Table of Contents: April 2000

Features
Modeling and Control of McKibben Artificial Muscle Robot Actuators
Bertrand Tondu and Pierre Lopez

15

Adaptive Fuzzy Temperature Control for Hydronic Heating Systems
Christine Haissig

39

A Synthetic Environment for Dynamic Systems Control and Distributed Simulation
Lorenzo Pollini and Mario Innocenti

49

Columns

Student’s Guide: The Frequency Domain
Dennis S. Bernstein

8

From Technical Activities: New CSS Technical Committee on Automotive Controls
Luigi Glielmo and Jessy W. Grizzle

62

Officer’s Communique: Call for Volunteers
Wilson J. Rugh

Introducing the CSS Executive Committee

66

Departments
From the Editor

3

Bookshelf

76

President’s Message

4

In the News

80

Feedback

64

Calendar

82

Reviewer Roster for 1999

72

On the Market

85

Ph.D. Dissertations

74

The Control Cryptic

96