Dynamics and control of multibody systems : proceedings of the AMSIMSSIAM Joint Summer Research Conference held July 30August 5, 1988, with support from the National Science Foundation - Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c1989 - 1 online resource (xvii, 468 p. : ill.) - Contemporary mathematics v. 97 10983627 .

The AMSIMSSIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Control Theory and Multibody Systems was held at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine from July 30 to August 5, 1988 ...: T.p. verso.

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An enumerative theory of equilibrium rotations for planar kinematic chains ; Stability and stiffening of driven and free planar rotating beams ; Characterization of Hamiltonian inputoutput systems ; Robustness of distributed parameter systems ; On the relationship between discretetime optimal control and recursive dynamics for elastic multibody chains ; Some solvable stochastic control problems in compact symmetric spaces of rank one ; Slewinduced deformation shaping on slow integral manifolds ; Feedback equivalence and symmetries of Brunowski normal forms ; The application of total energy as a Lyapunov function for mechanical control systems ; Classical adiabatic angles for slowly moving mechanical systems ; Eulerian manybody problems ; Morse theory for a model space structure ; A unified approach for the control of multifingered robot hands ; Tethered satellite system stability ; Quantum control theory. I ; CartanHannayBerry phases and symmetry ; Block diagonalization and the energymomentum method ; The dynamics of two coupled rigid bodies in threespace ; Nonsmooth optimization algorithms for the design of controlled flexible structures ; Stability analysis of a rigid body with attached geometrically nonlinear rod by the energymomentum method ; Controllability of Poisson control systems with symmetries ; Chaos in a rapidly forced pendulum equation ; Accurate time critical control of manybody systems ; Hamiltonian control systems: decomposition and clamped dynamics ; Graphtheoretical methods in multibody dynamics J Baillieul ; Anthony M Bloch and Robert R Ryan ; P E Crouch and A J van der Schaft ; Ruth F Curtain ; C J Damaren and G M T D'Eleuterio ; T E Duncan ; T A W Dwyer III ; R B Gardner W F Shadwick and G R Wilkens ; Daniel E Koditschek ; Jair Koiller ; P S Krishnaprasad ; Mark Levi ; Ze Xiang Li and Shankar Sastry ; DC Liaw and E H Abed ; E B Lin ; J Marsden R Montgomery and T Ratiu ; J E Marsden J C Simo D Lewis and T A Posbergh ; George W Patrick ; E Polak ; T A Posbergh J C Simo and J E Marsden ; Gloria Sanchez de Alvarez ; Jurgen Scheurle ; N Sreenath ; A J van der Schaft ; Jens Wittenburg

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Control theory
Dynamics
Multibody systems