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<h2><font color="#0000FF">PolyX Browser Watch</font></h2> <p>This site uses frames and JavaScript features, but your browser doesn't support them.<br> To take full advantage of the PolyX Web site, it is highly recommended that you download<br> an up-to-date frames and JavaScript-friendly browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0<br> or Netscape Navigator 3.0+ / Communicator):</p> <p align="center"><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="1, 0, 87, 30" HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/ie/download/" TARGET="_blank"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/frm-main-tutorials.htm/map"><img ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap" border="0" height="31" alt="ie.gif (723 bytes)" src="images/ie.gif" width="88"></a>                  <MAP NAME="FrontPageMap1"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="3, 0, 87, 30" HREF="http://www.netscape.com/computing/download/index.html" TARGET="_blank"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/frm-main-tutorials.htm/map1"><img ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap1" border="0" height="31" alt="ns.gif (786 bytes)" src="images/ns.gif" width="88"></a> <table border="0" cellPadding="0" cellSpacing="0" width="100%" height="39"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgColor="#52A9AB" width="100%" height="39" valign="top"><p align="center"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, SANS-SERIF" color="#FFFFFF"><strong><big><big>Tutorials</big></big></strong></font></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </center></div> <p align="left"><small><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, SANS-SERIF">This page contains additional information on polynomials, polynomial matrices and their applications and links to some other resources on this topic.</font></small></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="#surveys">Survey</a>|<a href="#courses">University Courses</a>|<a href="#conferences">Conferences</a></font></p> <p><a name="surveys"><font face="Verdana" color="#008080" size="3"><em><strong>Polynomial Methods Survey</strong></em></font></p> <p style="margin-left: 15"><small><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, SANS-SERIF">At the moment, you can view </font></small> <ul> <li></a><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000080"><a href="glossary.htm">Polynomial and polynomial matrix glossary</a></font></li> <li><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000080"><a href="publications.html">List of publications on polynomial design methods</a></li> </font> <li><a href="ListOfCommands.htm"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000080">Polynomial Toolbox - list of all commands</font></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.math.utwente.nl/~twhuib/H2project/h2project.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000080">H2 optimization - Theory and Applications to Robust Control Design</font></a></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 15"><small><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, SANS-SERIF">and download</font></small> <ul> <li><a href="frm-download.htm" target="_parent"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000080">Polynomial Toolbox documentation</font></a></li> </ul> <p><a name="courses"><em><strong><font face="Verdana" color="#008080" size="3">Prestigious University Courses on Polynomial Methods - with over </font><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#FF0000">1 300 slides</font><font face="Verdana" color="#008080" size="3"> for download!</font></strong></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 15"><font face="Verdana"><small>As a perfect teaching tool for polynomial design methods, the <font color="#008080"><strong>Polynomial Toolbox</strong></font> for Matlab has been succesfully used <font color="#008080"><strong>at</strong></font> several <font color="#008080"><strong>university courses</strong></font> oriented on control systems design and algebraic methods. Below you can find a list of the lectures we are aware of, along with related links.</small><br> <small>If you would also like to have your courses advertised here, please contact us at </a><a href="mailto:info@polyx.cz">info@polyx.cz</a>.</small></font> <ul>  <li><font face="Verdana"><small><a href="http://www.utia.cas.cz/robust" target="_blank">Robust Control Design</a> (M. Sebek) - Czech Technical University, Prague, CZ, Fall 1999 (14 lectures).</small><br> <small><strong>Topics:</strong> Basic course on robust control - structrured and unstructured uncertainties, analysis and design of uncertain systems.</small></font></li> <li><font face="Verdana"><small><a href="http://www.math.utwente.nl/~twhuib/PDMC" target="_blank">Polynomial and Descriptor Methods in Control</a> (H. Kwakernaak) - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Spring 2000 (14 lectures).</small><br> <small><strong>Topics: </strong>Polynomial and descriptor representation methods for linear system analysis and linear control system synthesis (in particular, H-2 and H-inf optimization).</small></font></li> <li><font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="http://www.polyx.cz/_course" target="_blank">Polynomial Methods for Control Analysis and Design</a> (M. Sebek) - Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Spring 2000 (7 sessions).<br> <strong>Topics: </strong>Basic overview of the polynomial methods in control with intensive support of the Polynomial Toolbox, Matlab and Simulink.</font></li> <li><font size="+2"></font><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.auto.ucl.ac.be/~vdooren/">Polynomial Matrix Problems and Related Questions</a> (P. Van Dooren) </font><font size="3">- </font><small>Universite Catholique de Louvain, Spring 2000</small><br> <font size="2"><strong>Topics: </strong>Graduate </font><small>course offered in the context of the UCL/DEA in Mathematics and sponsored by the Inter University Pole of Attraction IV/2. </small></font></li> <li><font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="download/helsinki.pdf" target="_blank">Polynomimatriisiesitys - Polynomial Systems Theory</a> (Pauli Sipari) - Control Engineering Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Spring 2000 (<em>in Finnish</em>).<br> </font><font face="Verdana"><small><strong>Topics: </strong>Polynomials and polynomial matrices, algebraic design methods.</small></font></li> </ul> <p><a name="conferences"><em><strong><font color="#008080" face="Verdana" size="3">Important Conferences Covering Polynomial Methods </font><font face="Verdana" size="3">(among other topics)</font></strong></em></p> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="1%" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF"><img src="ifaclogo.gif" width="84" height="58" alt="ifaclogo.gif (939 bytes)"></font></td> <td width="99%"></a><font face="Verdana"><small><a href="http://www.utia.cas.cz/rocond" target="_blank"><strong>3rd IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design, June 21-23, 2000, Reneissance Hotel Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.<br> </strong></a>The Symposium covers new developments in robust control design theory, algorithms and software. Papers on industrial applications of these techniques are also incoluded. </small></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF">.</font></td> <td width="99%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF"><img src="images/ieeelogo.gif" WIDTH="74" HEIGHT="96"></font></td> <td width="99%"><font face="Verdana"><small><a href="http://www.lar.ee.upatras.gr/med2000/" target="_blank"><strong>8th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation MED 2000, July 17-19, 2000, University of Patras, Rio GREECE. <br> </strong></a>The main objective of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners to present, discuss and further develop views on all aspects of Control and Automation. </small></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF">.</font></td> <td width="99%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF"><img src="images/ieeelogo.gif" WIDTH="74" HEIGHT="96"></font></td> <td width="99%"><font face="Verdana"><small><strong><a href="http://www.mae.ucsd.edu/cdc2000/" target="_blank">39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control CDC'00, December 12-15, 2000, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia.</a><br> </strong>The technical program of the CDC will maintain the excellent characteristic of this series. The program format has been altered (along with that of CDC 1999 and CDC 2001) to cover four days, without an increase in the number of papers accepted. This will permit a greater number of plenary addresses and attendance at a larger proportion of presentations.</small></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF">.</font></td> <td width="99%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF">..</font></td> <td width="99%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF">.</font></td> <td width="99%"></td> </tr> </table> <table BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="2" COLS="2" WIDTH="315" BGCOLOR="#96CBC4"> <tr> <td width="163" align="center" colspan="2"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana" size="3"><strong>Tutorials</strong></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="135" align="left"><a href="glossary.htm"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#0000A0"><strong>Glossary</strong></font></a></td> <td width="28" align="right"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#0000A0"><a href="documentation.htm"><strong>Documentation</strong></a></font></td> </tr> <tr ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="CENTER"> <td width="135" align="left"><a href="publications.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#0000A0"><strong><b>Publications</b></strong></font></a></td> <td width="28" align="right"><b><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#0000A0"><strong><a href="ListOfCommands.htm">Commands</a> (list)</strong></font></b></td> </tr> </table>