Table of Contents: February 2002

Special Section on Complex Networks, Part II

 

Guest Editorial: Modeling and Control of Complex Interactive Networks
Massoud Amin

22

Internet Congestion Control
Steven H. Low, Fernando Paganini, and John C. Doyle

28

Distributed Model Predictive Control
Eduardo Camponogara, Dong Jia, Bruce H. Krogh, and Sarosh Talukdar

44

February Features

 

Neural-Fuzzy Control System for Robotic Manipulators
Limin Peng and Peng-Yung Woo

53

Serpentine Locomotion with Robotic Snakes
Masashi Saito, Masakazu Fukaya, and Tetsuya Iwasaki

64

Experimenting with Hybrid Control
Dimitrios Hristu-Varsakelis and Roger W. Brockett

82

Columns

 

Lecture Notes: A Switching Controller for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems
H.K. Lam, Frank H.F. Leung, and Peter K.S. Tam

7

Historical Perspectives: The "First All-Union Conference on Automatic
Control," Moscow, December 1940
Christopher C. Bissell

65

Interview: Decision and Control in Las Vegas

96

Conference Report: Ninth Mediterranean Conference on Control
and Automation
Maja Matijasevic

98

Departments

 

From the Editor

4

In the News

106

President’s Message

5

Ph.D. Dissertations

107

Scanning the Transactions

100

On the Market

108

Calendar

102

On the Lighter Side

112

Bookshelf

103