Automatica, Volume 50

Volume 50, Number 1, January 2014

Editorial

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  Tamer Basar:
  Golden anniversary - Reflections on the past, forecasts into the future. 1-2

Survey Paper

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  Karl Johan Åström, P. R. Kumar:
  Control: A perspective. 3-43

Regular Papers

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  Michael J. Tippett, Jie Bao:
  Control of plant-wide systems using dynamic supply rates. 44-52
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  Guangwei Zhu, Jianghai Hu:
  A distributed continuous-time algorithm for network localization using angle-of-arrival information. 53-63
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  Andrés A. Peters, Richard H. Middleton, Oliver Mason:
  Leader tracking in homogeneous vehicle platoons with broadcast delays. 64-74
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  Mirko Fiacchini, Marc Jungers:
  Necessary and sufficient condition for stabilizability of discrete-time linear switched systems: A set-theory approach. 75-83
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  Mustapha Ait Rami, Diego Napp:
  Positivity of discrete singular systems and their stability: An LP-based approach. 84-91
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  Chris Vermillion, Amor A. Menezes, Ilya V. Kolmanovsky:
  Stable hierarchical model predictive control using an inner loop reference model and lambda-contractive terminal constraint sets. 92-99
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  Er-Wei Bai, Kang Li, Wen-Xiao Zhao, Weiyu Xu:
  Kernel based approaches to local nonlinear non-parametric variable selection. 100-113
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  Jason L. Speyer, Moshe Idan, Javier H. Fernández:
  A stochastic controller for a scalar linear system with additive Cauchy noise. 114-127
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  Balaji Sampathnarayanan, Simona Onori, Stephen Yurkovich:
  An optimal regulation strategy with disturbance rejection for energy management of hybrid electric vehicles. 128-140

Brief Papers

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  Heqing Sun, Andrew G. Alleyne:
  A computationally efficient norm optimal iterative learning control approach for LTV systems. 141-148
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  Greg Foderaro, Silvia Ferrari, Thomas A. Wettergren:
  Distributed optimal control for multi-agent trajectory optimization. 149-154
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  Johannes Buerger, Mark Cannon, Basil Kouvaritakis:
  An active set solver for input-constrained robust receding horizon control. 155-161
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  Stefano Longo, Eric C. Kerrigan, George A. Constantinides:
  Constrained LQR for low-precision data representation. 162-168
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  Xiaojing Shen, Pramod K. Varshney, Yunmin Zhu:
  Robust distributed maximum likelihood estimation with dependent quantized data. 169-174
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  Jun Shen, James Lam:
  L_∞-gain analysis for positive systems with distributed delays. 175-179
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  Zhengguang Wu, Peng Shi, Hongye Su, Jian Chu:
  Asynchronous I₂-I_∞ filtering for discrete-time stochastic Markov jump systems with randomly occurred sensor nonlinearities. 180-186
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  Thijs van Keulen, Jan Gillot, Bram de Jager, Maarten Steinbuch:
  Solution for state constrained optimal control problems applied to power split control for hybrid vehicles. 187-192
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  Hamidreza Modares, Frank L. Lewis, Mohammad-Bagher Naghibi-Sistani:
  Integral reinforcement learning and experience replay for adaptive optimal control of partially-unknown constrained-input continuous-time systems. 193-202
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  Cong-Ran Zhao, Xue-Jun Xie:
  Global stabilization of stochastic high-order feedforward nonlinear systems with time-varying delay. 203-210
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  Vladimir L. Kharitonov:
  An extension of the prediction scheme to the case of systems with both input and state delay. 211-217
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  Vicente Feliú Batlle, Fernando Jose Castillo-García:
  On the robust control of stable minimum phase plants with large uncertainty in a time constant. A fractional-order control approach. 218-224
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  Tiago Gaspar, Paulo Jorge Ramalho Oliveira:
  Model-based H₂ adaptive filter for 3D positioning and tracking systems. 225-232
• 
  Kang-Zhi Liu, Daisuke Akasaka:
  A partial parameterization of nonlinear output feedback controllers for saturated linear systems. 233-239
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  Daniel Axehill, Thomas Besselmann, Davide Martino Raimondo, Manfred Morari:
  A parametric branch and bound approach to suboptimal explicit hybrid MPC. 240-246
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  Dawei Shi, Tongwen Chen, Ling Shi:
  Event-triggered maximum likelihood state estimation. 247-254
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  Sung Jin Yoo:
  Fault detection and accommodation of a class of nonlinear systems with unknown multiple time-delayed faults. 255-261
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  Zhi-Hong Guan, Baoxian Wang, Li Ding:
  Modified tracking performance limitations of unstable linear SIMO feedback control systems. 262-267
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  Matthew C. Turner, Guido Herrmann:
  A non-square sector condition and its application in deferred-action anti-windup compensator design. 268-276
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  Mohammad Rasouli, David T. Westwick, William D. Rosehart:
  Quasiconvexity analysis of the Hammerstein model. 277-281

Technical Communiques

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  Hoda Sadeghian, Hassan Salarieh, Aria Alasty, Ali Meghdari:
  On the linear-quadratic regulator problem in one-dimensional linear fractional stochastic systems. 282-286
• 
  Yajuan Sun, Hai Lin, Ben M. Chen:
  Bisimilarity enforcing supervisory control for deterministic specifications. 287-290
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  Deyuan Meng, Yingmin Jia, Junping Du, Jun Zhang:
  On iterative learning algorithms for the formation control of nonlinear multi-agent systems. 291-295

Correspondence Items

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  Ratnesh Kumar, Shengbing Jiang, Changyan Zhou:
  Comment on "Bisimilarity control of partially observed nondeterministic discrete event systems and a test algorithm" [Automatica 47 (2011) 782-788]. 296-297
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  Fuchun Liu, Hai Lin, Zbigniew Dziong:
  Reply to "Comments on 'Bisimilarity control of partially observed nondeterministic discrete event systems and a test algorithm' [Automatica 43 (2007), 1363-1368]". 298-299
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  Min Zheng, Kang Li, Minrui Fei:
  Comments on "Wirtinger-based integral inequality: Application to time-delay systems [Automatica 49 (2013) 2860-2866]". 300-301

Volume 50, Number 2, February 2014

Survey Papers

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  Harold J. Kushner:
  A partial history of the early development of continuous-time nonlinear stochastic systems theory. 303-334

Regular Papers

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  Muhammad Aurangzeb, Frank L. Lewis:
  Internal structure of coalitions in competitive and altruistic graphical coalitional games. 335-348
• 
  Fabio Pasqualetti, Domenica Borra, Francesco Bullo:
  Consensus networks over finite fields. 349-358
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  Frédéric Grognard, Andrei R. Akhmetzhanov, Olivier Bernard:
  Optimal strategies for biomass productivity maximization in a photobioreactor using natural light. 359-368
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  Marko Seslija, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen, Arjan van der Schaft:
  Explicit simplicial discretization of distributed-parameter port-Hamiltonian systems. 369-377
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  Vaibhav Srivastava, Ruggero Carli, Cédric Langbort, Francesco Bullo:
  Attention allocation for decision making queues. 378-388
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  Gautam Kumar, Mayuresh V. Kothare:
  Trapping Brownian ensemble optimally using Broadcast Stochastic Receding Horizon Control. 389-398
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  Xu Chu Ding, Mircea Lazar, Calin Belta:
  LTL receding horizon control for finite deterministic systems. 399-408
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  Daniel Liberzon:
  Finite data-rate feedback stabilization of switched and hybrid linear systems. 409-420
• 
  Alain Sarlette, Rodolphe Sepulchre:
  Control limitations from distributed sensing: Theory and Extremely Large Telescope application. 421-430
• 
  Carlos E. de Souza, Daniel Ferreira Coutinho:
  Robust stability and control of uncertain linear discrete-time periodic systems with time-delay. 431-441
• 
  Guofeng Zhang:
  Analysis of quantum linear systems' response to multi-photon states. 442-451
• 
  Bin Zhou, Zongli Lin:
  Consensus of high-order multi-agent systems with large input and communication delays. 452-464
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  Marcus Hedegärd, Torsten Wik:
  Non-parametric convex identification of extended generalized Prandtl-Ishlinskii models. 465-474
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  Jae Young Lee, Jin Bae Park, Yoon Ho Choi:
  On integral generalized policy iteration for continuous-time linear quadratic regulations. 475-489

Brief Papers

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  Fulvio Forni, Sergio Galeani, Dragan Nesic, Luca Zaccarian:
  Event-triggered transmission for linear control over communication channels. 490-498
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  Tao Yang, Ziyang Meng, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Karl Henrik Johansson:
  Global consensus for discrete-time multi-agent systems with input saturation constraints. 499-506
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  Michel Kieffer, Eric Walter:
  Guaranteed characterization of exact non-asymptotic confidence regions as defined by LSCR and SPS. 507-512
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  Ze Zhang, Imad M. Jaimoukha:
  On-line fault detection and isolation for linear discrete-time uncertain systems. 513-518
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  Indika Wijayasinghe, Justin Ruths, Ulrich Büttner, Bijoy K. Ghosh, Stefan Glasauer, Olympia Kremmyda, Jr-Shin Li:
  Potential and optimal control of human head movement using Tait-Bryan parametrization. 519-529
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  Xueyan Zhao, Feiqi Deng:
  Moment stability of nonlinear discrete stochastic systems with time-delays based on H-representation technique. 530-536
• 
  Ricardo G. Sanfelice, Sze Zheng Yong, Emilio Frazzoli:
  On minimum-time paths of bounded curvature with position-dependent constraints. 537-546
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  Jun Shen, James Lam:
  Non-existence of finite-time stable equilibria in fractional-order nonlinear systems. 547-551
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  Wei Zhu, Zhong-Ping Jiang, Gang Feng:
  Event-based consensus of multi-agent systems with general linear models. 552-558
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  Wout Weijtjens, Gert De Sitter, Christof Devriendt, Patrick Guillaume:
  Operational modal parameter estimation of MIMO systems using transmissibility functions. 559-564
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  Luca Lambertini:
  Coordinating static and dynamic supply chains with advertising through two-part tariffs. 565-569
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  Ignacio A. Latorre, Eduardo I. Silva, Mario E. Salgado:
  On the effect of additional input channels on the achievable performance of discrete-time control systems. 570-577
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  Marouane Alma, Mohamed Darouach:
  Adaptive observers design for a class of linear descriptor systems. 578-583
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  Sinuhé Martinez-Martinez, Nadhir Messai, Frédéric Hamelin, Noureddine Manamanni, Taha Boukhobza:
  Graphic approach for the determination of the existence of sequences guaranteeing observability of switched linear systems. 584-590
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  Yingbo Zhao, Paolo Minero, Vijay Gupta:
  On disturbance propagation in leader-follower systems with limited leader information. 591-598
• 
  Hui Zhang, Zhao-Jing Wu, Yuanqing Xia:
  Exponential stability of stochastic systems with hysteresis switching. 599-606
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  Markus Schöberl, Andreas Siuka:
  Jet bundle formulation of infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems using differential operators. 607-613
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  Xudong Zhao, Xingwen Liu, Shen Yin, Hongyi Li:
  Improved results on stability of continuous-time switched positive linear systems. 614-621
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  Yuecheng Yang, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Xiaoming Hu:
  Opinion consensus of modified Hegselmann-Krause models. 622-627
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  Maarten Schoukens, Rik Pintelon, Yves Rolain:
  Identification of Wiener-Hammerstein systems by a nonparametric separation of the best linear approximation. 628-634
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  Julien M. Hendrickx, Raphaël M. Jungers, Alexander Olshevsky, Guillaume Vankeerberghen:
  Graph diameter, eigenvalues, and minimum-time consensus. 635-640

Technical Communiques

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  Qinghua Li, Uros Kalabic, Ilya V. Kolmanovsky:
  Fast reference governors for second-order linear systems with constraints and an input time-delay. 641-645
• 
  Haibo Du, Shihua Li:
  Attitude synchronization control for a group of flexible spacecraft. 646-651

Correspondence Items

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  Qianqian Xia, Zhiyong Geng:
  Comments on "Exact and approximate feedback linearization without the linear controllability assumption [Automatica 48 (2012) 2221-2228]". 652-654
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  Guobin Chang:
  Comments on "A Gaussian approximation recursive filter for nonlinear systems with correlated noises" [Automatica 48 (2012) 2290-2297]. 655-656

Volume 50, Number 3, March 2014

Survey Paper

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  Gianluigi Pillonetto, Francesco Dinuzzo, Tianshi Chen, Giuseppe De Nicolao, Lennart Ljung:
  Kernel methods in system identification, machine learning and function estimation: A survey. 657-682

Regular Papers

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  Melanie Nicole Zeilinger, Davide Martino Raimondo, Alexander Domahidi, Manfred Morari, Colin N. Jones:
  On real-time robust model predictive control. 683-694
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  Hiroaki Kawashima, Magnus Egerstedt:
  Manipulability of leader-follower networks with the rigid-link approximation. 695-706
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  Giorgio Battistelli, Luigi Chisci:
  Kullback-Leibler average, consensus on probability densities, and distributed state estimation with guaranteed stability. 707-718
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  Nahid Masoudi, Georges Zaccour:
  Emissions control policies under uncertainty and rational learning in a linear-state dynamic model. 719-726
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  Mattia Bruschetta, Giorgio Picci, Alessandro Saccon:
  A variational integrators approach to second order modeling and identification of linear mechanical systems. 727-736
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  Marko Seslija, Arjan van der Schaft, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen:
  Hamiltonian perspective on compartmental reaction-diffusion networks. 737-746
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  Junseok Kim, Darae Jeong, Dong-Hoon Shin:
  A regime-switching model with the volatility smile for two-asset European options. 747-755
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  Parijat Dube, Rahul Jain:
  Bertrand equilibria and efficiency in markets for congestible network services. 756-767
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  Fouad Giri, Abdelhadi Radouane, Adil Brouri, Fatima-Zahra Chaoui:
  Combined frequency-prediction error identification approach for Wiener systems with backlash and backlash-inverse operators. 768-783
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  Merid Ljesnjanin, Daniel E. Quevedo, Dragan Nesic:
  Packetized MPC with dynamic scheduling constraints and bounded packet dropouts. 784-797
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  Sami El-Ferik, Aminuddin Qureshi, Frank L. Lewis:
  Neuro-adaptive cooperative tracking control of unknown higher-order affine nonlinear systems. 798-808
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  Baochang Zhang, Wanquan Liu, Zhili Mao, Jianzhuang Liu, LinLin Shen:
  Cooperative and Geometric Learning Algorithm (CGLA) for path planning of UAVs with limited information. 809-820
• 
  Jiangshuai Huang, Changyun Wen, Wei Wang, Zhong-Ping Jiang:
  Adaptive output feedback tracking control of a nonholonomic mobile robot. 821-831
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  Johan Thunberg, Wenjun Song, Eduardo Montijano, Yiguang Hong, Xiaoming Hu:
  Distributed attitude synchronization control of multi-agent systems with switching topologies. 832-840
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  Enric Xargay, Ronald Choe, Naira Hovakimyan, Isaac Kaminer:
  Multi-leader coordination algorithm for networks with switching topology and quantized information. 841-851

Brief Papers

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  Mengran Xue, Wei Wang, Sandip Roy:
  Security concepts for the dynamics of autonomous vehicle networks. 852-857
• 
  Taha Boukhobza, Frédéric Hamelin, Christophe Simon:
  Partial state observability recovering for linear systems by additional sensor implementation. 858-863
• 
  Lu Lu, Bin Yao:
  Online constrained optimization based adaptive robust control of a class of MIMO nonlinear systems with matched uncertainties and input/state constraints. 864-873
• 
  Giorgio Battistelli, Edoardo Mosca, Pietro Tesi:
  Adaptive memory in multi-model switching control of uncertain plants. 874-882
• 
  Zhongkui Li, Zhisheng Duan, Frank L. Lewis:
  Distributed robust consensus control of multi-agent systems with heterogeneous matching uncertainties. 883-889
• 
  Xu-Guang Li, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu, Arben Çela, Hong-Hai Wang, Tiao-Yang Cai:
  Invariance properties for a class of quasipolynomials. 890-895
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  Shayok Mukhopadhyay, Fumin Zhang:
  A high-gain adaptive observer for detecting Li-ion battery terminal voltage collapse. 896-902
• 
  Laurent Vanbeylen:
  A fractional approach to identify Wiener-Hammerstein systems. 903-909
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  Gugan Thoppe, Vivek S. Borkar, D. Manjunath:
  A stochastic Kaczmarz algorithm for network tomography. 910-914
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  Jun Li, MengChu Zhou, Tao Guo, Yahui Gan, Xianzhong Dai:
  Robust control reconfiguration of resource allocation systems with Petri nets and integer programming. 915-923
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  Adel Chala:
  The relaxed optimal control problem for Mean-Field SDEs systems and application. 924-930
• 
  Yue Yang, Cheng Xiang, Tong Heng Lee:
  Necessary and sufficient conditions for regional stabilisability of second-order switched linear systems with a finite number of subsystems. 931-939
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  Weiming Xiang, Jian Xiao:
  Stabilization of switched continuous-time systems with all modes unstable via dwell time switching. 940-945
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  Attilio Priolo, Andrea Gasparri, Eduardo Montijano, Carlos Sagüés:
  A distributed algorithm for average consensus on strongly connected weighted digraphs. 946-951
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  Shu-Jun Liu, Miroslav Krstic:
  Newton-based stochastic extremum seeking. 952-961
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  Yanjun Liu, Feng Ding, Yang Shi:
  An efficient hierarchical identification method for general dual-rate sampled-data systems. 962-970
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  Fernando Castaños, Debbie Hernández, Leonid M. Fridman:
  Integral sliding-mode control for linear time-invariant implicit systems. 971-975
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  Corentin Briat:
  Convex lifted conditions for robust l₂-stability analysis and l₂-stabilization of linear discrete-time switched systems with minimum dwell-time constraint. 976-983

Technical Communiques

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  Indira Nagesh, Christopher Edwards:
  A multivariable super-twisting sliding mode approach. 984-988
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  Jung-Min Yang:
  Fault-tolerant control of a class of asynchronous sequential machines with permanent faults. 989-993
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  Eduardo Arvelo, Nuno C. Martins:
  Maximizing the set of recurrent states of an MDP subject to convex constraints. 994-998
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  Jorge R. Chavez-Fuentes, Eduardo F. Costa, Marco H. Terra:
  Metrics of performance for discrete-time descriptor jump linear systems. 999-1002

Volume 50, Number 4, April 2014

Survey Paper

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  Nicholas Kottenstette, Michael J. McCourt, Meng Xia, Vijay Gupta, Panos J. Antsaklis:
  On relationships among passivity, positive realness, and dissipativity in linear systems. 1003-1016

Regular Papers

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  Alex Esbrook, Xiaobo Tan, Hassan K. Khalil:
  Inversion-free stabilization and regulation of systems with hysteresis via integral action. 1017-1025
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  Ehsan Peymani, Håvard Fjær Grip, Ali Saberi, Xu Wang, Thor I. Fossen:
  H_∞ almost output synchronization for heterogeneous networks of introspective agents under external disturbances. 1026-1036
• 
  Behçet Açikmese, Milan Mandic, Jason L. Speyer:
  Decentralized observers with consensus filters for distributed discrete-time linear systems. 1037-1052
• 
  Youfeng Su, Jie Huang:
  Cooperative semi-global robust output regulation for a class of nonlinear uncertain multi-agent systems. 1053-1065
• 
  Miao Du, Prashant Mhaskar:
  Isolation and handling of sensor faults in nonlinear systems. 1066-1074
• 
  Tengfei Liu, Zhong-Ping Jiang:
  Distributed nonlinear control of mobile autonomous multi-agents. 1075-1086
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  Elma O'Sullivan-Greene, Iven Mareels, Levin Kuhlmann, Anthony N. Burkitt:
  Observability limits for networked oscillators. 1087-1099
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  Chen Wang, Guangming Xie, Ming Cao:
  Controlling anonymous mobile agents with unidirectional locomotion to form formations on a circle. 1100-1108

Brief Papers

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  He Cai, Jie Huang:
  The leader-following attitude control of multiple rigid spacecraft systems. 1109-1115
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  Ramón A. Delgado, Graham C. Goodwin:
  A combined MAP and Bayesian scheme for finite data and/or moving horizon estimation. 1116-1121
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  Graham C. Goodwin, Mauricio Esteban Cea Garrido, Arie Feuer, David Q. Mayne:
  On the use of one bit quantizers in networked control. 1122-1127
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  Xingyong Song, Yu Wang, Zongxuan Sun:
  Robust stabilizer design for linear time-varying internal model based output regulation and its application to an electrohydraulic system. 1128-1134
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  Hung Gia Hoang, Ba-Tuong Vo:
  Sensor management for multi-target tracking via multi-Bernoulli filtering. 1135-1142
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  Lu Lu, Bin Yao:
  A performance oriented multi-loop constrained adaptive robust tracking control of one-degree-of-freedom mechanical systems: Theory and experiments. 1143-1150
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  Timm Faulwasser, Veit Hagenmeyer, Rolf Findeisen:
  Constrained reachability and trajectory generation for flat systems. 1151-1159
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  Luis Antonio Aguirre:
  Identification of smooth nonlinear dynamical systems with non-smooth steady-state features. 1160-1166
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  Bahare Kiumarsi, Frank L. Lewis, Hamidreza Modares, Ali Karimpour, Mohammad-Bagher Naghibi-Sistani:
  Reinforcement Q-learning for optimal tracking control of linear discrete-time systems with unknown dynamics. 1167-1175
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  Augusto Ferrante, Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis:
  The generalized continuous algebraic Riccati equation and impulse-free continuous-time LQ optimal control. 1176-1180
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  Paolo Bolzern, Patrizio Colaneri, Giuseppe De Nicolao:
  Stochastic stability of Positive Markov Jump Linear Systems. 1181-1187
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  Kun Deng, Siddharth Goyal, Prabir Barooah, Prashant G. Mehta:
  Structure-preserving model reduction of nonlinear building thermal models. 1188-1195
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  Boe-Shong Hong, Wen-Jui Su, Chia-Yu Chou:
  LPV modeling and game-theoretic control synthesis to design energy-motion regulators for electric scooters. 1196-1200
• 
  Lucian Busoniu, Irinel-Constantin Morarescu:
  Consensus for black-box nonlinear agents using optimistic optimization. 1201-1208
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  Masood Ghasemi, Sergey G. Nersesov:
  Finite-time coordination in multiagent systems using sliding mode control approach. 1209-1216
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  Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, George A. Rovithakis:
  A low-complexity global approximation-free control scheme with prescribed performance for unknown pure feedback systems. 1217-1226
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  Patrizio Colaneri, Richard H. Middleton, Zhiyong Chen, Danilo Caporale, Franco Blanchini:
  Convexity of the cost functional in an optimal control problem for a class of positive switched systems. 1227-1234
• 
  Zhu Ren, Peng Cheng, Jiming Chen, Ling Shi, Huanshui Zhang:
  Dynamic sensor transmission power scheduling for remote state estimation. 1235-1242
• 
  Térence Bayen, Francis Mairet:
  Optimization of the separation of two species in a chemostat. 1243-1248
• 
  Yue-E Wang, Xi-Ming Sun, Zhuo Wang, Jun Zhao:
  Construction of Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals for switched nonlinear systems with input delay. 1249-1253
• 
  Wei Wang, Jiangshuai Huang, Changyun Wen, Huijin Fan:
  Distributed adaptive control for consensus tracking with application to formation control of nonholonomic mobile robots. 1254-1263
• 
  Huiping Li, Yang Shi:
  Distributed receding horizon control of large-scale nonlinear systems: Handling communication delays and disturbances. 1264-1271
• 
  Rui Li, Meng Yang, Tianguang Chu:
  State feedback stabilization for probabilistic Boolean networks. 1272-1278
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  Tom Gommans, Duarte Antunes, Tijs Donkers, Paulo Tabuada, Maurice Heemels:
  Self-triggered linear quadratic control. 1279-1287
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  Hassan Omran, Laurentiu Hetel, Jean-Pierre Richard, Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue:
  Stability analysis of bilinear systems under aperiodic sampled-data control. 1288-1295
• 
  Jinglin Zhou, Guotao Li, Hong Wang:
  Robust tracking controller design for non-Gaussian singular uncertainty stochastic distribution systems. 1296-1303
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  Yunlei Zou, Jiandong Zhu:
  System decomposition with respect to inputs for Boolean control networks. 1304-1309

Technical Communique

• 
  Yong Feng, Fengling Han, Xinghuo Yu:
  Chattering free full-order sliding-mode control. 1310-1314

Volume 50, Number 5, May 2014

Survey Papers

• 
  Ian R. Petersen, Roberto Tempo:
  Robust control of uncertain systems: Classical results and recent developments. 1315-1335

Regular Papers

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  Yi-Chin Wu, Stéphane Lafortune:
  Synthesis of insertion functions for enforcement of opacity security properties. 1336-1348
• 
  Mario Sassano, Alessandro Astolfi:
  Dynamic generalized controllability and observability functions with applications to model reduction and sensor deployment. 1349-1359
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  Dimas Abreu Archanjo Dutra, Bruno Otávio Soares Teixeira, Luis Antonio Aguirre:
  Maximum a posteriori state path estimation: Discretization limits and their interpretation. 1360-1368
• 
  Ruiyun Qi, Gang Tao, Bin Jiang:
  Adaptive control of MIMO time-varying systems with indicator function based parametrization. 1369-1380
• 
  Nitin Sydney, Derek A. Paley:
  Multivehicle coverage control for a nonstationary spatiotemporal field. 1381-1390
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  Mark W. Brantley, Loo Hay Lee, Chun-Hung Chen, Jie Xu:
  An efficient simulation budget allocation method incorporating regression for partitioned domains. 1391-1400

Brief Papers

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  Bartek Roszak, Edward J. Davison:
  Optimal complementary control for positive stable LTI systems. 1401-1406
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  Delphine Bresch-Pietri, Miroslav Krstic:
  Output-feedback adaptive control of a wave PDE with boundary anti-damping. 1407-1415
• 
  Jiangping Hu, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Adaptive tracking control of leader-follower systems with unknown dynamics and partial measurements. 1416-1423
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  Mingyue Cui, Zhao-Jing Wu, Xue-Jun Xie:
  Output feedback tracking control of stochastic Lagrangian systems and its application. 1424-1433
• 
  Bin Zhou:
  Input delay compensation of linear systems with both state and input delays by nested prediction. 1434-1443
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  Yavuz Eren, Jinglai Shen, M. Kanat Camlibel:
  Quadratic stability and stabilization of bimodal piecewise linear systems. 1444-1450
• 
  Didier Georges, Gildas Besançon, Jean-François Dulhoste:
  A decentralized optimal LQ state observer based on an augmented Lagrangian approach. 1451-1458
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  Henrik Ohlsson, Tianshi Chen, Sina Khoshfetrat Pakazad, Lennart Ljung, S. Shankar Sastry:
  Scalable anomaly detection in large homogeneous populations. 1459-1465
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  Uros Kalabic, Ilya V. Kolmanovsky, Elmer G. Gilbert:
  Reduced order extended command governor. 1466-1472
• 
  Wenchao Meng, Qinmin Yang, Sarangapani Jagannathan, Youxian Sun:
  Adaptive neural control of high-order uncertain nonaffine systems: A transformation to affine systems approach. 1473-1480
• 
  Masih Hanifzadegan, Ryozo Nagamune:
  Smooth switching LPV controller design for LPV systems. 1481-1488
• 
  Ge Guo, Lei Ding, Qing-Long Han:
  A distributed event-triggered transmission strategy for sampled-data consensus of multi-agent systems. 1489-1496
• 
  Zhao-Yan Li, Bin Zhou, Zongli Lin:
  On robustness of predictor feedback control of linear systems with input delays. 1497-1506
• 
  Huiping Li, Yang Shi:
  Event-triggered robust model predictive control of continuous-time nonlinear systems. 1507-1513
• 
  Simone Formentin, Alireza Karimi:
  Enhancing statistical performance of data-driven controller tuning via L₂-regularization. 1514-1520

Technical Communiques

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  Yang Liu, Xiao He, Zidong Wang, Donghua Zhou:
  Optimal filtering for networked systems with stochastic sensor gain degradation. 1521-1525
• 
  Florin Sebastian Tudor, Cristian Oara:
  H₂ optimal control for generalized discrete-time systems. 1526-1530
• 
  Hyeong Soo Chang:
  An exact iterative search algorithm for constrained Markov decision processes. 1531-1534
• 
  Karel J. Keesman, Eric Walter:
  Optimal input design for model discrimination using Pontryagin's maximum principle: Application to kinetic model structures. 1535-1538

Volume 50, Number 6, June 2014

Survey Paper

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  Florian Dörfler, Francesco Bullo:
  Synchronization in complex networks of phase oscillators: A survey. 1539-1564

Regular Papers

• 
  Yang Shen, Qingxin Meng, Peng Shi:
  Maximum principle for mean-field jump-diffusion stochastic delay differential equations and its application to finance. 1565-1579
• 
  Joseph K. Scott, Rolf Findeisen, Richard D. Braatz, Davide Martino Raimondo:
  Input design for guaranteed fault diagnosis using zonotopes. 1580-1589
• 
  Beipeng Mu, Girish Chowdhary, Jonathan P. How:
  Efficient distributed sensing using adaptive censoring-based inference. 1590-1602
• 
  Wen Mi, Tao Qian:
  On backward shift algorithm for estimating poles of systems. 1603-1610

Brief Papers

• 
  Zhe Gao:
  A computing method on stability intervals of time-delay for fractional-order retarded systems with commensurate time-delays. 1611-1616
• 
  Mohammadreza Chamanbaz, Fabrizio Dabbene, Roberto Tempo, Venkatakrishnan Venkataramanan, Qing-Guo Wang:
  A statistical learning theory approach for uncertain linear and bilinear matrix inequalities. 1617-1625
• 
  Chaoyong Li, Zhihua Qu:
  Distributed finite-time consensus of nonlinear systems under switching topologies. 1626-1631
• 
  Ivan Markovsky, Jan Goos, Konstantin Usevich, Rik Pintelon:
  Realization and identification of autonomous linear periodically time-varying systems. 1632-1640
• 
  Dawei Shi, Tongwen Chen, Ling Shi:
  An event-triggered approach to state estimation with multiple point- and set-valued measurements. 1641-1648
• 
  Markus Schöberl, Kurt Schlacher:
  On an implicit triangular decomposition of nonlinear control systems that are 1-flat - A constructive approach. 1649-1655
• 
  Konstantin Usevich, Ivan Markovsky:
  Optimization on a Grassmann manifold with application to system identification. 1656-1662
• 
  Cheng Song, Lu Liu, Gang Feng, Shengyuan Xu:
  Optimal control for multi-agent persistent monitoring. 1663-1668
• 
  Yuksel Subasi, Mübeccel Demirekler:
  Quantitative measure of observability for linear stochastic systems. 1669-1674
• 
  Pouria Ramazi, Håkan Hjalmarsson, Jonas Mårtensson:
  Variance analysis of identified linear MISO models having spatially correlated inputs, with application to parallel Hammerstein models. 1675-1683
• 
  Zhixin Liu:
  Consensus of a group of mobile agents in three dimensions. 1684-1690
• 
  Yongmin Li, Keqin Gu, Jianping Zhou, Shengyuan Xu:
  Estimating stable delay intervals with a discretized Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional formulation. 1691-1697
• 
  Yen-Chen Liu, Nikhil Chopra:
  On stability and regulation performance for flexible-joint robots with input/output communication delays. 1698-1705
• 
  Yoshio Ebihara, Dimitri Peaucelle, Denis Arzelier:
  On the structure of generalized plant convexifying static H_∞ control problems. 1706-1714
• 
  Ruggero Fabbiano, Carlos Canudas de Wit, Federica Garin:
  Source localization by gradient estimation based on Poisson integral. 1715-1724

Technical Communiques

• 
  Rong Su:
  On the complexity of synthesizing a minimum-weighted supervisor under partial observation. 1725-1729
• 
  Nam Hoon Jo, Youngjun Joo, Hyungbo Shim:
  A study of disturbance observers with unknown relative degree of the plant. 1730-1734
• 
  Le Van Hien, Hieu Minh Trinh:
  A new approach to state bounding for linear time-varying systems with delay and bounded disturbances. 1735-1738

Errata

• 
  Huaguang Zhang, Zhenwei Liu:
  Corrigendum to "Stability analysis for linear delayed systems via an optimally dividing delay interval approach" [Automatica 47 (2011) 2126-2129]. 1739-1740
• 
  Jason L. Speyer, Moshe Idan, Javier H. Fernández:
  Erratum to "A stochastic controller for a scalar linear system with additive Cauchy noise" [Automatica 50 (1) (2014) 114-127]. 1742-1755

Volume 50, Number 7, July 2014

Survey Papers

• 
  Marius Tucsnak, George Weiss:
  Well-posed systems - The LTI case and beyond. 1757-1779

Regular Papers

• 
  Hamidreza Modares, Frank L. Lewis:
  Optimal tracking control of nonlinear partially-unknown constrained-input systems using integral reinforcement learning. 1780-1792
• 
  Daizhan Cheng:
  On finite potential games. 1793-1801
• 
  Alexey S. Matveev, Michael Hoy, Andrey V. Savkin:
  3D environmental extremum seeking navigation of a nonholonomic mobile robot. 1802-1815
• 
  Ali Bazaei, S. O. Reza Moheimani:
  Synthesis of modulated-demodulated control systems. 1816-1824

Brief Papers

• 
  Hongyi Li, Huijun Gao, Peng Shi, Xudong Zhao:
  Fault-tolerant control of Markovian jump stochastic systems via the augmented sliding mode observer approach. 1825-1834
• 
  Jianguo Zhao, Bo Song, Ning Xi, Liang Sun, Hongzhi Chen, Yunyi Jia:
  Non-vector space approach for nanoscale motion control. 1835-1842
• 
  Wei He, Shuang Zhang, Shuzhi Sam Ge:
  Robust adaptive control of a thruster assisted position mooring system. 1843-1851
• 
  Jinhui Zhang, Gang Feng:
  Event-driven observer-based output feedback control for linear systems. 1852-1859
• 
  Ruiyue Ouyang, Bayu Jayawardhana:
  Absolute stability analysis of linear systems with Duhem hysteresis operator. 1860-1866
• 
  Luca Consolini, Cristiano Maria Verrelli:
  Learning control in spatial coordinates for the path-following of autonomous vehicles. 1867-1874
• 
  Rui Ru Chen, Khashayar Khorasani:
  Markovian jump guaranteed cost congestion control strategies for large scale mobile networks with differentiated services traffic. 1875-1883
• 
  Mathieu Pouliquen, Olivier Gehan, Eric Pigeon:
  Bounded-error identification for closed-loop systems. 1884-1890
• 
  Andrea Cristofaro, Tor Arne Johansen:
  Fault tolerant control allocation using unknown input observers. 1891-1897
• 
  Lin Tie:
  On controllability and near-controllability of discrete-time inhomogeneous bilinear systems without drift. 1898-1908
• 
  Usman A. Khan, Ali Jadbabaie:
  Collaborative scalar-gain estimators for potentially unstable social dynamics with limited communication. 1909-1914
• 
  Yuhu Wu, Xiaoping Xue, Tielong Shen:
  Absolute stability of the Kirchhoff string with sector boundary control. 1915-1921
• 
  Yunpeng Wang, Long Cheng, Zeng-Guang Hou, Min Tan, Ming Wang:
  Containment control of multi-agent systems in a noisy communication environment. 1922-1928
• 
  Hao Chen, Jitao Sun:
  Output controllability and optimal output control of state-dependent switched Boolean control networks. 1929-1934

Technical Communiques

• 
  João B. D. Cabrera:
  Periodic sensor switching and the random walk. 1935-1939
• 
  Hyeong Soo Chang:
  Value set iteration for Markov decision processes. 1940-1943
• 
  Denis V. Efimov, Andrey Polyakov, Emilia Fridman, Wilfrid Perruquetti, Jean-Pierre Richard:
  Comments on finite-time stability of time-delay systems. 1944-1947

Book and Software Reviews

• 
  Mario Sznaier:
  Randomized Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Uncertain Systems with Applications, Second Edition, Roberto Tempo, Giuseppe Calafiore, Fabrizio Dabbene (Eds.). Springer-Verlag, London (2013), 357, ISBN: 978-1-4471-4609-4. 1948-1949

Correspondence Items

• 
  Jie Xiong:
  Comments on "Robust state estimation for uncertain discrete-time stochastic systems with missing measurements" [Automatica 47 (2011) 1520-1524]. 1950-1951
• 
  Tong Zhou:
  Reply to "Comments on 'Robust state estimation for uncertain discrete-time stochastic systems with missing measurements'". 1952-1953

Volume 50, Number 8, August 2014

Survey Papers

• 
  Jessy W. Grizzle, Christine Chevallereau, Ryan W. Sinnet, Aaron D. Ames:
  Models, feedback control, and open problems of 3D bipedal robotic walking. 1955-1988

Regular Papers

• 
  Kendra Lesser, Meeko Oishi:
  Reachability for partially observable discrete time stochastic hybrid systems. 1989-1998
• 
  Gert Janssens, Georges Zaccour:
  Strategic price subsidies for new technologies. 1999-2006
• 
  Miki Livne, Arie Levant:
  Proper discretization of homogeneous differentiators. 2007-2014
• 
  Sasa V. Rakovic, Mircea Lazar:
  The Minkowski-Lyapunov equation for linear dynamics: Theoretical foundations. 2015-2024
• 
  Alain Bensoussan, Chi Chung Siu, Sheung Chi Phillip Yam, Hailiang Yang:
  A class of non-zero-sum stochastic differential investment and reinsurance games. 2025-2037
• 
  Abhishek Halder, Raktim Bhattacharya:
  Probabilistic model validation for uncertain nonlinear systems. 2038-2050
• 
  Mathias Bürger, Daniel Zelazo, Frank Allgöwer:
  Duality and network theory in passivity-based cooperative control. 2051-2061

Brief Papers

• 
  Taeyoung Lee:
  Optimal control of partitioned hybrid systems via discrete-time Hamilton-Jacobi theory. 2062-2069
• 
  Wen Yang, Guanrong Chen, Xiaofan Wang, Ling Shi:
  Stochastic sensor activation for distributed state estimation over a sensor network. 2070-2076
• 
  Francisco Javier Bejarano, Gang Zheng:
  Observability of linear systems with commensurate delays and unknown inputs. 2077-2083
• 
  Donghoon Kim, James D. Turner:
  Near-minimum-time control of asymmetric rigid spacecraft using two controls. 2084-2089
• 
  LiYing Sun, Gang Feng, Yuzhen Wang:
  Finite-time stabilization and H_∞ control for a class of nonlinear Hamiltonian descriptor systems with application to affine nonlinear descriptor systems. 2090-2097
• 
  Shuqian Zhu, Qing-Long Han, Chenghui Zhang:
  I₁-gain performance analysis and positive filter design for positive discrete-time Markov jump linear systems: A linear programming approach. 2098-2107
• 
  Shaolong Shu, Feng Lin:
  Decentralized control of networked discrete event systems with communication delays. 2108-2112
• 
  Matthijs van Berkel, Gerd Vandersteen, Egon Geerardyn, Rik Pintelon, Hans Zwart, Marco R. de Baar:
  Frequency domain sample maximum likelihood estimation for spatially dependent parameter estimation in PDEs. 2113-2119
• 
  Hongwei Mei, Le Yi Wang, Gang George Yin:
  Almost sure convergence rates for system identification using binary, quantized, and regular sensors. 2120-2127
• 
  Ming-Li Chiang, Li-Chen Fu:
  Adaptive stabilization of a class of uncertain switched nonlinear systems with backstepping control. 2128-2135
• 
  Peddapullaiah Sannuti, Ali Saberi, Meirong Zhang:
  Squaring down of general MIMO systems to invertible uniform rank systems via pre- and/or post-compensators. 2136-2141
• 
  Sofiane Khadraoui, Hazem N. Nounou, Mohamed N. Nounou, Aniruddha Datta, Shankar P. Bhattacharyya:
  A model-free design of reduced-order controllers and application to a DC servomotor. 2142-2149
• 
  Robert Schmid, Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis, Thang Nguyen-Tien, Amit Pandey:
  A unified method for optimal arbitrary pole placement. 2150-2154
• 
  Aras Adhami-Mirhosseini, Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah, A. Pedro Aguiar:
  Automatic bottom-following for underwater robotic vehicles. 2155-2162
• 
  Zhibin Yan, Caiyun Chen:
  Use Hausdorff metric to analyze convergence of parameter estimation in system identification. 2163-2168
• 
  Fabrizio Padula, Antonio Visioli:
  Inversion-based feedforward and reference signal design for fractional constrained control systems. 2169-2178
• 
  Stefano Riverso, Marcello Farina, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate:
  Plug-and-play model predictive control based on robust control invariant sets. 2179-2186

Technical Communiques

• 
  Alexander N. Churilov, Alexander Medvedev:
  An impulse-to-impulse discrete-time mapping for a time-delay impulsive system. 2187-2190
• 
  Nikola Stankovic, Sorin Olaru, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu:
  Further remarks on asymptotic stability and set invariance for linear delay-difference equations. 2191-2195
• 
  Ha Binh Minh, Carles Batlle, Enric Fossas:
  A new estimation of the lower error bound in balanced truncation method. 2196-2198

Correspondence Items

• 
  ShouGuang Wang, Miao Liu:
  Comments on "Liveness of an extended S³PR" [Automatica 46 (2010) 1008-1018]. 2199-2200
• 
  Ding Liu, ZhiWu Li, MengChu Zhou:
  Authors' Reply to 'Comments on "Liveness of an extended S³PR " [Automatica 46(6) (2010) 1008-1018]'. 2201

Volume 50, Number 9, September 2014

Survey Paper

• 
  Roger W. Brockett:
  The early days of geometric nonlinear control. 2203-2224

Regular Papers

• 
  Shun Li, Peng-Fei Yao:
  Stabilization of the Euler-Bernoulli plate with variable coefficients by nonlinear internal feedback. 2225-2233
• 
  Nithin Govindarajan, Cornelis C. de Visser, Kalmanje Krishnakumar:
  A sparse collocation method for solving time-dependent HJB equations using multivariate B-splines. 2234-2244
• 
  Gyeongbeom Yi, Gintaras V. Reklaitis:
  Adaptive model predictive inventory controller for multiproduct warehouse system. 2245-2253
• 
  Weisheng Chen, Shaoyong Hua, Shuzhi Sam Ge:
  Consensus-based distributed cooperative learning control for a group of discrete-time nonlinear multi-agent systems using neural networks. 2254-2268
• 
  Shuyou Yu, Marcus Reble, Hong Chen, Frank Allgöwer:
  Inherent robustness properties of quasi-infinite horizon nonlinear model predictive control. 2269-2280
• 
  Robbert van Herpen, Tom Oomen, Maarten Steinbuch:
  Optimally conditioned instrumental variable approach for frequency-domain system identification. 2281-2293
• 
  Xianwei Li, Shen Yin, Huijun Gao:
  Passivity-preserving model reduction with finite frequency H_∞ approximation performance. 2294-2303

Brief Papers

• 
  Matthew W. Harris, Behçet Açikmese:
  Lossless convexification of non-convex optimal control problems for state constrained linear systems. 2304-2311
• 
  Sei Zhen Khong, Ying Tan, Chris Manzie, Dragan Nesic:
  Multi-agent source seeking via discrete-time extremum seeking control. 2312-2320
• 
  Ibtissem Didi, Hacen Dib, Brahim Cherki:
  An invariant observer for a chemostat model. 2321-2326
• 
  Jiahu Qin, Changbin Brad Yu:
  Exponential consensus of general linear multi-agent systems under directed dynamic topology. 2327-2333
• 
  Thomas Hélie, Béatrice Laroche:
  Computable convergence bounds of series expansions for infinite dimensional linear-analytic systems and application. 2334-2340
• 
  Changbin Brad Yu, Jiahu Qin, Huijun Gao:
  Cluster synchronization in directed networks of partial-state coupled linear systems under pinning control. 2341-2349
• 
  Ning Sun, Yongchun Fang:
  Nonlinear tracking control of underactuated cranes with load transferring and lowering: Theory and experimentation. 2350-2357
• 
  Marco Baglietto, Giorgio Battistelli, Pietro Tesi:
  Discerning controllers for switching linear systems: Existence and genericity. 2358-2365
• 
  Xinghu Wang, Yiguang Hong, Haibo Ji:
  Adaptive multi-agent containment control with multiple parametric uncertain leaders. 2366-2372
• 
  Dario Piga, Roland Tóth:
  A bias-corrected estimator for nonlinear systems with output-error type model structures. 2373-2380
• 
  W. Steven Gray, Luis Augusto Duffaut Espinosa, Makhin Thitsa:
  Left inversion of analytic nonlinear SISO systems via formal power series methods. 2381-2388
• 
  Efstathios Bakolas:
  Decentralized spatial partitioning for multi-vehicle systems in spatiotemporal flow-field. 2389-2396
• 
  Carlos Alberto Cavichioli Gonzaga, Oswaldo Luiz do Valle Costa:
  Stochastic stabilization and induced l₂-gain for discrete-time Markov jump Lur'e systems with control saturation. 2397-2404
• 
  Zhihua Qu, Marwan A. Simaan:
  Modularized design for cooperative control and plug-and-play operation of networked heterogeneous systems. 2405-2414

Technical Communiques

• 
  Zhi-Hong Guan, Bin Hu, Ming Chi, Ding-Xin He, Xin-Ming Cheng:
  Guaranteed performance consensus in second-order multi-agent systems with hybrid impulsive control. 2415-2418
• 
  Xu Zhang, Yan Lin:
  Nonlinear decentralized control of large-scale systems with strong interconnections. 2419-2423
• 
  Antoine Chaillet, David Angeli, Hiroshi Ito:
  Strong iISS is preserved under cascade interconnection. 2424-2427

Correspondence Items

• 
  Chunhe Hu:
  Comments on "Input-to-state stability of hybrid systems with receding horizon control in the presence of packet dropouts" [Automatica 48 (2012) 1920-1923]. 2428
• 
  Wann-Jiun Ma, Vijay Gupta:
  Reply to "Comments on 'Input-to-state stability of hybrid systems with receding horizon control in the presence of packet dropouts' [Automatica 48 (2012) 1920-1923]". 2429

Erratum

• 
  Dequan Li, Qipeng Liu, Xiao Fan Wang, Zongli Lin:
  Erratum to "Consensus seeking over directed networks with limited information communication" [Automatica 49 (2) (2013) 610-618]. 2430-2431

Volume 50, Number 10, October 2014

Editorial

• 
  Tamer Basar:
  Automatica Prize Paper Awards 2014. 2433-2434

Survey Paper

• 
  Andrew R. Teel, Anantharaman Subbaraman, Antonino Sferlazza:
  Stability analysis for stochastic hybrid systems: A survey. 2435-2456

Regular Papers

• 
  Johannes Schiffer, Romeo Ortega, Alessandro Astolfi, Jörg Raisch, Tevfik Sezi:
  Conditions for stability of droop-controlled inverter-based microgrids. 2457-2469
• 
  Chetan D. Pahlajani, Jianxin Sun, Ioannis Poulakakis, Herbert G. Tanner:
  Error probability bounds for nuclear detection: Improving accuracy through controlled mobility. 2470-2481
• 
  Franco Blanchini, Giulia Giordano:
  Piecewise-linear Lyapunov functions for structural stability of biochemical networks. 2482-2493
• 
  Pawel Miroslaw Stano, Arnold J. den Dekker, Zsófia Lendek, Robert Babuska:
  Convex saturated particle filter. 2494-2503
• 
  Panagiotis Patrinos, Pantelis Sopasakis, Haralambos Sarimveis, Alberto Bemporad:
  Stochastic model predictive control for constrained discrete-time Markovian switching systems. 2504-2514
• 
  Fan Zhang, Harry L. Trentelman, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen:
  Fully distributed robust synchronization of networked Lur'e systems with incremental nonlinearities. 2515-2526
• 
  Qinghua Zhang, Michèle Basseville:
  Statistical detection and isolation of additive faults in linear time-varying systems. 2527-2538

Brief Papers

• 
  Halil I. Basturk, Miroslav Krstic:
  State derivative feedback for adaptive cancellation of unmatched disturbances in unknown strict-feedback LTI systems. 2539-2545
• 
  James Richard Forbes, Anton H. J. de Ruiter, David Evan Zlotnik:
  Continuous-time norm-constrained Kalman filtering. 2546-2554
• 
  Frédéric Mazenc, Thach Ngoc Dinh:
  Construction of interval observers for continuous-time systems with discrete measurements. 2555-2560
• 
  Matthew J. Ellis, Panagiotis D. Christofides:
  On finite-time and infinite-time cost improvement of economic model predictive control for nonlinear systems. 2561-2569
• 
  Maziar Izadi, Amit K. Sanyal:
  Rigid body attitude estimation based on the Lagrange-d'Alembert principle. 2570-2577
• 
  Ali Bidram, Frank L. Lewis, Ali Davoudi:
  Synchronization of nonlinear heterogeneous cooperative systems using input-output feedback linearization. 2578-2585
• 
  Sina Yamac Caliskan, Paulo Tabuada:
  Towards Kron reduction of generalized electrical networks. 2586-2590
• 
  Hans-Bernd Dürr, Milos S. Stankovic, Karl Henrik Johansson, Christian Ebenbauer:
  Extremum seeking on submanifolds in the Euclidian space. 2591-2596
• 
  Torsten Söderström, David Kreiberg, Magnus Mossberg:
  Extended accuracy analysis of a covariance matching approach for identifying errors-in-variables systems. 2597-2605
• 
  Debarghya Ghoshdastidar, Ambedkar Dukkipati, Shalabh Bhatnagar:
  Newton-based stochastic optimization using q-Gaussian smoothed functional algorithms. 2606-2614
• 
  Steven X. Ding, Ying Yang, Yong Zhang, Linlin Li:
  Data-driven realizations of kernel and image representations and their application to fault detection and control system design. 2615-2623
• 
  Tao Bian, Yu Jiang, Zhong-Ping Jiang:
  Adaptive dynamic programming and optimal control of nonlinear nonaffine systems. 2624-2632
• 
  Eloy García, Yongcan Cao, David Wellman Casbeer:
  Decentralized event-triggered consensus with general linear dynamics. 2633-2640
• 
  Ewoud Vos, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen, Arjan van der Schaft:
  Equal distribution of satellite constellations on circular target orbits. 2641-2647
• 
  Yongcan Cao, Wei Ren:
  Finite-time consensus for multi-agent networks with unknown inherent nonlinear dynamics. 2648-2656
• 
  Ondrej Straka, Jindrich Duník, Miroslav Simandl:
  Unscented Kalman filter with advanced adaptation of scaling parameter. 2657-2664
• 
  Yugang Niu, Daniel W. C. Ho:
  Control strategy with adaptive quantizer's parameters under digital communication channels. 2665-2671
• 
  Luis Orihuela, Antonio Barreiro, Fabio Gómez-Estern, Francisco R. Rubio:
  Periodicity of Kalman-based scheduled filters. 2672-2676
• 
  Rihab El Houda Thabet, Tarek Raïssi, Christophe Combastel, Denis V. Efimov, Ali Zolghadri:
  An effective method to interval observer design for time-varying systems. 2677-2684
• 
  Miad Moarref, Luis Rodrigues:
  Stability and stabilization of linear sampled-data systems with multi-rate samplers and time driven zero order holds. 2685-2691
• 
  Pauline Bernard, Miroslav Krstic:
  Adaptive output-feedback stabilization of non-local hyperbolic PDEs. 2692-2699
• 
  Xianwei Li, Changbin Brad Yu, Huijun Gao:
  Design of delta-sigma modulators via generalized Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma. 2700-2708
• 
  Sergio Galeani, Didier Henrion, Alain Jacquemard, Luca Zaccarian:
  Design of Marx generators as a structured eigenvalue assignment. 2709-2717

Technical Communiques

• 
  Navid Noroozi, Dragan Nesic, Andrew R. Teel:
  Gronwall inequality for hybrid systems. 2718-2722
• 
  Oliver M. O'Reilly:
  On the formulation of cost functions for torque-optimized control of rigid bodies. 2723-2725
• 
  Mohammad Hajiahmadi, Bart De Schutter, Hans Hellendoorn:
  Stabilization and robust H_⃵ control for sector-bounded switched nonlinear systems. 2726-2731

Correspondence Items

• 
  Shenquan Wang, Yulian Jiang:
  Comment on "On LMI conditions to design observer-based controllers for linear systems with parameter uncertainties [Automatica 49 (2013) 3700-3704]". 2732-2733
• 
  Michal Góra, Dominik Mielczarek:
  Comments on "Necessary and sufficient stability condition of fractional-order interval linear systems" [Automatica 44 (2008), 2985-2988]. 2734-2735
• 
  Hyo-Sung Ahn, Yangquan Chen:
  Authors' reply to "Comments on 'Necessary and sufficient stability condition of fractional-order interval linear systems"' [Automatica 44 (2008) 2985-2988]. 2736

Volume 50, Number 11, November 2014

Survey Papers

• 
  Gang Tao:
  Multivariable adaptive control: A survey. 2737-2764

Regular Papers

• 
  Jie Xiong, Tong Zhou:
  Structure identification for gene regulatory networks via linearization and robust state estimation. 2765-2776
• 
  Jiusun Zeng, Uwe Kruger, Jaap Geluk, Xun Wang, Lei Xie:
  Detecting abnormal situations using the Kullback-Leibler divergence. 2777-2786
• 
  Huai-Ning Wu, Jun-Wei Wang:
  Static output feedback control via PDE boundary and ODE measurements in linear cascaded ODE-beam systems. 2787-2798
• 
  Joost Veenman, Carsten W. Scherer:
  A synthesis framework for robust gain-scheduling controllers. 2799-2812
• 
  Graziano Chesi:
  Establishing robust stability of discrete-time systems with time-varying uncertainty: The Gram-SOS approach. 2813-2821
• 
  Farshad R. Pour Safaei, Kyoungmin Roh, Stephen R. Proulx, João Pedro Hespanha:
  Quadratic control of stochastic hybrid systems with renewal transitions. 2822-2834

Brief Papers

• 
  Behnam Allahverdi Charandabi, Horacio J. Marquez:
  A novel approach to unknown input filter design for discrete-time linear systems. 2835-2839
• 
  Qing-Wen Wang, Zhuo-Heng He:
  Systems of coupled generalized Sylvester matrix equations. 2840-2844
• 
  Liang Dai, Kristiaan Pelckmans:
  Sparse estimation from noisy observations of an overdetermined linear system. 2845-2851
• 
  Maria Prandini, Simone Garatti, Riccardo Vignali:
  Performance assessment and design of abstracted models for stochastic hybrid systems through a randomized approach. 2852-2860
• 
  Bin Zhou:
  Pseudo-predictor feedback stabilization of linear systems with time-varying input delays. 2861-2871
• 
  Yashar Kouhi, Naim Bajçinca, Jörg Raisch, Robert Shorten:
  On the quadratic stability of switched linear systems associated with symmetric transfer function matrices. 2872-2879
• 
  Valery A. Ugrinovskii:
  Gain-scheduled synchronization of parameter varying systems via relative H_∞ consensus with application to synchronization of uncertain bilinear systems. 2880-2887
• 
  Yuanlong Li, Zongli Lin:
  Saturation-based switching anti-windup design for linear systems with nested input saturation. 2888-2896
• 
  Qing Zhu, Xinghuo Yu, Aiguo Song, Shumin Fei, Zhiqiang Cao, Yuequan Yang:
  On sliding mode control of single input Markovian jump systems. 2897-2904
• 
  Weiyu Xu, Er-Wei Bai, Myung Cho:
  System identification in the presence of outliers and random noises: A compressed sensing approach. 2905-2911
• 
  Thor I. Fossen, Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen:
  On uniform semiglobal exponential stability (USGES) of proportional line-of-sight guidance laws. 2912-2917
• 
  M. Sofiane Benachour, Humberto Stein Shiromoto, Vincent Andrieu:
  Locally optimal controllers and globally inverse optimal controllers. 2918-2923
• 
  Dmitriy Laschov, Michael Margaliot:
  On Boolean control networks with maximal topological entropy. 2924-2928
• 
  Baocang Ding, Hongguang Pan:
  Output feedback robust MPC with one free control move for the linear polytopic uncertain system with bounded disturbance. 2929-2935
• 
  Gökhan M. Atinç, Dusan M. Stipanovic, Petros G. Voulgaris:
  Supervised coverage control of multi-agent systems. 2936-2942
• 
  Matthias Albrecht Müller, David Angeli, Frank Allgöwer:
  Transient average constraints in economic model predictive control. 2943-2950
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  Mondher Farza, Ibtissem Bouraoui, Tomas Menard, Ridha Ben Abdennour, Mohammed M'Saad:
  Adaptive observers for a class of uniformly observable systems with nonlinear parametrization and sampled outputs. 2951-2960

Technical Communiques

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  Henrik Schiøler, Maria Simonsen, John Leth:
  Stochastic stability of systems with semi-Markovian switching. 2961-2964

Volume 50, Number 12, December 2014

Editorials

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  Tamer Basar:
  A time of transition. 2965-2966

Survey Papers

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  David Q. Mayne:
  Model predictive control: Recent developments and future promise. 2967-2986

Regular Papers

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  Chris Phelps, Qi Gong, Johannes O. Royset, Claire Walton, Isaac Kaminer:
  Consistent approximation of a nonlinear optimal control problem with uncertain parameters. 2987-2997
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  Rohan C. Shekhar, William H. Moase, Chris Manzie:
  Discrete-time extremum-seeking for Wiener-Hammerstein plants. 2998-3008
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  Georg Schildbach, Lorenzo Fagiano, Christoph Frei, Manfred Morari:
  The scenario approach for Stochastic Model Predictive Control with bounds on closed-loop constraint violations. 3009-3018
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  Marko Tanaskovic, Lorenzo Fagiano, Roy S. Smith, Manfred Morari:
  Adaptive receding horizon control for constrained MIMO systems. 3019-3029
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  Matthew S. Hölzel, Dennis S. Bernstein:
  A matrix nullspace approach for solving equality-constrained multivariable polynomial least-squares problems. 3030-3037
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  Mohammed I. Abouheaf, Frank L. Lewis, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, Sofie Haesaert, Robert Babuska:
  Multi-agent discrete-time graphical games and reinforcement learning solutions. 3038-3053
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  Pierdomenico Pepe:
  Direct and converse Lyapunov theorems for functional difference systems. 3054-3066
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  Philippe Martin, Lionel Rosier, Pierre Rouchon:
  Null controllability of the heat equation using flatness. 3067-3076
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  Enrique Zuazua:
  Averaged control. 3077-3087
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  Haibin Dou, Shaoping Wang:
  A boundary control for motion synchronization of a two-manipulator system with a flexible beam. 3088-3099
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  Matthias Albrecht Müller, David Angeli, Frank Allgöwer, Rishi Amrit, James B. Rawlings:
  Convergence in economic model predictive control with average constraints. 3100-3111
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  Wei-Jie Feng, Lei Wang, Qing-Guo Wang:
  A family of multi-path congestion control algorithms with global stability and delay robustness. 3112-3122

Brief Papers

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  Erik Chumacero, Antonio Loría, Gerardo Espinosa-Pérez:
  Velocity-sensorless tracking control and identification of switched-reluctance motors. 3123-3130
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  Eduardo Montijano, Juan Ignacio Montijano, Carlos Sagüés, Sonia Martínez:
  Robust discrete time dynamic average consensus. 3131-3138
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  Netzer Bar Am, Emilia Fridman:
  Network-based H_∞ filtering of parabolic systems. 3139-3146
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  Koen Tiels, Johan Schoukens:
  Wiener system identification with generalized orthonormal basis functions. 3147-3154
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  Alessandro Chiuso, Nicola Laurenti, Luca Schenato, Andrea Zanella:
  LQG-like control of scalar systems over communication channels: The role of data losses, delays and SNR limitations. 3155-3163
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  Hongyinping Feng, Bao-Zhu Guo:
  Output feedback stabilization of an unstable wave equation with general corrupted boundary observation. 3164-3172
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  Chun Yin, Yangquan Chen, Shouming Zhong:
  Fractional-order sliding mode based extremum seeking control of a class of nonlinear systems. 3173-3181
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  Hongli Dong, Zidong Wang, Steven X. Ding, Huijun Gao:
  Finite-horizon estimation of randomly occurring faults for a class of nonlinear time-varying systems. 3182-3189
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  Nikolaos Athanasopoulos, Mircea Lazar, Christoph Böhm, Frank Allgöwer:
  On stability and stabilization of periodic discrete-time systems with an application to satellite attitude control. 3190-3196
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  Manuel Mazo Jr., Ming Cao:
  Asynchronous decentralized event-triggered control. 3197-3203
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  Alexey V. Egorov, Sabine Mondié:
  Necessary stability conditions for linear delay systems. 3204-3208
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  Javad Ghaderi, R. Srikant:
  Opinion dynamics in social networks with stubborn agents: Equilibrium and convergence rate. 3209-3215
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  Torsten Söderström, Roberto Diversi, Umberto Soverini:
  A unified framework for EIV identification methods when the measurement noises are mutually correlated. 3216-3223
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  Steffi Knorn, Alejandro Donaire, Juan C. Agüero, Richard H. Middleton:
  Passivity-based control for multi-vehicle systems subject to string constraints. 3224-3230
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  Wuquan Li, Ji-Feng Zhang:
  Distributed practical output tracking of high-order stochastic multi-agent systems with inherent nonlinear drift and diffusion terms. 3231-3238
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  Annika Eichler, Christian Hoffmann, Herbert Werner:
  Robust control of decomposable LPV systems. 3239-3245
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  Gilles Millerioux, Jamal Daafouz:
  On persistent excitations for the identification of switched linear dynamical systems over finite fields. 3246-3252
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  Rosario Aragues, Guodong Shi, Dimos V. Dimarogonas, Carlos Sagüés, Karl Henrik Johansson, Youcef Mezouar:
  Distributed algebraic connectivity estimation for undirected graphs with upper and lower bounds. 3253-3259
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  Kyungsu Kim, Yu Jin Cheon, In-Beum Lee, Jietae Lee, Su Whan Sung:
  A frequency response identification method for discrete-time processes with cyclic steady state conditions. 3260-3267
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  Xiaojie Su, Ligang Wu, Peng Shi, Yong-Duan Song:
  A novel approach to output feedback control of fuzzy stochastic systems. 3268-3275
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  Samer Riachy:
  A continuous-time framework for least squares parameter estimation. 3276-3280
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  Biao Luo, Huai-Ning Wu, Tingwen Huang, Derong Liu:
  Data-based approximate policy iteration for affine nonlinear continuous-time optimal control design. 3281-3290
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  Marko Tanaskovic, Lorenzo Fagiano, Manfred Morari:
  On the optimal worst-case experiment design for constrained linear systems. 3291-3298
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  Sérine Damak, Michael Di Loreto, Warody Lombardi, Vincent Andrieu:
  Exponential L₂-stability for a class of linear systems governed by continuous-time difference equations. 3299-3303
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  Muhammad Imran, Abdul Ghafoor, Victor Sreeram:
  A frequency weighted model order reduction technique and error bounds. 3304-3309
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  Issa Amadou Tall:
  Linearization of control systems: A Lie series approach. 3310-3315

Technical Communiques

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  Xiaoxu Wang, Yan Liang, Quan Pan, Zengfu Wang:
  General equivalence between two kinds of noise-correlation filters. 3316-3318
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  Diego S. Carrasco, Graham C. Goodwin:
  Connecting filtering and control sensitivity functions. 3319-3322
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  Octavian C. Pastravanu, Mihaela-Hanako Matcovschi:
  Max-type copositive Lyapunov functions for switching positive linear systems. 3323-3327