Topics in Control and its Applications : A Tribute to Edward J.Davison

This work comprises the proceedings of the Recent Developments in Control Theory and Applications Workshop, held in Toronto, Canada, in June 1998. The main themes are robust control, decentralized control, and applications but it also has features on fault diagnosis in discrete event systems.

Robust Control for Car Steering.- Radial and Uniform Distributions in Vector and Matrix Spaces for Probabilistic Robustness.- Decentralized Reliable Control for Large-Scale Systems.- A Novel Approach to Vibration Reduction in Flexible Belt Drives.- Fault Diagnosis in Finite-State Automata and Timed Discrete-Event Systems.- On The Stability of Control Systems Having Clegg Integrators.- Constructive Solutions to a Decentralized Team Problem with Application in Flow Control for Networks.- Solution of a Wavelet Crime.- Interior and Non-Interior Point Algorithms for Nonlinear Programming.- Decentralized Control of Uncertain Systems via Sensitivity Models.- Dynamic Modeling of Airborne Gas Turbine Engines.- Properties of Linear Discrete-Time System in Terms of Its Singular Value Decomposition.