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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX B." National Research Council. 1997. Motion, Control, and Geometry: Proceedings of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5772.
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Appendix B
Symposium Participants

Gerald Andersen

George Mason University

Joseph Applebaum

U.S. Department of Labor

Louis Auslander

City University of New York

Hyman Bass

Columbia University

Daria Bielecki

Naval Research Laboratory

Yvonne Bishop

U.S. Department of Energy

Claudia Blair

National Institutes of Health

I. Edward Block

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Albert Bosse

Naval Research Laboratory

John S. Bradley

American Mathematics Society

Roger Brockett

Harvard University

Thomas Carr

Naval Research Laboratory

Jagdish Chandra

U.S. Army Research Office

Gregory Chirikjian

Johns Hopkins University

Ed Cohen

Naval Surface Warfare

Gall Corbett

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Gregory Coxson

Alexandria, Virginia

James Donaldson

Howard University

Rick Fenton

McMaster University Medical Center

Barry Fridling

Institute for Defense Analyses

Avner Friedman

University of Minnesota

Paul Gaddie

University of Louisville

Devandra P. Garg

National Science Foundation

Ionannis Georgiou

Naval Research Laboratory

Andrew Girard

Greenbelt, Maryland

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX B." National Research Council. 1997. Motion, Control, and Geometry: Proceedings of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5772.
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James F. Glazebrook

National Science Foundation

Vmadini Greenberg

U.S. Department of Energy

Ja Gualtieri

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Murli Gupta

George Washington University

Ralph Hartley

Naval Research Laboratory

Liam Healy

Naval Research Laboratory

John Heurtley

Federal Aviation Administration

Samuel Hollander

Naval Research Laboratory

Frederick Howes

U.S. Department of Energy

Marc Jacobs

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Scott James

Kensington, Maryland

W. Karwowski

University of Louisville

Jon R. Kettenring

Bellcore

P.S. Krishnaprasad

University of Maryland

John Lagnese

Georgetown University

Feogyong Lee

University of Maryland

James Lightbourne

National Science Foundation

Vikram Manikonda

University of Maryland

Jerrold Marsden

California Institute of Technology

Steve Martinez

General Accounting Office

Lilly Mason

U.S. Postal Service

Peter A. McCoy

U.S. Naval Academy

Eric Mokole

Naval Research Laboratory

Paul S. Muhly

University of Iowa

Richard Murray

California Institute of Technology

Ruth O'Brien

National Research Council

Ronald F. Peierls

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Charles Perry

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX B." National Research Council. 1997. Motion, Control, and Geometry: Proceedings of a Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5772.
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Donald Richards

University of Virginia

Geoffrey Ringer

Medical College of Virginia

Robert J. Rubin

National Institutes of Health

Richard Rudolph

Bethesda, Maryland

Jerome Sacks

National Institute of Statistical Sciences

Ira Schwartz

Naval Research Laboratory

Mark Stamp

National Security Agency

Margie Stein

U.S. Postal Service

Michael Steiv

Vitro

Stephan Thiriez

George Washington University

Ana Triandaf

Naval Research Laboratory

Dimitris Tsakiris

University of Maryland

John Tucker

National Research Council

Barbara Tyson

Bethesda, Maryland

Barry Walden

Naval Research Laboratory

Shmuel Winograd

IBM Corporation

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Some of the modem developments described in Motion, Control, and Geometry include the geometric control of robot motion and craft orientation, how high-power precision micromotors are engineered for less invasive surgery and self-focusing lens applications, what a mobile robot on a surface has in common with one moving in three dimensions, and how the motion-control problem is simplified by a coupled oscillator's geometric grouping of degrees of freedom and motion time scales.

The four papers in these proceedings provide a view through the scientific portal of today's motion-control geometric research into tomorrow's technology. The mathematics needed to carry out this research is that of modem differential geometry, and the questions raised in the field of motion-control geometry go directly to the research frontier. Geometry is a mathematical area too often neglected nowadays in a student's education. This publication will help adjust the control initially imposed about 2,300 years ago on one kind of "motion"—that of students entering Plato's Academy, where the following caveat was inscribed above the doorway: "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here." Readers of these chapters will gain an appreciation of modem geometry and how it continues to play a crucial role in the context of motion control in cutting-edge science and technology.

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