# 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):1517 - 1518
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• ### String Instability in Classes of Linear Time Invariant Formation Control With Limited Communication Range

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1519 - 1530
Cited by:  Papers (108)  |  Patents (2)
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This paper gives sufficient conditions for string instability in an array of linear time-invariant autonomous vehicles with communication constraints. The vehicles are controlled autonomously and are subject to a rigid or semi-rigid formation policy. The individual controllers are assumed to have a limited range of forward and backward communication with other vehicles. Sufficient conditions are g... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Output-Feedback MPC With Integral Action

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1531 - 1543
Cited by:  Papers (14)
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In this paper, we propose a robust output-feedback model predictive control (MPC) design for a class of open-loop stable systems, having non-vanishing output disturbances, hard constraints and linear-time invariant model uncertainty. Integral action is included in the proposed design by utilizing a linear estimator for both the output disturbance and the system state. The main distinction from pre... View full abstract»

• ### On-Line Supervisory Control Design for Maglev Transportation System via Total Sliding-Mode Approach and Particle Swarm Optimization

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1544 - 1559
Cited by:  Papers (22)
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This study focuses on the design of an on-line levitation and propulsion control for a magnetic-levitation (maglev) transportation system. First, the dynamic model of a maglev transportation system including levitated electromagnets driven by linear servo amplifiers and a propulsive linear induction motor (LIM) based on the concepts of mechanical geometry and motion dynamics is developed. Then, a ... View full abstract»

• ### Markov Decision Evolutionary Games

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1560 - 1569
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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We present a class of evolutionary games involving large populations that have many pairwise interactions between randomly selected players. The fitness of a player depends not only on the actions chosen in the interaction but also on the individual state of the players. Players have a finite life time during which they participate in several local interactions and take actions. The actions taken ... View full abstract»

• ### Guidance of Mobile Actuator-Plus-Sensor Networks for Improved Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1570 - 1584
Cited by:  Papers (80)
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This paper presents an abstract framework for the optimization of actuating and sensing devices in distributed parameter systems. The optimization is performed on the repositioning of these devices throughout the spatial domain. It is assumed that a network of mobile sensing and actuating devices is available to obtain measurements from the spatially distributed process and dispense control signal... View full abstract»

• ### The Kullback–Leibler Rate Pseudo-Metric for Comparing Dynamical Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1585 - 1598
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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This paper is concerned with information theoretic "metrics" for comparing two dynamical systems. Following the recent work of Tryphon Georgiou, we outline a prediction (filtering) based approach to do so. Central to the considerations of this paper is the notion of uncertainty. In particular, we compare systems in terms of additional uncertainty that results for the prediction problem with an inc... View full abstract»

• ### Parameterized Robust Control Invariant Sets for Linear Systems: Theoretical Advances and Computational Remarks

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1599 - 1614
Cited by:  Papers (36)
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We characterize a family of parametrized robust control invariant sets for linear discrete time systems subject to additive but bounded state disturbances. The existence of a member of the introduced family of parametrized robust control invariant sets can be verified by solving a tractable convex optimization problem in the linear convex case, which reduces to the standard linear or convex quadra... View full abstract»

• ### Non-Parametric Nonlinear System Identification: An Asymptotic Minimum Mean Squared Error Estimator

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1615 - 1626
Cited by:  Papers (30)
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This paper studies the problem of the minimum mean squared error estimator for non-parametric nonlinear system identification. It is shown that for a wide class of nonlinear systems, the local linear estimator is a linear (in outputs) asymptotic minimum mean squared error estimator. The class of the systems allowed is characterized by a stability condition that is related to many well studied stab... View full abstract»

• ### Aggregative Synthesis of Distributed Supervisors Based on Automaton Abstraction

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1627 - 1640
Cited by:  Papers (38)
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Achieving nonblockingness in supervisory control imposes a major challenge when the number of states of a target system is large, often owing to synchronous product of many relatively small local components. To overcome this difficulty, in this paper we first present a distributed supervisory control problem, then provide an aggregative synthesis approach that computes nonblocking distributed supe... View full abstract»

• ### New Results for Studying a Certain Class of Nonlinear Delay Differential Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1641 - 1645
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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The main aim of this technical note is to present a new approach to studying the asymptotic behavior of nonlinear delay differential systems. Firstly, we develop a new nonlinear delay differential inequality which will be more effective and interesting than earlier ones in. Then we establish a new generalized Barbalat's lemma which can extend and improve earlier ones in. Finally, by combining the ... View full abstract»

• ### On the Complexity of Maximally Permissive Deadlock Avoidance in Multi-Vehicle Traffic Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1646 - 1651
Cited by:  Papers (24)
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The establishment of collision-free and live vehicle motion is a prominent problem for many traffic systems. Past work studying this problem in the context of guidepath-based and free-range vehicular systems has implicitly assumed that its resolution through maximally permissive supervision is NP-hard, and therefore, it has typically pursued suboptimal (i.e., more restrictive) solutions. The work ... View full abstract»

• ### On Conditions for Convergence to Consensus

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1651 - 1656
Cited by:  Papers (26)
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A new theorem on conditions for convergence to consensus of a multiagent time-dependent time-discrete dynamical system is presented. The theorem is build up on the notion of averaging maps. We compare this theorem to results by Moreau [6] (IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, vol. 50, no. 2, 2005) about set-valued Lyapunov theory and convergence under switching communication topologies. We give... View full abstract»

• ### Exponential Stabilization of a Class of Stochastic System With Markovian Jump Parameters and Mode-Dependent Mixed Time-Delays

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1656 - 1662
Cited by:  Papers (171)
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In this technical note, the globally exponential stabilization problem is investigated for a general class of stochastic systems with both Markovian jumping parameters and mixed time-delays. The mixed mode-dependent time-delays consist of both discrete and distributed delays. We aim to design a memoryless state feedback controller such that the closed-loop system is stochastically exponentially st... View full abstract»

• ### The Diagnosability of Petri Net Models Using Minimal Explanations

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1663 - 1668
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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For a bounded Petri Net model the diagnosability property is usually checked via its regular language represented by the reachability graph RG. However, this is problematic because the computational complexity of the diagnosability test is polynomial in the cardinality of the state space of the model which is typically very large. This limitation can be overcome by using for the diagnosability tes... View full abstract»

• ### ${cal H}_{infty }$ Filter for Bilinear Systems Using LPV Approach

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1668 - 1674
Cited by:  Papers (21)
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The aim of this technical note is to present a linear paramater varying (LPV) approach for the design of a functional filter for bilinear systems with a disturbance attenuation specification. The unbiasedness requirement on the observation error is guaranteed by the solution of Sylvester equations obtained by parametrizing the filter gain matrix. This parametrization leads to a non convex optimiza... View full abstract»

• ### A Modular Criterion for Persistence of Chemical Reaction Networks

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1674 - 1679
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In this technical note we investigate the interplay between structure and dynamics of Chemical Reaction Networks by exploiting the formalism of Petri Nets. More specifically we point out how decomposition of a network into smaller concurrent subunits may affect systems dynamics. We show in the case of State Machine Decomposable Nets (SMD nets) that under some additional topological conditions none... View full abstract»

• ### Emergent Behavior of a Cucker-Smale Type Particle Model With Nonlinear Velocity Couplings

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1679 - 1683
Cited by:  Papers (29)
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In this note, we present a Cucker-Smale type flocking model with nonlinear velocity couplings, and derive sufficient conditions for the formation of flocking in terms of communication weight and initial spatial, velocity standard deviations. View full abstract»

• ### Output Feedback Sliding Mode Control for Sampled-Data Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1684 - 1689
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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We address the output feedback sliding mode control problem for a sampled data linear system with external disturbances of the matching type. By taking into account the disturbance compensation, a deadbeat high gain output feedback control strategy with additional dynamics is able to attenuate the disturbances. In the framework of singular perturbation analysis, it is shown that the closed loop sy... View full abstract»

• ### On Designing $H_{infty}$ Fault Detection Filter for Linear Discrete Time-Varying Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1689 - 1695
Cited by:  Papers (48)
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This technical note deals with the problem of finite horizon H∞ fault detection for linear discrete time-varying systems. Using an observer-based fault detection filter (FDF) with residual feedback as a residual generator, a new problem formulation of fault detection is first presented. Then the design of finite horizon H∞ -FDF is converted into a minimum proble... View full abstract»

• ### Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Analysis and Synthesis of Markov Jump Linear Systems With Incomplete Transition Descriptions

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1695 - 1701
Cited by:  Papers (283)
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This technical note is concerned with exploring a new approach for the analysis and synthesis for Markov jump linear systems with incomplete transition descriptions. In the study, not all the elements of the transition rate matrices (TRMs) in continuous-time domain, or transition probability matrices (TPMs) in discrete-time domain are assumed to be known. By fully considering the properties of the... View full abstract»

• ### Topological Obstructions to Submanifold Stabilization

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1701 - 1703
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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We consider the problem of local asymptotic feedback stabilization-via a continuously differentiable feedback law-of a control system ẋ = f(x,u) defined in Euclidean space Rn (with f being continuously differentiable) to a compact, connected, oriented m-dimensional submanifold M of Rn with codimension strictly larger than one. We obtain necessary conditi... View full abstract»

• ### Sampled Control for Mean-Variance Hedging in a Jump Diffusion Financial Market

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1704 - 1709
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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In this technical note we consider the mean-variance hedging problem of a jump diffusion continuous state space financial model with the re-balancing strategies for the hedging portfolio taken at discrete times, a situation that more closely reflects real market conditions. A direct expression based on some change of measures, not depending on any recursions, is derived for the optimal hedging str... View full abstract»

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