Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Cat. No.99CH36304)

The following topics were covered: embedded controllers and hybrid systems; manufacturing systems; robust observer based control; behavioural theory; risk-sensitive control and filtering; blind system identification; spatially distributed systems; time delay systems; iterative learning control; parameter dependent Lyapunov functions; motor and engine applications; teaching methods; vision and motor control; optimal control; linear systems analysis; statistical and Monte Carlo based control; nonlinear identification; distributed parameter systems; bifurcation and chaos; approximation and linearisation; adaptive control; education; stabilisation; convex optimisation and bilinear matrix inequalities; stochastic control; discrete event systems; semiconductor manufacturing; constrained control; stochastic analysis; model set theory; robust H_∞ industrial control; time-delay systems; singularities in control; mechanical control systems; neural control systems; industry-university collaborative research; numerical methods; aerospace applications; motion planning for nonholonomic systems; neural nets; scheduling; linear matrix inequalities; air traffic control; energy methods; switching systems and control; congestion control; Riccati equations; financial decision making; fluid flow control; observer design; robotic manipulation and force control; nonlinear control computation; communication networks; model based fault detection and identification; decentralised control; digital control; wireless networks; fault tolerant control; estimation and classification; model predictive control; disturbance rejection; descriptor systems; image-based estimation; nanofabrication processes; variable structure systems; boundary control; flexible structures; filtering; power systems; fuzzy systems; output feedback stabilisation; sliding mode control; and hard disk drive control