# IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

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Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):C1 - C4
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology publication information

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s): C2
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• ### Editorial

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):381 - 382
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• ### 2015 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s): 383
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• ### Electrochemical Model-Based State of Charge and Capacity Estimation for a Composite Electrode Lithium-Ion Battery

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):384 - 399
Cited by:  Papers (6)
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Increased demand for hybrid and electric vehicles has motivated research to improve onboard state of charge (SOC) and state of health estimation (SOH). In particular, batteries with composite electrodes have become popular for automotive applications due to their ability to balance energy density, power density, and cost by adjusting the amount of each material within the electrode. SOH algorithms... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Landing and Sliding Maneuver Hybrid Controller for a Quadrotor Vehicle

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):400 - 412
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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This paper addresses the design and experimental evaluation of a robust controller for a quadrotor landing maneuver comprising the approach to a landing slope and sliding on that slope, before coming to a complete halt. During the critical landing flight phase, the dynamics of the vehicle change with the type of contact with the ground, and a hybrid automaton, whose states reflect the several dyna... View full abstract»

• ### Design, Analysis, and Experimental Validation of a Distributed Protocol for Platooning in the Presence of Time-Varying Heterogeneous Delays

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):413 - 427
Cited by:  Papers (13)
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This paper presents a novel control design framework for vehicle platooning together with its experimental validation. The problem of controlling the vehicles within a platoon, so that they converge to their desired velocities and intervehicle distances, is formulated as a high-order network consensus problem. By means of Lyapunov-Razumikhin functions, convergence is proven of the platoon to the d... View full abstract»

• ### Further Results on Hysteresis Compensation of Smart Micropositioning Systems With the Inverse Prandtl–Ishlinskii Compensator

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):428 - 439
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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A formula that characterizes the output of the inverse compensation is derived when the inverse Prandtl-Ishlinskii hysteresis model is applied as a feedforward compensator. For that the composition property as well as the initial loading curve of the Prandtl-Ishlinskii model is used to obtain this formula. We demonstrate, therefore, that the output of the feedforward controlled system is linear ve... View full abstract»

• ### A Multiobjective Optimization Framework for Online Stochastic Optimal Control in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):440 - 450
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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The increasing urgency to extract additional efficiency from hybrid propulsion systems has led to the development of advanced power management control algorithms. In this paper, we address the problem of online optimization of the supervisory power management control in parallel hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). We model HEV operation as a controlled Markov chain and show that the control policy yi... View full abstract»

• ### Nonlinear Control of Systems Preceded by Preisach Hysteresis Description: A Prescribed Adaptive Control Approach

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):451 - 460
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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When systems are preceded by hysteresis nonlinearities, many controller strategies have been developed with various hysteresis models, especially in the past decade. Among the hysteresis models, the Preisach model has a very general and well-established mathematical structure. However, designs of controllers that guarantee the closed-loop stability of nonlinear systems having the Preisach hysteres... View full abstract»

• ### Predictive Control for Energy-Aware Consolidation in Cloud Datacenters

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):461 - 474
Cited by:  Papers (4)
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service is one of the most used paradigms of cloud computing and relies on large-scale datacenters with thousands of nodes. As a consequence of this success, the energetic demand of the infrastructure may lead to relevant economical costs and environmental footprint. Thus, the search for power optimization is of primary importance. In this perspective, this paper introduces an ... View full abstract»

• ### Monitoring Moving Objects Using Aerial Mobile Sensors

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):475 - 486
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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We propose an optimization-based path-planning framework for an aerial mobile sensor network. The purpose of the path planning is to monitor a set of moving surface objects. The algorithm provides collision-free mobile sensor trajectories that are feasible with respect to user-defined vehicle dynamics. The objective of the resulting optimal control problem is to minimize the uncertainty of the obj... View full abstract»

• ### Minimum-Time Path-Following for Highly Redundant Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):487 - 501
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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Modern electric vehicles are most often designed with actuator redundancy and in-wheel propulsion, a combination that appears particularly suitable for the design of motion controllers that can optimally blend multiple objectives, such as dynamic, safety and driver-oriented. This paper considers such a technological setting and concentrates on the design of a path-following algorithm with minimum-... View full abstract»

• ### Robust $\mathcal {L}_{2}$ Stable Networked Control of Wireless Packet Queues in Delayed Internet Connections

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):502 - 513
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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This paper presents a networked controller for packet data queue level control between two nodes with an Internet connection. A wireless radio interface empties the packet queue. The control signal is the bitrate from the transmitting node over the Internet connection to the receiving node in which the controlled queue is located. The output signal is the packet dwell time in the packet queue. The... View full abstract»

• ### Lorentz-Augmented Spacecraft Formation Reconfiguration

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):514 - 524
Cited by:  Papers (3)
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The use of the geomagnetic Lorentz force as a means of actuation is considered in this paper for the purpose of spacecraft formation reconfiguration. A continuous/impulsive linear quadratic regulator (LQR) is proposed for the purpose of designing an optimal control strategy that combines continuous Lorentz force actuation with impulsive thrusting. New theory is presented for the determination of o... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Control Approaches for Analysis of Energy Use Minimization of Hybrid Ground-Coupled Heat Pump Systems

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):525 - 540
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In this paper, we present a prediction-based dynamic programming (DP) control approach, a nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) approach, and a linear optimal control (LOC) approach to analyze the minimization of the total energy use of a hybrid ground-coupled heat pump (hp) system (incorporating a ground-coupled hp, a gas boiler, a passive cooler, and an active chiller) under operational cons... View full abstract»

• ### Electropneumatic Cylinder Backstepping Position Controller Design With Real-Time Closed-Loop Stiffness and Damping Tuning

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):541 - 552
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This paper develops a backstepping-based algorithm to control the position of an electropneumatic actuator while allowing the precise tuning of the closed-loop stiffness and damping. The proposed strategy offers an efficient method to choose the controller parameters based on a physical and linear analysis. The strict feedback form of the model, which is required in order to apply the backstepping... View full abstract»

• ### Vision-Based Model Predictive Control for Steering of a Nonholonomic Mobile Robot

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):553 - 564
Cited by:  Papers (7)
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In this paper, we have developed a novel visual servo-based model predictive control method to steer a wheeled mobile robot (WMR) moving in a polar coordinate toward a desired target. The proposed control scheme has been realized at both kinematics and dynamics levels. The kinematics predictive steering controller generates command of desired velocities that are achieved by employing a low-level m... View full abstract»

• ### Reconfiguration of the Air Control System of a Bark Boiler

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):565 - 577
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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In this paper, the problem of reconfiguration of controllers in the air control system of a bark boiler is addressed. The air control system of a bark boiler is considered as an interconnected multivariable system and the configuration of the controllers is adapted with the perspective to improve the closed-loop performance of the system. This paper proposes a generic procedure for the reconfigura... View full abstract»

• ### Thrust Allocation With Dynamic Power Consumption Modulation for Diesel-Electric Ships

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):578 - 593
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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Modern ships and offshore units built for dynamic positioning (DP) are often powered by an electric power plant consisting of two or more diesel-electric generators. Actuation in any desired direction is achieved by placing electrical thrusters at suitable points on the hull. Usually, such ships also have other large electrical loads. Operations in the naturally unpredictable marine environment of... View full abstract»

• ### Automatic Retraction and Full-Cycle Operation for a Class of Airborne Wind Energy Generators

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):594 - 608
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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Airborne wind energy systems aim to harvest the power of winds blowing at altitudes higher than what conventional wind turbines reach. They employ a tethered flying structure, usually a wing, and exploit the aerodynamic lift to produce electrical power. In the case of ground-based systems, where the traction force on the tether is used to drive a generator on the ground, a two-phase power cycle is... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Trajectories for Vibration Reduction Based on Exponential Filters

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):609 - 622
Cited by:  Papers (5)
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In this paper, a new type of trajectory, based on an exponential jerk, is presented along with filters for their online generation. The goal is to generalize constant jerk trajectories, widely used in industrial applications, in order to reduce vibrations of motion systems. As a matter of fact, constant jerk trajectories do not assure a complete vibration suppression when the damping of the resona... View full abstract»

• ### Control-Oriented Concentrated Solar Power Plant Model

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):623 - 635
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We model the dynamics of solar thermal plants-the first model covering all processes between market demand through power output at millisecond resolution-for the purpose of control design. Our model integrates solar reflectors, power tower, salt tank, boiler, turbine, generator, piping, and pumps along with the flows of energy and information between them. We show how our detailed model permits co... View full abstract»

• ### Observer-Based State Feedback Control for Vehicle Chassis Stability in Critical Situations

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):636 - 643
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This brief describes an observer-based state feedback tracking controller for vehicle dynamics with a four-wheel active steering system as well as an active suspension system. The objective of the proposed controller is to improve the vehicle behavior by forcing the lateral dynamics and the load transfer ratio to achieve the desired vehicle behavior in critical situations. A Takagi-Sugeno (TS) rep... View full abstract»

• ### Control of Shunt Active Filters With Actuation and Current Limits

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):644 - 653
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In this brief, a plug-in unit is presented to manage control voltage saturation and maximum current limit in shunt active filters (SAFs), where unconstrained control algorithms are already defined. The proposed unit extends the operating region of such devices, i.e., under large transients and overload conditions, with performance guarantees. Therefore, improved robustness, availability, and compo... View full abstract»

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