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Bruce A. Francis

- Verified email at utoronto.ca - Cited by 42246

Becky Francis

- Verified email at ucl.ac.uk - Cited by 13467

Brian Francis

- Verified email at Lancaster.ac.uk - Cited by 11480

College cheating: Ten years later

…, EE LaBeff, RE Clark, LE Williams, B Francis… - Research in Higher …, 1996 - Springer
In this 10-year follow-up study of student cheating, we surveyed 474 university students to (1)
evaluate the extent of cheating; (2) assess attitudes toward cheating; (3) identify variables …

State-space solutions to standard H2 and H control problems

…, K Glover, P Khargonekar, B Francis - 1988 American Control …, 1988 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simple state-space formulas are presented for a controller solving a standard H ∞ -problem.
The controller has the same state-dimension as the plant, its computation involves only two …

[BOOK][B] Feedback control theory

JC Doyle, BA Francis, AR Tannenbaum - 2013 - books.google.com
An excellent introduction to feedback control system design, this book offers a theoretical
approach that captures the essential issues and can be applied to a wide range of practical …

[BOOK][B] A Course in H Control Theory

BA Francis - 1987 - Springer
8.1 Reduction to the Nehari Problem The model-matching problem is a lot harder when the
Ti's are matrix-valued functions than it is when they are scalar-valued. This section develops …

The internal model principle of control theory

BA Francis, WM Wonham - Automatica, 1976 - Elsevier
… (a) Output regulation is a property which is stable at ~; (b) Ac incorporates an internal model
… and IIx=(0)N < b. Thus output regulation is a local condition. We adopt this definition, of …

[BOOK][B] Optimal sampled-data control systems

T Chen, BA Francis - 2012 - books.google.com
… Tongwen Chen and Bruce Francis … [0] B D denotes the transfer function, D+ C(s - A)-¹ B.
Here and throughout the book the scalar matrix sI is written simply as s. …

The internal model principle for linear multivariable regulators

BA Francis, WM Wonham - Applied mathematics and optimization, 1975 - Springer
… ImB or ~ denotes the image of B and Ker B its kernel. The controllable subspace of (A,B) is
(AI~)= ~5 +A ~3 +..-+ An-l@ where n=d(%). If CVc ~ then B[~ is the restriction of B to cV and is …

[BOOK][B] Statistical modelling in GLIM 4

MA Aitkin, B Francis, J Hinde - 2005 - books.google.com
… is b, which has two levels. The factor b will vary within a, and so the first three values of b
will be 1, the next three 2, and then the values of b repeat. Finally, the factor varying most …

The linear multivariable regulator problem

BA Francis - SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 1977 - SIAM
… is specified, so we regard A, B, F, Gc also as real matrices. Now consider a fixed synthesis
(, Ac, B, F, Gc). An n-dimensional data point/ R" is a list of n numbers selected from among the …