Control software summaries

Dean K. Frederick of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has announced that a copy of the Extended List of Control Software (ELCS) is available, free of charge, to anyone requesting a copy. Frederick is Chairman of the Benchmark Working Group of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD). He is working with Charles Herget of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Magnus Rimvall of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), and R. Kool of the Eindhoven University of Technology to maintain and update ELCS. ELCS is a collection of one-pa, oe summaries on CACSD packages and related software libraries. ELCS is published to spread knowledge of existing control packages and to stimulate contact between different CACSD groups. No evaluation of the listed packages is made, and the publishers can take no responsibility for the correctness of the information contained in individual summaries. Contributions to the list are appreciated-ELCS is sent free of charge to all active contributors to the list. Starting with ELCS No. 2, the summaries will be incrementally distributed.