U.S.-European Regional Workshop on Dynamics and Control of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems; Vienna, Austria; July, 1993

该奖项支持10名美国工程师参加一个关于非线性不确定系统动力学和控制的美欧研讨会。这次小型会议将于1993年7月在奥地利维也纳举行。它是由一群美国和奥地利的工程师共同组织的，主要是博士。南加州大学的F. E. Udwadia和维也纳技术大学的Hans Troger。大约三分之一的参与者是处于研究生涯早期阶段的工程师。已作出特别努力，请俄罗斯和东欧的专家参加，因为那里在这一领域有大量活动。会议的目的是使这些泛欧和美国研究团体的与会代表熟悉彼此的工作，并促进他们之间在未来研究中的合作。本次研讨会的主题对制造系统具有重要意义。技术的快速发展要求相关现象的数学建模精度和稳健性提高。这需要超越经典控制理论的方法，并推进控制中的分析和定性非线性动力学的前沿。现代动力系统的有效设计和控制，如机器人操纵器，需要识别其全部非线性和允许有界不确定性影响的模型。俄罗斯人李亚普诺夫提出的一种形式主义提供了这一点。有一个非常强大的东欧研究网络建立在他的工作之上。直到最近，他们与西方的接触很少，所以这次会议将加速他们有价值的研究在西欧和美国的传播

9221500 Udwadia This award supports ten U.S. engineers to participate in a U.S.-European workshop on dynamics and control of nonlinear uncertain systems. The small meeting will be held in Vienna, Austria, in July 1993. It is co-organized by a group of U.S. and Austrian engineers, principally Drs. F. E. Udwadia of USC and Hans Troger of the Technical University of Vienna. Approximately one- third of the participants are engineers at early stages of their research careers. Special effort was taken to involve experts from Russia and Eastern Europe, since there is substantial activity there in this field. The purposes of the meeting are to familiarize these participating representatives of the pan- European and American research communities with each other's work, and to promote collaboration among them in future research. The subject of this workshop has significant implications for manufacturing systems. Rapid development of technology requires increased precision and robustness in mathematical modelling of the relevant phenomena. This requires going beyond the methods of Classical Control Theory and advancing the frontiers of Analytic and Qualitative Nonlinear Dynamics in Control. Effective design and control of modern dynamical systems, such as robotic manipulators, demand models that recognize their full non linearity and allow for the influence of bounded uncertainty. A formalism developed by the Russian Liapunov offers just that. There is a very strong Eastern European network of researchers building on his work. They had very little contact with the West until very recently, so this meeting will accelerate the diffusion of their valuable research in Western Europe and the U.S. ***