By George Leitmann (auth.), Ramesh S. Guttalu (eds.)

The Workshop on keep watch over Mechanics has been held on the collage of South­ ern California every year given that 1988 less than the management of overdue Professor Janislaw M. Skowronski. the first target of Professor Skowronski in organizing this sequence of labor­ retailers used to be to advertise using complex mechanics approach on top of things concept with a unique emphasis at the regulate of nonlinear mechanical platforms topic to uncertainty. This aim has been accomplished via a constant participation of a big variety of researchers within the box of keep watch over and mechanics and a radical trade in their rules. Professor Skowronski gave up the ghost all of sudden on March 21, 1992, after the realization of the 5th Workshop. the good luck of the 5th Workshop in addition to the full regulate Mechanics Workshops through the years is nearly solely as a result of his commitment, enthusiasm, and organizational features. His premature loss of life is a smart loss to us and to the mechanics and keep watch over neighborhood. The lawsuits of the 5th Workshop awarded during this quantity are devoted to Professor Angelo Miele, one of many pioneers and ,a top contributor in lots of fields of regulate conception and its purposes. His contribution spans quite a lot of issues akin to optimization conception, flight mechanics, astrodynamics, ocean engineering, and numerical tools. The displays within the workshop mirrored a number of the parts during which Professor Miele has been lively. The papers integrated during this quantity are divided into 3 significant teams of topics.