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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):1785 - 1786
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• $H^{infty}$ Control of Linear Quantum Stochastic Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1787 - 1803
Cited by:  Papers (260)
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The purpose of this paper is to formulate and solve a H infin controller synthesis problem for a class of noncommutative linear stochastic systems which includes many examples of interest in quantum technology. The paper includes results on the class of such systems for which the quantum commutation relations are preserved (such a requirement must be satisfied in a physical quant... View full abstract»

• Asynchronous Consensus in Continuous-Time Multi-Agent Systems With Switching Topology and Time-Varying Delays

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1804 - 1816
Cited by:  Papers (368)
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The paper studies asynchronous consensus problems of continuous-time multi-agent systems with discontinuous information transmission. The proposed consensus control strategy is implemented based on the state information of each agent's neighbors at some discrete times. The asynchrony means that each agent's update times, at which the agent adjusts its dynamics, are independent of others'. Furtherm... View full abstract»

• Phase Transitions on Fixed Connected Graphs and Random Graphs in the Presence of Noise

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1817 - 1825
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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In this paper, we study the phase transition behavior emerging from the interactions among multiple agents in the presence of noise. We propose a simple discrete-time model in which a group of non-mobile agents form either a fixed connected graph or a random graph process, and each agent, taking bipolar value either +1 or -1, updates its value according to its previous value and the noisy measurem... View full abstract»

• Agreeing Asynchronously

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1826 - 1838
Cited by:  Papers (111)
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This paper formulates and solves a version of the widely studied Vicsek consensus problem in which each member of a group of n > 1 agents independently updates its heading at times determined by its own clock. It is not assumed that the agents' clocks are synchronized or that the ldquoeventrdquo times between which any one agent updates its heading are evenly spaced. Nor is it assumed th... View full abstract»

• A Framework for Fault-Tolerant Control of Discrete Event Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1839 - 1849
Cited by:  Papers (45)
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We introduce a framework for fault-tolerant supervisory control of discrete-event systems. Given a plant, possessing both faulty and nonfaulty behavior, and a submodel for just the nonfaulty part, the goal of fault-tolerant supervisory control is to enforce a certain specification for the nonfaulty plant and another (perhaps more liberal) specification for the overall plant, and further to ensure ... View full abstract»

• On an Optical Inertial Navigation System—Part I

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1850 - 1863
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We introduce a new method for computing the linear velocity and angular velocity of an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) using only the information obtained from image sequences. We show that it is possible to build a strap-down type inertial navigation system [that we call an optical inertial navigation system (ONS)] using a simple apposition eye, that is a type of compound eye found in insects. In Part... View full abstract»

• On an Optical Inertial Navigation System—Part II

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1864 - 1875
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In part I, we developed the optical transfer function of the lens-fiber system for quasi-monochromatic, incoherent excitation, and studied the properties of the kernel function. We also studied the cross-talk between the fibers of the lens-fiber system for a worker bee and an artificial eye, and showed that it is not significant. This allows us in this paper, to consider a mathematical idealizatio... View full abstract»

• Time Optimal Swing-Up of the Planar Pendulum

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1876 - 1886
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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This paper presents qualitative results on the global structure of the time optimal trajectories of the planar pendulum on a cart. This mechanical system is a benchmark to test nonlinear control methods and various papers addressed the problem of computing time optimal open-loop controls. Relying on the theory of optimal synthesis, we provide a discontinuous feedback giving optimal solutions for a... View full abstract»

• Finite-Time Semistability and Consensus for Nonlinear Dynamical Networks

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1887 - 1900
Cited by:  Papers (182)
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This paper focuses on semistability and finite-time stability analysis and synthesis of systems having a continuum of equilibria. Semistability is the property whereby the solutions of a dynamical system converge to Lyapunov stable equilibrium points determined by the system initial conditions. In this paper, we merge the theories of semistability and finite-time stability to develop a rigorous fr... View full abstract»

• Distributed LQR Design for Identical Dynamically Decoupled Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1901 - 1912
Cited by:  Papers (131)
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We consider a set of identical decoupled dynamical systems and a control problem where the performance index couples the behavior of the systems. The coupling is described through a communication graph where each system is a node and the control action at each node is only function of its state and the states of its neighbors. A distributed control design method is presented which requires the sol... View full abstract»

• Stable Scheduling Policies for Maximizing Throughput in Generalized Constrained Queueing Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1913 - 1931
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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We consider a class of queueing networks referred to as "generalized constrained queueing networks" which form the basis of several different communication networks and information systems. These networks consist of a collection of queues such that only certain sets of queues can be concurrently served. Whenever a queue is served, the system receives a certain reward. Different rewards are obtaine... View full abstract»

• Design of Asymptotically Convergent Frequency Estimator Using Contraction Theory

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1932 - 1937
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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The problem of estimating unknown frequencies of a sinusoidal signal simultaneously is a classical problem in signal and system theory. Many approaches and algorithms are proposed in literature to develop estimators for a measurable sinusoidal signal having multiple sinusoids with unknown amplitudes, frequencies and phases. In this work, an asymptotically convergent frequency estimator is given fo... View full abstract»

• Evaluation of Stochastic Effects on Biomolecular Networks Using the Generalized Nyquist Stability Criterion

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1937 - 1941
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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Stochastic differential equations are now commonly used to model biomolecular networks in systems biology, and much research has been devoted to the development of methods to analyse their stability properties. Stability analysis of such systems may be performed using the Laplace transform, which requires the calculation of the exponential matrix involving time symbolically. However, the calculati... View full abstract»

• Optimal Adaptive Control—Contradiction in Terms or a Matter of Choosing the Right Cost Functional?

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1942 - 1947
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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Approaching the problem of optimal adaptive control as ldquooptimal control made adaptive,rdquo namely, as a certainty equivalence combination of linear quadratic optimal control and standard parameter estimation, fails on two counts: numerical (as it requires a solution to a Riccati equation at each time step) and conceptual (as the combination actually does not possess any optimality property). ... View full abstract»

• The iISS Property for Globally Asymptotically Stable and Passive Nonlinear Systems

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1947 - 1951
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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This paper investigates the integral input-to-state stability (iISS) property for passive nonlinear systems. We show that under mild technical assumptions, a passive nonlinear system which is globally asymptotically stable is also iISS. Moreover, the integral term from the definition of the iISS property has a very simple form (like an L 1 norm). We illustrate the result by provi... View full abstract»

• Weight Selection in Feedback Design With Degree Constraints

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1951 - 1955
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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We present an approach for feedback design which is based on recent developments in analytic interpolation with a degree constraint. Performance is cast as an interpolation problem with bounded analytic functions. Minimizers of a certain weighted-entropy functional provide interpolants having degree less than the number of constraints. The choice of weight parameterizes all such bounded degree sol... View full abstract»

• Violation Probability in Processor-Sharing Queues

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1956 - 1961
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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Processor-sharing queues are often used to model file transmission in networks. While sojourn time is a common performance metric in the queueing literature, average transmission rate is the more commonly discussed metric in the networking literature. Whereas much is known about sojourn times, there is little known about the average service rate experienced by jobs in processor-sharing queues. We ... View full abstract»

• Improvement on Stability Analysis for Linear Systems Under State Saturation

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1961 - 1963
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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This note considers the problem of stability analysis for linear systems under state saturation. With the introduction of set coverage that gives less constraint on the free matrix G , a less conservative sufficient global asymptotic stability condition is obtained and the corresponding iterative linear matrix inequality algorithm is given. A numerical example is given to show the effective... View full abstract»

• Every Continuous Nonlinear Control System Can be Obtained by Parametric Convex Programming

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1963 - 1967
Cited by:  Papers (25)
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In this short note, we define parametric convex programming (PCP) in a slightly different manner than it is usually done by extending convexity not only to variables but also to the parameters, and we show that the widely applied model predictive control (MPC) technique is a particular case of PCP. The main result of the note is an answer to the inverse question of PCP: which feedback laws can be ... View full abstract»

• An Improved Path-Following Method for Mixed ${H} _{2} /{H}_{infty}$ Controller Design

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1967 - 1971
Cited by:  Papers (39)
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Among the few methods available to solve bilinear matrix inequalities (BMIs) occurring in control design, the path-following method, published some years ago, appears to be one of the best ones, as far as linearization methods are concerned. However, few details are given in the literature about its implementation and limits. In this technical note, this method is applied to the design of mixed View full abstract»

• Containment Control in Mobile Networks

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1972 - 1975
Cited by:  Papers (258)
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In this paper, the problem of driving a collection of mobile robots to a given target destination is studied. In particular, we are interested in achieving this transfer in an orderly manner so as to ensure that the agents remain in the convex polytope spanned by the leader-agents, while the remaining agents, only employ local interaction rules. To this aim we exploit the theory of partial differe... View full abstract»

• Windup in Control: Its Effects and Their Prevention (by Hippe, P.; 2006)

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):1976 - 1977
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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Editor-in-Chief
P. J. Antsaklis
Dept. Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame