Table of Contents: October 2001

Special Section on Agriculture and the Environment

 

Guest Editorial: Advances in Control of Agriculture and the Environment
Nick Sigrimis, Panos Antsaklis, and Peter P. Groumpos

8

Data-Based Mechanistic Modeling, Forecasting, and Control
Peter Young and Arun Chotai

14

Environment Control for Plants on Earth and in Space
Louis D. Albright, Richard S. Gates, Kostas G. Arvanitis, and Alan E. Drysdale

28

Mechatronic Systems, Communication, and Control in Precision Agriculture
Josse De Baerdemaeker, Axel Munack, Herman Ramon, and Hermann Speckmann

48

Intelligent Systems for Agriculture in Japan
Yasushi Hasimoto, Haruhiko Murase, Tetsuo Morimoto, and Toru Torii

71

October Features

 

Naïve Control of the Double Integrator
Venkatesh G. Rao and Dennis S. Bernstein

86

Columns

 

Interview: Introducing the CSS President-Elect

98

From Technical Activities: The CSS Technical Activities Board from
1965 to the Present
John Baillieul

101

From Publication Activities: The CSS eletter
Pradeep Misra

104

Interview: Glasgow, Scotland: The Site for CCA 2002

107

Conference Report: Workshop in Honor of J. Boyd Pearson

110

Departments

 

From the Editor

4

In the News

114

President’s Message

6

Calendar

115

Scanning the Transactions

111

On the Market

116

Ph.D. Dissertations

113

On the Lighter Side

120