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International
Federation of Automatic Control
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1999
No. 4
August
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Newsletter
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Contents
14th
IFAC World Congress Beijing
China, P.R., 5 July, 1999
For the first
time in IFAC history, the World Congress was convened on the Asian continent.
And this Congress and all the related meetings was outstanding in many respects.
The facilities provided and the scientific level of the Congress were excellent,
and participation did not lag behind previous IFAC Congresses. In this and further
issues of the Newsletter, there will be plenty of opportunities to inform about
the scientific aspects of the Congress in greater detail.
During
the General Assembly, all IFAC Officers gave their progress reports and it
may be said that IFAC is in very good shape indeed.
The team,
which was elected by the General Assembly to lead IFAC into the new millennium,
is composed as follows:
Council
President |
Pedro
Albertos ES |
President-Elect |
Vladimir
Kucera CZ |
Vice-President
(Technical Board) |
Rolf
Isermann DE |
Vice-President
(Executive Board) |
Wook
Hyun Kwon KR |
Immediate
Past President |
Yong-Zai
Lu CN |
Treasurer |
Walter
Schaufelberger CH |
Ordinary
Members |
Mituhiko
Araki JP
Jacques Bernussou FR
Robert Bitmead AU
Mogens Blanke DK
Denis Dochain BE
Peter Fleming UK
Peter Kopacek AT
Michael Masten US
Eduardo Mosca IT
Jonas Paiuk AR
Torsten Söderstöm SE
Paul van den Hof NL |
Opening
Ceremony
The Opening
Ceremony took place in a very festive frame at the Beijing International Congress
Centre. IFAC Congress participnts had the great honour to be addressed by outstanding
representatives of Chinese public life: Mr. Lanqing Li, Vice Prime Minister,
China, P.R., Prof. Ruwei Dai, President of the Chinese Association of Automation,
NOC Co-Chair, Ms. Wenyi Lin, Vice-Mayor of Beijing Metropolitan, Prof. Yongxiang
Lu, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, NOC Chair, Prof. Yongzai Lu,
President of IFAC, Prof. Hanfu Chen, Chairman of the IPC. The keynote speech
was given by Prof. Jian Song, President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering,
who has been connected to IFAC from the first days when the Federation was founded.
Parts of this speech will be published in one of the next issues of the IFAC
Newsletter.
IFAC Congresses
are also the time when the President presents awards and appoints Advisors.
In many cases, only one Advisor is appointed. But this Congress was outstanding
also in this respect. Three distinguished persons received the Asdvisor's
Seal during the Opening Ceremony: Professor Stephen Kahne, Past President
of IFAC; Professor Pieter Eykhoff, former Council member and serving IFAC
in many capacities for many years; and Professor Janos Gertler, instrumental,
among others, in drafting the main body of the present IFAC Constitution and
By-Laws. All of them continue to serve IFAC in various ways, and their advice
will in the future be sought in essential matters.
At the
Opening Ceremony, the two Major Medals awarded by IFAC, were presented. The
Quazza Medal was awarded to Professor Brian D.O. Anderson "for his comprehensive
contributions to Control Theory and his leadership in IFAC". The Nichols Medal
was awarded to Dr. Gunther Stein "for his contributions to the theory and
practice of automatic control in the aerospace industry".
Closing
Ceremony
At the Closing
Ceremony, the IFAC Congress Applications Paper Prize was awarded to J.F. Magni,
and co-workers (C. Döll, C. Chiappa, B. Frapard and B. Girouart) for the
paper: Mixed µ Analysis for Flexible Systems; The IFAC Congress Young
Author Prize was awarded to Y. Hong for the paper: H infinite Control, Stabilization
and Input-Output Stability of Nonlinear Systems Based on Homogeneous Techniques.
The IFAC Control Engineering Textbook Prize, endowed in honor of Harold Chestnut,
1st President of IFAC, was awarded to Ch.G. Cassandras for the Textbook: Discrete
Event Dynamic Systems: Modelling and Performance Analysis, published by R.D.
Irwin, Inc. and Aksen Assoc. Inc. The Congress Poster Prize (funded by the Beijing
Congress NOC) was awarded to two papers: Deyi Li and co-workers (Hui Chen, Jianhua
Fan, C.Z. Shen) for the paper: A Novel Qualitative Control Method to Inverted
Pendulum Systems; and Kazuo Tanaka and co-workers (T. Taniguchi, H.O. Wang)
for the paper: Robust and Optimal Fuzzy Control: A Linear Matrix Inequality
Approach.
In addition,
the awards of the two IFAC Journals - Automatica and Control Engineering Practice
- were presented.
The Automatica
Paper Prizes were awarded to the following papers: From Youla-Kucera to Identification,
Adaptive and Nonlinear Control, by B.D.O. Anderson; A New Pattern Recognition
Adaptive Controller with Application to HVAC, by J.E. Seem; and Stability
of Bottom Heavy Underwater Vehicles, by N.E. Leonard.
The Control
Engineering Practice Paper Prizes were awarded to the following papers: Electrical
Assistance for SI Engine Idle-Speed Control, by P. Bidan and co-workers (LK.
Kouadio, M. Valentin, G. Montseny); Optimization of Boiler Control to Improve
the Load-Following Capability of Power Plant Units, by J.H. Mortensen and
co-workers (T. Moelbak, P. Andersen, T.S. Pedersen); and A Distributed Expert
Control System for a Hydrometallurgical Zinc Process, by M. Wu and co-workers
(M. Nakano, J.H. She)
In the
next issues of the Newsletter, the various awards, the finalists and winners
and the criteria for selecting them and awarding the prizes will be described
in detail.
John
F. Coales 14 September, 1907 - 6 June, 1999
IN MEMORIAM
We have learnt
with great sadness that John F. Coales, an outstanding scientist, one of IFAC's
founding fathers and leading representatives of the Federation, passed away
on 6 June, 1999.
Born at
Harborne in Birmingham, John Coales was educated at Berkhamsted School and
Sussex College. In 1929 he joined the Admiralty to do original work on radio-direction
finding, transferring in 1937 to ultra short-wave radar and communications.
During the Second World War he was in charge of research and development of
naval gunnery radar, for which he was awarded the O.B.E. in 1946. The same
year he was appointed research director of Elliott Brothers, responsible for
work on all aspects of instrumentation and automatic control. In 1952 Professor
Coales returned to Cambridge University to organize research and post-graduate
courses in control engineering. He was appointed assistant director of research
in 1953 and rose to take a personal chair in 1965, when he also became one
of the first Fellows of Clare Hall. In that year, the UK Science Research
Council awarded John Coales' group a grant to set up a powerful combined analogue
and digital computing installation to carry out long-term research on adaptive
control of complex processes.
John Coales'
service for IFAC began in 1957, when he became member of the Executive Council.
From 1961-63 he was first Vice-President. In 1963 he was elected President
of IFAC for the 1963-66 triennium. The 3rd IFAC World Congress, which was
prepared and took place under his Presidency in London in 1966, was a great
success, but by no means marked the end of his IFAC activities. First serving
as Past President and then member of the Advisory Committee, he was appointed
lifetime Advisor of IFAC. John Coales was instrumental in initiating the one-publisher
agreement between IFAC and Pergamon Press and was Chairman of the Publications
Managing Board for many years.
John Coales
never ceased taking an active interest in IFAC. He attended every IFAC Congress
and was a source of inspiration and an example for many generations of control
engineers.
We shall
remember John Coales as the great scientist and inventor, as an educator but
also as a warm-hearted man who was a pleasure to be with at all times. He
will be missed and never forgotten.
Recommendations
to Improve Industrial Involvement
During the
last triennium the participation of industry in IFAC events was of major concern
to the Executive Board of IFAC, since an active role of colleagues from industry
is of primary importance for the development, the transfer and the application
of control and automation sciences. Therefore, a Task Force, coordinated by
the Chairman of the IFAC Policy Committee studied the matter and made proposals
which were cast into recommendations approved by the IFAC Council in the framework
of its meetings held in the course of the IFAC World Congress in Beijing. The
IFAC Council thus asks organizers of IFAC events to take the following into
account:
- Action
Items
All major IFAC events (Symposia, Conferences, Congresses, and appropriate
workshops) should make provision for
- NOC
Vice-Chair for Industry involvement
- IPC
Vice-Chair for Industry technical involvement
- Improved
Targeted Publicity
- invite
local and regional industries
- invite
local news media (with topics for general media attention)
- organize
IFAC events at application-based industrial professional meetings
- Including
Events of Interest to Industry
- organize
tutorial workshops before (or after) the event
- technical
sessions with applications content (e.g. survey on a method by industry
or university, followed by several short presentations on the application
of the method by industry)
- papers
on success stories, on best practice (no lengthy theory)
- plan
and highlight special industry tracks
- problem-solving
workshop sessions
- panel
discussions on topics of interest for industry high attractivity for industrialists
no requirement for full manuscripts
- Papers
from Industry
- special
invitation of industry papers
- special
review process under the guidance of IPC Vice-Chair for Industry
- acceptance
based on (extended) abstract, no full paper.
- Exhibits
of Products Relevant to IFAC meetings
- exhibits
by local, regional and international industry add to the attractivity
- size
of exhibits to be compatible with the expected size of the event to avoid
low attendance at technical sessions
- Location
and date of the event
- the
meeting place should be close to industrial centers, easy to reach
- the
length of the event should be no more than 2 or 3 days.
- 1-or-2
day-participation should be possible
- important
for industrial participation is the time spent (including traveling)
The above
recommendations apply to IFAC meetings with theoretical topics but in particular
also to those which are applications-oriented or treat special application areas.
The forms
used to apply for IFAC events will forthwith also ask to identify the special
Vice-Chairs and the special activities for improving industrial participation.
We hope
that we can, in this way, improve the quality of our events even further.
Rolf Isermann
Vice-President Chairman Executive Board 1996-99
Control
Engineering Practice
Papers
from the June 1999 Issue
- Accurate
Position Control of Servo Pneumatic Actuator Systems: An Application to
Food Packaging (J. Wang, J. Pu, P. Moore)
- Modelling
of Ozone Concentrations Using a Takagi-Sugeno Model (G. Mourot, K. Gasso,
J. Ragot)
- System
Identification with Multi-level Periodic Perturbation Signals (H.A. Barker,
K.R. Godfrey)
Special
Section on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles
- Preface
on the Special Section on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (M.A. Salichs)
- A Smith-predictor-based
Generalized Predictive Controller for Mobile Robot Path-tracking (J.E. Normey-Rico,
J. Gomez-Ortega, E.F. Camacho)
- Control
of Flexible Mobile Manipulators: Positioning and Vibration Reduction Using
an Eye-in-hand Range Camera (B. Nilsson, J. Nygards, U. Larsson. A. Wernersson)
- Representation
of Interactions between Mobile Robots for Trajectory Planning (C. Zanardi,
J.-Y. Hervé, P. Cohen)
- Localization
of a Wheeled Mobile Robot by Sensor Data Fusion Based on a Fuzzy Logic Adapted
Kalman Filter (L. Jetto, S. Longhi, D. Vitali)
- Sensor
Fusion for Localization Using Possibility Theory (C. Sossai, P. Bison, G.
Chemello, G. Trainito)
- Can
Robots Learn to See? (G. von Wichert)
- From
Topological Knowledge to Geometrical Map (F. Tièche, H. Hügli)
IFAC
Meeting Papers - Keyword Listing
- Computer
Applications in Biotechnology, Osaka, Japan, June 1998
Index
of IFAC Meeting Papers
Conference
Calendar
Control
Engineering Practice
Papers
from the July1999 Issue
- Editorial
(G.W. Irwin)
- Control
Engineering Practice Prize Winners at Control '98 (Roger M. Goodall)
- Optimal-tuning
PID Controller Design in the Frequency Domain with Application to a Rotary
Hydraulic System (G.P. Liu, S. Daley)
- On-orbit
System Identification Experiments on Engineering Test Satellite-VI (S. Adachi,
I. Yamaguchi, T. Kida, T. Segikuchi, K. Yamada, Y. Chida)
- Linear
and Nonlinear Skyhook Damping Control Laws for Active Railway Suspensions
(H. Li, R.M. Goddall)
- Robust
Controllers for Simultaneous Control of Temperature and CO2 Concentration
in Greenhouses (R. Linker, P.O. Gutman, I. Seginer)
Special
Section on On-line Fault Detection and Supervision in the Chemical Process
Industry
- Preface
on the Special Section on On-line Fault Detection and Supervision in the
Chemical Process Industry (P. Dhurjati, S. Cauvin)
- Wavelets
and Non-linear Principal Components Analysis for Process Monitoring (R.
Shao, F. Jia, E.B. Martin, A.J. Morris)
- Observing
Sugar-beet Quality Using Process and Signal-analysis Methods (A. Arenz,
M. Reimann, E. Schnieder, U. Harten)
- Real-time
Monitoring for a Process with Multiple Operating Modes (D.-H. Hwang, C.
Han)
- PCA-SDG
Based Process Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis (H. Vedam. V. Ventaktasubramanian)
IFAC
Meeting Papers - Keyword Listing
- Intelligent
Assembly and Disassembly, Bled, Slovenia, May 1998
Index
of IFAC Meeting Papers
Conference
Calendar
Control
Engineering Practice
Papers
from the August 1999 Issue
- Modelling,
Identification and Control of Sugar Evaporation - Theoretical Design and
Experimental Evaluation (S.L. Elhaq, F. Giri, H. Unbehauen)
- A Discrete-time
Sliding Mode Controller and Observer with Computation Time Delay (S.M. Lee,
B.H. Lee)
- Object-oriented
Models for Advanced Automation Engineering (C. Maffezzoni, L. Ferrarini,
E. Carpanzano)
- Improved
Constrained Cascade Control for Parallel Processes (R. Lestage, A. Pomerleau,
A. Desbiens)
- Reliability
Improvement of the Dual-priority Protocol under Unreliable Transmission
(N. Navet, Y.-Q. Song)
Special
Section of Advances in Automotive Control
- Preface
on the Special Section of Advances in Automotive Control (G. Rizzoni)
- Modelling
and Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Driver Model (U. Kiencke, R. Majjad,
S. Kramer)
- Automatic
Design of Diagnosis Systems with Application to an Automotive Engine (M.
Nyberg)
- Transmission
Shift Controller Design Based on a Dynamic Model of Transmission Response
(Q. Zheng, K. Srinivasan, G. Rizzoni)
- Supporting
Real-time Distributed Computer-controlled Systems with Multi-hop P-NET Networks
(E. Tovar, F. Vasques, A. Burns)
IFAC
Meeting Papers - Keyword Listing
- System
Structure and Control, Nantes, France, July 1998
Index
of IFAC Meeting Papers
Conference
Calendar
Automatica
Papers
from the August 1999 Issue
Papers
- Design
of Controllers for MG3 Compressor Models with General Characteristics Using
Graph Backstepping (A. Banaszuk, A.J. Krener)
Brief
Papers
- Control
of Singularly Perturbed Systems with Markovian Jump Parameters: An H infinite
Approach (V. Dragan, P. Shi, E.-K. Boukas)
- Adaptive
Control of Robot Manipulators with Controller/Update Law Modularity (M.S.
De Queiroz, D.M. Dawson, M. Agarwal)
- Analysis
of a Two-relay System Configuration with Application to Coulomb Friction
Identification (A. Besancon-Voda, G. Besancon)
- Control
Parametrization Enhancing Technique for Optimal Discrete - Valued Control
Problems (H.W.J. Lee, K.L. Teo, V. Rehbock, L.S. Jennings)
- Robust
High-order Tuner of Simplified Structure (V.O. Nikiforov)
- Robust
Decentralized Adaptive Control for Non Minimum Phase Systems with Unknown
and/or time Varying Delay (M. Makoudi, L. Radouane)
- Real
Time Estimation of Process Frequency Response and Step Response from Relay
Feedback Experiments (L. Wang, M.L. Desarmo, W.R. Cluett)
Technical
Communiques
- Exponential
Stabilizability of Stochastic Systems with Markovian Jump Parameters (E.K.
Boukas, H. Yang)
- H-infinite
State Feedback Control for Generalized Continuous/Discrete Time Delay Systems
(J.H. Kim, H.B. Park)
- A Note
on the Action of Constant Pseudostate Feedback on the Internal Properness
of an ARMA Model (E.N. Antoniou, A.I.G. Vardulakis)
- Model
Reference Adaptive Control of a Maglev System with Stable Maximum Descent
Criterion (P.K. Sinha, A.N. Pechev)
- H-infinite
Stability Robustness of Fuzzy Control Systems (T. Leephakpreeda)
- Automatic
Design of Fuzzy Controllers (L.-X. Wang)
- Robust
D-stability via Positivity (D.D. Siljak, D.M. Stipanovic)
- Upper
Bounds for the Solution of the Discrete Algebraic Lyapunov Equation (M.K.
Tippett, D. Marchesin)
- Discrete
Adaptive Sliding-mode Control of a Class of Stochastic Systems (C.Y. Chan)
- A Robust
Decentralized Model Reference Adaptive Control for Non-minimum-phase Interconnected
Systems (M. Makoudi, L. Radouane)
Automatica
Papers
from the September 1999 Issue
Papers
- H-infite
Robustness of Adaptive Filters Against Measurement Noise and Parameter Drift
(P. Bolzern, P. Colaneri, G. De Nicolao)
- Optimization
of Kanban-based Manufacturing Systems (C.G. Panayioutou, C.G. Cassandras)
Brief
Papers
- Terminal
Iterative Learning Control with an Application to RTPCVD Thickness Control
(J.-X. Xu, Y. Chen, T.H. Lee, S. Yamamoto)
- A Periodically
Time-varying Minimal Partial Realization Algorithm Based on Twisting (M.
Kuijper)
- Pole
Structure Assignment via Non-regular Static State Feedback (J.J. Loiseau,
P. Zagalek, V. Kucera)
- Dissipative
Control for Linear Discrete-time Systems (Z. Tan, Y.C. Soh, L. Xie)
- Feedforward
Correlated Disturbances and Identification (T. Söderström)
Technical
Communiques
- Doubly
Coprime Factorizations Related to any Stabilizing Controller in State Space
(J.Y. Ishihara, R. Moura Sales)
- Getting
More Phase Margin and Performance out of PID Controllers (W.K. Ho, K.W.
Lim, C.C. Hang, L.Y. Ni)
- H-infinite
Control of Discrete-time Linear Systems with Time-varying Delays in State
(S.-H. Song, J.-K. Kim, C.-H. Yim, H.-C. Kim)
- Dynamic
Transfer between Sliding Control and Internal Model Control (S.-T. Wu)
- LMI
Relaxations for Robust Stability of Linear Systems with Saturating Control
(D. Henrion, S. Tarbouriech)
- A Global
Optimization Technique for Checking Parametric Robustness (D. Famularo,
P. Pugliese, Y.D. Sergeyev)
- Stabilization
of Discrete-time Singular Systems: A Matrix Inequalities Approach (S. Xu,
C. Yang)
- H-infinite
Optimal Terminal State Control for Linear Systems with Lumped and Distributed
Time Delays (F. Amato, A. Pironti)
- H-infinite
Control for Discrete-time Linear Systems with Frobenius Norm-bounded Uncertainties
(E.-K. Boukas, P. Shi)
Automatica
Papers
from the October 1999 Issue
Editorial
- Automatica
Prize Paper Awards 1999 (R. Ortega)
Papers
- Realization
of Stochastic Systems with Exogenous Inputs and Subspace Identification
Methods (T. Katayama, G. Picci)
Brief
Papers
- On
the Asymptotic Eigenvalue Distribution of Block-Toeplitz Matrices Related
to the Generalized Orthonormal Basis Function Models (T. Oliveira, E. Silva)
- Dynamical
Analysis and Control of Microcantilevers (M. Ashhab, M.V. Salapaka, M. Dahleh,
I. Mezic)
- Output
Prediction under Data Operation: Control Applications (P. Albertos, R. Sanchis,
A. Sala) Zeros of Structured Linear Systems (V. Hovelaque, C. Commault,
J.M. Dion)
- A Sliding
Manifold Approach for Vibration Reduction of Flexible Systems (A. Cavallo,
G. De Maria, R. Setola)
Technical
Communiques
- PD
Control of Robot Manipulators with Joint Flexibility, Actuators Dynamics
and Friction (R. Lozano, A. Valera, P. Albertos, S. Arimoto, T. Nakayama)
- Fault
Isolation Filter Design for Linear Stochastic Systems (J.Y. Keller)
- On
the Existence of Linear Sliding Surfaces for a Class of Uncertain Dynamic
Systems with Mismatched Uncertainties (H.H. Choi)
- Robust
Stability and Performance with Fixed Order Controllers (L.H. Keel, S.P.
Bhattacharyya)
- On-line
Tracing Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems Based on Outlooking
(K.-H. Cho. J.-T. Lim)
- An
Extension of Tuning Relations after Symmetrical Optimum Method for PI and
PID Controllers (S. Preitl, R.-E. Precup)
- Fixed
Poles and Disturbance Rejecting Feedback Synthesis (R.Lopezlena Estrada,
J.C. Martinez-Garcia)
Book
Reviews
- Modern
Control Systems Engineering, by Z. Gajic and M. Lelic (A.J. Wilkinson)
- Modelling
and Simulation of Human Behaviour in System Control, by Pietro Carlo Cacciabue
(J.K. Kuchar)
- Finite
Horizon H infinite and Related Control Problems, by M.B. Subrahmanyam (P.
Berhard)
WHO IS
WHO IN IFAC
Prof.
Mogens Blanke
Mogens Blanke
was born in 1947 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees
in automatic control from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 1974
and 1982, respectively. He was a systems analyst at the European Space Agency
in the Netherlands in 1975-76, assistant and later associate professor of control
engineering at DTU from 1976 to 1985. He was head of the Marine Division of
the Automation Company Søren T. Lyngsø A/S from 1985 until 1990
where main activities included total ship integrated control and diesel engine
control. He was appointed, in 1990, to the Chair as Professor of Control Engineering
at Aalborg University, where he started the research group in autonomous systems
and fault-tolerant control. The group's most visible achievement was the autonomous
attitude control system for the first Danish satellite, which has been in orbit
since early 1999.
Mogens
Blanke's research interests include identification and control of continuous,
non-linear systems, estimation and fault detection, and design methods for
fault tolerant control. His personal application interests include spacecraft
attitude control, automatic steering and rudder-roll damping for ships, and
control systems for ship propulsion.
In IFAC,
Mogens Blanke started the Working Group on Marine Systems in 1986. He chaired
the WG and later the Technical Committee of Marine Systems until 1996 and
chaired the Co-ordination Committee for Transportation and Vehicles from 1996-99.
He was elected tothe Council in July 1999.
Mogens
Blanke received the Radio Parts Award in 1985, the Esso Price in 1986 and,
jointly with the satellite control team in Aalborg, the Aalborg City Springtime
Award in 1999.
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Updated
on October 5, 1999