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CDC
2009
IEEE
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On persistence of chemical reaction networks with time-dependent kinetics and no global conservation laws
— New checkable criteria for persistence of chemical reaction networks are proposed, which extend those obtained by the authors in previous work. The new results allow the consid...
David Angeli, Patrick De Leenheer, Eduardo D. Sont...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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An optimal investment problem with randomly terminating income
Abstract— We investigate an optimal consumption and investment problem where we receive a certain fixed income stream that is terminated at a random time. It turns out that the ...
Michel H. Vellekoop, Mark Davis
CDC
2009
IEEE
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A mechanism design approach to the stabilization of networked dynamical systems
— In this paper we study the problem of stabilizing a networked control system (NCS) composed of N linear dynamical subplants and an equal number of controllers acting over a sha...
Luca Galbusera, Nicola Gatti, Carlo Romani
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Controlled synchronization via nonlinear integral coupling
— This paper considers the problems of controlled synchronization and regulation of oscillatory systems. For a specific class of nonlinear systems, namely for minimum phase syst...
Alexey V. Pavlov, Erik Steur, Nathan van de Wouw
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Trust Estimation in autonomic networks: a statistical mechanics approach
— Trust management, broadly intended as the ability to maintain belief relationship among entities, is recognized as a fundamental security challenge for autonomous and selforgan...
Stefano Ermon, Luca Schenato, Sandro Zampieri
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Quantized consensus via adaptive stochastic gossip algorithm
Abstract— This paper is concerned with the distributed averaging problem over a given undirected graph. To enable every vertex to compute the average of the initial numbers sitti...
Javad Lavaei, Richard M. Murray
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Synthesis of positive-real functions with low-complexity series-parallel networks
— The purpose of this paper is to continue to develop the recently introduced concept of a regular positivereal function and its application to the classification of lowcomplexi...
Jason Zheng Jiang, Malcolm C. Smith
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Linear Parameter Varying Iterative Learning Control
— In this paper an Iterative Learning Control (ILC) algorithm is proposed for a certain class of Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) systems whose dynamics change between iterations. ...
Mark Edward John Butcher, Alireza Karimi
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Controllability and observability of uncertain systems: A robust measure
— This paper deals with the class of polynomially uncertain continuous-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems whose uncertainties belong to a semi-algebraic set. The objective ...
Somayeh Sojoudi, Javad Lavaei, Amir G. Aghdam
CDC
2009
IEEE
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High performance adaptive robust control for nonlinear system with unknown input backlash
—A high performance adaptive robust control (ARC) algorithm is developed for a class of nonlinear system with unknown input backlash, parametric uncertainties and uncertain nonli...
Jian Guo, Bin Yao, Qingwei Chen, Xiaobei Wu