# IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control publication information

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s): C2
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• ### Editorial Continuing the Tradition of Excellence in 2010 and Beyond

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1 - 3
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• ### Scanning the issue

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):4 - 5
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• ### Design of Robust $H_{infty}$ Reduced-Order Unknown-Input Filter for a Class of Uncertain Linear Neutral Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):6 - 19
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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The aim of this work is to generalize some existing results dealing with the unbiased H ∞ filtering for dynamical systems. In particular, we consider reduced-order filtering for a large class of uncertain linear neutral systems subject to unknown inputs and external disturbances. Our purpose consists in ensuring both: the total decoupling with respect to the unknown input... View full abstract»

• ### Optimization of Long-Run Average-Flow Cost in Networks With Time-Varying Unknown Demand

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):20 - 31
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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We consider continuous-time robust network flows with capacity constraints and unknown but bounded time-varying demand. The problem of interest is to design a control strategy off-line with no knowledge of the demand realization. Such a control strategy regulates the flow on-line as a function of the realized demand. We address both the case of systems without and with buffers. The main novelty in... View full abstract»

• ### Mobile Sensor Network Control Using Mutual Information Methods and Particle Filters

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):32 - 47
Cited by:  Papers (132)
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This paper develops a set of methods enabling an information-theoretic distributed control architecture to facilitate search by a mobile sensor network. Given a particular configuration of sensors, this technique exploits the structure of the probability distributions of the target state and of the sensor measurements to control the mobile sensors such that future observations minimize the expecte... View full abstract»

• ### Decentralized Prognosis of Failures in Discrete Event Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):48 - 59
Cited by:  Papers (31)
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We study the prognosis of failures, i.e., their prediction prior to their occurrence, in discrete event systems in a decentralized setting where multiple prognosers use their local observations to issue local prognosis decisions. We define the notion of correctness of a decentralized set of prognosers in terms of ?no missed detections? (each failure is prognosed prior to its occurrence) and ?no fa... View full abstract»

• ### On the Input-Output Representation of Piecewise Affine State Space Models

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):60 - 73
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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This paper addresses the conversion of discrete-time piecewise affine (PWA) state space models into input-output form. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of equivalent input-output representations of a given PWA state space model are derived. Connections to the observability properties of PWA models are investigated. Under a technical assumption, it is shown that every finite-ti... View full abstract»

• ### Filtering a Markov Modulated Random Measure

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):74 - 88
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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We develop a new exact filter when a hidden Markov chain influences both the sizes and times of a marked point process. An example would be an insurance claims process, where we assume that both the stochastic intensity of the claim arrivals and the distribution of the claim sizes depend on the states of an economy. We also develop the robust filter-based and smoother-based EM algorithms for the o... View full abstract»

• ### A Unified Approach to Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis in Stochastic Flow Models: The Single-Stage Case

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):89 - 103
Cited by:  Papers (35)
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This paper develops an abstract framework for Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis (IPA) in the setting of stochastic flow models, and it applies it to several problems arising in the study of flow control in single-server fluid-flow queues. The framework is based on a switched-mode hybrid-system paradigm, and especially on the interplay between its discrete-event dynamics and continuous-time dynam... View full abstract»

• ### Gain Margins of Adaptive Control Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):104 - 115
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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This paper presents a systematic study of the gain margins (GM) of adaptive control systems: the specification of the parameter range of a control gain matrix in a designed adaptive control system for maintaining the desired closed-loop signal boundedness and asymptotic tracking performance. It is proved that the GM is infinity for continuous-time direct model reference adaptive control (MRAC) sch... View full abstract»

• ### Approximately Bisimilar Symbolic Models for Incrementally Stable Switched Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):116 - 126
Cited by:  Papers (120)
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Switched systems constitute an important modeling paradigm faithfully describing many engineering systems in which software interacts with the physical world. Despite considerable progress on stability and stabilization of switched systems, the constant evolution of technology demands that we make similar progress with respect to different, and perhaps more complex, objectives. This paper describe... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Transmission Rate Control Policies in a Wireless Link Under Partial State Information

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):127 - 131
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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We consider the problem of PHY layer transmission rate control for maximum throughput on a wireless link over a finite time horizon. For each link state there exists a most advantageous transmission rate for the controller. The controller needs to rely on incomplete link state information in the form of positive acknowledgements (ACKs) and negative acknowledgements (NACKs) for transmitted packets.... View full abstract»

• ### Generalized Linear Quadratic Control

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):131 - 136
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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We consider the problem of stochastic finite- and infinite-horizon linear quadratic control under power constraints. The calculations of the optimal control law can be done off-line as in the classical linear quadratic Gaussian control theory using dynamic programming, which turns out to be a special case of the new theory developed in this technical note. A numerical example is solved using the n... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Region-of-Attraction Estimation

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):137 - 142
Cited by:  Papers (37)
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We propose a method to compute invariant subsets of the region-of-attraction for asymptotically stable equilibrium points of polynomial dynamical systems with bounded parametric uncertainty. Parameter-independent Lyapunov functions are used to characterize invariant subsets of the robust region-of-attraction. A branch-and-bound type refinement procedure reduces the conservatism. We demonstrate the... View full abstract»

• ### A Switching Anti-windup Design Using Multiple Lyapunov Functions

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):142 - 148
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This technical note proposes a switching anti-windup design, which aims to enlarge the domain of attraction of the closed-loop system. Multiple anti-windup gains along with an index function that orchestrates the switching among these anti-windup gains are designed based on the min function of multiple quadratic Lyapunov functions. In comparison with the design of a single anti-windup gain which m... View full abstract»

• ### A Weighted Least-Squares Approach to Parameter Estimation Problems Based on Binary Measurements

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):148 - 152
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We present a new approach to parameter estimation problems based on binary measurements, motivated by the need to add integrated low-cost self-test features to microfabricated devices. This approach is based on the use of original weighted least-squares criteria: as opposed to other existing methods, it requires no dithering signal and it does not rely on an approximation of the quantizer. In this... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Stability and Stabilization of Fractional-Order Interval Systems with the Fractional Order $alpha$: The $0≪alpha≪1$ Case

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):152 - 158
Cited by:  Papers (166)
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This technical note firstly presents a sufficient and necessary condition for the robust asymptotical stability of fractional-order interval systems with the fractional order α satisfying 0 < α < 1. And then a sufficient condition for the robust asymptotical stabilization of such fractional-order interval systems is derived. All the results are obtained in terms of linear mat... View full abstract»

• ### Bounded-Energy-Input Convergent-State Property of Dissipative Nonlinear Systems: An iISS Approach

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):159 - 164
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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For a class of dissipative nonlinear systems, it is shown that an iISS (integral input-to-state stability) gain can be computed directly from the corresponding supply function. The result is used to prove the convergence to zero of the state whenever the input signal has bounded energy, where the energy functional is determined by the supply function. View full abstract»

• ### An ODE Comparison Theorem With Application in the Optimal Exit Time Control Problem

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):164 - 170
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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The optimal exit time control (OETC) problem tries to find the feedback control law with a reasonable cost that can keep the system state inside a certain subset of the state space, called the safe set, for the longest time under random perturbations. The symmetry property of its solutions has been proved previously when the state dimension is higher than one. In this note, a comparison theorem is... View full abstract»

• ### Bisection Algorithm of Increasing Algebraic Connectivity by Adding an Edge

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):170 - 174
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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For a given graph (or network) G, consider another graph G' by adding or deleting an edge e to or from G. We propose a computationally efficient algorithm of finding e such that the second smallest eigenvalue (algebraic connectivity, ??2(G')) of G' is maximized or minimized. Theoretically, the proposed algorithm runs in O(4mn View full abstract»

• ### On Stability in the Presence of Analog Erasure Channel Between the Controller and the Actuator

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):175 - 179
Cited by:  Papers (31)
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Consider a discrete-time networked control system, in which the controller has direct access to noisy measurements of the output of the plant. However, information flows from the controller to the actuator via a channel that features Bernoulli erasure events. If an erasure occurs, the channel outputs an erasure symbol; otherwise, it transmits a real finite-dimensional vector. We determine necessar... View full abstract»

• ### An Improved Maximum Allowable Transfer Interval for $L^{p}$-Stability of Networked Control Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):179 - 184
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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An elementary self-contained proof is given for an improved bound on the maximum allowable transfer interval that guarantees Lp-stability in networked control systems with disturbances. View full abstract»

• ### Model Predictive Control Tuning by Controller Matching

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):185 - 190
Cited by:  Papers (59)
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The effectiveness of model predictive control (MPC) in dealing with input and state constraints during transient operations is well known. However, in contrast with several linear control techniques, closed-loop frequency-domain properties such as sensitivities and robustness to small perturbations are usually not taken into account in the MPC design. This technical note considers the problem of t... View full abstract»

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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