# IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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Publication Year: 2006, Page(s): C1
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control publication information

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s): C2
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• ### Scannings for November 2006

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s): 1733
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• ### Cohesive Behaviors of Multiagent Systems With Information Flow Constraints

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1734 - 1748
Cited by:  Papers (29)
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Bacteria, bees, and birds often work together in groups to find food. A group of mobile wheeled robots can be designed to coordinate their activities to achieve a goal. Networked cooperative uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs) are being developed for commercial and military applications. In order for such multiagent systems to succeed it is often critical that they can both maintain cohesive behaviors... View full abstract»

• ### Controlling a Class of Nonlinear Systems on Rectangles

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1749 - 1759
Cited by:  Papers (102)
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In this paper, we focus on a particular class of nonlinear affine control systems of the form xdot=f(x)+Bu, where the drift f is a multi-affine vector field (i.e., affine in each state component), the control distribution B is constant, and the control u is constrained to a convex set. For such a system, we first derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a multiaffine feedbac... View full abstract»

• ### Stabilization via Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Optimization

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1760 - 1769
Cited by:  Papers (74)
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Nonsmooth variational analysis and related computational methods are powerful tools that can be effectively applied to identify local minimizers of nonconvex optimization problems arising in fixed-order controller design. We support this claim by applying nonsmooth analysis and methods to a challenging "Belgian chocolate" stabilization problem posed in 1994: find a stable, minimum phase, rational ... View full abstract»

• ### Stability and Performance for Saturated Systems via Quadratic and Nonquadratic Lyapunov Functions

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1770 - 1786
Cited by:  Papers (153)
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In this paper, we develop a systematic Lyapunov approach to the regional stability and performance analysis of saturated systems in a general feedback configuration. The only assumptions we make about the system are well-posedness of the algebraic loop and local stability. Problems to be considered include the estimation of the domain of attraction, the reachable set under a class of bounded energ... View full abstract»

• ### A Behavioral Approach to Estimation and Dead-Beat Observer Design With Applications to State–Space Models

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1787 - 1797
Cited by:  Papers (14)
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The observer design problem is investigated in the context of linear left shift invariant discrete behaviors, whose trajectories have supports on Z+. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a dead-beat observer of some relevant variables from some measured ones, in the presence of some unmeasured (and irrelevant) variables, are introduced, and a complete parametrization... View full abstract»

• ### Frequency Domain Input–Output Analysis of Sliding-Mode Observers

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1798 - 1803
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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The sliding-mode (SM) observer dynamics are analyzed in the frequency domain. It is shown that the SM observer is essentially a relay feedback-feedforward system. It is feedback with respect to the measured variable of the system being observed, and the feedforward with respect to the control applied to the system being observed. Having noted this, the input-output properties of observer dynamics ... View full abstract»

• ### A Block Triangular Form for Nonlinear Observer Design

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1803 - 1808
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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This note reconsiders existence conditions for an established block triangular form (BTF) for a broad class of multi-output nonlinear systems. Systems transformable into BTF coordinates allow for decentralized observer design performed subsystem-at-a-time effectively treating upper subsystem states as measurements. Sufficient conditions are given to ensure that the output is linear in BTF coordina... View full abstract»

• ### Partial-State Observers for Nonlinear Systems

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1808 - 1812
Cited by:  Papers (21)
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This note deals with the design of reduced-order observers for a class of nonlinear systems. The order reduction of the observer is achieved by only estimating a required partial set of the state vector. Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the existence of reduced-order observers. An observer design procedure based on linear matrix inequalities is given. A numerical example is give... View full abstract»

• ### Stabilizing Model Predictive Control of Hybrid Systems

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1813 - 1818
Cited by:  Papers (119)
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In this note, we investigate the stability of hybrid systems in closed-loop with model predictive controllers (MPC). A priori sufficient conditions for Lyapunov asymptotic stability and exponential stability are derived in the terminal cost and constraint set fashion, while allowing for discontinuous system dynamics and discontinuous MPC value functions. For constrained piecewise affine (PWA) syst... View full abstract»

• ### Generalization of Linear Cyclic Pursuit With Application to Rendezvous of Multiple Autonomous Agents

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1819 - 1824
Cited by:  Papers (76)
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Cyclic pursuit is a simple distributed control law in which agent i pursues agent i+1 modulo n. We generalize existing results and show that by selecting the gains of the agents, the point of convergence of these agents can be controlled. The condition for convergence, the range of controller gains and the reachable set where convergence can occur are studied. It is also shown that the sequence in... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Stability of a Class of Uncertain Markov Jump Nonlinear Systems

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1825 - 1831
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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This note addresses the problem of robust stability analysis for a class of Markov jump nonlinear systems subject to polytopic-type parameter uncertainty. A condition for robust local exponential mean square stability in terms of linear matrix inequalities is developed. An estimate of a robust domain of attraction of the origin is also provided. The approach is based on a stochastic Lyapunov funct... View full abstract»

• ### Control Effort Reduction in Tracking Feedback Laws

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1831 - 1837
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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We develop a path-following algorithm for redesign of tracking feedback laws to reduce the control effort. Our algorithm provides a tradeoff between the control effort and the dynamic performance along the path, while maintaining the desired convergence to the path. We illustrate it on a realistic hovercraft model, and compare the resulting control effort with control efforts of other path-followi... View full abstract»

• ### Mode-Independent ${cal H}_{infty}$ Filters for Markovian Jump Linear Systems

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1837 - 1841
Cited by:  Papers (197)
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This note addresses the problem of Hinfin filtering for continuous-time linear systems with Markovian jumping parameters. The main contribution of the note is to provide a method for designing an asymptotically stable linear time-invariant Hinfin filter for systems where the jumping parameter is not accessible. The cases where the transition rate matrix of the Markov process ... View full abstract»

• ### On Repetitive Learning Control for Periodic Tracking Tasks

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1842 - 1848
Cited by:  Papers (56)
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In this note, a repetitive learning control (RLC) approach is proposed to deal with periodic tracking tasks for nonlinear dynamical systems with nonparametric uncertainties. We address two fundamental issues associated with the learning control methodology: The existence of the solution, and learning convergence property. Applying the existence theorem of the neutral differential difference equati... View full abstract»

• ### Asymptotic Evaluation of Delay in the SRPT Scheduler

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1848 - 1854
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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In this note, the shortest remaining processing time (SRPT) scheduler is considered. We focus on the SRPT scheduling policy for a discrete-time queueing system that is accessed by a large number of flows (a many flows regime). In such an asymptotic regime (large capacity and large number of flows), we derive the expression for the delay rate function, which describes the complete delay distributio... View full abstract»

• ### Observers for a Special Class of Bilinear Systems: Design and Application

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1854 - 1858
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This note presents full- and reduced-order observation strategies for a subclass of systems that are bilinear in the immeasurable states. Lyapunov analysis is carried out to derive the conditions for convergence of the observed states for all strategies. The full order observer is then utilized in the problem of bus voltage regulation effected by a static compensator (STATCOM) acting as a controll... View full abstract»

• ### Convex Optimization

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s): 1859
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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Publication Year: 2006, Page(s): 1860
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• ### IEEE Control Systems Society Information

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s): C3
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Publication Year: 2006, Page(s): C4
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## 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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P. J. Antsaklis
Dept. Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame