Robustness in Identification and Control

1. Robust Identification and Complexity.- Estimation and prediction in the presence of unknown but bounded uncertainty: a survey.- Optimal sampling design for parameter estimation and p-widths under stochastic and deterministic noise.- How useful is nonadaptive information for ordinary differential equations?.- Fast algorithms for the computation of fixed points.- Bounding techniques for model-structure selection.- Robust linear and nonlinear parameter estimation in the bounded-error context.- 2. Robust Stability and Control.- Generalized Nyquist tests for robust stability: Frequency domain generalizations of Kharitonov's theorem.- Extending Kharitonov's theorem to more general sets of polynomials.- Strong Kharitonov theorem for discrete systems.- Polytopes of polynomials with zeros in a prescribed region: new criteria and algorithms.- Robustness bounds for classes of structured perturbations.- Markov's theorem of determinants and the stability of families of polynomials.- An application of state space methods to obtain explicit formulae for robustness measures of polynomials.- Robust stability and stabilization of interval plants.- Shaping conditions and the stability of systems with parameter uncertainty.- Structured and simultaneous Lyapunov functions for system stability problems.- Robust stability of polynomials with multilinear parameter dependence.- Stability conditions for polynomials via quadratic inequalities in their coefficients.- Boundary implications for interval positive rational functions: preliminaries.- Guaranteeing ultimate boundedness and exponential rate of convergence for a class of uncertain systems.- On measures of stability robustness for linear uncertain systems.- Robust stabilization of linear time-invariant systems via linear control.-U-Parameter design: feedback system design with guaranteed robust stability.- New criteria for robust stability.- Author Index.