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There is no doubt that the task of gripping and handling objects in space is an important one. The ability to easily manipulate objects in a zero gravity environment will play a key role in future space activities. It is ...

Historically, the lack of interactive pre-processors to setup tedious finite element problem descriptions has hindered the use of the finite element method for bridge analysis. The work performed in the present study ...

Center manifold reduction has recently been introduced as a tool for design of stabilizing control laws for nonlinear systems in critical cases. In this dissertation, the center manifold approach is elaborated for general ...

This paper studies the asymptotic stabilization of two and three dimensional nonlinear control systems. In the two dimensional case we review some of our recent work and in the three dimensional case we give some new ...