Perspectives in Control Engineering

About the Editor Tariq Samad is Chief Fellow at Honeywell Technology Center - the research and development center for the corporation's businesses which include industrial, homes and buildings, and aerospace controls. He has led projects investigating applications of advanced control and automation systems in all of these areas. Dr. Samad is also an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds 11 patents and is a Honeywell STAR inventor. Dr. Samad has published widely in the field of control systems and is editor in chief of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine. Currently, he serves on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society.

Introduction; Acknowledgments; CONTROL TECNOLOGIES; Real-Time Computing and Control (Scott Bortoff); Discrete-Event Systems and Their Optimization (Edwin K. P. Chong); Computer-Automated Control System Design (Georg Gr; bel); System Modeling (Pradeep Misra); Intelligent Control: An Overview of Techniques (Kevin M. Passino); Neural, Fuzzy, and Approximation-Based Control (Jay A. Farrell and Marios M. Polycarpou); Supervisory Hybrid Control Systems (Michael D. Lemmon); Variable Structure and Sliding-Mode Control (Fumio Hamano and Youchan Kim); Control Systems For Complexity Management (Tariq Samad); CONTROL APPLICATIONS; Control of Multivehicle Aerospace Systems (Jorge Tierno, Joseph Jackson, and Steven Green); Affordable Flight Control for Aircraft and Missiles (Kevin A. Wise); Industrial Process Control (Michael A. Johnson and Michael J. Grimble); Power System Control and Estimation in A Competitive Environment (Christopher L. DeMarco); Intelligent Transportation Systems: Roadway Applications (/mit Vzg; ner); Automotive Powertrain Controller Development Using CACSD (K. Butts, J. Cook, C. Davey, J. Freidman, P. Menter, S. Raman, N. Sivashankar, P. Smith, and S. Toeppa); Building Control and Automation Systems (Albert T. P. So); Controlling Civil Infrastructures (B. F. Spencer Jr. and Michael K. Sain); Robot Control (Bruno Siciliano); Control of Communication Networks (R. Srikant); Index; About The Editor.