Call for Papers: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Special Issue ’New directions on hybrid control systems’
of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Nonlinear control systems have undergone tremendous advances in the last
two decades at the levels of theory and applications. Among those, a class
of particular interest is that one resulting from the interaction of a
control system with a system governed by different dynamics. This class of
system lies in the hybrid and nonlinear control systems field. In the last
decade, the study of such hybrid systems, whose behavior can be
mathematically described using a mixture of logic based switching and
difference/differential linear or nonlinear equations, has attracted
important research efforts. It is motivated by the fact that many physical
systems are controlled or supervised by controllers with such mixed
dynamics. In many applications (like Automotive, Networked control
systems, Energy management, Biology...), analysis and design methods for
systems evolving both continuously and discontinuously components are
needed.

Contributions are invited regarding for example (non-exhaustive list): -
analysis of stability of hybrid systems;
- reset control systems;
- systems subject to switching operators;
- design of hybrid controllers for linear or nonlinear control systems; -
overcoming the limitations of classical feedbacks using nonlinear or
hybrid laws;
- practical and implementation aspects in nonlinear and hybrid contexts; -
numerical simulations of hybrid systems;
- analytical tools for hybrid optimal control.


Papers should be submitted online via the journals homepage
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/5510/home under Online
Submission. Authors are requested to submit their papers by 1st October
2009. Authors must select Christophe Prieur or Sophie Tarbouriech
as the Submitting Editor. Each submission must be clearly identified as a
submission for this special issue by entering New directions on hybrid
control systems in the Special Issue Title Field. Manuscripts should be
prepared in accordance with the publication format described in For
Authors on the journal homepage.

Guest Editors
Dr. Christophe Prieur
Dr. Sophie Tarbouriech
Email: cprieur@laas.fr, tarbour@laas.fr