Control and Modeling of Complex Systems

Preface Awards and Honors of Hidenori Kimura Technical Publications of Hidenori Kimura Part I: Signal Processing A Convex Optimization Approach to Generalized Moment Problems / C.I. Byrnes and A. Lindquist Toeplitz Covariance Matrices and the von Neumann Relative Entropy / T.T. Georgiou Digital Filter Design via Sampled-Data Control Theory / Y. Yamamoto and M. Nagahara Time-Domain FIR Filters for Stochastic and Deterministic Systems / W.H. Kwon and S.H. Han Part II: Identification Learning H-infinity Model Sets from Data: The Set Membership Approach / M. Milanese and M. Taragna System Identification: A Learning Theory Approach / M. Vidyasagar and R.L. Karandikar Distribution-Free Approach to Probabilistic Model-Set Identification / Y. Oishi Part III: Robust Control Analysis of Weight Change in H-infinity Control Design / B.D.O. Anderson and X. Bombois Performance Limits under Control Effort Constraints / J. Chen and S. Hara Complexity of Systems and Controllers / K. Tsumura Off-Line Reference Shaping for Systems with State and Control Constraints / T. Sugie Finite Frequency Characterization of Easily Controllable Plant toward Structure/Control Design Integration / S. Hara and T. Iwasaki Part IV: Hybrid, Chaotic, and Nonlinear Systems On Stabilization of Switched Linear Systems \ L. Guo Well-Posedness of a Class of Piecewise Affine Systems \ J. Imura Robust Stabilization of Chaos via Delayed Feedback Control \ S. Yamamoto and T. Ushio Time Varying Deadbeat Control of High Order Chained Systems with Applications to the Control of Underactuated Manipulators \ T. Mita and T.K. Nam Control of Nonholonomic Systems with Bad Controllability Structure \ M. Sampei, H. Date, and S. Nakaura Part V: Control Applications Computer Control of Vehicles: Overcoming Limitations ofHuman Drivers / M. Tomizuka Modeling, Control and Experiment of a Feedback Active Noise Control System for Free Sound Fields / S. Adachi Visuomotor Architecture for High-Speed Robot Control / K. Hashimoto, A.

Festschrift volume honoring H. Kimura's 60th birthday and his
outstanding achievements in control theory, modeling, and signal
processing. Invited articles focus on topics related to Kimura's work:
signal processing, identification, robust control, hybrid, chaotic and
nonlinear systems, and control applications. Many of the contributions
highlight real-world and industrial applications. For graduate
students and researchers in a variety of subject areas involving
control.

"All too often, Festschriften consist of contributions on all sorts of unrelated topics, and result in a charming mixture of extravagance and indulgence, which is supposed to be enjoyed first and foremost by the recipient. Sometimes such books serve as repositories for articles too eccentric in subject or in approach, or too sloppy in execution, to be published in scientific journals: what the journals cannot appreciate, the Festschrift editor often cannot refuse.

This is absolutely not the case with this volume, which is by any standard an outstanding one. Its excellent quality and timely publication owe much to the efforts of the editors...and of the publishing house Birkhäuser. They have produced a Festschrift worthy of its ceremonial function in the career of an extremely influential scientist, educator, and engineer, and a book that also manages to give us a glimpse of the state-of-the-art in several important areas of signal processing and system and control theory.... A large number of readers will find in this volume a great deal to be learned and to be informed about, and the modest price of the book puts it within reach of the wide readership (graduate students, scientists, and engineers) it deserves."

A large number of readers will find in this volume a great deal to be learned and to be informed about, and the modest price of the book puts it within reach of the wide readership (graduate students, scientists, and engineers) it deserves. It has been a pleasure and an honour for the reviewer to be invited, albeit indirectly, to Kimura sensei's feast."   - International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control