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# IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control publication information

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s): C2
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• ### Scanning the issue

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):245 - 246
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• ### Discrete-Time Expectation Maximization Algorithms for Markov-Modulated Poisson Processes

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):247 - 256
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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In this paper, we consider parameter estimation Markov-modulated Poisson processes via robust filtering and smoothing techniques. Using the expectation maximization algorithm framework, our filters and smoothers can be applied to estimate the parameters of our model in either an online configuration or an offline configuration. Further, our estimator dynamics do not involve stochastic integrals an... View full abstract»

• ### Design of Low-Bandwidth Spatially Distributed Feedback

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):257 - 272
Cited by:  Papers (20)
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The paper considers a family of linear time-invariant and spatially invariant (LTSI) systems that are both distributed and localized. The spatial responses of the distributed plant are localized in spatial neighborhoods of each location. The feedback computations are also distributed and the information flow is localized in a spatial neighborhood of each location. The feedback is aimed at controll... View full abstract»

• ### Circulant Synthesis of Central Pattern Generators With Application to Control of Rectifier Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):273 - 286
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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While regulations around an equilibrium point or a reference trajectory have been the focus of recent feedback control theories, generation of autonomous oscillations with a specific pattern plays a crucial role in important control applications such as robotics. The central pattern generator (CPG) is the fundamental neuronal mechanism underlying rhythmic movements of animals, and may provide a ne... View full abstract»

• ### A Fully Automated Framework for Control of Linear Systems from Temporal Logic Specifications

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):287 - 297
Cited by:  Papers (182)
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We consider the following problem: given a linear system and a linear temporal logic (LTL) formula over a set of linear predicates in its state variables, find a feedback control law with polyhedral bounds and a set of initial states so that all trajectories of the closed loop system satisfy the formula. Our solution to this problem consists of three main steps. First, we partition the stat... View full abstract»

• ### On Gradient-Based Search for Multivariable System Estimates

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):298 - 306
Cited by:  Papers (47)
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This paper addresses the design of gradient-based search algorithms for multivariable system estimation. In particular, the paper here considers so-called ldquofull parametrizationrdquo approaches, and establishes that the recently developed ldquodata-driven local coordinaterdquo methods can be seen as a special case within a broader class of techniques that are designed to deal with rank-deficien... View full abstract»

• ### Lyapunov Measure for Almost Everywhere Stability

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):307 - 323
Cited by:  Papers (40)
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This paper is concerned with the analysis and computational methods for verifying global stability of an attractor set of a nonlinear dynamical system. Based upon a stochastic representation of deterministic dynamics, a Lyapunov measure is proposed for these purposes. This measure is shown to be a stochastic counterpart of stability (transience) just as an invariant measure is a counterpart of the... View full abstract»

• ### Cooperative Constrained Control of Distributed Agents With Nonlinear Dynamics and Delayed Information Exchange: A Stabilizing Receding-Horizon Approach

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):324 - 338
Cited by:  Papers (84)  |  Patents (1)
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This paper addresses the problem of cooperative control of a team of distributed agents with decoupled nonlinear discrete-time dynamics, which operate in a common environment and exchange-delayed information between them. Each agent is assumed to evolve in discrete-time, based on locally computed control laws, which are computed by exchanging delayed state information with a subset of neigh... View full abstract»

• ### Tracking Control for an Ellipsoidal Submarine Driven by Kirchhoff's Laws

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):339 - 349
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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In this paper, we study the control of an ellipsoid immersed in an infinite volume of ideal fluid. The dynamics of the uncontrolled body are given by Kirchhoff's laws. The control system is underactuated: one control is an acceleration along an axis of the ellipsoid and two are angular accelerations around the other two axes. By adopting a backstepping viewpoint, we prove that the position and the... View full abstract»

• ### Finite-Step Approximation Error Bounds for Solving Average-Reward-Controlled Markov Set-Chains

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):350 - 355
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This paper is a sequel to the analysis of finite-step approximations in solving controlled Markov set-chains for infinite horizon discounted reward by the author. For average-reward-controlled Markov set-chains with finite state and action spaces, we develop a value-iteration-type algorithm and analyze an error bound relative to the optimal average reward that satisfies an optimality equation from... View full abstract»

• ### Finite-Time Observers: Application to Secure Communication

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):356 - 360
Cited by:  Papers (100)
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In this paper, control theory is used to formalize finite-time chaos synchronization as a nonlinear finite-time observer design issue. This paper introduces a finite-time observer for nonlinear systems that can be put into a linear canonical form up to an output injection. The finite-time convergence relies on the homogeneity properties of nonlinear systems. The observer is then applied to ... View full abstract»

• ### Stabilization for a Class of Stochastic Nonlinear Systems via Output Feedback

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):360 - 367
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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In this paper, an output feedback stabilization is considered for a class of stochastic nonlinear systems, whose nonlinear terms admit an incremental rate depending only on the measured output. First, a high-gain observer is designed with a gain coming from a Riccatti equation. Second, by the backstepping approach, an output feedback controller is obtained, which guarantees global stability in pro... View full abstract»

• ### Multirate-Output-Feedback-Based LQ-Optimal Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):367 - 373
Cited by:  Papers (50)
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The traditional approach for sliding mode control design has been the design of a controller to achieve a predesigned sliding objective. However, not much research has been carried out on the design of the sliding surface. This note presents a technique for designing a sliding surface such that when confined to the surface, the closed-loop system has optimality in the linear quadratic sense. The p... View full abstract»

• ### Unknown Input Observers for Switched Nonlinear Discrete Time Descriptor Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):373 - 379
Cited by:  Papers (44)
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In this paper, a linear matrix inequality technique for the state estimation of discrete-time, nonlinear switched descriptor systems is developed. The considered systems are composed of linear and nonlinear parts. An observer giving a perfect unknown input decoupled state estimation is proposed. Sufficient conditions of global convergence of observers are proposed. Numerical examples are gi... View full abstract»

• ### An Extension of the Argument Principle and Nyquist Criterion to a Class of Systems With Unbounded Generators

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):379 - 384
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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The Nyquist stability criterion is generalized to systems where the open-loop system has infinite-dimensional input and output spaces and an unbounded infinitesimal generator. The infinitesimal generator is assumed to be a sectorial operator with trace-class resolvent. The main result is obtained through use of the perturbation determinant and an extension of the argument principle to infinitesima... View full abstract»

• ### Decentralized Control of Discrete-Event Systems When Supervisors Observe Particular Event Occurrences

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):384 - 388
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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Work on decentralized discrete-event control systems is extended to handle the case when, instead of always observing or never observing an event, a supervisor may observe only some occurrences of a particular event. Results include a necessary and sufficient condition for solving this version of the decentralized problem (which is analogous to the co-observability property used in the standard ve... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Probabilistic Synchronization Algorithms for Communication Networks

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):389 - 393
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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In this paper, we present a probabilistic synchronization algorithm whose convergence properties are examined using tools of row-stochastic matrices. The proposed algorithm is particularly well suited for wireless sensor network applications, where connectivity is not guaranteed at all times, and energy efficiency is an important design consideration. The tradeoff between the convergence speed and... View full abstract»

• ### $L_2$--$E$ FIR Filters for Deterministic Continuous-Time-State Space Signal Models

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):393 - 399
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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In this paper, a new L2 - E performance criterion is introduced, which is represented as a gain between the disturbance during the recent time interval and the current estimation error. Based on the L2 - E performance criterion, the L2 - E finite impulse response (FIR) filter (LEFF) is proposed for deterministic continuous-time-state space signal models without req... View full abstract»

• ### On $l_2$ Stabilization of Linear Systems With Quantized Control

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):399 - 405
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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This paper extends results from [D. Liberzon and D. Nesic, ldquoInput-to-state stabilization of linear systems with quantized feedback,rdquo IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 767--781, May 2007], where input-to-state stabilization (ISS) of linear systems with quantized feedback was considered. In this paper, we show that, by using the same scheme and under the same conditions as in D... View full abstract»

• ### Feedforward Systems With ISS Appended Dynamics: Adaptive Output-Feedback Stabilization and Disturbance Attenuation

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):405 - 412
Cited by:  Papers (31)
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We propose an adaptive output-feedback control design technique for a class of feedforward systems with input-to-state stable (ISS) appended dynamics and disturbance inputs. The design is based on our recent results on the application of dynamic high-gain scaling to state-feedback and output-feedback control of feedforward systems. In this paper, we further investigate the robustness properties of... View full abstract»

• ### Asymptotic Behavior and Stability for Solutions of a Biochemical Reactor Distributed Parameter Model

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):412 - 416
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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This paper deals with the dynamical analysis of a tubular biochemical reactor. The existence of nonnegative state trajectories and the invariance of the set of all physically feasible state values under the dynamical equation as well as the convergence of the state trajectories to equilibrium profiles are proved. In addition, the existence of multiple equilibrium profiles is analyzed. It is proved... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Stability of LTI Systems Over Semialgebraic Sets Using Sum-of-Squares Matrix Polynomials

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):417 - 423
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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This paper deals with the robust stability of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems with parametric uncertainties belonging to a semialgebraic set. It is asserted that the robust stability of any system over any semialgebraic set (satisfying a mild condition) is equivalent to solvability of a semidefinite programming (SDP) problem, which can be handled using the available software too... View full abstract»

• ### Self-Bounded Subspaces for Nonstrictly Proper Systems and Their Application to the Disturbance Decoupling With Direct Feedthrough Matrices

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):423 - 428
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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In this paper, the concept of self-bounded controlled invariance is extended to nonstrictly proper systems. Moreover, its use in connection with the disturbance decoupling problem with internal stability is investigated in the case where the feedthrough matrices from the control input and from the disturbance to the output to be decoupled are possibly nonzero. 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