# IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control publication information

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s): C2
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• ### Scanning the issue

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1345 - 1346
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• ### Identification of Fault Estimation Filter From I/O Data for Systems With Stable Inversion

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1347 - 1361
Cited by:  Papers (20)
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Classical methods for estimating additive faults are based on state-space models, e.g., moving horizon estimation (MHE) and unknown input observers (UIOs). This paper contributes new direct design methods from closed-loop I/O data for systems with stable inversion, which do not require building a state-space model by first principles, nor require identifying it. Inspired by subspace identification... View full abstract»

• ### Output-Based Event-Triggered Control With Guaranteed ${cal L}_{infty}$-Gain and Improved and Decentralized Event-Triggering

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1362 - 1376
Cited by:  Papers (316)
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Most event-triggered controllers available nowadays are based on static state-feedback controllers. As in many control applications full state measurements are not available for feedback, it is the objective of this paper to propose event-triggered dynamical output-based controllers. The fact that the controller is based on output feedback instead of state feedback does not allow for straightforwa... View full abstract»

• ### Combining Convex–Concave Decompositions and Linearization Approaches for Solving BMIs, With Application to Static Output Feedback

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1377 - 1390
Cited by:  Papers (60)
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A novel optimization method is proposed to minimize a convex function subject to bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) constraints. The key idea is to decompose the bilinear mapping as a difference between two positive semidefinite convex mappings. At each iteration of the algorithm the concave part is linearized, leading to a convex subproblem. Applications to various output feedback controller synthe... View full abstract»

• ### Computational Complexity Certification for Real-Time MPC With Input Constraints Based on the Fast Gradient Method

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1391 - 1403
Cited by:  Papers (77)
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This paper proposes to use Nesterov's fast gradient method for the solution of linear quadratic model predictive control (MPC) problems with input constraints. The main focus is on the method's a priori computational complexity certification which consists of deriving lower iteration bounds such that a solution of pre-specified suboptimality is obtained for any possible state of the system. We inv... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Information Collection by Robotic Sensor Networks for Spatial Estimation

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1404 - 1419
Cited by:  Papers (26)
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This work deals with trajectory optimization for a robotic sensor network sampling a spatio-temporal random field. We examine the optimal sampling problem of minimizing the maximum predictive variance of the estimator over the space of network trajectories. This is a high-dimensional, multi-modal, nonsmooth optimization problem, known to be NP-hard even for static fields and discrete design spaces... View full abstract»

• ### Stability of a Class of Linear Switching Systems with Applications to Two Consensus Problems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1420 - 1430
Cited by:  Papers (140)
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In this paper, we first establish a stability result for a class of linear switched systems involving Kronecker product. The problem is interesting in that the system matrix does not have to be Hurwitz at any time instant. This class of linear switched systems arises in the control of multi-agent systems under switching network topology. As applications of this stability result, we give the solvab... View full abstract»

• ### Quantized $H_{infty }$ Control for Nonlinear Stochastic Time-Delay Systems With Missing Measurements

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1431 - 1444
Cited by:  Papers (153)
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In this paper, the quantized H∞ control problem is investigated for a class of nonlinear stochastic time-delay network-based systems with probabilistic data missing. A nonlinear stochastic system with state delays is employed to model the networked control systems where the measured output and the input signals are quantized by two logarithmic quantizers, respectively. Mor... View full abstract»

• ### Verification of Bounded Discrete Horizon Hybrid Automata

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1445 - 1455
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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We consider the class of o-minimally definable hybrid automata with a bounded discrete-transition horizon. We show that for every hybrid automata in this class, there exists a bisimulation of finite index, and that the bisimulation quotient can be effectively constructed when the underlying o-minimal theory is decidable. More importantly, we give natural specifications for hybrid automata which en... View full abstract»

• ### Inner Approximations for Polynomial Matrix Inequalities and Robust Stability Regions

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1456 - 1467
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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Following a polynomial approach, many robust fixed-order controller design problems can be formulated as optimization problems whose set of feasible solutions is modeled by parametrized polynomial matrix inequalities (PMIs). These feasibility sets are typically nonconvex. Given a parametrized PMI set, we provide a hierarchy of linear matrix inequality (LMI) problems whose optimal solutions generat... View full abstract»

• ### Stabilizing Model Predictive Control of Stochastic Constrained Linear Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1468 - 1480
Cited by:  Papers (39)
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This paper investigates stochastic stabilization procedures based on quadratic and piecewise linear Lyapunov functions for discrete-time linear systems affected by multiplicative disturbances and subject to linear constraints on inputs and states. A stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) design approach is proposed to optimize closed-loop performance while enforcing constraints. Conditions for... View full abstract»

• ### Recursive Update Filtering for Nonlinear Estimation

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1481 - 1490
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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Nonlinear filters are often very computationally expensive and usually not suitable for real-time applications. Real-time navigation algorithms are typically based on linear estimators, such as the extended Kalman filter (EKF) and, to a much lesser extent, the unscented Kalman filter. This work proposes a novel nonlinear estimator whose additional computational cost is comparable to (N-1) E... View full abstract»

• ### Temporal Logic Control of Discrete-Time Piecewise Affine Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1491 - 1504
Cited by:  Papers (51)
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We present a computational framework for automatic synthesis of a feedback control strategy for a discrete-time piecewise affine (PWA) system from a specification given as a linear temporal logic (LTL) formula over an arbitrary set of linear predicates in the system's state variables. Our approach consists of two main steps. First, by defining appropriate partitions for its state and input spaces,... View full abstract»

• ### System Theoretic Aspects of Influenced Consensus: Single Input Case

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1505 - 1511
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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This technical note examines the dynamics of networked multi-agent systems operating with a consensus-type algorithm, under the influence of an attached node or external agent. Depending on the specific scenario, the attached node can be viewed as a network intruder or an administrator. We introduce an influence scheme, naive of the network topology, involving predictable excitation of the network... View full abstract»

• ### Fourier-Hermite Kalman Filter

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1511 - 1515
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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In this note, we shall present a new class of Gaussian filters called Fourier-Hermite Kalman filters. Fourier-Hermite Kalman filters are based on expansion of nonlinear functions with the Fourier-Hermite series in same way as the traditional extended Kalman filter is based on the Taylor series. The first order truncation of the Fourier-Hermite series gives the previously known statistically linear... View full abstract»

• ### A Decomposition Technique for Nonlinear Dynamical System Analysis

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1516 - 1521
Cited by:  Papers (26)
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A method for analyzing large-scale nonlinear dynamical systems by decomposing them into coupled lower order subsystems that are sufficiently simple for computational analysis is presented. It is shown that the decomposition approach can be used to scale the Sum of Squares programming framework for nonlinear systems analysis. The method constructs subsystem Lyapunov functions which are used to form... View full abstract»

• ### Robustness and Safe Sampling of Distributed-Delay Control Laws for Unstable Delayed Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1521 - 1526
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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In the control of delayed systems by a finite spectrum assignment (FSA) , in the control law, the integral over the time delay of a function of past control appears. This assignment is in fact available for continuous delayed process independently of the stability of the latter, which is very interesting since Smith predictor is usually only used with stable processes. Nevertheless, in case of FSA... View full abstract»

• ### A Supervised Switching Control Policy for LPV Systems With Inaccurate Parameter Knowledge

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1527 - 1532
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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This technical note deals with the switched supervised control of linear parameter varying systems whose parameters values are online acquirable only with an arbitrarily large degree of uncertainty. The purpose is to define a switching policy inside a family of predesigned controllers so that the switched closed-loop system result to be exponentially stable. The proposed switching logic is based o... View full abstract»

• ### LMI Relaxations for Reduced-Order Robust ${cal H}_{infty}$ Control of Continuous-Time Uncertain Linear Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1532 - 1537
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This technical note is concerned with the problem of reduced order robust H∞ dynamic output feedback control design for uncertain continuous-time linear systems. The uncertain time-invariant parameters belong to a polytopic domain and affect all the system matrices. The search for a reduced-order controller is converted in a problem of static output feedback control design... View full abstract»

• ### Stochastic Barbalat's Lemma and Its Applications

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1537 - 1543
Cited by:  Papers (27)
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In the deterministic case, a significant improvement on stability analysis of nonlinear systems is caused by introducing Barbalat's lemma into control area after Lyapunov's second method and LaSalle's theorem were established. This note considers the extension of Barbalat's lemma to the stochastic case. To this end, the uniform continuity and the absolute integrability are firstly described in sto... View full abstract»

• ### Discrete-Time Observer Error Linearizability via Restricted Dynamic Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1543 - 1547
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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In this technical note, we define the observer error linearization problem of a discrete-time autonomous nonlinear system via a restricted dynamic system. This is the dual to restricted dynamic feedback linearization in a loose sense. Necessary and sufficient conditions for this problem are obtained in terms of the index. View full abstract»

• ### Robust Finite-Horizon Kalman Filtering for Uncertain Discrete-Time Systems

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1548 - 1552
Cited by:  Papers (21)
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In this note, we propose a design for a robust finite-horizon Kalman filtering for discrete-time systems suffering from uncertainties in the modeling parameters and uncertainties in the observations process (missing measurements). The system parameter uncertainties are expected in the state, output and white noise covariance matrices. We find the upper-bound on the estimation error covariance and ... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Containment Control with Multiple Dynamic Leaders for Double-Integrator Dynamics Using Only Position Measurements

Publication Year: 2012, Page(s):1553 - 1559
Cited by:  Papers (119)
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This note studies the distributed containment control problem for a group of autonomous vehicles modeled by double-integrator dynamics with multiple dynamic leaders. The objective is to drive the followers into the convex hull spanned by the dynamic leaders under the constraints that the velocities and the accelerations of both the leaders and the followers are not available, the leaders are neigh... View full abstract»

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