CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
— In this paper, we investigate synchronization in a small-world network of coupled nonlinear oscillators. This network is constructed by introducing random shortcuts in a neares...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
— Most existing work uses dual decomposition and subgradient methods to solve network optimization problems in a distributed manner, which suffer from slow convergence rate prope...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This paper describes a two-sweep control design method to stabilize the acrobot, an input-affine under-actuated system, at the upper equilibrium point. In the forward sweep, t...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This paper deals with LTI interconnected systems whose subsystems have coupled dynamics. The objective is to decentralize a given centralized controller satisfying some prescri...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
— Instantaneous charge/flux transfers may occur in switched electrical circuits when the switch configuration changes. Characterization of such state discontinuities is a class...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
We consider a plant the dynamics of which switch among a family of systems. Each of these systems has a single stable equilibrium point. We assume that a constraint region for the...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
— Since Witsenhausen put forward his remarkable counterexample in 1968, there have been many attempts to develop efficient methods for solving this non-convex functional optimiz...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This paper places into perspective the so-called algebraic time-derivative estimation method recently introduced by Fliess and co-authors with standard results from linear stat...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
— The control of a new kind of airship is presented. By restricting its flight to a vertical plane, the mathematical model is reduced. The simplified model is proved to be mini...