# IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control publication information

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s): C2
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• ### Scanning the issue

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2025 - 2026
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• ### Optimal Integrated Ordering and Production Policy in a Supply Chain With Stochastic Lead-Time, Processing-Time, and Demand

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2027 - 2041
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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This paper seeks the optimal integrated ordering and production control in a supply chain by minimizing the expected sum of material and product holding costs and demand backordering costs subject to finite capacitated warehouses. With the assumptions of exponential replenishment lead-times, exponential processing-times, Poisson demand arrivals, and at most one outstanding order with its size chan... View full abstract»

• ### Monotonic Target Assignment for Robotic Networks

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2042 - 2057
Cited by:  Papers (26)
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Consider an equal number of mobile robotic agents and distinct target locations dispersed in an environment. Each agent has a limited communication range and either: 1) knowledge of every target position or 2) a finite-range sensor capable of acquiring target positions and no a priori knowledge of target positions. In this paper we study the following target assignment problem: desig... View full abstract»

• ### Performance Optimization of Switched Systems: A Model Matching Approach

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2058 - 2071
Cited by:  Papers (15)
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In this paper we consider a prototypical model matching problem where the various mappings involved are systems that switch arbitrarily among n stable linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. The interest is placed on optimizing the worst-case performance of this model matching system over all possible switchings with either l infin-induced norm or H 2 norm a... View full abstract»

• ### Assignment of Complete Structural Properties of Linear Systems via Sensor Selection

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2072 - 2086
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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For x =Ax + Bu , the problem of structural assignment via sensor selection is to find an output equation, y = Cx + Du , such that the resulting system (A, B, C, D) has the pre-specified structural properties, such as the finite and infinite zero structures as well as the invertibility properties. In this paper, we establish a se... View full abstract»

• ### Self-Optimizing Adaptive Vibration Controller

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2087 - 2099
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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This paper presents a new approach to rejection of sinusoidal disturbances acting at the output of a discrete-time linear stable plant with unknown dynamics. It is assumed that the frequency of the sinusoidal disturbance is known, and that the output signal is contaminated with wideband measurement noise. The proposed controller, called SONIC (self-optimizing narrowband interference canceller), co... View full abstract»

• ### Mistuning-Based Control Design to Improve Closed-Loop Stability Margin of Vehicular Platoons

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2100 - 2113
Cited by:  Papers (107)
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We consider a decentralized bidirectional control of a platoon of N identical vehicles moving in a straight line. The control objective is for each vehicle to maintain a constant velocity and inter-vehicular separation using only the local information from itself and its two nearest neighbors. Each vehicle is modeled as a double integrator. To aid the analysis, we use continuous approximation to d... View full abstract»

• ### Almost Sure Stabilization for Feedback Controls of Regime-Switching Linear Systems With a Hidden Markov Chain

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2114 - 2125
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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This work is devoted to the almost sure stabilization of adaptive control systems that involve an unknown Markov chain. The control system displays continuous dynamics represented by differential equations and discrete events given by a hidden Markov chain. In the previous investigation on this class of problems, averaging criteria were used, which provides only the system behavior in some expecta... View full abstract»

• ### Higher Order Sliding Mode Controllers With Optimal Reaching

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2126 - 2136
Cited by:  Papers (63)
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Higher order sliding mode (HOSM) control design is considered for systems with a known permanent relative degree. In this paper, we introduce the robust Fuller's problem that is a robust generalization of the Fuller's problem, a standard optimal control problem for a chain of integrators with bounded control. By solving the robust Fuller's problem it is possible to obtain feedback laws that are HO... View full abstract»

• ### Delay Analysis for Max Weight Opportunistic Scheduling in Wireless Systems

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2137 - 2150
Cited by:  Papers (23)
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We consider the delay properties of max-weight opportunistic scheduling in a multi-user ON/OFF wireless system, such as a multi-user downlink or uplink. It is well known that max-weight scheduling stabilizes the network (and hence yields maximum throughput) whenever input rates are inside the network capacity region. We show that when arrival and channel processes are independent, average delay of... View full abstract»

• ### Mean-Variance Criteria for Finite Continuous-Time Markov Decision Processes

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2151 - 2157
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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This technical note deals with the mean variance problem (known as the average variance (AV) minimization problem) for finite continuous time Markov decision processes. We first introduce a so called G-condition which is weaker than the well known ergodicity and unichain conditions and sufficient for the finiteness of the AV of a policy. Also, we present an example of a policy having infini... View full abstract»

• ### Global Robust Output Regulation by State Feedback for Strict Feedforward Systems

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2157 - 2163
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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This note studies the global robust output regulation problem by state feedback for strict feedforward systems. By utilizing the general framework for tackling the output regulation problem , the output regulation problem is converted into a global robust stabilization problem for a class of feedforward systems that is subject to both time-varying static and dynamic uncertainties. Then the stabili... View full abstract»

• ### High-Gain Adaptive Control: A Derivative-Based Approach

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2164 - 2169
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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In this work, we propose an adaptive scheme which is a counterpart of existing high gain control techniques based on control Lyapunov functions. Given a control Lyapunov function, the main idea is that of tuning the feedback gain according to a suitably-chosen Lyapunov time-derivative. The control gain is not monotonically non-decreasing as in existing techniques, but it is increased or decreased ... View full abstract»

• ### From Continuous-Time Design to Sampled-Data Design of Observers

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2169 - 2174
Cited by:  Papers (85)
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In this work, a sampled-data nonlinear observer is designed using a continuous-time design coupled with an inter-sample output predictor. The proposed sampled-data observer is a hybrid system. It is shown that under certain conditions, the robustness properties of the continuous-time design are inherited by the sampled-data design, as long as the sampling period is not too large. The approach is a... View full abstract»

• ### Hammerstein Systems Identification in Presence of Hard Nonlinearities of Preload and Dead-Zone Type

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2174 - 2178
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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Hammerstein system identification is considered in presence of preload and dead zone nonlinearities. The discontinuous feature of these nonlinearities makes it difficult to get a single system parameterization involving linearly all unknown parameters (those of the linear subsystem and those of the nonlinearity). Therefore, system identification has generally been dealt with using multiple stage s... View full abstract»

• ### A “Globally” Convergent Controller for Multi-Machine Power Systems Using Structure-Preserving Models

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2179 - 2185
Cited by:  Papers (24)
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The design of excitation controllers to improve transient stabilization of power systems is a topic of renewed interest in the control community. Existence of a state-feedback stabilizing law for multi-machine aggregated reduced network models has recently been established. In this paper we extend this result in two directions: first, in contrast with aggregated models, we consider the more... View full abstract»

• ### A Differentially Flat Open-Chain Space Robot with Arbitrarily Oriented Joint Axes and Two Momentum Wheels at the Base

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2185 - 2191
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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The motion of a free-floating space robot is characterized by the principle of conservation of angular momentum. It is well known that these angular momentum equations are nonholonomic, i.e., are nonintegrable rate equations. If the base of the free-floating robot is partially actuated, it is difficult to determine joint trajectories that will result in point-to-point motion of the entire robot sy... View full abstract»

• ### Stability, ${l}_{2}$ -Gain and Asynchronous ${H}_{{infty}}$ Control of Discrete-Time Switched Systems With Average Dwell Time

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2192 - 2199
Cited by:  Papers (90)
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This paper first investigates the stability and l 2-gain problems for a class of discrete-time switched systems with average dwell time (ADT) switching by allowing the Lyapunov-like functions to increase during the running time of subsystems. The obtained results then facilitate the studies on the issue of asynchronous control, where "asynchronous" means the switching of the cont... View full abstract»

• ### $ell_1$ Optimal Robust Steady-State Tracking for Unknown First-Order Plant

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2199 - 2205
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This note considers the problem of the optimal ldquosteady-staterdquo tracking for an unknown first-order plant with an unknown control delay, under the assumption of known upper bounds on model parameters and the control delay. The plant is subjected to perturbations in output and control as well as an exogenous disturbance with unknown upper bounds. The solution of the problem is based on treati... View full abstract»

• ### A Remark on Sensor Disturbance Rejection of Nonlinear Systems

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2206 - 2210
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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When disturbances enter sensors, the states of a plant cannot be precisely measured and the state feedback controllers are not implementable. Instead, the so-called measurement feedback controllers become interesting. For nonlinear systems, the output regulation theory is widely used for handling actuator and plant disturbances. This note gives a remark how the output regulation theo... View full abstract»

• ### Parametrization of All Strictly Causal Stabilizing Controllers

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2211 - 2215
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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Within the framework of the factorization approach, we present parametrizations of all strictly causal stabilizing controllers. View full abstract»

• ### Switching Rule Design for Switched Dynamic Systems With Affine Vector Fields

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2215 - 2222
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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In this paper, we propose a method for designing switching rules that drive the state of the switched dynamic system to a desired equilibrium point. The method deals with the class of switched systems where each mode of operation is represented by a dynamical system with an affine vector field. The results are given in terms of linear matrix inequalities and they guarantee global asymptotic stabil... View full abstract»

• ### A Barbalat-Like Lemma with Its Application to Learning Control

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2222 - 2225
Cited by:  Papers (29)
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This paper presents the convergence property for a sequence of functions over a finite interval of time, which square integral has a zero limit. It is proven that if such a sequence of functions is equicontinuous, the sequence itself will converge uniformly to zero over the entire interval. For illustration purposes, this result is applied and its usefulness shown in learning control systems analy... View full abstract»

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P. J. Antsaklis
Dept. Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame