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# IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

## Issue 3 • March 2018

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Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Control Systems Society

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): C2
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• ### Scanning the Issue

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):617 - 618
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• ### Covariance Intersection for Partially Correlated Random Vectors

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):619 - 629
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This paper generalizes the well-known covariance intersection algorithm for distributed estimation and information fusion of random vectors. Our focus will be on partially correlated random vectors. This is motivated by the restriction of the standard covariance intersection algorithm, which treats all random vectors with arbitrary cross correlations and the restriction of the classical Kalman fil... View full abstract»

• ### Safety Verification and Control for Collision Avoidance at Road Intersections

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):630 - 642
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This paper presents a supervisory algorithm that prevents side collisions among vehicles at an intersection by taking control of vehicles when necessary. Based on the vehicles’ current state and drivers’ desired inputs, the supervisor verifies whether there exists an input signal with which vehicles can cross the intersection without collision. Instead of directly searching for the e... View full abstract»

• ### Stability Analysis of Monotone Systems via Max-Separable Lyapunov Functions

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):643 - 656
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We analyze stability properties of monotone nonlinear systems via max-separable Lyapunov functions, motivated by the following observations: first, recent results have shown that asymptotic stability of a monotone nonlinear system implies the existence of a max-separable Lyapunov function on a compact set; second, for monotone linear systems, asymptotic stability implies the stronger properties of... View full abstract»

• ### Model Reduction of Networked Multiagent Systems by Cycle Removal

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):657 - 671
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In this paper, we consider the problem of model reduction of consensus networks. We propose a new method of model reduction based on removing edges that close cycles in the network graph. The agent dynamics of the consensus network is given by a symmetric multivariable input-state-output system. In the network, the agents exchange relative output information with their neighbors. We assume that th... View full abstract»

• ### Steering the Eigenvalues of the Density Operator in Hamiltonian-Controlled Quantum Lindblad Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):672 - 681
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In this paper, we demonstrate that the dynamics of an $n$ -dimensional Lindblad control system can be separated into its inter- and intraorbit dynamics when there is fast controllability. This can be viewed as a control system on the simplex of density operator spectra, where projectors representing the eigenspaces are viewed a... View full abstract»

• ### An Exact Convex Formulation of the Optimal Power Flow in Radial Distribution Networks Including Transverse Components

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):682 - 697
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The recent literature discusses the use of the relaxed second-order cone programming (SOCP) for formulating optimal power flow problems (OPF) for radial power grids. However, if the shunt parameters of the lines that compose the power grid are considered, the proposed methods do not provide sufficient conditions that can be verified ex ante for the exactness of the optimal soluti... View full abstract»

• ### Weakly Coupled Dynamic Program: Information and Lagrangian Relaxations

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):698 - 713
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The “weakly coupled dynamic program” describes a broad class of stochastic optimization problems in which multiple controlled stochastic processes evolve independently but subject to a set of linking constraints imposed on the controls. One feature of the weakly coupled dynamic program is that it decouples into lower dimensional dynamic programs by dualizing the linking constraint vi... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Online Optimization in Dynamic Environments Using Mirror Descent

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):714 - 725
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This work addresses decentralized online optimization in nonstationary environments. A network of agents aim to track the minimizer of a global, time-varying, and convex function. The minimizer follows a known linear dynamics corrupted by unknown unstructured noise. At each time, the global function (which could be a tracking error) can be cast as a sum of a finite number of local functions, each ... View full abstract»

• ### Riccati Observers for the Nonstationary PnP Problem

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):726 - 741
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This paper revisits the problem of estimating the pose (position and orientation) of a body in 3-D space with respect to (w.r.t.) an inertial frame by using 1) the knowledge of source points positions in the inertial frame, 2) the measurements of the body angular velocity expressed in the body's frame, 3) the measurements of the body translational velocity, either in the body frame or in the inert... View full abstract»

• ### Asynchronous Decision-Making Dynamics Under Best-Response Update Rule in Finite Heterogeneous Populations

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):742 - 751
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To study how sustainable cooperation might emerge among self-interested interacting individuals, we investigate the long-run behavior of the decision-making dynamics in a finite, well-mixed population of individuals, who play collectively over time a population game. Repeatedly each individual is activated asynchronously to update her decision to either cooperate or defect according to the myopic ... View full abstract»

• ### Scalable Design of Structured Controllers Using Chordal Decomposition

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):752 - 767
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We consider the problem of designing static feedback gains subject to a priori structural constraints, which is a nonconvex problem in general. Previous work has focused on either characterizing special structures that result into convex formulations, or employing certain techniques to allow convex relaxations of the original problem. In this paper, by exploiting the underlying sp... View full abstract»

• ### A Dynamic Game Model of Collective Choice in Multiagent Systems

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):768 - 782
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Inspired by successful biological collective decision mechanisms such as honey bees searching for a new colony or the collective navigation of fish schools, we consider a scenario where a large number of agents engaged in a dynamic game have to make a choice among a finite set of different potential target destinations. Each individual both influences and is influenced by the group's decisi... View full abstract»

• ### Cooperative Output Regulation for a Class of Nonlinear Multi-agent Systems with Unknown Control Directions subject to Switching Networks

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):783 - 790
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This paper studies the cooperative output regulation problem for a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems with unknown control directions subject to jointly connected switching networks. Our approach integrates three techniques, namely, the distributed internal model, the Nussbaum gain technique, and the adaptive distributed observer. As a result, an adaptive distributed control law is synthesized... View full abstract»

• ### Pulse-Based Control Using Koopman Operator Under Parametric Uncertainty

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):791 - 796
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In applications, such as biomedicine and systems/synthetic biology, technical limitations in actuation complicate implementation of time-varying control signals. In order to alleviate some of these limitations, it may be desirable to derive simple control policies, such as step functions with fixed magnitude and length (or temporal pulses). In this technical note, we further develop a recently pro... View full abstract»

• ### Multi-Sensor Kalman Filtering With Intermittent Measurements

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):797 - 804
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In this paper, we extend the stability theory on Kalman filtering with intermittent measurements from the scenario of one single sensor to the one of multiple sensors. Consider that a group of sensors take measurement of the states of a process and then send the data to a remote estimator. The estimator receives the measurements intermittently, which may be caused by the fact that the channels hav... View full abstract»

• ### A Data-Driven Computation Method for the Gap Metric and the Optimal Stability Margin

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):805 - 810
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Gap metric and stability margin have been proven as important model-based analysis tools for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. Due to the need for an accurate model, both the gap metric and the optimal stability margin are mostly used for offline analysis. In online analysis, accurate models are rarely available, whereas measurement data could be easily obtained from the systems under considera... View full abstract»

• ### Composite Model Reference Adaptive Control with Parameter Convergence Under Finite Excitation

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):811 - 818
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A new parameter estimation method is proposed in the framework of composite model reference adaptive control for improved parameter convergence without persistent excitation. The regressor filtering scheme is adopted to perform the parameter estimation with signals that can be obtained easily. A new framework for residual signal construction is proposed. The incoming data are first accumulated to ... View full abstract»

• ### Alternating Projections Methods for Discrete-Time Stabilization of Quantum States

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):819 - 826
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We study sequences (both cyclic and randomized) of idempotent completely positive trace-preserving quantum maps, and show how they asymptotically converge to the intersection of their fixed point sets via alternating projection methods, highlighting the robustness features of the protocol against randomization. The general results are then specialized to stabilizing entangled states in finite-dime... View full abstract»

• ### Complexity Certification of a Distributed Augmented Lagrangian Method

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):827 - 834
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In this paper, we present complexity certification results for a distributed augmented Lagrangian (AL) algorithm used to solve convex optimization problems involving globally coupled linear constraints. Our method relies on the accelerated distributed AL (ADAL) algorithm, which can handle the coupled linear constraints in a distributed manner based on local estimates of the AL. We show that the th... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Coordination of DERs With Storage for Dynamic Economic Dispatch

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):835 - 842
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This paper considers the dynamic economic dispatch problem for a group of distributed energy resources (DERs) with storage that communicate over a weight-balanced strongly connected digraph. The objective is to collectively meet a certain load profile over a finite time horizon while minimizing the aggregate cost. At each time slot, each DER decides on the amount of generated power, the amount sen... View full abstract»

• ### Exponential Stability of Coupled Linear Delay Time-Varying Differential–Difference Equations

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):843 - 848
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Coupled linear delay time-varying differential–difference equations are considered. Explicit criteria for exponential stability of such equations are presented. The obtained results are used to derive sufficient conditions for exponential stability in linear time-varying differential equations of neutral type and in singular linear delay time-varying differential equations. Some illustrativ... View full abstract»

• ### Switching Control for Parameter Identifiability

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s):849 - 856
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We consider the problem of ensuring the identifiability of the parameters of a multivariable linear system by means of feedback control. It is shown that parameter identifiability can be generically ensured using time-varying (switching) controllers. Moreover, this property holds true for any, arbitrarily small, data observation window. Some practical aspects of the problem are also dealt with, in... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

In the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Control Systems Society publishes high-quality papers on the theory, design, and applications of control engineering.  Two types of contributions are regularly considered

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## Meet Our Editors

Editor-in-Chief
P. J. Antsaklis
Dept. Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame