Adaptive and learning systems: Theory and applications

Adaptive Control Theory.- Robust Adaptive Control.- Methods of Averaging for Adaptive Systems.- A Robust Indirect Adaptive Control Approach.- Global Stability of a Direct Adaptive Control Scheme With Respect to a Graph Topology.- Robust Discrete-Time Adaptive Control.- Identification and Adaptive Control of Linear Stochastic Systems.- Adaptive Control Applications.- On Practical Implementations of Adaptive Control.- Self Tuning and Adaptive Control of Chemical Processes.- Application of Multivariable Adaptive Control Schemes to Distillation Columns.- The Exact Pattern Recognition Adaptive Controller, a User-Oriented Commercial Success.- Self-Cohering a Large. Distorted Antenna for Microwave Imaging.- Identification of Robot Dynamics: An Application of Recursive Estimation.- Learning Systems.- Recent Developments in Learning Automata.- Learning Automata Models for Adaptive Flow Control in Packet-Switching Networks.- Application of Learning Automata to Image Data Compression.- Cooperativity in Networks of Pattern Recognizing Stochastic Learning Automata.- The Genetic Algorithm Approach: Why. How, and What Next?.- Knowledge Growth in an Artificial Animal.- Control of Flexible Space Structures.- Issues in Control Design for Large Space Structures.- Progress in Adaptive Control of Flexible Spacecraft Using Lattice Filters.- The Search for Appropriate Actuator Distribution Criteria in Large Space Structures Control.- Direct Model Reference Adaptive Control in Infinite-Dimensional Hilbert Space.- Robotics.- A Survey on Advances in the Theory of Computational Robotics.- Continuous Robot Motion Planning In Unknown Environment.- Impedance Control Applied to Automated Deburring.- The Potential Field Approach And Operational Space Formulation In Robot Control.- Mathematical Theory of Learning with Applications to Robot Control.- Automatic Planning and Control of Robot Natural Motion Via Feedback.- Authors' Index.