Mechanics and control : proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Control Mechanics in honor of the 65th birthday of George Leitmann, January 22-24, 1990, University of Southern California

In honor of George Leitmann.- A few words for the 65 th anniversary of George Leitmann at the dinner of the third workshop on control mechanics: Sunday night, January 21, 1990.- Adaptive control of flexible joint robots derived from arm energy considerations.- Perturbation method for improved time-optimal control of disk drives.- Robustness analysis in the time domain and output space.- Sufficiency conditions for existence of an optimal feedback control in stochastic mechanics.- Avoidance control mechanics for food-chain models subject to uncertainties.- Robust control of uncertain systems with time-varying uncertainty: A computer-aided setting.- Asymptotic stability of singularly perturbed systems which have marginally stable boundary layer systems.- Robot trajectory control: Robust outer loop design using linear controller.- Nonlinear adaptive control of robotic manipulators.- Delta algorithm for global optimal control.- Development of guidance laws for accelerating missile.- On the existence of a solution of riccati equation and the mismatch threshold in practical stabilization of uncertain dynamical systems.- Vector channel lattice filters for the delta operator: Complete derivation.- Application of robust deterministic control to robotic manipulators.- Estimation of regions of asymptotic stability with sliding for relay-control systems.- Theory of residence time control by output feedback.- Maximum-miss aircraft collision avoidance.- Aircraft survival in windshear flight.- Properties of the recursive Lyapunov equation.- Steady state feedforward compensation for discrete-time multivariable systems.- Dynamic modeling of flexible appendage and single-link structures with rigid payload.- Multivariable control of an integrated propulsion - airframe system.- Finite-time stabilization of uncertain nonlinear planar systems.- Stabilizing uncertain systems with bounded control.- Controllability implications of Newton's third law.- Control of chaos in nonlinear dynamical systems.- Control of a chaotic system.- to suggestion theory.- Stability of controllers with on-line computations.