# IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control publication information

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s): C2
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• ### Editorial The Lighter Side of Reviewing, Editing, and Research in General

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2729 - 2731
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• ### Scanning the issue

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2732 - 2733
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• ### Greedy Maximal Matching: Performance Limits for Arbitrary Network Graphs Under the Node-Exclusive Interference Model

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2734 - 2744
Cited by:  Papers (23)
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Greedy maximal matching (GMM) is an important scheduling scheme for multi-hop wireless networks. It is computationally simple, and has often been numerically shown to achieve throughput that is close to optimal. However, to date the performance limits of GMM have not been well understood. In particular, although a lower bound on its performance has been well known, this bound has been empirically ... View full abstract»

• ### A New Gaussian Mixture Algorithm for GMTI Tracking Under a Minimum Detectable Velocity Constraint

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2745 - 2756
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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This paper introduces a new methodology to account for Doppler blind zone constraints, arising, for example, in ground moving target indicator (GMTI) tracking applications. In such problems, target measurements are suppressed when the range rate (Doppler) of the target drops below a specified threshold in magnitude (the minimum detectable velocity). The proposed method, employing Gaussian mixture ... View full abstract»

• ### Exact Search Directions for Optimization of Linear and Nonlinear Models Based on Generalized Orthonormal Functions

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2757 - 2772
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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A novel technique for selecting the poles of orthonormal basis functions (OBF) in Volterra models of any order is presented. It is well-known that the usual large number of parameters required to describe the Volterra kernels can be significantly reduced by representing each kernel using an appropriate basis of orthonormal functions. Such a representation results in the so-called OBF Volterra mode... View full abstract»

• ### Stochastic Nestedness and the Belief Sharing Information Pattern

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2773 - 2786
Cited by:  Papers (29)
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Solutions to decentralized stochastic optimization problems lead to recursions in which the state space enlarges with the time-horizon, thus leading to non-tractability of classical dynamic programming. A common joint information state supplied to each of the agents leads to a tractable recursion, as is evident in the one-step-delayed information sharing structure case or when deterministic nested... View full abstract»

• ### A Structured Multiarmed Bandit Problem and the Greedy Policy

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2787 - 2802
Cited by:  Papers (20)
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We consider a multiarmed bandit problem where the expected reward of each arm is a linear function of an unknown scalar with a prior distribution. The objective is to choose a sequence of arms that maximizes the expected total (or discounted total) reward. We demonstrate the effectiveness of a greedy policy that takes advantage of the known statistical correlation structure among the arms. In the ... View full abstract»

• ### Verification of Nonconflict of Supervisors Using Abstractions

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2803 - 2815
Cited by:  Papers (27)
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This paper presents an efficient test that uses abstractions to detect conflict in composed systems controlled by local supervisors. This test, called nonconflict test, is not applied over the languages generated by the supervisors, but over abstractions of the supervisors with some specific characteristics. The concept of observer and the definition of the set of relevant events are the basis for... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Kriged Kalman Filter for Spatial Estimation

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2816 - 2827
Cited by:  Papers (121)
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This paper considers robotic sensor networks performing spatially-distributed estimation tasks. A robotic sensor network is deployed in an environment of interest, and takes successive point measurements of a dynamic physical process modeled as a spatio-temporal random field. Taking a Bayesian perspective on the Kriging interpolation technique from geostatistics, we design the distributed Kriged K... View full abstract»

• ### Identification and the Information Matrix: How to Get Just Sufficiently Rich?

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2828 - 2840
Cited by:  Papers (45)
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In prediction error identification, the information matrix plays a central role. Specifically, when the system is in the model set, the covariance matrix of the parameter estimates converges asymptotically, up to a scaling factor, to the inverse of the information matrix. The existence of a finite covariance matrix thus depends on the positive definiteness of the information matrix, and the rate o... View full abstract»

• ### Minimum Energy Transmission Over a Wireless Channel With Deadline and Power Constraints

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2841 - 2852
Cited by:  Papers (24)
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We consider optimal rate-control for energy-efficient transmission of data, over a time-varying channel, with packet-deadline constraints. Specifically, the problem scenario consists of a wireless transmitter with B units of data that must be transmitted by deadline T over a fading channel. The transmitter can control the transmission rate over time and the required instantaneous pow... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Backstepping Controller Design for Stochastic Jump Systems

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2853 - 2859
Cited by:  Papers (80)
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In this technical note, we improve the results in a paper by Shi et al., in which problems of stochastic stability and sliding mode control for a class of linear continuous-time systems with stochastic jumps were considered. However, the system considered is switching stochastically between different subsystems, the dynamics of the jump system can not stay on each sliding surface of subsystems for... View full abstract»

• ### On the Control and Estimation Over Relative Sensing Networks

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2859 - 2863
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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In this note, we consider certain structural aspects of estimation and control over relative sensing networks (RSNs). In this venue, using tools from basic algebraic graph theory-namely, the incidence matrix and cut and cycle spaces of a connect graph- we examine transformations among relative sensing topologies for a networked system. These transformations are parameterized for noise-free as well... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Sliding Mode Control of Multi-Input Nonlinear Systems With Perturbations to Achieve Asymptotical Stability

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2863 - 2869
Cited by:  Papers (19)
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A design of adaptive sliding surfaces for a class of multi-input (MI) nonlinear systems with matched and mismatched perturbations is proposed in this note to solve regulation problems based on the Lyapunov stability theorem and backstepping technique. By using some adaptive gains designed in the sliding surface function, the virtual input and the controllers, not only the mismatched perturbations ... View full abstract»

• ### Hybrid Control for Connectivity Preserving Flocking

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2869 - 2875
Cited by:  Papers (118)
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In this technical note, we address the combined problem of motion and network topology control in a group of mobile agents with common objective the flocking behavior of the group. Instead of assuming network connectivity, we enforce it by means of distributed topology control that decides on both deletion and creation of communication links between agents, adapting the network to the group's spat... View full abstract»

• ### Global Analysis of Multi-Agent Systems Based on Vicsek's Model

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2876 - 2881
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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In this technical note, under widely used joint connectivity assumptions, some necessary and/or sufficient conditions for the heading consensus of autonomous multi-agent systems described by Vicsek's model are proposed. Further, more general nonaveraging protocols are studied for which necessary and/or sufficient conditions for the consensus are also given. View full abstract»

• ### Transverse Linearization for Impulsive Mechanical Systems With One Passive Link

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2882 - 2888
Cited by:  Papers (29)
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A general method for planning and orbitally stabilizing periodic motions for impulsive mechanical systems with underactuation one is proposed. For each such trajectory, we suggest a constructive procedure for defining a sufficient number of nontrivial quantities that vanish on the orbit. After that, we prove that these quantities constitute a possible set of transverse coordinates. Finally, we pre... View full abstract»

• ### Prediction Error Based Adaptive Jacobian Tracking of Robots With Uncertain Kinematics and Dynamics

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2889 - 2894
Cited by:  Papers (9)
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In this note, we have proposed a prediction error based adaptive Jacobian controller to solve the problem of concurrent adaptation to both uncertain kinematics and dynamics. This controller is composed of a modified computed torque controller and two cushion floor least-square estimators, and in ideal case of perfect knowledge of the robot parameters it leads to linear and decoupled error dynamics... View full abstract»

• ### Maximal Open-Loop Operation Under Integral Error Constraints

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2894 - 2899
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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The problem of controlling a linear time invariant system in open loop for the maximal time period is considered. The system is subjected to bounded parametric uncertainties and time varying disturbances. The open-loop operation is continued as long as the L 2 norm of the states is bounded by a pre-specified threshold, for every possible value of the uncertainty and disturbance. ... View full abstract»

• ### Simulation-Based Discrete Optimization of Stochastic Discrete Event Systems Subject to Non Closed-Form Constraints

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2900 - 2904
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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This technical note addresses the discrete optimization of stochastic discrete event systems for which both the performance function and the constraint function are not known but can be evaluated by simulation and the solution space is either finite or unbounded. Our method is based on random search in a neighborhood structure called the most promising area proposed in and a moving observation are... View full abstract»

• ### A Solution to the Continuous-Time ${rm H}_{infty}$ Fixed-Interval Smoother Problem

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2904 - 2908
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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The minimum-variance fixed-interval smoother is a state-space realization of the Wiener solution generalized for time-varying problems. It involves forward and adjoint Wiener-Hopf factor inverses in which the gains are obtained by solving a Riccati equation. This technical note introduces a continuous-time H∞ smoother having the structure of the minimum-variance version, in whic... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Quantization of Signals for System Identification

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2909 - 2915
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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In this technical note, we examine the optimal quantization of signals for system identification. We deal with memoryless quantization for the output signals and derive the optimal quantization schemes. The objective functions are the errors of least squares parameter estimation subject to a constraint on the number of subsections of the quantized signals or the expectation of the optimal code len... View full abstract»

• ### A Sufficient Condition for Invalidation of Linear State-Space Systems With Uncertain Time-Varying Parameters

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):2915 - 2920
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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The model validation problem for linear systems with time-varying parameter uncertainty and additive disturbances is addressed. The disturbance are modelled using the window norm, which is a generalization of the l??-norm and is shown to be attractive for optimal control. An approximation of the nonlinear operator from parameters to output is found based on the Frechet derivative. Using... 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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## Meet Our Editors

Editor-in-Chief
P. J. Antsaklis
Dept. Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame