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CDC
2008
IEEE
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Min-Max predictive control of a pilot plant using a QP approach
— The practical implementation of Min-Max MPC (MMMPC) controllers is limited by the computational burden required to compute the control law. This problem can be circumvented by ...
Jorn Klaas Gruber, Daniel R. Ramírez, Teodo...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Prediction of vertical motions for landing operations of UAVs
— This paper outlines a novel and feasible procedure to predict vertical motions for safe landing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during maritime operations. In the presence o...
Xilin Yang, Hemanshu Roy Pota, Matthew Garratt, Va...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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On visibility maintenance via controlled invariance for leader-follower Dubins-like vehicles
— The paper studies the visibility maintenance problem (VMP) for a leader-follower pair of robots modelled as first-order dynamic systems and proposes an original solution based...
Fabio Morbidi, Francesco Bullo, Domenico Prattichi...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Manifold-constrained regressors in system identification
Henrik Ohlsson, Jacob Roll, Lennart Ljung
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Continuous path planning for a data harvesting mobile server
— We consider a queueing system composed of queues distributed at fixed locations in a continuous environment and a mobile server serving the jobs in the queues with spatially v...
Jerome Le Ny, Munther A. Dahleh, Eric Feron, Emili...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Lossless scalar functions: Boundary interpolation, Schur algorithm and Ober's canonical form
Abstract— In [1] a balanced canonical form for continuoustime lossless systems was presented. This form has a tridiagonal dynamical matrix A and the useful property that the corr...
Martine Olivi, Bernard Hanzon, Ralf L. M. Peeters
CDC
2008
IEEE
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A nonlinear, control-oriented model for ionic polymer-metal composite actuators
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) form an important category of electroactive polymers and have many potential applications in biomedical, robotic and micro/nano manipulation ...
Zheng Chen, Dawn R. Hedgepeth, Xiaobo Tan
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Simultaneous placement and assignment for exploration in mobile backbone networks
Abstract— This paper presents new algorithms for conducting cooperative sensing using a mobile backbone network. This hierarchical sensing approach combines backbone nodes, which...
Emily M. Craparo, Jonathan P. How, Eytan Modiano
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Hybrid control of a constrained velocity unicycle with local sensing
— This paper introduces a hybrid control scheme for steering a non-holonomic agent with limited sensing capabilities and input constraints through a stationary but unknown worksp...
Apollo S. Oikonomopoulos, Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Optimal control of a parabolic PDE system arising in plasma transport via diffusivity-interior-boundary actuation
— In this paper, we study an optimal control problem arising in plasma transport which is governed by a singularly perturbed system. Time-scale separation allows us to focus on a...
Chao Xu, Joseph N. Dalessio, Eugenio Schuster