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E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 18, 10 Jan 1989
Editors: Bradley W. Dickinson
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
bradley@princeton.edu or bradley@pucc.bitnet
Eduardo D. Sontag
Dept. of Mathematics
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
sontag@fermat.rutgers.edu (arpanet) or sontag@pisces (bitnet)
Conferences:
1989 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (Submission
deadline is January 16, 1989!)
Call for papers: 32nd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
Preliminary information about 1990 IFAC Congress papers
1st announcement: Joint Conference on New Trends in Systems
Theory, July 1990, Genoa, Italy
Neural Nets and Control -- request for benchmarks
Personals
Journals:
IEEE TAC Education Special Issue Editorial Board
Linear Algebra and its Applications -- current special issues
1989 Subscription info for MCSS
Description of research groups related to signals and control:
Institut de Cibernetica, Barcelona
Stochastic differential systems at INRIA
Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina
Control Theory Group at Bremen
Kolmogorov's superposition theorem and artificial neural networks
Recent SYCON Technical Reports
1989 CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SYSTEMS
Call for Papers. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems: The Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 22-24, 1989. Program
directors: H.L. Weinert and G.G.L. Meyer. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF
PAPERS: JANUARY 16, 1989. For information, contact 1989 CISS, Dept. of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD, 21218.
Contributed by: uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu!arun (K.S. Arun)
CALL FOR PAPERS: 32nd MIDWEST SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
August 14-16, 1989
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 1989 Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems is sponsored by the
University of Illinois and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. The
symposium will be devoted to all aspects of the theory, design, and
application of circuits and systems. Topics of interest include but
are not limited to
- analog and digital circuits
- VLSI and computer-aided design
- digital signal and image processing
- control systems and robotics
- power systems and electronics
- nonlinear circuits and systems
- networks, and
- large scale systems.
Prospective authors are invited to send 5 copies of a 500-word summary
of the paper and a 50-word abstract to the technical program chairman,
Steve M. Kang, before March 1, 1989. Proposals for invited sessions,
tutorials, and workshops are being solicited. These should be sent to
special sessions chairman, David C. Munson. Further information may
be obtained from the publicity chairman, K. S. Arun. Members of the
organizing committee may be contacted at
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Coordinated Science Laboratory
1101 W. Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801-3082.
Telephone:(217) 244-0577.
Contributed by: Steve Kahne <kahnes@apee.ogc.edu>
PRELIMINARY INFORMATION ABOUT IFAC CONGRESS PAPERS
The 1990 IFAC Congress in Tallinn will be held during the week of August 13.
A Call for Papers is expected from the Soviet organizers sometime in January
1989. This year, a new procedure will be followed which has the effect of
shortening the time between paper submission and the Congress. The Call for
Papers will ask that potential authors submit statements of intent and
abstracts during the Spring 1989 to the IFAC Secretariat in Austria. In late
Spring the organizers will inform (all?) people who have replied that they are
to submit complete manuscripts on special mats by some date in the Summer.
Author's kits will be available from several sources distributed around the
world. In the United States these kits will be at the AACC Secretariat.
Final paper selection based on the full papers will be made in late 1989. A
meeting of the International Program Committee has been scheduled for Vienna
in November 1989. Thus, this procedure bypasses the traditional requirement
for final draft papers to be prepared 18 months in advance and then retyped on
mats later in the process.
For further information, the following people should be able to help:
Lennart Ljung (IFAC VP): ljung@isy.liu.se
Steve Kahne (IFAC VP): kahnes@apee.ogc.edu
Abe Haddad (incoming AACC Secy): ahaddad@eecs.nwu.edu
Contributed by: bfw@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Bostwick F. Wyman)
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT -- JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEW TRENDS IN SYSTEMS THEORY
In Celebration of the Quincentenary of Christopher Columbus, The Ohio State
University and the Universita' di Genova are pleased to announce a
JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEW TRENDS IN SYSTEMS THEORY
to be held in Genoa, Italy in July, 1990. The exact date will be announced
later.
More details will be available shortly. If you would like to be put on the
mailing list, please contact Bostwick F. Wyman (TS1074@OHSTVMA.bitnet or
bfw@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu) or Giuseppe Conte (GCONTE@IGECUNIV.bitnet).
Contributed by: chuck%boleyn@gte.com (Chuck Anderson, GTE Labs)
NEURAL NETS AND CONTROL -- Request for benchmarks
Recent developments in the neural network community have resulted in
learning techniques that are applicable to control problems. At this point
guidance is needed in choosing control tasks to study. The right tasks will
develop into benchmarks with which comparisons among various neural network
methods and standard control techniques can be made.
This note is a request for such tasks. Tasks are desired that are
deemed by researchers in control as important problems in need of good
solutions. The tasks should be relevant to current control issues and possess
some of the difficulties that confound current control design techniques, such
as incompletely known systems, nonlinearity, noise, multiple variables,
delays, discrete events, and constraints on actions. A good benchmark task is
one that is readily accessible or easily duplicated. Duplication is
facilitated by simulating the system to be controlled; unfortunately,
simulations usually differ in significant ways from the real world.
So, does anyone have a favorite control problem that pushes a bit past
the capabilities of current control techniques is some way? Good candidates
are tasks involving a relatively accurate, nonlinear model of a real system,
lots of sensed measurements and actuators, and/or other difficulties as
mentioned above. Examples that might make good benchmarks are nonlinear
models of an electric motor or of a flexible beam. I am preparing a report in
which proposed benchmark tasks are summarized. When complete, I will
advertise the report in the E-Letter.
Please send information to: Chuck Anderson, GTE Laboratories Inc., 40 Sylvan
Road, Waltham, MA 02254.
Phone: 617-466-4157; e-mail: cwa@gte.com
Contributed by: kahnes@apee.ogc.edu (Steve Kahne)
IEEE TAC EDUCATION SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL BOARD
In an recent issue of this Eletter there appeared a Call for Papers for a
Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Education entitled:
Teaching Automatic Control
In that Call it was mentioned that a distinguished editorial board
would be selected. We now report that this Editorial Board has been
identified. They are: Professors Kahne and Su as noted in the
Call for Papers. Professor Mohamed Mansour, ETH-Zurich
(autmail%nimbus.ethz.ch); Professor Bjorn Wittenmark - Lund
(bitnet address: bodebw@seldc52); Professor Derek Atherton (Sussex);
Professor Peter Dorato (U of New Mexico); Professor Donald Pierre
(University of Montana). Deadline for abstracts is February 1,
1989. The issue will appear in early 1990.