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# IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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• ### Table of contents

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):1749 - 1750
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• ### Sensor Selection for Structural Observability in Discrete Event Systems Modeled by Petri Nets

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1751 - 1764
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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This paper studies optimal sensor selection in discrete event systems modeled by partially observed Petri nets. The goal is to place a minimum number of sensors while maintaining structural observability, i.e., the ability to uniquely determine the system state at any given time step based on sensor information up to that time step, knowledge of the system model, and an arbitrary but known initial... View full abstract»

• ### Architectures for Distributed Controller With Sub-Controller Communication Uncertainty

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1765 - 1780
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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Recent technology has led to systems with architectures that distribute the controller effort over sub-controllers to respect information flow and/or resource constraints. The associated communication uncertainty between sub-controllers partly governs the performance of the controller. The related controller synthesis methodology has to address internal stability concerns and has to incorporate th... View full abstract»

• ### Networked Control Systems With Communication Constraints: Tradeoffs Between Transmission Intervals, Delays and Performance

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1781 - 1796
Cited by:  Papers (303)
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There are many communication imperfections in networked control systems (NCS) such as varying transmission delays, varying sampling/transmission intervals, packet loss, communication constraints and quantization effects. Most of the available literature on NCS focuses on only some of these aspects, while ignoring the others. In this paper we present a general framework that incorporates communicat... View full abstract»

• ### Finite Controllability of Infinite-Dimensional Quantum Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1797 - 1805
Cited by:  Papers (23)
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Quantum phenomena of interest in connection with applications to computation and communication often involve generating specific transfers between eigenstates, and their linear superpositions. For some quantum systems, such as spin systems, the quantum evolution equation (the Schrödinger equation) is finite-dimensional and old results on controllability of systems defined on on Lie groups ... View full abstract»

• ### Quantum Dissipative Systems and Feedback Control Design by Interconnection

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1806 - 1821
Cited by:  Papers (48)
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The purpose of this paper is to extend J.C. Willems' theory of dissipative systems to open quantum systems described by quantum noise models. This theory, which combines ideas from quantum physics and control theory, provides useful methods for analysis and design of dissipative quantum systems. We describe the interaction of the plant and a class of external systems, called exosystems, in terms o... View full abstract»

• ### Multiple Model Adaptive Control With Mixing

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1822 - 1836
Cited by:  Papers (64)
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Despite the remarkable theoretical accomplishments and successful applications of adaptive control, the field is not sufficiently mature to solve challenging control problems where strict performance and robustness guarantees are required. Critical to the design of practical control systems for these challenging applications, and currently lacking in parameter estimation-based adaptive control sch... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Coverage Verification in Sensor Networks Without Location Information

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1837 - 1849
Cited by:  Papers (40)
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In this paper, we present three distributed algorithms for coverage verification in sensor networks with no location information. We demonstrate how, in the absence of localization devices, simplicial complexes and tools from algebraic topology can be used in providing valuable information about the properties of the cover. Our approach is based on computation of homologies of the Rips complex cor... View full abstract»

• ### Awareness Coverage Control Over Large-Scale Domains With Intermittent Communications

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1850 - 1859
Cited by:  Papers (53)
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In this paper, a novel dynamic awareness model is proposed and applied to coverage control over large-scale task domains using a decentralized multi-vehicle sensor network with intermittent communications and/or faulty sensors. For each vehicle, an individual state of awareness is defined. The individual vehicle's state of awareness continuously evolves based on the vehicle's motion and is updated... View full abstract»

• ### Topological Identification in Networks of Dynamical Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1860 - 1871
Cited by:  Papers (50)
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The paper deals with the problem of reconstructing the tree-like topological structure of a network of linear dynamical systems. A distance function is defined in order to evaluate the “closeness” of two processes and some useful mathematical properties are derived. Theoretical results to guarantee the correctness of the identification procedure for networked linear systems character... View full abstract»

• ### Further Results on Global Controllability of Planar Nonlinear Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1872 - 1875
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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The global controllability of a class of planar affine nonlinear systems with perturbation is investigated. It has been proven that the systems can still hold their global controllability under the perturbation which can be dominated by a function of state and vanishes when control input is zero. View full abstract»

• ### Iterative Procedures in Application of the LQG Approach to Control Problems for Polynomial Stochastic Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1875 - 1881
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The problem of the determination of quasi-optimal control for polynomial stochastic dynamic systems using the LQG technique and linearization methods is considered. In this paper we present some sufficient conditions of convergence for iterative procedures used in evaluation of quasi-optimal control. Scalar and vector systems are treated separately. Obtained results are illustrated by numerical ex... View full abstract»

• ### Synthesis of Over-Approximating Inference-Based Decentralized Supervisors for Discrete Event Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1881 - 1887
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In our past work, we presented a framework for the decentralized control of discrete event systems involving inferencing over ambiguities about the system state of various local decision-makers, and introduced the notion of N-inference-observability as an existence condition of a certain decentralized supervisor. When a given specification fails to satisfy the N-inference-observability property, a... View full abstract»

• ### Stabilizability of Controlled Lagrangian Systems of Two Degrees of Freedom and One Degree of Under-Actuation by the Energy-Shaping Method

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1888 - 1893
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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We provide some criteria for stabilizability by the energy-shaping method for the class of all controlled Lagrangian systems of two degrees of freedom and one degree of under-actuation: a necessary and sufficient condition for Lyapunov stabilizability, two sufficient conditions for asymptotic stabilizability, and a necessary and sufficient condition for exponential stabilizability. As a corollary,... View full abstract»

• ### Parameter Space Design of Repetitive Controllers for Satisfying a Robust Performance Requirement

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1893 - 1899
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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A parameter space procedure for designing chosen parameters of a repetitive controller to satisfy a robust performance criterion is presented. Using this method, low-order robust repetitive controllers can be designed and implemented for plants that possibly include time delay, poles on the imaginary axis and discontinuous weights. A design and simulation study based on a high speed atomic force m... View full abstract»

• ### On the Characterization of Strict Positive Realness for General Matrix Transfer Functions

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1899 - 1904
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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We present conditions which are necessary and sufficient for a transfer function (or transfer function matrix) to be strictly positive real. A counter-example is given to illustrate that the conditions presented here differ from those previously presented in the literature. The proof of our results differs from previous related proofs in that it only uses properties of analytic functions and matri... View full abstract»

• ### Disturbance Observer for Estimating Higher Order Disturbances in Time Series Expansion

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1905 - 1911
Cited by:  Papers (77)
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In the note, a generalized disturbance observer capable of estimating higher order disturbances in the time series expansion is newly proposed. Initiated from a constant disturbance observer, we extend it systematically to cope with ramp disturbance and general order disturbances. The generalized form for disturbance observer exhibits the novel structure incorporating the system model and integral... View full abstract»

• ### Efficient Model Predictive Control for Nonlinear Systems via Function Approximation Techniques

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1911 - 1916
Cited by:  Papers (15)
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This note deals with the problem of fast implementation of nonlinear model predictive control using approximated control laws. At first, accuracy properties of a generic approximated controller κ̂ are introduced together with their influence on closed loop stability and performance. Then, exploiting such results, it is shown how Set Membership (SM) function approximation theory can b... View full abstract»

• ### Razumikhin-Type Theorems on $p$th Moment Exponential Stability of Impulsive Stochastic Delay Differential Equations

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1917 - 1922
Cited by:  Papers (23)
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This note develops Razumikhin-type theorems on pth moment exponential stability for general impulsive stochastic delay differential equations. Some applications are also given to some special types of impulsive stochastic delay differential equations. Two examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed results. View full abstract»

• ### Uniting Two Control Lyapunov Functions for Affine Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1923 - 1927
Cited by:  Papers (29)
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The problem of piecing together two control Lyapunov functions (CLFs) is addressed. The first CLF characterizes a local asymptotic controllability property toward the origin, whereas the second CLF is related to a global asymptotic controllability property with respect to a compact set. A sufficient condition is expressed to obtain an explicit solution. This sufficient condition is shown to be alw... View full abstract»

• ### ITAE Optimal Sliding Modes for Third-Order Systems With Input Signal and State Constraints

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1928 - 1932
Cited by:  Papers (23)
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In this note, the design of a time-varying switching plane for the sliding-mode control of the third-order system subject to velocity, acceleration and input signal constraints is considered. Initially, the switching plane passes through the system representative point (RP) in the error state space and then it moves with a constant velocity to the origin of the space. Having reached the origin the... View full abstract»

• ### Linear Copositive Lyapunov Functions for Continuous-Time Positive Switched Systems

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1933 - 1937
Cited by:  Papers (98)
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Continuous-time positive systems, switching among p subsystems, are introduced, and a complete characterization for the existence of a common linear copositive Lyapunov function for all the subsystems is provided. When the subsystems are obtained by applying different feedback control laws to the same continuous-time single-input positive system, the above characterization leads to a very e... View full abstract»

• ### On Gaussian Optimal Smoothing of Non-Linear State Space Models

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):1938 - 1941
Cited by:  Papers (28)
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In this note we shall present a new Gaussian approximation based framework for approximate optimal smoothing of non-linear stochastic state space models. The approximation framework can be used for efficiently solving non-linear fixed-interval, fixed-point and fixed-lag optimal smoothing problems. We shall also numerically compare accuracies of approximations, which are based on Taylor series expa... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

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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## Meet Our Editors

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