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# IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control publication information

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s): C2
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• ### Scanning the issue

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1093 - 1094
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• ### Disturbance rejection in 2 x 2 linear hyperbolic systems

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1095 - 1106
Cited by:  Papers (53)
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Many interesting problems in the oil and gas industry face the challenge of responding to disturbances from afar. Typically, the disturbance occurs at the inlet of a pipeline or the bottom of an oil well, while sensing and actuation equipment is installed at the outlet, only, kilometers away from the disturbance. The present paper develops an output feedback control law for such cases, based on mo... View full abstract»

• ### Minimum-Seeking for CLFs: Universal Semiglobally Stabilizing Feedback Under Unknown Control Directions

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1107 - 1122
Cited by:  Papers (25)
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Employing extremum seeking (ES) for seeking minima of control Lyapunov function (CLF) candidates, we develop 1) the first systematic design of ES controllers for unstable plants, 2) a simple non-model based universal feedback law that emulates, in an average sense, the “ $L_{g}V$ controllers” for stabilization with inv... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Liveness-Enforcing Control for a Class of Petri Nets Arising in Multithreaded Software

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1123 - 1138
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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We investigate the synthesis of optimal liveness-enforcing control policies for Gadara nets, a special class of Petri nets that arises in the modeling of the execution of multithreaded computer programs for the purpose of deadlock avoidance. We consider maximal permissiveness as the notion of optimality. Deadlock-freeness of a multithreaded program corresponds to liveness of its Gadara net model. ... View full abstract»

• ### Passivity Based Control of Stochastic Port-Hamiltonian Systems

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1139 - 1153
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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This paper introduces Stochastic Port-Hamiltonian Systems (SPHS's), whose dynamics are described by Itô stochastic differential equations. SPHS's are extension of the deterministic port-Hamiltonian systems which are used to express various passive systems. First, we show a necessary and sufficient condition to preserve the stochastic port-Hamiltonian structure of the system under a class of... View full abstract»

• ### Global Analysis of a Continuum Model for Monotone Pulse-Coupled Oscillators

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1154 - 1166
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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We consider a continuum of phase oscillators on the circle interacting through an impulsive instantaneous coupling. In contrast with previous studies on related pulse-coupled models, the stability results obtained in the continuum limit are global. For the nonlinear transport equation governing the evolution of the oscillators, we propose (under technical assumptions) a global Lyapunov function wh... View full abstract»

• ### ARMA Identification of Graphical Models

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1167 - 1178
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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Consider a Gaussian stationary stochastic vector process with the property that designated pairs of components are conditionally independent given the rest of the components. Such processes can be represented on a graph where the components are nodes and the lack of a connecting link between two nodes signifies conditional independence. This leads to a sparsity pattern in the inverse of the matrix... View full abstract»

• ### On Path-Lifting Mechanisms and Unwinding in Quaternion-Based Attitude Control

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1179 - 1191
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The unit quaternion is a pervasive representation of rigid-body attitude used for the design and analysis of feedback control laws. Because the space of unit quaternions constitutes a double cover of the rigid-body-attitude space, quaternion-based control laws are often—by design—inconsistent, i.e., they do not have a unique value for each rigid-body attitude. Inconsistent quaternion... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Stability of Networks of iISS Systems: Construction of Sum-Type Lyapunov Functions

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1192 - 1207
Cited by:  Papers (31)
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This paper gives a solution to the problem of verifying stability of networks consisting of integral input-to-state stable (iISS) subsystems. The iISS small-gain theorem developed recently has been restricted to interconnections of two subsystems. For large-scale systems, stability criteria relying only on gain-type information that were previously developed address only input-to-state stable (ISS... View full abstract»

• ### Model-Free Adaptive Switching Control of Time-Varying Plants

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1208 - 1220
Cited by:  Papers (24)
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This paper addresses the problem of controlling an uncertain time-varying plant by means of a finite family of candidate controllers supervised by an appropriate switching logic. It is assumed that, at every time, the plant consists of an uncertain single-input/single output linear system. It is shown that stability of the switched closed-loop system can be ensured provided that 1) at every time t... View full abstract»

• ### On the Response of Quantum Linear Systems to Single Photon Input Fields

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1221 - 1235
Cited by:  Papers (18)
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The purpose of this paper is to extend linear systems and signals theory to include single photon quantum signals. We provide detailed results describing how quantum linear systems respond to multichannel single photon quantum signals. In particular, we characterize the class of states (which we call photon-Gaussian states) that result when multichannel photons are input to a quantum linear system... View full abstract»

• ### Self-Triggered Optimal Servicing in Dynamic Environments With Acyclic Structure

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1236 - 1249
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This paper considers a class of scenarios where targets emerge from some known location and move towards some unknown destinations in a weighted acyclic digraph. A decision maker with knowledge of the target positions must decide when preparations should be made at any given destination for their arrival. The decision maker faces a timing tradeoff: early decisions mean more time for preparation at... View full abstract»

• ### Pattern Formation by Lateral Inhibition in Large-Scale Networks of Cells

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1250 - 1262
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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A common pattern formation mechanism in multi-cellular organisms is lateral inhibition where the cells inhibit a particular function in their immediate neighbors through a contact signaling mechanism. We present a broad dynamical model that captures this mechanism and reveal the key properties that are necessary for patterning. The model consists of subsystems representing the biochemical reaction... View full abstract»

• ### Reduction Model Approach for Linear Systems With Sampled Delayed Inputs

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1263 - 1268
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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We propose a new construction of exponentially stabilizing sampled feedbacks for continuous-time linear time-invariant systems with an arbitrarily large constant pointwise delay in the inputs. Stability is guaranteed under an assumption on the size of the largest sampling interval. The proposed design is based on an adaptation of the reduction model approach. The stability of the closed loop syste... View full abstract»

• ### Sliding Mode and Active Disturbance Rejection Control to Stabilization of One-Dimensional Anti-Stable Wave Equations Subject to Disturbance in Boundary Input

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1269 - 1274
Cited by:  Papers (57)
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In this technical note, we are concerned with the boundary stabilization of a one-dimensional anti-stable wave equation subject to boundary disturbance. We propose two strategies, namely, sliding mode control (SMC) and the active disturbance rejection control (ADRC). The reaching condition, and the existence and uniqueness of the solution for all states in the state space in SMC are established. T... View full abstract»

• ### A General Result on the Robust Cooperative Output Regulation for Linear Uncertain Multi-Agent Systems

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1275 - 1279
Cited by:  Papers (73)
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The cooperative output regulation problem for linear uncertain multi-agent systems was studied in via an internal model approach under the assumption that the information graph of the system contains no cycle. In this technical note, we further show that the no-cycle assumption can be removed if all subsystems of the follower have the same nominal ... View full abstract»

• ### Lagrange Asymptotic Stability of Weak Detectable Markov Jump Linear Systems With Bounded Long Run Average Cost

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1280 - 1283
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In this note we study the stability of Markov jump linear systems with additive noise. We show in a rather direct manner that the system is mean square Lagrange asymptotic stable if and only if the long run average cost is bounded and the system is weak detectable, generalizing previous results employing observability notions. In control applications this means that, for detectable systems, closed... View full abstract»

• ### Square Root Receding Horizon Information Filters for Nonlinear Dynamic System Models

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1284 - 1289
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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New nonlinear filtering algorithms are designed based on a receding horizon strategy, i.e., a finite impulse response (FIR) structure, and square root information filtering to achieve high accuracy and good performance in empirical error covariance tests. The new nonlinear receding horizon filters reduce approximation errors in nonlinear filtering by considering a set of recent observations with n... View full abstract»

• ### Discrete Time Linear Quadratic Control With Arbitrary Correlated Noise

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1290 - 1293
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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In this technical note a control problem for a discrete time linear stochastic system with a general correlated noise process and a cost functional that is quadratic in the system state and the control is solved. An optimal control is given explicitly as the sum of the well known linear feedback control for the associated deterministic linear-quadratic control problem and the prediction of the res... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Tracking Control of Linear Systems With Binary-Valued Observations and Periodic Target

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1293 - 1298
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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This technical note studies the adaptive control for linear systems with set-valued observations to track a given periodic target. Based on the system parameters, accessorial parameters with the same order as that of the tracking targets are introduced and estimated. Considering the system parameters are unknown and set-valued observations can supply only limited information each time, a two-scale... View full abstract»

• ### Lyapunov Theory for 2-D Nonlinear Roesser Models: Application to Asymptotic and Exponential Stability

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1299 - 1304
Cited by:  Papers (47)
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This technical note deals with a general class of discrete 2-D possibly nonlinear systems based on the Roesser model. We first motivate the introduction of Lyapunov type definitions of asymptotic and exponential stability. This will allow us to introduce and discuss several particularities that cannot be found in 1-D systems. Once this background has been carefully designed, we develop different L... View full abstract»

• ### Affine Characterizations of Minimal and Mode-Dependent Dwell-Times for Uncertain Linear Switched Systems

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1304 - 1310
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An alternative approach for minimum and mode-dependent dwell-time characterization for switched systems is derived. While minimum-dwell time results require the subsystems to be asymptotically stable, mode-dependent dwell-time results can consider unstable subsystems and dwell-times within a, possibly unbounded, range of values. The proposed approach is related to Lyapunov looped-functionals, a ne... View full abstract»

• ### A Decentralized Controller-Observer Scheme for Multi-Agent Weighted Centroid Tracking

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1310 - 1316
Cited by:  Papers (31)
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In this technical note a decentralized controller-observer scheme for a multi-agent system is presented. The key idea is to develop, for each agent, an observer of the collective system's state and a motion controller. The observer is updated using only information from the agent itself and from its neighbors; the motion controller is designed in order to allow the team's weighted centroid to trac... 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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University of Notre Dame