This paper analyzes several properties linked to the robust control of fractional diier-ential systems with delays. The BIBO stability of both retarded and neutral fractional delay systems is characterized in terms of the location of their poles. In the particular case of retarded systems, we give some properties of the poles of the system and the singular values of its Hankel operator, as well...

RObust Header Compression (ROHC), RFC 3095, defines a framework for header compression, along with a number of compression protocols (profiles). One operating assumption for the profiles defined in RFC 3095 is that the channel between compressor and decompressor is required to maintain packet ordering. This document discusses aspects of using ROHC over channels that can reorder packets. It prov...

We study the empirical likelihood approach to construct confidence intervals for the optimal value and the optimality gap of a given solution, henceforth quantify the statistical uncertainty of sample average approximation, for optimization problems with expected value objectives and constraints where the underlying probability distributions are observed via limited data. This approach relies o...

Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document defines Robust Hea...

Given experimental data and a priori assumptions on nominalmodel and a linear fractional transformation uncertainty structure, feasible conditions for model validation is given. All unknown but bounded exogenous inputs are assumed to occur at the plant outputs. With the satisfaction of the feasible conditions for model validation, it is shown that a parameterization of all model validating sets...

The culmination of the 2002 RoboFlag Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, jointly operated between California Institute of Technology and Cornell University, was a final competition between two teams of three undergraduate researchers. After ten weeks of preparation, Team Pasadena defeated Team Ithaca in two of the three final games. This paper provides the detailed results of the ...