AUTOMATICA
2011
13 years 4 months ago
2011
Exploiting spectral properties of symmetric banded Toeplitz matrices, we describe simple sufficient conditions for positivity of a trigonometric polynomial formulated as linear ma...
AUTOMATICA
2011
13 years 4 months ago
2011
The concept of elementary flux vector is valuable in a number of applications of metabolic engineering. For instance, in metabolic flux analysis, each admissible flux vector ca...
AUTOMATICA
2011
13 years 7 months ago
2011
Fluidification constitutes a relaxation technique for studying discrete event systems through fluidified approximated models, thus avoiding the state explosion problem. Moreove...
AUTOMATICA
2011
13 years 7 months ago
2011
Previously, idempotent methods have been found to be extremely fast for solution of dynamic programming equations associated with deterministic control problems. The original meth...
AUTOMATICA
2011
13 years 7 months ago
2011
An asynchronous stochastic approximation based (Frequentist) approach is proposed for mapping using noisy mobile sensors under two different scenarios: 1) perfectly known sensor ...
AUTOMATICA
2011
13 years 7 months ago
2011
— Quadratic systems play an important role in the modeling of a wide class of nonlinear processes (electrical, robotic, biological, etc.). For such systems it is of mandatory imp...
AUTOMATICA
2011
13 years 7 months ago
2011
AUTOMATICA
2011
13 years 7 months ago
2011
We present a framework to solve a finite-time optimal control problem for parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with diffusivity-interior actuators, which is motivate...
AUTOMATICA
2011
13 years 7 months ago
2011
Iterative distributed algorithms are studied for computing arithmetic averages over networks of agents connected through memoryless broadcast erasure channels. These algorithms do...
AUTOMATICA
2011
13 years 7 months ago
2011
It is shown that, for any time-invariant exponentially stable linear system with additive disturbances, time-varying exponentially stable interval observers can be constructed. Th...