Table of Contents: June 2002

 

 

Features

 

 

 

A Brief History of Disk Drive Control
Daniel Abramovitch and Gene Franklin

15

 

 

Ethernet in Substation Automation
Tor Skeie, Svein Johannssen, and Christoph Brunner

43

 

 

Biomimicry of Bacterial Foraging for Distributed
Optimization and Control
Kevin M. Passino

52

 

 

Feedback Control of Water Quality
James J. Abbas and Jason C. Gillette

68

 

 

Columns

 

 

 

Feedforward: Time, Again, for Control
John S. Bay

9

 

 

Application Notes: QMotor 3.0 and the QMotor Robotic Toolkit:
A PC-Based Control Platform
Markus S. Loffler, Nicolae P. Costescu, and Darren M. Dawson

12

 

 

Tales of Automatic Control: A Feedback Story
Otto Mayr

88

 

 

Conference Report: CDC Turns 40 in Orlando
Theodore E. Djaferis

92

 

 

Officer’s Communiqué: Minutes of the Control Systems Society
Board of Governors Meeting

96

 

 

Departments

 

 

 

From the Editor

4

Bookshelf

102

 

President’s Message

6

In the News

104

 

Feedback

95

Conference Calendar

106

 

Scanning the Transactions

99

On the Market

108

 

2001 Reviewer Roster

101

Control Cryptic

112