In September 1989, he joined The University of Michigan where he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Science. Professor Khargonekar’s current research interests include applications of control technology to electronics manufacturing and automotive systems, robust and If, identification. robust multivariable control, Hz, H,, and Hz/H, optimal control, and sampled-data systems. Professor Khargonekar is a recipient of the American Automatic Control Council’s Donald Eckman Award. the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. the George Taylor Award from the University of Minnesota. and teaching and research excellence awards from the University of Michigan. He is a co-recipient (with J. C. Doyle, B. A. Francis, and K. Clover) of the 1991 IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize Award and the 1990 George Axelby Best Paper (in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control) Award. Hc is a co-recipient (with J. Krause, K. M. Nagpal, K. Poolla. and A. Tikku) of the 1992 American Control Conference 0. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE. Professor Khargonekar served as the Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions for the 1992 American Automatic Control Conference. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Systems and Control Letters. He is currently an Associate Editor of Mathematics of Control. Signals, and Systems, SIAM Jortrnal on Control and Optimization, and International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.
Petar V. Kokotovif has been active for more than thirty years as a control engineer. rcscarcher and educator, first in his native Yugoslavia and then. from 1966 through 1990. at the University of Illinois, where he held the cndowed Grainger Chair. Since 1991 he has been co-director (with Alan J. Laub) of the newly formed Center for Control Engineering and Computation at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has co-authored eight books and numerous articles contributing to sensitivity analysis, singular perturbation methods. and robust adaptive and nonlinear control. Professor Kokotovic is also active in industrial applications of control theory. As a consultant to Ford he was involved in the development of the first series of automotive computer controls and at General Electric hc in large scale systems studies, Professor participated Kokotovic is a Fellow of IEEE. He received the 19YO Quazza Medal, the 1983 and 1993 Outstanding IEEE Transactions Paper Awards and presented the 1991 Bode Prize Lecture.
Chi-Man Kwan was born in Jilian. China on 19 February 1966. He obtained the B.S. (Honors) with major in Electronics and minor in Mathematics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in June 1988. He then obtained the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in December 1989 and May 1993. respectively. At UT Arlington, hc was the recipient of the Robert Leroy Foundation Competitive Scholarship in the academic years of 1989-1991. ln the academic year of 1992-1993. he also received the Exccllcnt
Notes Engineering Graduate Scholarship from the College of Engineering. During the period of April 1991 to February 1994, hc was actively involved in the simulation, modeling and design of various modern control and signal processing algorithms using digital techniques in the Beam Instrumentation Department of the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (SSC). Dallas, Texas. He received an invention award at SSC for his work on the beam synchronization system. Since the demise of SSC, he has been working at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute in Fort Worth. Texas. as a Project Engineer. His research interests are in robotics. adaptive and robust methods, neural networks and signal processing. Dr Kwan is a member of IEEE and Tau Beta Pi.
Jay H. Lee was born in Seoul, Korea in 1965. He received the B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA in 1986 and the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA in 1991. Since 1991, he has been at Auburn University, Auburn, AL where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He has also been holding the position of Visiting Associate at (‘altech since 1991. He is a co-author of a forthcoming book Moctrl Predictive Control with Manfred Morari, Carlos Garcia and David Prett. In 1993. he was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. His research interests include control structure selection, adaptive predictive control, nonlinear estimation and multivariable identification.
Wei Lin was born in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China, on 4 November 1963. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Dalian Institute of Technology, China. in 1983, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1986. From May 1986 to July 1989. he served as a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Since August 1989 he has been a Research Assistant in the Department of System Science and Mathematics. School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington llnivcrsity in St. Louis. where he earned the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics in lY9l and lYY3, respectively. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Systems Science and Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include nonlinear geometric control theory, nonlinear dynamic systems, H, and robust control, adaptive control with applications to robotics. In these areas, so far he has published more than 30 papers and he is a co-author (with C. I. Bymes) of the book Feedhuck Design Methods .for Di.wrett,-Time Nonlinear Control Systems (Birkhauser, Boston). ln 1992, Wci Lin was nominated by the International Biographical Center (IBC) of Cambridge, U.K., for biographical inclusion in Who will be Who in the 21st Century, The Dictionary of International Biography (23rd Edn).
Biographical Pasquale Lucibello received the doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1979 and the post-doctorate degree in Control System Theory in 1983, both from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He has been Professore Incaricato di Automazione Industriale at the Universitl della Calabria and currently is responsible for the robotic applications in the nuclear field of ENEL, the Italian national electric utility. His current research interests are in nonlinear control system theory, learning control and flexible structure control.
Richard H. Middleton was born in Newcastle, Australia in 1961. He obtained the B.Sc. (Physics), B.E. (Electrical Engineering) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Newcastle. He is co-author of the book Digital Control and Estimation:
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(Prentice Hall, 1990). In 1991 he received the Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board Outstanding Young Investigator Award. Richard Middleton is a Member of IEEE, and his interests include adaptive control, digital control, satellite tracking systems, machine control and robotics.
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Milanese was born in Alessandria, Italy, on 11 September 1942. He received the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino in 1967. From 1967 to 1980 he was Assistant Professor at the Politecnice di Torino and from 1972 to 1981 Associate Professor of System Theory at the University of Turin. Since 1980 he has been Full Professor of System Theory at the Politecnico di Torino, where from 1982 to 1987 he has been Chairman of the Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica. He is Associate Editor of Information and Decision Technologies (North-Holland). He is co-editor of the book Robustness in Identification and Control (Plenum Press, 1989). His research interests include modeling, robust identification and control, and set membership estimation theory.
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Pradeep Miira received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and the Ph.D. degree from Concordia University, Montreal, P.Q., Canada. Since 1987, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, at Wright State University, Dayton, OH, U.S.A., where he is currently an Associ-
Notes ate Professor. His research interests are in computational methods for analysis and design of linear systems, communication theory and multi-dimensional digital signal processing.
Manfred Morari is the McCollum-
Corcoran Professor and Executive Officer for Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He obtained the diploma from ETH Zurich and the Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, both in Chemical Engineering. His interests are in the area of process control and design. In recognition of his research contributions, he received numerous awards, among them the Donald P. Eckman Award of the Automatic Control Council, the Allan P. Colbum Award of the AIChE, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the ASEE, and was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Professor Morari has held appointments with Exxon R&E and ICI and has consulted internationally for a number of major corporations.
Hans Henrik Niemana
was born in Slagesle, Denmark, 4 January 1961. He received the M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1986 and the Ph.D. in 1988 from the Technical University of Denmark. Since 1988 he has had a research position in Control Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. His research interests are: robust stability and robust performance, robust adaptive control, robust and reliable control, sampleddata systems, computer aided control system design (CACSD) and numerical methods.
Nuno M. C. de Oliveira was born in 1964 in Coimbra, Portugal. He received a Diploma from the University of Coimbra in 1987, and a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. He is currently an Auxiliary Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Coimbra. His research interests are centered in the area of .imization of chemical processes.
Andy
Packard is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Before that, he was a Research Fellow at Caltech in 1988, and an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara in 1989. He received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in January 1988. His technical
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Biographical Notes arc control of parameter-dependent and user-interfaces for control implementation.
systems, robust system design and
Yeng Chai Soh received the B.E. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in lYX3. and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the liniversity of Newcastle. Australia, in 1987. From lY8h to 1087. he was a I$” rcscarch assistant in the Departmcnt of Electrical and Computer Engineering. University of Newcastle. Hc joined the Nanyang Technological University. Singapore. in 1987 where he IS currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His current research interests arc in the area of robust system theory. robust estimatmn and filtering. and robotics.
Asgeir J. Serensen was born In Stavangcr. Norway, in 1964. In 1988 he received the Siv.lng. dcgrce in Naval Architecture and the Marine Engineering al Dcpartmcnt of Marine Technology. the Norwegian Institute of Technology. Trondheim. In 1YY3 he received the Dr.lng. dcgrec in Electrical Engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. From 198Y IO 1992 he was a Research Scientist al the Norwegian Marine I‘cchnology Research Institute. Marintck AS in Trondheim. In 1993 hc was a Research Scientist at ABB Corporate Research Norway, Billingstad. At present hc is Research Manager at the Marine Department. ABB lndustri AS, Oslo. His research interests include modelling and control of marine systems.
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JakTb Stoustrup was horn In lYh3 in Alborg. Denmark. Hc received the M.Sc. dcgrec in Electrical Engineering in lY87 and the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics in 1991, both from the Technical University of Denmark. Since 1991 he has been employed as an Assistant Professor at the Mathematical Institute. Technical University of Denmark. His research interests include robust control of with parametric or nonparametric uncertainties, control. control of structured systems. and control of with distributed parameters.
Dr V. L. Syrmos was born m Athens, Greece. He obtained the diploma at Democritus University. Xanthi, Greece in 1987. and the Ph.D. degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. U.S.A. in 1991, both in Electrical Engineering. Since 1991, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the IJniversity of Hawaii at Manoa. where he is an Assistant Professor. His current interests include geometric and algebraic approaches in linear system theory. and numerical methods for feedback design in control systems. His research is currently supported by a Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation and a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Dr Syrmos is a member of IEEE. SIAM and ACM.
Gang Tao received his B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1982 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California in 1989, both in Electrical Engineering. He was a visiting Assistant Professor at Washington State LJniversity from 1989 to 1991 and an Assistant Research Engineer and a lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1YYl to 1992. Since September 1992, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia. His main rcscarch area is adaptive control and currently, he is working on adaptive control of systems with nonsmooth nonlinearities and on developing new adaptive algorithms for control and estimation.
Marina Vassilaki was born in Athens, Greece, in 1960. She received the Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece 1983, and e. the Diploma of Advanced Studies and the Doctorat both from the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse. France, in 1984 and 1987. respectively. From 1985 to 1987. she was an Associate Assistant in the Paul Sabatier [University. Since I088 she has worked in the research group in AMBER S.A (Heracles Cement Group) in Athens. Her research interests include adaptive control problems, the theory of constrained control of multivariable systems, and the regulation and power management of industrial processes.
Michel Verhaegen was born in Belgium in 1959. He received the Engineering degree in Aeronautics from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in August 1982 and the Doctoral degree in Applied Sciences from the Catholic University Leuven, in November 1985. Belgium, During his graduate study, he held an IWONL Research Assistantship in the Department of ring.
Biographical From 1985 to 1987 he was a Postdoctoral Associate of the U.S. National Research Council and during that time was affiliated with the NASA Ames Research Center in California. From 1988 to 1989 he was an Asisstant Professor at the Delft University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering. Since February 1990 he is a Senior Research Fellow of the Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences and affiliated with the Network Theory Group of Professor Patrick Dewilde. Delft Universitv of Technoloev. From 1990 on, he has held short sabbatical leaves at the Universities of Uppsala and McGill and the German Aerospace Research Center (DLR) in Munich. He received a best presentation award at the American Control Conference, Seattle, 1986 and a recognition award from NASA, 1989. He is actively involved in the Dutch working group on software development of numerically reliable and efficient algorithms in system and control theory. Recently, he has been involved in the organization of the Symposium of the Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences on ‘Challenges of a Generalized Non-stationary System Theory’ held in Amsterdam, June 1992. His main research interest is in the interdisciplinary domain of numerical linear algebra and linear system theory. Current activities focus on the development and practical application of a new subspace model identification approach and robust control for linear, discrete, time-varying systems. “I
Notes Harald
Wiimer was born in Knittelfeld, Austria. He holds the M.A. degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton and the Dr.tech. degree from the Technical University of Graz. In 1973 he was Research Associate at the University of Calgary, in 1975 he held a Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Wtirzburg, in 1987 he was Visiting Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica of the University of Padova. Presently he is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Wttrzburg. He is Associate Editor of Linear Alebra and its Applications. His current research interests are linear algebra, systems and control theory.
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Danwei Wang received the B.E. degree from the South China Institute of Technology in 1982, the M.S.E. degree and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1984 and 1989. resnectivelv. all in Electrical Engineering. Since 1989, he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Republic of Singapore where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. His research interests include stability analysis and control design of linear and nonlinear systems, theory of iterative learning control algorithms, and fuzzy logic control methods and their applications to robotics.
V. YaUapragada was born in Vijayawada, India on 20 April 1965. He received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India in 1985 and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in from Engineering Electrical Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 1988 and 1993, respectively. Currently, he is a Senior Hardware Engineer for Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA. His current research interests are robust control, output feedback systems and control applications in test and measurement systems.
Oded Yaniv was born in Israel in Changyun
Wen
was born in Sichuan, China in 1963. He received the B.E. degree from Xian Jiaotong University, China in 1983 and the Ph.D. degree from University of Newcastle in both in Electrical Australia, Engineering. From August 1989 to August L* 1991, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at Adelaide University, Australia. Currently, he is a lecturer in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technotogical University, Singapore. His major research interests are in the area of adaptive control, robust control, nonlinear systems and applications of control theory.
1950. He received the B.Sc. degree (Mathematics and Physics) from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 1974, and the MSc. (Physics) and Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics) degrees from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel in 1976 and 1984, respectively. His industrial experience includes being a Development Engineer at the Israel Aircraft Industries 1979-1980, and a Senior Control Engineer at Tadiran (System Divison), Holon, Israel 1983-1987. Since 1987 he has been at the Tel-Aviv University, Israel. His main research interests include synthesis of uncertain multi-input multi-output feedback systems, linear as well as nonlinear.
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Xiaode Yu received the B.Sc. degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Hunan Agriculturial University and The Middle South Industrial University, Changsha, China, in 1982, the Designer degree in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology. The Netherlands. in 1993. She was a Lecturer m Elcctrtcal engineering in Changsha Communications University of Technology and is studying for the Ph.D. degree. Her research interests lie in the arcas of system theory. signal processing, system identification. robust control and electrical circuit theory.
Kemin Zhou was born in Wuhu, China. on 7 May 1962. He received the B.S. degree in Automatic Control from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, in 1982, the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, irn 1986 and 1988, resnectivelv. From 1982 to 1984 he ‘was a Research Associate with Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. From 1988 to 1990 he was a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, C’alifornia. Since 1990, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State t Iniversity, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include Y/I’JYfk optimal control, robust control. ‘X2. X,, and model/controller approximation and industrial applications of control theory.
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Lorenz T. Biegler is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has worked since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1981. His research interests inclyde flowsheet optimization, optimization of systems of differential and algebraic equations, reactor network synthesis and algorithms for constrained, nonlinear process control. He has authored or co-authored over 95 technical publications and presented numerous papers at national and international conferences.
Hyun-Sik Abn was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1959. He received the MS. degree and the Ph.D. degree in 1984 and 1992, respectively, both in Control and Instrumentation Engineering, from Seoul National University, Seoul. He was a researcher in Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, from 1985 to 1992. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Department of Electronic Engineering at Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea. His research interests include various aspects of learning control systems, direct drive robot control, and applications of advanced control theory to industrial processes. Professor Ahn was presented the KIEE Paper Award in 1990 from the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Georges Bitsoris was born in Athens, Greece, in 1950. He received the Diploma of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Athens in 1973, the Diploma of Advanced Studies and the Doctorat d’Etat both from the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, in 1974 and 1978, respectively, and the Habilitation degree from the University of
Brian D. 0. Anderson was born in Sydney, Australia, and received his undergraduate eduction at the University of Sydney, with majors in Pure Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from StanFollowing ford University. completion of his education, he worked in industry in Silicon Valley and served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. He was Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia from 1%7 till 1981 and is now Professor of Systems Engineering at the Australian National University and Acting Director of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering. His interests are in control and signal processing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He holds doctorates (honoris causa) from the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Ziirich. He served a term as President of the International Federation of Automatic Control from 1990 to 1993.
Patras, Greece, in 1982. From 1974 to 1978, he worked as a research assistant in the Laboratoire d’Automatique et d’Analyse des SystemesC.N.R.S. in France. Since 1978 he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Patras. He was an assistant professor until 1982 and an associate professor until 1989. Currently, he is a professor of Systems Analysis and Control. Since 1984, he has been a Director of the Control Systems Laboratory. During the academic year 1985-86, he was on sabbatical leave as a Maitre de Recherche at the L.A.A.S.-C.N.R.S., Toulouse, France and during 1993, he was a visiting professor at the Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. His research interests include the stability and control of nonlinear and large-scale systems, the theory of constrained control of multivariable systems, the dynamics of neural networks and their industrial applications.
Ravi Aripirala was born in India on 1 June 1971. He received the Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1992, the M.S. degree from the University of Hawaii in 1993 and is currently a Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of robust control theory and numerical methods for system theory. He is a member of SIAM.
Richard D. Bra& is an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received the B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1991 and 1993 from the California Institute of Technology. He has worked at the Chevron Research Company on separating azeotropic mix357
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tures, with researchers at the Avery-Dennison Research Center on the control of liquid coating processes. and at the DuPont Experimental Station on the control of polymer extrusion processes. His interests are in the development of general approaches for the design, modeling, and control of industrial processes which manage the complexity and inaccuracy of these large-scale systems. Dr Braatz received the Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize in 1993.
C. I. Byrnes was born in New York, NY, on 28 June 1949. He received the B.S. degree from Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, in 1971 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1973 and 1975, respectively. He served as an Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, from 1975 to 1978, then he was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and in the Division of Applied Science at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. From 1982 to 1985, he was Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics on the Gordon McKay Endowment at Harvard University. In 1984, he joined Arizona State University, Tempe, as a Research Professor of Engineering and Mathematics and also served as Adjunct Professor of Mathematics System Theory at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden from 1986 to 1990. From 1989 to 1991, he was Chairman and Professor in the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics at Washington University, St. Louis, MO, where he is currently Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has also held visiting positions at Bremen, Groningen, Harvard, IIASA, Kansas. KTH, Osaka, Paris-Dauphine, Rome-La Sapienza, Stanford, Tokyo, and with the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. His research interests include adaptive control, algebraic system theory, distributed parameter systems, linear multivariable control, nonlinear control, and the applications of nonlinear dynamics in control and estimation. Dr. Byrnes is an editor of 11 research volumes and the author of over I40 technical articles. He has served as an Associate Editor of four journals and is currently Editor of the two-book series, Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications and Progress in Systems and Control (Birkhauser).
Chien Chern Cheah was born in Singapore. He received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore 1990, and the Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 1993. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree at Nanyang Technological University. From 1990 to 1991, he worked as a Design Engineer at Singapore Technologies Industrial Corporation. He joined Nanyang Technological University in August 1991, and is presently a Teaching Assistant of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. His research interests are in learning control and manipulator control.
Chong-Ho Choi received the B.S. degree from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1970, and the MS. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, in 1975 and 1978, respectively. He was a Senior Researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, from 1978 to 1980. He is currently a Professor of Control and Instrumentation Engineering at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. He is also affiliated with the Automatic Systems Research Institute (ASRI) and the Engineering Research Center for Advanced Control and Instrumentation, Seoul National University. His research interests include system identification, adaptive control, learning control and neural networks.
Olav Egeland was born in Trondheim, Norway, in 1959. He received the Siv.Ing. degree in 1984 and the Dr.Ing. degree in 1987 in Electrical Engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway. He became Assistant Professor in 1987 and Professor of Robotics in 1989 at the Division of Engineering Cybernetics, the Norwegian Institute of Technology. In the academic year 1988/89 he was a Visiting Scientist at the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. His research interests include control of manipulators, surface vessels, flexible structures and nonholonomic vehicles.
Meng Joo Er received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1985 and 1988, respectively and a Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from the Australian National University in 1992. From 1987 to 1989, he worked as a Research and Development Engineer in Chartered Electronics Industries Pte Ltd and a Software Engineer in Telerate Research and Development Pte Ltd, respectively. He is currently a Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include control theory and applications, robotics, fuzzy logic and neural network, power electronics and drives, and microprocessor applications.
Michael K. H. Fan was born in Taiwan, Republic of China, on 1.5 August, 1958. He received the B.S. degree in Control Engineering from the National Chiao-Tung University, Republic of China, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1980, 1984, and 1986, respectively. From 1986 to 1989, Dr Fan was associated with the
Biographical Systems Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park. Since September 1989, he has been with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His research interests include convex optimization, robust control, system theory and optimization-based engineering system design.
Bjarne
A. Foss was born in 1957 in Tonsberg, Norway. He obtained the Siv.Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in 1980 and Ph.D. degree in 1987 from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH). He was previously Head of the Control Systems Section at the Research Company SINTEF. He is currently a Professor at the University of Trondheim-NTH. His research interests are modeling techniques for process control and supervision.
James
S. Freudenberg was born in Gibson County, IN, U.S.A. in 1956. He received the B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Rose-Hulman Institue of Technology in 1978 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1982 and 1984, respectively. In 1984 he joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Dr Freudenberg worked from 1978-1979 for the Navigation Systems Technology Group of Rockwell-Collins Avionics, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has consulted at the Honeywell Systems Research Center, Minneapolis. During the first six months of 1993, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Newcastle, Australia. In 1988, he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award. His research interests are in robust multivariable control, sampled-data control, feedback design limitations, and applications to automotive, semiconductor manufacturing and aerospace problems.
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Bonnie S. He& was born in Michigan City, Indiana in 1960. She received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1981, the M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1984 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1988. She worked for Honeywell Inc. as an Engineer from 1983 to 1985. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr Heck’s research interests include numerical methods, large scale systems, nonlinear control, power systems, measurement systems and singular perturbation theory.
Tae-Jeoeg
Jang was born in Korea in 1964. He received the B.S. degree and the M.S. degree in 1986 and 1988, respectively, both in Control and Instrumentation Engineering, from Seoul National University, Seoul. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate from the same university. His research interests include learning control, neural nehvork control, robust control, and implementations of these control theories to machine tools.
Tor
A. Johamen was born in Steinkjer, Norway in 1966. He received the Siv.Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), Trondheim, in 1989. In 1990 he was at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) at Kjeller, and since 1990 he has been a graduate student at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics at the University of Trondheim-NTH. During 1992 he was at the Department of Electrical Engineering (Systems) at the University of Southern California as a research visitor. His research interests include model representation, empirical and semi-mechanistic modeling techniques for industrial processes, system identification, and nonlinear model-based and adaptive control.
Eliana
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Gravalou was born in Athens, Greece on 29 August 1966. She received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1989. Since 1990 she has been a Ph.D. student and has been employed as a research and teaching assistant at the Control Systems Laboratory, University of Patras, Greece. Her research interests include linear and control theory and applications.
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Pramod P. Kharpdw received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1977, and the M.S. degree in Mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1980 and 1981, respectively. From 1981 to 1984, Dr Khargonekar was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University
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of Florida, and from 1984 to 1984, he was with the of Electrical Engineering, University of Department Minnesota. In September 1989, he joined The University of Michigan where he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Science. Professor Khargonekar’s current research interests include applications of control technology to electronics manufacturing and automotive systems, robust and If, identification. robust multivariable control, Hz, H,, and Hz/H, optimal control, and sampled-data systems. Professor Khargonekar is a recipient of the American Automatic Control Council’s Donald Eckman Award. the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. the George Taylor Award from the University of Minnesota. and teaching and research excellence awards from the University of Michigan. He is a co-recipient (with J. C. Doyle, B. A. Francis, and K. Clover) of the 1991 IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize Award and the 1990 George Axelby Best Paper (in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control) Award. Hc is a co-recipient (with J. Krause, K. M. Nagpal, K. Poolla. and A. Tikku) of the 1992 American Control Conference 0. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE. Professor Khargonekar served as the Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions for the 1992 American Automatic Control Conference. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Systems and Control Letters. He is currently an Associate Editor of Mathematics of Control. Signals, and Systems, SIAM Jortrnal on Control and Optimization, and International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.
Petar V. Kokotovif has been active for more than thirty years as a control engineer. rcscarcher and educator, first in his native Yugoslavia and then. from 1966 through 1990. at the University of Illinois, where he held the cndowed Grainger Chair. Since 1991 he has been co-director (with Alan J. Laub) of the newly formed Center for Control Engineering and Computation at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has co-authored eight books and numerous articles contributing to sensitivity analysis, singular perturbation methods. and robust adaptive and nonlinear control. Professor Kokotovic is also active in industrial applications of control theory. As a consultant to Ford he was involved in the development of the first series of automotive computer controls and at General Electric hc in large scale systems studies, Professor participated Kokotovic is a Fellow of IEEE. He received the 19YO Quazza Medal, the 1983 and 1993 Outstanding IEEE Transactions Paper Awards and presented the 1991 Bode Prize Lecture.
Chi-Man Kwan was born in Jilian. China on 19 February 1966. He obtained the B.S. (Honors) with major in Electronics and minor in Mathematics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in June 1988. He then obtained the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in December 1989 and May 1993. respectively. At UT Arlington, hc was the recipient of the Robert Leroy Foundation Competitive Scholarship in the academic years of 1989-1991. ln the academic year of 1992-1993. he also received the Exccllcnt
Notes Engineering Graduate Scholarship from the College of Engineering. During the period of April 1991 to February 1994, hc was actively involved in the simulation, modeling and design of various modern control and signal processing algorithms using digital techniques in the Beam Instrumentation Department of the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (SSC). Dallas, Texas. He received an invention award at SSC for his work on the beam synchronization system. Since the demise of SSC, he has been working at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute in Fort Worth. Texas. as a Project Engineer. His research interests are in robotics. adaptive and robust methods, neural networks and signal processing. Dr Kwan is a member of IEEE and Tau Beta Pi.
Jay H. Lee was born in Seoul, Korea in 1965. He received the B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA in 1986 and the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA in 1991. Since 1991, he has been at Auburn University, Auburn, AL where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He has also been holding the position of Visiting Associate at (‘altech since 1991. He is a co-author of a forthcoming book Moctrl Predictive Control with Manfred Morari, Carlos Garcia and David Prett. In 1993. he was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. His research interests include control structure selection, adaptive predictive control, nonlinear estimation and multivariable identification.
Wei Lin was born in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China, on 4 November 1963. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Dalian Institute of Technology, China. in 1983, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1986. From May 1986 to July 1989. he served as a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Since August 1989 he has been a Research Assistant in the Department of System Science and Mathematics. School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington llnivcrsity in St. Louis. where he earned the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics in lY9l and lYY3, respectively. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Systems Science and Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include nonlinear geometric control theory, nonlinear dynamic systems, H, and robust control, adaptive control with applications to robotics. In these areas, so far he has published more than 30 papers and he is a co-author (with C. I. Bymes) of the book Feedhuck Design Methods .for Di.wrett,-Time Nonlinear Control Systems (Birkhauser, Boston). ln 1992, Wci Lin was nominated by the International Biographical Center (IBC) of Cambridge, U.K., for biographical inclusion in Who will be Who in the 21st Century, The Dictionary of International Biography (23rd Edn).
Biographical Pasquale Lucibello received the doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1979 and the post-doctorate degree in Control System Theory in 1983, both from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He has been Professore Incaricato di Automazione Industriale at the Universitl della Calabria and currently is responsible for the robotic applications in the nuclear field of ENEL, the Italian national electric utility. His current research interests are in nonlinear control system theory, learning control and flexible structure control.
Richard H. Middleton was born in Newcastle, Australia in 1961. He obtained the B.Sc. (Physics), B.E. (Electrical Engineering) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Newcastle. He is co-author of the book Digital Control and Estimation:
A Unified
(Prentice Hall, 1990). In 1991 he received the Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board Outstanding Young Investigator Award. Richard Middleton is a Member of IEEE, and his interests include adaptive control, digital control, satellite tracking systems, machine control and robotics.
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Milanese was born in Alessandria, Italy, on 11 September 1942. He received the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino in 1967. From 1967 to 1980 he was Assistant Professor at the Politecnice di Torino and from 1972 to 1981 Associate Professor of System Theory at the University of Turin. Since 1980 he has been Full Professor of System Theory at the Politecnico di Torino, where from 1982 to 1987 he has been Chairman of the Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica. He is Associate Editor of Information and Decision Technologies (North-Holland). He is co-editor of the book Robustness in Identification and Control (Plenum Press, 1989). His research interests include modeling, robust identification and control, and set membership estimation theory.
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Pradeep Miira received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and the Ph.D. degree from Concordia University, Montreal, P.Q., Canada. Since 1987, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, at Wright State University, Dayton, OH, U.S.A., where he is currently an Associ-
Notes ate Professor. His research interests are in computational methods for analysis and design of linear systems, communication theory and multi-dimensional digital signal processing.
Manfred Morari is the McCollum-
Corcoran Professor and Executive Officer for Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He obtained the diploma from ETH Zurich and the Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, both in Chemical Engineering. His interests are in the area of process control and design. In recognition of his research contributions, he received numerous awards, among them the Donald P. Eckman Award of the Automatic Control Council, the Allan P. Colbum Award of the AIChE, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the ASEE, and was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Professor Morari has held appointments with Exxon R&E and ICI and has consulted internationally for a number of major corporations.
Hans Henrik Niemana
was born in Slagesle, Denmark, 4 January 1961. He received the M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1986 and the Ph.D. in 1988 from the Technical University of Denmark. Since 1988 he has had a research position in Control Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. His research interests are: robust stability and robust performance, robust adaptive control, robust and reliable control, sampleddata systems, computer aided control system design (CACSD) and numerical methods.
Nuno M. C. de Oliveira was born in 1964 in Coimbra, Portugal. He received a Diploma from the University of Coimbra in 1987, and a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. He is currently an Auxiliary Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Coimbra. His research interests are centered in the area of .imization of chemical processes.
Andy
Packard is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Before that, he was a Research Fellow at Caltech in 1988, and an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara in 1989. He received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in January 1988. His technical
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Biographical Notes arc control of parameter-dependent and user-interfaces for control implementation.
systems, robust system design and
Yeng Chai Soh received the B.E. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in lYX3. and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the liniversity of Newcastle. Australia, in 1987. From lY8h to 1087. he was a I$” rcscarch assistant in the Departmcnt of Electrical and Computer Engineering. University of Newcastle. Hc joined the Nanyang Technological University. Singapore. in 1987 where he IS currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His current research interests arc in the area of robust system theory. robust estimatmn and filtering. and robotics.
Asgeir J. Serensen was born In Stavangcr. Norway, in 1964. In 1988 he received the Siv.lng. dcgrce in Naval Architecture and the Marine Engineering al Dcpartmcnt of Marine Technology. the Norwegian Institute of Technology. Trondheim. In 1YY3 he received the Dr.lng. dcgrec in Electrical Engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. From 198Y IO 1992 he was a Research Scientist al the Norwegian Marine I‘cchnology Research Institute. Marintck AS in Trondheim. In 1993 hc was a Research Scientist at ABB Corporate Research Norway, Billingstad. At present hc is Research Manager at the Marine Department. ABB lndustri AS, Oslo. His research interests include modelling and control of marine systems.
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JakTb Stoustrup was horn In lYh3 in Alborg. Denmark. Hc received the M.Sc. dcgrec in Electrical Engineering in lY87 and the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics in 1991, both from the Technical University of Denmark. Since 1991 he has been employed as an Assistant Professor at the Mathematical Institute. Technical University of Denmark. His research interests include robust control of with parametric or nonparametric uncertainties, control. control of structured systems. and control of with distributed parameters.
Dr V. L. Syrmos was born m Athens, Greece. He obtained the diploma at Democritus University. Xanthi, Greece in 1987. and the Ph.D. degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. U.S.A. in 1991, both in Electrical Engineering. Since 1991, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the IJniversity of Hawaii at Manoa. where he is an Assistant Professor. His current interests include geometric and algebraic approaches in linear system theory. and numerical methods for feedback design in control systems. His research is currently supported by a Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation and a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Dr Syrmos is a member of IEEE. SIAM and ACM.
Gang Tao received his B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1982 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California in 1989, both in Electrical Engineering. He was a visiting Assistant Professor at Washington State LJniversity from 1989 to 1991 and an Assistant Research Engineer and a lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1YYl to 1992. Since September 1992, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia. His main rcscarch area is adaptive control and currently, he is working on adaptive control of systems with nonsmooth nonlinearities and on developing new adaptive algorithms for control and estimation.
Marina Vassilaki was born in Athens, Greece, in 1960. She received the Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece 1983, and e. the Diploma of Advanced Studies and the Doctorat both from the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse. France, in 1984 and 1987. respectively. From 1985 to 1987. she was an Associate Assistant in the Paul Sabatier [University. Since I088 she has worked in the research group in AMBER S.A (Heracles Cement Group) in Athens. Her research interests include adaptive control problems, the theory of constrained control of multivariable systems, and the regulation and power management of industrial processes.
Michel Verhaegen was born in Belgium in 1959. He received the Engineering degree in Aeronautics from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in August 1982 and the Doctoral degree in Applied Sciences from the Catholic University Leuven, in November 1985. Belgium, During his graduate study, he held an IWONL Research Assistantship in the Department of ring.
Biographical From 1985 to 1987 he was a Postdoctoral Associate of the U.S. National Research Council and during that time was affiliated with the NASA Ames Research Center in California. From 1988 to 1989 he was an Asisstant Professor at the Delft University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering. Since February 1990 he is a Senior Research Fellow of the Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences and affiliated with the Network Theory Group of Professor Patrick Dewilde. Delft Universitv of Technoloev. From 1990 on, he has held short sabbatical leaves at the Universities of Uppsala and McGill and the German Aerospace Research Center (DLR) in Munich. He received a best presentation award at the American Control Conference, Seattle, 1986 and a recognition award from NASA, 1989. He is actively involved in the Dutch working group on software development of numerically reliable and efficient algorithms in system and control theory. Recently, he has been involved in the organization of the Symposium of the Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences on ‘Challenges of a Generalized Non-stationary System Theory’ held in Amsterdam, June 1992. His main research interest is in the interdisciplinary domain of numerical linear algebra and linear system theory. Current activities focus on the development and practical application of a new subspace model identification approach and robust control for linear, discrete, time-varying systems. “I
Notes Harald
Wiimer was born in Knittelfeld, Austria. He holds the M.A. degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton and the Dr.tech. degree from the Technical University of Graz. In 1973 he was Research Associate at the University of Calgary, in 1975 he held a Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Wtirzburg, in 1987 he was Visiting Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica of the University of Padova. Presently he is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Wttrzburg. He is Associate Editor of Linear Alebra and its Applications. His current research interests are linear algebra, systems and control theory.
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Danwei Wang received the B.E. degree from the South China Institute of Technology in 1982, the M.S.E. degree and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1984 and 1989. resnectivelv. all in Electrical Engineering. Since 1989, he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Republic of Singapore where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. His research interests include stability analysis and control design of linear and nonlinear systems, theory of iterative learning control algorithms, and fuzzy logic control methods and their applications to robotics.
V. YaUapragada was born in Vijayawada, India on 20 April 1965. He received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India in 1985 and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in from Engineering Electrical Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 1988 and 1993, respectively. Currently, he is a Senior Hardware Engineer for Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA. His current research interests are robust control, output feedback systems and control applications in test and measurement systems.
Oded Yaniv was born in Israel in Changyun
Wen
was born in Sichuan, China in 1963. He received the B.E. degree from Xian Jiaotong University, China in 1983 and the Ph.D. degree from University of Newcastle in both in Electrical Australia, Engineering. From August 1989 to August L* 1991, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at Adelaide University, Australia. Currently, he is a lecturer in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technotogical University, Singapore. His major research interests are in the area of adaptive control, robust control, nonlinear systems and applications of control theory.
1950. He received the B.Sc. degree (Mathematics and Physics) from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 1974, and the MSc. (Physics) and Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics) degrees from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel in 1976 and 1984, respectively. His industrial experience includes being a Development Engineer at the Israel Aircraft Industries 1979-1980, and a Senior Control Engineer at Tadiran (System Divison), Holon, Israel 1983-1987. Since 1987 he has been at the Tel-Aviv University, Israel. His main research interests include synthesis of uncertain multi-input multi-output feedback systems, linear as well as nonlinear.
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Xiaode Yu received the B.Sc. degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Hunan Agriculturial University and The Middle South Industrial University, Changsha, China, in 1982, the Designer degree in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology. The Netherlands. in 1993. She was a Lecturer m Elcctrtcal engineering in Changsha Communications University of Technology and is studying for the Ph.D. degree. Her research interests lie in the arcas of system theory. signal processing, system identification. robust control and electrical circuit theory.
Kemin Zhou was born in Wuhu, China. on 7 May 1962. He received the B.S. degree in Automatic Control from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, in 1982, the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, irn 1986 and 1988, resnectivelv. From 1982 to 1984 he ‘was a Research Associate with Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. From 1988 to 1990 he was a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, C’alifornia. Since 1990, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State t Iniversity, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include Y/I’JYfk optimal control, robust control. ‘X2. X,, and model/controller approximation and industrial applications of control theory.