Table of Contents: December 2002

 

 

Features

 

 

 

Award-Winning Control Applications
James Antaki, Brad Paden, Michael Piovoso, and Siva Banda

8

 

 

Analog Cellular Locomotion Control of Hexapod Robots
Paolo Arena and Luigi Fortuna

21

 

 

Active Control of Combustion Instability: Theory and Practice
Anuradha M. Annaswamy and Ahmed F. Ghoniem

37

 

 

Loop Shaping for Iterative Control of Batch Processes
Dimitry Gorinevsky

55

 

 

Columns

 

 

 

Lecture Notes: A Unification Between Partial Stability and
Stability Theory for Time-Varying Systems
VijaySekhar Chellaboina and Wassim M. Haddad

66

 

 

Officer’s Communiqué: Minutes of the Control Systems Society
Board of Governors Meeting

76

 

 

Conference Report: 2002 American Control Conference
R. Russell Rhinehart

80

 

 

Interview: Hawaii and the CDC in 2003

87

 

 

Departments

 

 

 

From the Editor

4

Conference Calendar

90

 

President’s Message

6

On the Market

92

 

Scanning the Transactions

82

2002 Index

95

 

In the News

104

On the Lighter Side

104