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# IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control publication information

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s): C2
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Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):1997 - 1998
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• ### Stability of a General Class of Distributed Algorithms for Power Control in Time-Varying Wireless Networks

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):1999 - 2011
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In order for a wireless network to function effectively, the signal power of each user's transmitter must be sufficiently large to ensure a reliable uplink connection to the receiver, but not so large as to cause interference with neighboring users. We consider a general class of distributed algorithms for the control of transmitter power allocations in wireless networks with a general form of int... View full abstract»

• ### Stability and Performance of Continuous-Time Power Control in Wireless Networks

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2012 - 2023
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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This paper develops a comprehensive stability analysis framework for general classes of continuous-time power control algorithms under heterogeneous time-varying delays. Our first set of results establish global asymptotic stability of power control laws involving two-sided scalable interference functions, and include earlier work on standard interference functions as a special case. We then consi... View full abstract»

• ### Weak Invariant Simulation and Its Application to Analysis of Parameterized Networks

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2024 - 2037
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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Multi-process networks figure in many engineering applications. Parameterized discrete event systems provide a convenient means of modeling such networks when the number of subprocesses is arbitrary, unknown or time-varying. Unfortunately, some key properties of these networks, such as nonblocking and deadlock-freedom, are undecidable. Moreover, mathematical tools supporting analysis of these netw... View full abstract»

• ### Stability of Switched Linear Differential Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2038 - 2051
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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We study the stability of switched systems whose dynamic modes are described by systems of higher-order linear differential equations not necessarily sharing the same state space. Concatenability of trajectories at the switching instants is specified by gluing conditions, i.e. algebraic conditions on the trajectories and their derivatives at the switching instants. We provide sufficient conditions... View full abstract»

• ### Flow-Level Stability of Wireless Networks: Separation of Congestion Control and Scheduling

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2052 - 2067
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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It is by now well-known that wireless networks with file arrivals and departures are stable if one uses α-fair congestion control and back-pressure based scheduling and routing. In this paper, we examine whether α-fair congestion control is necessary for flow-level stability. We show that stability can be ensured even with very simple congestion control mechanisms, such as a fixed wi... View full abstract»

• ### Reduction Model Approach for Linear Time-Varying Systems With Delays

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2068 - 2082
Cited by:  Papers (16)
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We study stabilization problems for time-varying linear systems with constant input delays. Our reduction method ensures input-to-state stability with respect to additive uncertainties, under arbitrarily long delays. It applies to rapidly time-varying systems, and gives a lower bound on the admissible rapidness parameters. We also cover slowly time-varying systems, including upper bounds on the al... View full abstract»

• ### Characterization of the Critical Sets of Quantum Unitary Control Landscapes

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2083 - 2098
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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This work considers various families of quantum control landscapes (i.e. objective functions for optimal control) for obtaining target unitary transformations as the general solution of the controlled Schrödinger equation. We examine the critical point structure of the kinematic landscapes JF (U) = ||(U - W)A||2 and JP (U) = ||A||4 - |Tr(AA&... View full abstract»

• ### A Distributed Multi-Agent Command Governor Strategy for the Coordination of Networked Interconnected Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2099 - 2112
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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A novel distributed coordination strategy is presented for networked, locally regulated and possibly dynamically coupled, interconnected systems. Such systems are assumed to be connected via data links and subject to pointwise-in-time global constraints on some relevant variables of them, to be enforced as a coordination goal along the overall system evolutions. Such a coordination-by-constraint p... View full abstract»

• ### Probabilistic Optimal Estimation With Uniformly Distributed Noise

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2113 - 2127
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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The classical approach to system identification is based on stochastic assumptions about the measurement error, and provides estimates that have random nature. Worst-case identification, on the other hand, only assumes the knowledge of deterministic error bounds, and establishes guaranteed estimates, thus being in principle better suited for the use in control design. However, a main limitation of... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Energy Allocation for Kalman Filtering Over Packet Dropping Links With Imperfect Acknowledgments and Energy Harvesting Constraints

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2128 - 2143
Cited by:  Papers (21)
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This paper presents a design methodology for optimal transmission energy allocation at a sensor equipped with energy harvesting technology for remote state estimation of linear stochastic dynamical systems. In this framework, the sensor measurements as noisy versions of the system states are sent to the receiver over a packet dropping communication channel. The packet dropout probabilities of the ... View full abstract»

• ### Event Based Pulse-Modulated Control of Linear Stochastic Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2144 - 2150
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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In this technical note, event-based pulse-modulated control is studied for linear stochastic systems with an average quadratic performance over an infinite horizon. From the probabilistic representation of solutions to differential equations, an analytic expression of the quadratic performance is provided. For stable and critically stable first-order systems, the schemes for seeking optimal parame... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Stability Analysis of Sparsely Interconnected Uncertain Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2151 - 2156
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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In this paper, we consider robust stability analysis of large-scale sparsely interconnected uncertain systems. By modeling the interconnections among the subsystems with integral quadratic constraints, we show that robust stability analysis of such systems can be performed by solving a set of sparse linear matrix inequalities. We also show that a sparse formulation of the analysis problem is equiv... View full abstract»

• ### Truncated Predictor Feedback Stabilization of Polynomially Unstable Linear Systems With Multiple Time-Varying Input Delays

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2157 - 2163
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This technical note is concerned with stabilization of polynomially unstable linear systems with multiple time-varying input delays. A truncated predictor feedback (TPF), which is obtained by truncating the distributed terms in the traditional predictor feedback, is proposed. The proposed TPF is a linear static partial state feedback with a time-varying feedback gain that is constructed from the s... View full abstract»

• ### Disturbance Attenuation in a Consensus Network of Identical Linear Systems: An ${\cal H}_{\infty }$ Approach

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2164 - 2169
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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We consider two problems related to disturbance attenuation in undirected consensus networks of identical linear systems subject to exogenous disturbances: 1) network interconnection design and 2) design of distributed and decentralized controllers. We use the H∞ norm of the transfer function from the disturbance vector to the disagreement vector of the network as the performance metric for... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Adaptive Inverse Control of a Class of Nonlinear Systems With Prandtl-Ishlinskii Hysteresis Model

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2170 - 2175
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The exhibition of hysteresis effects in smart actuators highly affect the accuracy and stability of the control systems. The common approaches are the use of inverse hysteresis as a compensator. However, when the hysteresis is unknown, the inverse compensation will introduce notably inverse compensation error with an estimated inverse construction. The challenge is that the expression for the inve... View full abstract»

• ### Verification of the Observer Property in Discrete Event Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2176 - 2181
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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The observer property is an important condition to be satisfied by abstractions of Discrete Event System (DES) models. This technical note presents a new algorithm that tests if an abstraction of a DES obtained through natural projection has the observer property. The procedure, called OP-Verifier, can be applied to (potentially nondeterministic) automata, with no restriction on the existence of c... View full abstract»

• ### Localization and Circumnavigation of a Slowly Moving Target Using Bearing Measurements

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2182 - 2188
Cited by:  Papers (23)
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The problem of localization and circumnavigation of a slowly moving target with unknown speed has been considered. The agent only knows its own position with respect to its initial frame, and the bearing angle to the target in that frame. We propose an estimator to localize the target and a control law that forces the agent to move on a circular trajectory around the target such that both the esti... View full abstract»

• ### Computation of the Real Controllability Radius and Minimum-Norm Perturbations of Higher-Order, Descriptor, and Time-Delay LTI Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2189 - 2195
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A linear time-invariant (LTI) system's controllability radius measures the norm of the smallest parametric perturbation such that the perturbed system is uncontrollable, and is of practical importance. In this note, we study the real controllability radii of i) higher-order systems; ii) descriptor systems; and iii) time-delay systems, where the perturbations are restricted to the set of real value... View full abstract»

• ### Stability of Switched Linear Hyperbolic Systems by Lyapunov Techniques

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2196 - 2202
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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Switched linear hyperbolic partial differential equations are considered in this technical note. They model infinite dimensional systems of conservation laws and balance laws, which are potentially affected by a distributed source or sink term. The dynamics and the boundary conditions are subject to abrupt changes given by a switching signal, modeled as a piecewise constant function and possibly a... View full abstract»

• ### Stabilization of Continuous-Time Fractional Positive Systems by Using a Lyapunov Function

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2203 - 2208
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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The stabilization problem for continuous-time fractional linear systems with the additional condition of non negativity of the states is solved. The obtained results are based on a direct Lyapunov function. In particular, the synthesis of state-feedback controllers is obtained by giving conditions in terms of Linear Programs. The solution is also extended to stabilization by asymmetric bounded con... View full abstract»

• ### Delay-Independent Stability Conditions for Some Classes of Nonlinear Systems

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2209 - 2214
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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Some classes of nonlinear time-delay systems are studied. It is assumed that the zero solution of a system is asymptotically stable when delay is equal to zero. By the Lyapunov direct method, and the Razumikhin approach, it is shown that in the case when the system is essentially nonlinear, i.e., the right-hand side of the system does not contain linear terms, the asymptotic stability of the trivi... View full abstract»

• ### Convergence Guarantees for Moving Horizon Estimation Based on the Real-Time Iteration Scheme

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):2215 - 2221
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In this note, conditions are proven under which a real-time implementable moving horizon estimation (MHE) scheme is locally convergent. Specifically, the real-time iteration scheme of is studied in which a single Gauss-Newton iteration is applied to approximate the solution to the respective MHE optimization problem at each time-step. Convergence is illustrated by a challenging small scale example... View full abstract»

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