Table of Contents: February 2001

Special Section on Networks and Control  
Guest Editorial: Networks and Control
Linda Bushnell

22

New Technological Vistas for Systems and Control:
The Example of Wireless Networks
P.R. Kumar

24

Available Bit Rate Congestion Control in ATM Networks
Orhan Cagri Imer, Sonia Compans, Tamer Basar, and R. Srikant

38

Scheduling of Networked Control Systems
Hong Ye

57

Performance Evaluation of Control Networks:
Ethernet, ControlNet, and DeviceNet
Feng-Li Lian, James R. Moyne, and Dawn M. Tilbury

66

A Six-Wheeled Omnidirectional Autonomous Mobile Robot
Wei Zhang, Michael S. Branicky, and Stephen M. Phillips

84

Columns  

Feedforward: Technology Impact: Some Thoughts on Deskilling and
Design Responsibility
Ron Frazzini

8

Eye on Education: Controls Laboratory Program with an Accent on
Discovery Learning
Brian Armstrong and Ronald Perez

14

From Membership Activities: Control in Argentina: A Report from the
Joint Chapter
María Inés Valla and José Luis Figueroa

100

Interview: CDC Returns to Florida in 2001

105

Officer's Communique: Minutes of the Control Systems Society
Board of Governors Meeting on 27 June 2000

109

Departments  

From the Editor

4

Bookshelf

120

President's Message

6

Calendar

121

Scanning the Transactions

116

On the Market

123

Ph.D. Dissertations

119

On the Lighter Side

128