Advances in Automatic Control

1. Internal stabilization of the phase field system. 2. A solution to the fixed end-point linear quadratic optimal problem. 3. Pattern recognition control systems - a distinct direction in intelligent control. 4. The disturbance attenuation problem for a general class of linear stochastic systems. 5. Conceptual structural elements regarding a speed governor for hydrogenerators. 6. Towards intelligent real-time decision support systems for industrial milieu. 7. Non-analytical approaches to model-based fault detection and isolation. 8. Control of DVD players; focus and tracking control loop. 9. On the structural system analysis in distributed control. 10. On the dynamical control of hyper redundant manipulators. 11. Robots for humanitarian demining. 12. Parametrization of stabilizing controllers with applications. 13. Methodology for the design of feedback active vibration control systems. 14. Future trends in model predictive control. 15. Blocking phenomena analysis for discrete event systems with failures and/or preventive maintenance schedules. 16. Intelligent planning and control in a CIM system. 17. Petri Net Toolbox - teaching discrete event systems under Matlab. 18. Componentwise asymptotic stability - from flow-invariance to Lyapunov functions. 19. Independent component analysis with application to dams displacements monitoring. 20. Fuzzy controllers with dynamics, a systematic design approach. 21. Discrete time linear periodic Hamiltonian systems and applications. 22. Stability of neutral time delay systems: a survey of some results. 23. Slicot-based advanced automatic control computations. 24. On the connection between Riccati inequalities and equations in H8 control problems. 25. New computational approach for the design of fault detection and isolation filters. 26. Setting up the reference input in sliding motion control and its closed-loop tracking performance. 27. Flow-invariance method in control - a survey of some results. 28. ADDENDUM: Brief history of the automatic control degree course at Technical University 'Gh. Asachi' of Iasi.