Table of Contents: August 1999

Features
Design and Implementation of a Hybrid Control Strategy

Johan Eker and Jörgen Malmborg

12

A Multidisciplinary Flight Control Development Environment and Its Application to a Helicopter

Mark B. Tischler, Jason D. Colbourne, Mark R. Morel, Daniel J. Biezad, Kenny K. Cheung, William S. Levine, and Veronica Moldoveanu

22

A Hybrid Neural Control Scheme for Visual-Motor Coordination

Laxmidhar Behera and Nandagopal Kirubanandan

34

Supervisory Hybrid Systems

Michael D. Lemmon, Kevin X. He, and Ivan Markovsky

42

Swing Motion Control of Casting Manipulation

Hitoshi Arisumi, Tetsuo Kotoku, and Kiyoshi Komoriya

56

Columns

Business and Technology: Evaluating Your Inventions for Patenting

Michael B. Atlass

65

1999 IEEE Fellows

69

From Technical Activities: CSS Technical Committee News

75

From Membership Activities: Chapters of the Control Systems Society

77

Departments
From the Editor

4

President’s Message

6

News

81

Ph.D. Dissertations

83

Bookshelf

86

On the Market

88

Calendar

93

On the Lighter Side

96