Advances in Control Theory and Applications

Table of contents
Modeling and Control of Autonomous Helicopters.- Efficient Quantization in the Average Consensus Problem.- Human-Robot Interaction Control Using Force and Vision.- A Dissipation Inequality for the Minimum Phase Property of Nonlinear Control Systems.- Input Disturbance Suppression for Port-Hamiltonian Systems: an Internal Model Approach.- A Systems Theory View of Petri Nets.- Wireless Sensing with Power Constraints.- The Important State Coordinates of a Nonlinear System.- On Decentralized and Distributed Control of Partially-Observed Discrete Event Systems.- A Unifying Approach to the Design of Nonlinear Output Regulators.- Controller Design through Random Sampling: an Example.- Digital Control of High Performance Power Supplies for a Synchrotron Light Source.- Distributed PCHD-Systems, from the Lumped to the Distributed Parameter Case.- Observability and the Design of Fault Tolerant Estimation Using Structural Analysis.- Robust Hybrid Control Systems: an Overview of Some Recent Results.