Singular Solutions and Perturbations in Control Systems

Chapter headings and selected papers: Plenary Papers. Contrast structures and exchange of stability in singularly perturbed problems (A.B. Vasilieva et al.). Singularization of control systems (V.I. Gurman). Impulsive and Singular Control Systems. Contrast structures in simplest variational vector problem and its asymptotics (M.G. Dmitriev, Ni Ming Kang). Fast periodic oscillations in singularly perturbed relay control systems (L. Fridman). Differential Equations with Singular Perturbations. Singularly perturbed boundary value problems modelling fast bimolecular reactions (V.F. Butuzov et al.). Bifurcational phenomena of the singularly perturbed equation with delay (S.A. Kaschenko). Computational Problems. Problems of convergence in the second-order methods of control improvement (V.A. Baturin, D.E. Urbanovich). On an optimal stopping time formulation of adaptive signal filtering (I.C. Dolcetta, R. Ferretti). Dynamic Systems and Control. Optimization of impulse control in one problem of guidance with incomplete information (D.D. Emelyanov). Constrained feedback control of imperfectly known, linear, time-delay systems of neutral type (D.P. Goodall). Applications. An approach to solving the medical-ecological-economic stability problem (V. Baturin, E. Danilina). On connection between the finding of the global functions minimum and the optimal simulated annealing schedule (N.P. Belyaeva). Control of Systems with Incomplete Information. The optimal adaptive algorithms for estimation of a dynamic object state vector with incomplete a priori information (R.A. Ashiniants, S.M. Ivanova). Structures and methods of stochastic optimal control under uncertainty (V.V. Baranov, V.I. Salyga). Author index.