# IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Control Systems Society

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s): C2
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• ### Scanning the issue

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):561 - 562
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• ### An Efficient Message-Passing Algorithm for Optimizing Decentralized Detection Networks

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):563 - 578
Cited by:  Papers (24)
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A promising feature of emerging wireless sensor networks is the opportunity for each spatially-distributed node to measure its local state and transmit only information relevant to effective global decision-making. An equally important design objective, as a result of each node's finite power, is for measurement processing to satisfy explicit constraints on, or perhaps make selective use of, the d... View full abstract»

• ### Maximum Likelihood Failure Diagnosis in Finite State Machines Under Unreliable Observations

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):579 - 593
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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In this paper, we develop a probabilistic methodology for failure diagnosis in finite state machines based on a sequence of unreliable observations. Given prior knowledge of the input probability distribution but without actual knowledge of the applied input sequence, the core problem we consider is to choose from a pool of known, deterministic finite state machines (FSMs) the one that most likely... View full abstract»

• ### Kalman Filtering Over a Packet-Dropping Network: A Probabilistic Perspective

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):594 - 604
Cited by:  Papers (93)
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We consider the problem of state estimation of a discrete time process over a packet-dropping network. Previous work on Kalman filtering with intermittent observations is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of E[Pk], i.e., the expected value of the error covariance, for a given packet arrival rate. We consider a different performance metric, Pr[Pk ¿¿ M], i.e., the pr... View full abstract»

• ### Supervisor Localization: A Top-Down Approach to Distributed Control of Discrete-Event Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):605 - 618
Cited by:  Papers (34)
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We study the design of distributed control for discrete-event systems (DES) in the framework of supervisory control theory. We view a DES as comprised of a group of agents, acting independently except for specifications on global (group) behavior. The central problem investigated is how to synthesize local controllers for individual agents such that the resultant controlled behavior is identical w... View full abstract»

• ### Protecting Coherence and Entanglement by Quantum Feedback Controls

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):619 - 633
Cited by:  Papers (51)
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When a quantum system interacts with its environment, the so-called decoherence effect will normally destroy the coherence in the quantum state and the entanglement between its subsystems. We propose a feedback control strategy based on quantum weak measurements to protect coherence and entanglement of the quantum state against environmental disturbance. For a one-qubit quantum system under amplit... View full abstract»

• ### On the Asymptotic Properties of Closed-Loop CCA-Type Subspace Algorithms: Equivalence Results and Role of the Future Horizon

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):634 - 649
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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In this paper, we shall consider a class of subspace algorithms for identification of linear time invariant systems operating in "closed loop." In particular we study algorithms based on the so-called "state-sequence" approach; we first show that the ADAPTx algorithm by Larimore is asymptotically equivalent to a number of recently developed algorithms, which we call CCA-type algorithms. Based on t... View full abstract»

• ### Cooperative Filters and Control for Cooperative Exploration

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):650 - 663
Cited by:  Papers (116)
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Autonomous mobile sensor networks are employed to measure large-scale environmental fields. Yet an optimal strategy for mission design addressing both the cooperative motion control and the cooperative sensing is still an open problem. We develop strategies for multiple sensor platforms to explore a noisy scalar field in the plane. Our method consists of three parts. First, we design provably conv... View full abstract»

• ### Task-Induced Symmetry and Reduction With Application to Needle Steering

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):664 - 673
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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Lie group symmetry in a mechanical system can lead to a dimensional reduction in its dynamical equations. Typically, the symmetries that one exploits are intrinsic to the mechanical system at hand, e.g., invariance of the system's Lagrangian to some group of motions. In the present work we consider symmetries that arise from an extrinsic control task, rather than the intrinsic structure of the con... View full abstract»

• ### Quantized Identification With Dependent Noise and Fisher Information Ratio of Communication Channels

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):674 - 690
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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System identification is studied in which the system output is quantized, transmitted through a digital communication channel, and observed afterwards. This paper explores strong convergence, efficiency, and complexity of identification algorithms under colored noise and dependent communication channels. It first presents algorithms for certain core identification problems using quantized observat... View full abstract»

• ### Global Stabilization of a Class of Feedforward Systems with Lower-Order Nonlinearities

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):691 - 696
Cited by:  Papers (54)
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This note considers the problem of global stabilization for a class of feedforward systems whose nonlinearities are allowed to be lower-order growing, instead of higher-order or linear growing as required by many existing results. To solve the problem, a domination approach is developed to design the stabilizer with a new structure, which is also integrated with the adding a power integrator and n... View full abstract»

• ### System Uncertainty and Statistical Detection for Jump-diffusion Models

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):697 - 702
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Motivated by the common-seen model uncertainty of real-world systems, we propose a likelihood ratio-based approach to statistical detection for a rich class of partially observed systems. Here, the system state is modeled by some jump-diffusion process while the observation is of additive white noise. Our approach can be implemented recursively based on some Markov chain approximation method to co... View full abstract»

• ### A Lyapunov Approach to Cascade Interconnection of Integral Input-to-State Stable Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):702 - 708
Cited by:  Papers (56)
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This technical note deals with the stability of cascade interconnection of integral input-to-state (iISS) time-varying systems. A new technique to construct smooth Lyapunov functions of cascaded systems is proposed. From the construction, sufficient conditions for internal stability and stability with respect to external signals are derived. One of the derived conditions is a trade-off between slo... View full abstract»

• ### On the Convergence and Stability of a Robust State Estimator

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):708 - 714
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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Convergence and stability of the robust state estimator obtained in is reinvestigated in this technical note. Some new relations have been established for matrix updates in the recursive state estimation. It is proved that under certain stabilizability and detectability conditions, this robust estimator converges to a stable time invariant system, provided that plant nominal parameters are time in... View full abstract»

• ### Average Cost and Stability of Time-Varying Linear Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):714 - 720
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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In this technical note, the stability for time-varying discrete-time stochastic linear systems, with possibly unbounded trajectories, is associated to the existence of the long-run average cost criteria. Under controllability and observability, the stochastic system is stable in the sense that its state tends asymptotically to the origin in the mean. Further conditions related to a lower bound on ... View full abstract»

• ### Remarks on Asymptotic Controllability and Sampled-Data Feedback Stabilization for Autonomous Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):721 - 726
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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A weak concept of sampled-data feedback stabilization for the case of autonomous systems is presented and its Lyapunov characterization is established. Sufficient conditions are derived for the existence of a time-varying sampled-data feedback exhibiting global stabilization for certain class of nonlinear systems. View full abstract»

• ### Robustness Analysis With Respect to Exogenous Perturbations for Flatness-Based Exact Feedforward Linearization

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):727 - 731
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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A methodology to analyze robustness with respect to exogenous perturbations for exact feedforward linearization based on differential flatness is presented. The analysis takes into consideration the tracking error equation and makes thereafter use of a stability result by Kelemen coupled with results issued from interval analysis. This turns exact feedforward linearization based on differential fl... View full abstract»

• ### Robust $L_{infty}$ -Induced Filtering and Control of Stochastic Systems With State-Multiplicative Noise

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):732 - 737
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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Linear, continuous-time systems with stochastic uncertainties in their state-space model are considered. The problems of induced L∞ state-feedback control and filtering are solved, for the stationary case. In both problems, the cost function is defined to be the expected value of the standard induced L∞ performance index with respect to the uncertain parameter... View full abstract»

• ### Simple Tracking Controllers for Autonomous VTOL Aircraft With Bounded Inputs

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):737 - 743
Cited by:  Papers (35)
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This note presents simple controllers for achieving asymptotic trajectory (set-point and time-varying) tracking under the conditions of restricted input in vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Unlike previous studies that apply nonlinear combination of saturated functions for stabilizing the closed-loop system, the proposed controllers are based on smooth functions that can easily be implemented... View full abstract»

• ### Segregation of Heterogeneous Units in a Swarm of Robotic Agents

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):743 - 748
Cited by:  Papers (37)
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There are several examples in natural systems that exhibit the self-organizing behavior of segregation when different types of units interact with each other. One of the best examples is a system of biological cells of heterogeneous types that has the ability to self-organize into specific formations, form different types of organs and, ultimately, develop into a living organism. Previous research... View full abstract»

• ### Coverage Optimization and Spatial Load Balancing by Robotic Sensor Networks

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):749 - 754
Cited by:  Papers (57)
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This technical note studies robotic sensor networks performing static coverage optimization with area constraints. Given a density function describing the probability of events happening and a performance function measuring the cost to service a location, the objective is to position sensors in the environment so as to minimize the expected servicing cost. Moreover, because of load balancing consi... View full abstract»

• ### Corrective Control of Input/Output Asynchronous Sequential Machines with Adversarial Inputs

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):755 - 761
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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In this note, we examine the control of asynchronous sequential machines with adversarial inputs. The considered asynchronous machine is of input/output type, where access to the state of the machine is not available. The adversarial input represents an unknown disturbance that can provoke unauthorized state transitions. The problem is to develop output feedback controllers that counteract the eff... View full abstract»

• ### Input and Output Quantized Feedback Linear Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):761 - 766
Cited by:  Papers (53)
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Although there has been a lot of research on analysis and synthesis of quantized feedback control systems, most results are developed for the case of a single quantizer (either measurement quantization or control signal quantization). In this technical note, we investigate the case of feedback control systems subject to both input and output quantization. This is motivated by the fact that it is c... View full abstract»

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University of Notre Dame