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CDC
2009
IEEE
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Constrained time-optimal control of linear parameter-varying systems
Abstract— For linear and hybrid systems, constrained timeoptimal control was shown to be a low complexity alternative to the explicit solution of the constrained finite-time-opt...
Thomas Besselmann, Johan Löfberg, Manfred Mor...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Dirac mixture approximation of multivariate Gaussian densities
— For the optimal approximation of multivariate Gaussian densities by means of Dirac mixtures, i.e., by means of a sum of weighted Dirac distributions on a continuous domain, a n...
Uwe D. Hanebeck, Marco F. Huber, Vesa Klumpp
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Resource allocation for signal detection with active sensors
— We consider the problem of determining the existence of known constant signals over a set of sites, given noisy measurements obtained by a team of active sensors that can switc...
Jerome Le Ny, Michael M. Zavlanos, George J. Pappa...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Translation control of a fleet circular formation of AUVs under finite communication range
— This work proposes a control algorithm to stabilize a circular formation of AUVs tracking a time-varying center. We also consider the problem of uniform distribution of all the...
Lara B. Arranz, Alexandre Seuret, Carlos Canudas d...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Composite adaptation for neural network-based controllers
—With the motivation of using more information to update the parameter estimates to achieve improved tracking performance, composite adaptation that uses both the system tracking...
Parag M. Patre, Shubhendu Bhasin, Zachary D. Wilco...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Model reduction, optimal prediction, and the Mori-Zwanzig representation of Markov chains
— Model reduction methods from diverse fields— including control, statistical mechanics and economics—aimed at systems that can be represented by Markov chains, are discusse...
Carolyn L. Beck, Sanjay Lall, Tzuchen Liang, Matth...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Adaptive control for parametric output feedback systems with output constraint
— In this paper, adaptive control is presented for a class of parametric output feedback nonlinear systems with output constraint. Adaptive observer backstepping is adopted to ac...
Beibei Ren, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Keng Peng Tee, Tong Hen...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Asynchronous gossip algorithms for stochastic optimization
Abstract— We consider a distributed multi-agent network system where the goal is to minimize an objective function that can be written as the sum of component functions, each of ...
Sundhar Srinivasan Ram, Angelia Nedic, Venugopal V...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Geometry of cyclic pursuit
Abstract— Pursuit strategies (formulated using constantspeed particle models) provide a means for achieving cohesive behavior in systems of multiple mobile agents. In the present...
Kevin S. Galloway, Eric W. Justh, P. S. Krishnapra...