15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
B-SPLINES AND CONTROL THEORY
Hiroyuki Kano* Magnus Egerstedt** Hiroaki Nakata*
Clyde F. Martin***
* Department of Information Sciences, Tokyo Denki University,
Saitama 350-0394, Japan
** Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
*** Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA

In this paper some of the relationships between B-splines and linear control theory is examined. In particular, the controls that produce the B-spline basis is constructed and compared to the basis elements for dynamic splines.
Keywords: Splines, control theory, smoothing, interpolation
Session slot T-Tu-A17: Optimal Control: Theory and Design I/Area code 2d : Optimal Control