Table of Contents: December 2000

Special Section on Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles

  

Guest Editorial: Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles: In Space, Air, Water, and on the Ground
David A. Schoenwald

15

The Reaction Stabilization of On-Orbit Robots
Craig R. Carignan and David L. Akin

19

Autonomous Formation Flight
Fabrizio Giulietti, Lorenzo Pollini, and Mario Innocenti

34

Platoons of Underwater Vehicles
Daniel J. Stilwell and Bradley E. Bishop

45

A Six-Wheeled Omnidirectional Autonomous Mobile Robot
Kevin L. Moore and Nicholas S. Flann

53

Feature

  

Hot Isostatic Pressing Furnaces
Murali Gopinathan, Raman K. Mehra, and Joseph C. Runkle

67

Columns

  

Eye on Education: A Linear Control System Simulation Toolbox Using Spreadsheets
Ali El-Hajj, Karim Y. Kabalan, and Shahwan Khoury

8

Interview: CDC Returns to Florida in 2001

83

Conference Report: 2000 American Control Conference
Galip Ulsoy

112

Departments

  

From the Editor

4

Calendar

97

President’s Message

6

On the Market

99

Scanning the Transactions

92

Index

102

Ph.D. Dissertations

94

The Control Cryptic

112

Bookshelf

95