1. Editor’s note

   • Lei Guo
   • Jie Chen
   • ZongLi Lin

   EditorialNotes 17 November 2009 Pages: 1953 - 1953

2. Advances in automation and control research in China

   • DaiZhan Cheng

   OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 1954 - 1963

3. Recursive identification for EIV ARMAX systems

   • HanFu Chen

   OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 1964 - 1972

4. The effects of redundant control inputs in optimal control

   • ZhiSheng Duan
   • Lin Huang
   • Ying Yang

   OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 1973 - 1981

5. Necessary and sufficient conditions for optimal control of stochastic systems associated with Lévy processes

   • QingXin Meng
   • MaoNing Tang

   OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 1982 - 1992

6. Strategy optimization for controlled Markov process with descriptive complexity constraint

   • QingShan Jia
   • QianChuan Zhao

   OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 1993 - 2005

7. Evolutionary decision-makings for the dynamic weapon-target assignment problem

   • Jie Chen
   • Bin Xin
   • Juan Zhang

   OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2006 - 2018

8. Robust H _∞ static output feedback control of discrete-time switched polytopic linear systems with average dwell-time

   • JianBin Qiu
   • Gang Feng
   • Jie Yang

   OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2019 - 2031

9. New approaching condition for sliding mode control design with Lipschitz switching surface

   • Kai Zheng
   • TieLong Shen
   • Yu Yao

   OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2032 - 2044

10. Exact controllability for singular distributed parameter system in Hilbert space

    • ZhaoQiang Ge
    • GuangTian Zhu
    • DeXing Feng

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2045 - 2052

11. Stability analysis and stabilization of networked linear systems with random packet losses

    • Li Xie
    • LiHua Xie

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2053 - 2073

12. Controllability of multi-agent systems based on agreement protocols

    • Long Wang
    • FangCui Jiang
    • ZhiJian Ji

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2074 - 2088

13. Sampled-data based average consensus with measurement noises: convergence analysis and uncertainty principle

    • Tao Li
    • JiFeng Zhang

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2089 - 2103

14. Stability and control of nonlinear systems described by retarded functional equations: a review of recent results

    • Iasson Karafyllis
    • ZhongPing Jiang

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2104 - 2126

15. Null controllability for a fourth order parabolic equation

    • Hang Yu

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2127 - 2132

16. On the quantum master equation under feedback control

    • Bo Qi

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2133 - 2139

17. Simultaneous stabilization of a class of nonlinear descriptor systems via Hamiltonian function method

    • LiYing Sun
    • YuZhen Wang

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2140 - 2152

18. On semi-global stabilization of minimum phase nonlinear systems without vector relative degrees

    • XinMin Liu
    • ZongLi Lin

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2153 - 2162

19. Finite-time disturbance attenuation of nonlinear systems

    • LiPo Mo
    • YingMin Jia
    • ZhiMing Zheng

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2163 - 2171

20. Output regulation for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with nonlinear exosystems and its application

    • WeiJie Sun
    • Jie Huang

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2172 - 2179

21. Improved H _∞ filtering for Markov jumping linear systems with non-accessible mode information

    • YaFeng Guo
    • ShaoYuan Li

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2180 - 2189

22. Parametric control systems design with applications in missile control

    • GuangRen Duan
    • HaiHua Yu
    • Feng Tan

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2190 - 2200

23. Development of a vision-based ground target detection and tracking system for a small unmanned helicopter

    • Feng Lin
    • Kai-Yew Lum
    • Tong H. Lee

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2201 - 2215

24. Characteristic model based control of the X-34 reusable launch vehicle in its climbing phase

    • Bin Meng
    • HongXin Wu
    • Guo Li

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2216 - 2225

25. Principle of designing slope compensation in PFC Boost converter

    • YuFei Zhou
    • JiaCheng Huang
    • JunNing Chen

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2226 - 2233

26. Real-time reliability prediction for dynamic systems with both deteriorating and unreliable components

    • ZhengGuo Xu
    • YinDong Ji
    • DongHua Zhou

    OriginalPaper 17 November 2009 Pages: 2234 - 2246