Table of Contents: April 2003

 

 

Features

 

 

 

Future Directions in Control in an Information-Rich World
Richard M. Murray, Karl J. Åström, Stephen P. Boyd,
Roger W. Brockett, and Gunter Stein

20

 

 

Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo
James C. Spall

34

 

 

Using Robots for Astronaut Training
Craig R. Carignan and David L. Akin

46

 

 

Columns

 

 

 

Students Guide: Introducing Signals, Systems, and Control
in Grades K Through 12
Dennis S. Bernstein

10

 

 

Eye on Education: A Web-Based, Collaborative, Computer-Aided
Sequential Control Design Tool
Chiaming Yen, Wu-Jeng Li, and Jui Cheng Lin

14

 

 

Application Notes: A Practical Fuzzy Logic Controller for the
Path Tracking of Wheeled Mobile Robots
T.H. Lee, H.K. Lam, F.H.F. Leung, and P.K.S. Tam

60

 

 

Officer’s Communiqué
A Call for Volunteers—J. Douglas Birdwell
Proposed CSS Bylaws Changes—Linda G. Bushnell

66

 

 

Conference Report:
The CCA and CACSD 2002 Conferences Go to Scotland
First International IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Systems

69

 

 

Departments

 

 

 

From the Editor

4

Bookshelf

78

 

President’s Message

6

In the News

81

 

Reviewer Roster

73

Conference Calendar

82

 

Scanning the Transactions

74

On the Market

84

 

Ph.D. Dissertations

77

Control Cryptic

88