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Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):C1 - C4
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Publication Year: 2008, Page(s): C2
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Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1573 - 1574
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• Adaptive Boundary Control for Unstable Parabolic PDEs—Part I: Lyapunov Design

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1575 - 1591
Cited by:  Papers (112)
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We develop adaptive controllers for parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) controlled from a boundary and containing unknown destabilizing parameters affecting the interior of the domain. These are the first adaptive controllers for unstable PDEs without relative degree limitations, open-loop stability assumptions, or domain-wide actuation. It is the first necessary step towards developin... View full abstract»

• Optimal Nonblocking Directed Control of Discrete Event Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1592 - 1603
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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For the control of discrete event systems, the notion of directed control refines that of supervisory control. A directed controller is one that selects at most one controllable event to be enabled at any state (without disabling any uncontrollable event), which is in fact how a discrete event control is implemented. In contrast, a supervisory controller computes a maximal allowable set of control... View full abstract»

• Feedback Control in the Presence of Noisy Channels: “Bode-Like” Fundamental Limitations of Performance

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1604 - 1615
Cited by:  Papers (135)
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This paper addresses fundamental limitations of feedback using information theoretic conservation laws and flux arguments. The paper has two parts. In the first part, we derive a conservation law dictating that causal feedback cannot reduce the differential entropy inserted in the loop by external sources. An interpretation of this result is that the total randomness induced by disturbances, as me... View full abstract»

• Optimal Control of Spatially Distributed Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1616 - 1629
Cited by:  Papers (90)
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In this paper, we study the structural properties of optimal control of spatially distributed systems. Such systems consist of an infinite collection of possibly heterogeneous linear control systems that are spatially interconnected via certain distant-dependent coupling functions over arbitrary graphs. We study the structural properties of optimal control problems with infinite-horizon linear qua... View full abstract»

• Generalized Lyapunov Equation Approach to State-Dependent Stochastic Stabilization/Detectability Criterion

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1630 - 1642
Cited by:  Papers (96)
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In this paper, the generalized Lyapunov equation approach is used to study stochastic stabilization/detectability with state-multiplicative noise. Some practical test criteria for stochastic stabilization and detectability, such as stochastic Popov-Belevitch-Hautus criterion for exact detectability, are obtained. Moreover, useful properties of the generalized Lyapunov equation are derived based on... View full abstract»

• Asymptotically Optimal Decentralized Control for Large Population Stochastic Multiagent Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1643 - 1660
Cited by:  Papers (87)
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The interaction of interest-coupled decision-makers and the uncertainty of individual behavior are prominent characteristics of multiagent systems (MAS). How to break through the framework of conventional control theory, which aims at single decision-maker and single decision objective, and to extend the methodology and tools in the stochastic adaptive control theory to analyze MAS are of great si... View full abstract»

• An Iterative Identification Method for Linear Continuous-Time Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1661 - 1669
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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This paper presents a novel approach for the identification of continuous-time systems directly from sampled I/O data based on trial iterations. The method achieves identification through iterative learning control (ILC) concepts in the presence of heavy measurement noise. The robustness against measurement noise is achieved through 1) projection of continuous-time I/O signals onto a finite dimens... View full abstract»

• Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Dynamical Structure Reconstruction of LTI Networks

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1670 - 1674
Cited by:  Papers (56)
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This paper formulates and solves the network reconstruction problem for linear time-invariant systems. The problem is motivated from a variety of disciplines, but it has recently received considerable attention from the systems biology community in the study of chemical reaction networks. Here, we demonstrate that even when a transfer function can be identified perfectly from input-output data, no... View full abstract»

• On Inexact LPV Control Design of Continuous–Time Polytopic Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1674 - 1678
Cited by:  Papers (62)
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Robust dynamic output design most often relies on nonconvex problems. This is precisely the case with linear parameter-varying (LPV) control when the measured varying parameters do not exactly fit the real ones. This paper provides a solution in the convex programming framework with the use of linear matrix inequality (LMI) solvers in the case of polytopic parameter dependence. A bounded uncertain... View full abstract»

• Nonlinear Stabilization of Shock-Like Unstable Equilibria in the Viscous Burgers PDE

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1678 - 1683
Cited by:  Papers (24)
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We stabilize the unstable ldquoshock-likerdquo equilibrium profiles of the viscous Burgers equation using control at the boundaries. These equilibria are not stabilizable (even locally) using the standard ldquoradiation feedback boundary conditions.rdquo Using a nonlinear spatially-scaled transformation (that employs three ingredients, of which one is the Hopf-Cole nonlinear integral transformatio... View full abstract»

• On Compensating Long Actuator Delays in Nonlinear Control

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1684 - 1688
Cited by:  Papers (59)
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We are interested in finite-escape open-loop unstable plants that are globally stabilizable in the absence of actuator delay but require controller redesign in the presence of delay. The simplest such plant is Z(t) = Z(t)2 + U(t - D), where D is actuator delay of arbitrary length. For this system we present a control law that compensates the delay and achieves feedback linearization (of the entire... View full abstract»

• On the Liveness of Guidepath-Based, Zone-Controlled Dynamically Routed, Closed Traffic Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1689 - 1695
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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Zone-controlled, guidepath-based, dynamically routed, closed traffic systems constitute the modelling abstraction for a large set of industrial and public transport systems. An important requirement for the traffic flow of these systems is that the vehicles maintain their ability to access every location in the underlying guidepath-network, throughout the entire, presumably infinite, length of the... View full abstract»

• Robust $H_{infty}$ Control for Nonlinear Stochastic Systems: A Sliding-Mode Approach

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1695 - 1701
Cited by:  Papers (54)
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This paper considers the sliding-mode control for nonlinear stochastic systems modeled by Ito stochastic differential equations. It is noted that there exist state and exogenous disturbance-dependent noise in the controlled systems. By utilizing H infin disturbance attenuation technique, a novel sliding-mode control method is proposed such that the resultant system is asymptotica... View full abstract»

• Switched Controllability via Bumpless Transfer Input and Constrained Switching

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1702 - 1706
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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In this note, we investigate the controllability of linear hybrid systems via bumpless transfer input and constrained switching. By bumpless transfer input, we mean that the control input signals are as close as possible at switching times. By constrained switching, we mean that the switching index sequence is cyclic and the switching time sequence is possibly with pre-assigned duration intervals.... View full abstract»

• Stability of Networked Control Systems Under a Multiple-Packet Transmission Policy

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1706 - 1711
Cited by:  Papers (46)
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This paper is concerned with stability analysis of discrete-time networked control systems subject to packet loss under a multiple-packet transmission policy with the packet dropping probability of the communication channel bounded from above. Necessary and sufficient conditions for stability are obtained. In addition, the packet dropping margin as a measure of stability robustness of a system aga... View full abstract»

• Disturbance Attenuation of Feedforward Systems With Dynamic Uncertainty

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1711 - 1717
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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This paper studies the disturbance attenuation problem of a class of nonlinear systems in feedforward form that is subject to both dynamic uncertainty and disturbance. When the disturbance vanishes, the equilibrium of the closed-loop system is globally asymptotically stable. Two versions of small gain theorem with restrictions are employed to establish the global attractiveness and local stability... View full abstract»

• Razumikhin-Type Theorems on Stability of Neutral Stochastic Functional Differential Equations

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1718 - 1723
Cited by:  Papers (31)
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Recently, Mao (1995) initiated the study of exponential stability of neutral stochastic functional differential equations (NSFDEs) and employed the Razumikhin techniques to investigated the stability problem of NSFDEs. However, the importance of general asymptotic stability has not been considered. This paper studies Razumikhin-type theorems on general pth moment asymptotic stability of NSF... View full abstract»

• Stability-Preserving Rational Approximation Subject to Interpolation Constraints

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1724 - 1730
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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A quite comprehensive theory of analytic interpolation with degree constraint, dealing with rational analytic interpolants with an a priori bound, has been developed in recent years. In this paper, we consider the limit case when this bound is removed, and only stable interpolants with a prescribed maximum degree are sought. This leads to weighted H 2 minimization, where the inte... View full abstract»

• Optimal Model Predictive Control of Timed Continuous Petri Nets

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1731 - 1735
Cited by:  Papers (38)
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This paper addresses the optimal control problem of timed continuous Petri nets under infinite servers semantics. In particular, our goal is to find a control input optimizing a certain cost function that permits the evolution from an initial marking (state) to a desired steady-state. The solution we propose is based on a particular discrete-time representation of the controlled continuous Petri n... View full abstract»

• Hybrid Output Feedback Stabilization for LTI Systems With Single Output

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1736 - 1740
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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This note presents a hybrid control scheme for a class of continuous-time LTI systems that cannot be stabilized by a single static output feedback (SOF) controller. The main idea here is to design multiple SOF gains and proper logic rules that orchestrate switching among these gains so as to achieve the global stability. One challenge, however, is that the switching logic should be in the output f... View full abstract»

• Adaptive Synchronization for Generalized Lorenz Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1740 - 1746
Cited by:  Papers (25)
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In literature it is conjectured that the states of the generalized Lorenz system with an unknown parameter can not be estimated by adaptive observers. In this paper we show that this unknown parameter and the states can actually be estimated simultaneously by some kind of adaptive observer. The proof is obtained by constructing some exponential observer to achieve chaotic synchronization for the g... View full abstract»

• Receding Horizon Controls for Input-Delayed Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1746 - 1752
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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This paper presents a receding horizon control (RHC) for an unconstrained input-delayed system. To begin with, we derive a finite horizon optimal control for a quadratic cost function including two final weighting terms. The RHC is easily obtained by changing the initial and final times of the finite horizon optimal control. A linear matrix inequality (LMI) condition on two final weighting matrice... View full abstract»

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Dept. Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame