Control theory. (Q2487178)

Contributions: -- Athanasios C. Antoulas, Issues in model reduction of large-scale systems p.571 -- Peter Benner (joint with Delin Chu), A new test for passivity of descriptor systems p.571 -- Vincent D. Blondel (joint with Yurii Nesterov), Stable sets of matrices and efficient approximations of the joint spectral radius p.574 -- Fritz Colonius (joint with Wolfgang Kliemann), Controllability for nonlinear behaviors p.575 -- Michel Fliess (joint with Cédric Join, Hebertt Sira-Ramírez), Fault-tolerant control for uncertain nonlinear systems p.576 -- Paul A. Fuhrmann, Geometric control and behaviors p.578 -- Heide Gluesing-Luerssen (joint with Gert Schneider), Convolutional codes as discrete-time systems and their weight distribution p.581 -- Lars Grüne (joint with Dragan Nešić, Jürgen Pannek), Redesign techniques for nonlinear sampled-data control p.584 -- Peter Hippe, How to prove the stability of a nonlinear cascaded loop -- an open problem p.587 -- Knut Hüper (joint with Fatima Silva Leite), Interpolation on manifolds by rolling and wrapping p.588 -- Achim Ilchmann (joint with Eugene P. Ryan, Philip Townsend), Robustness of adaptive controllers p.591 -- Alberto Isidori (joint with C. I. Byrnes), Nonlinear observers as internal models p.593 -- Birgit Jacob (joint with Kirsten Morris), Minimum-phase infinite-dimensional second-order systems p.595 -- Hans W. Knobloch, Control synthesis for uncertain systems: a new approach p.597 -- Arthur J. Krener, Nonlinear model reduction p.599 -- Jan Lunze (joint with Thomas Steffen), Reconfigurable control: the concepts of the virtual sensor and the virtual actuator p.602 -- Geert Jan Olsder, Phenomena in inverse Stackelberg problems p.603 -- Witold Respondek (joint with Bronislaw Jakubczyk), Bifurcations and phase portraits of nonlinear control systems on the plane p.605 -- Carsten W. Scherer (joint with Camile Hol), Matrix sum-of-squares relaxations in robust control p.608 -- Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen (joint with Dimitri Jeltsema), A power-based description of mechanical systems p.610 -- Kurt Schlacher (joint with Stefan Fuchshumer, Johann Holl), Two examples and some remarks on flatness based control p.613 -- Jan H. van Schuppen, Control and realization of piecewise-affine hybrid systems p.616 -- Héctor J. Sussmann, A very non-smooth maximum principle with state-space constraints p.618 -- Bernd Tibken, Observability of nonlinear systems p.621 -- Maria Elena Valcher (joint with Mauro Bisiacco), A behavioral approach to the estimation problem and its applications to state-space models p.623 -- Jan C. Willems (joint with Ivan Markovsky, Bart L. M. De Moor), ARMAX system identification: first X, then AR, finally MA p.625 -- Fabian Wirth (joint with Douglas Leith, Robert Shorten, Rade Stanojević), Internet congestion control and linear inclusions p.627 -- Michael Zeitz (joint with Christian Bermes and Knut Graichen), Design of nonlinear feedforward control p.628 -- Eva Zerz, Algebraic analysis of time-varying linear behaviors p.632 -- Athanasios C. Antoulas, Open problem: Model reduction by projection p.634 -- Lars Grüne, Open problem: Performance of sampled-data systems p.635 -- Uwe Helmke, Open problem: What is the right definition of observability for polynomial systems? p.636 -- Achim Ilchmann, Open problem: Non-adaptive polynomial stabilization of linear minimum phase systems with known upper bound of the relative degee p.637 -- Jan H. van Schuppen (joint with Mark A. Petersen), Open problem: A stochastic control problem for the capital adequacy ratio of a bank p.639 -- Jan C. Willems, Open problem: When is a linear system optimal? p.639.