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CDC
2009
IEEE
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Time headway requirements for string stability of homogeneous linear unidirectionally connected systems
— This paper investigates string stability issues in homogeneous strings of strictly proper feedback control systems with unidirectional nearest neighbour communications, using o...
Steffi Klinge, Richard H. Middleton
CDC
2009
IEEE
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A new perspective on control of uncertain complex systems
— In this article, we investigate a new class of control problems called Ensemble Control, a notion coming from the study of complex spin dynamics in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (...
Shin Li
CDC
2009
IEEE
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MIMO experiment design based on asymptotic model order theory
Abstract— In this paper we investigate the problem of designing an input signal for a Multi-Input Multi-Output plant to minimize a control-oriented criterion. By employing Ljung...
Cristian R. Rojas, Håkan Hjalmarsson, Roland...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Adaptive control for plants in the presence of actuator and sensor hysteresis nonlinearities
-This paper discusses the output control for a linear plant containing uncertain hysteresis nonlinearities in actuator and sensor devices simultaneously, where the hysteresis is de...
Xinkai Chen, Toshikuni Ozaki
CDC
2009
IEEE
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2D bipedal walking with knees and feet: A hybrid control approach
— In this paper, we consider an anthropomorphically-inspired hybrid model of a bipedal robot with locking knees and feet in order to develop a control law that results in human-l...
Ryan W. Sinnet, Aaron D. Ames
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Stable inversion-based robust tracking control in DC-DC nonlinear switched converters
— This article studies the robust tracking control problem in nonminimum phase DC-DC nonlinear switched power converters. The proposed procedure introduces a stable inversion-bas...
Josep M. Olm, Xavier Ros, Yuri B. Shtessel
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Dealing with stochastic reachability
Abstract— For stochastic hybrid systems, stochastic reachability is very little supported mainly because of complexity and difficulty of the associated mathematical problems. In...
Manuela L. Bujorianu
CDC
2009
IEEE
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An optimization approach to adaptive Kalman filtering
— In this paper, an optimization-based adaptive Kalman filtering method is proposed. The method produces an estimate of the process noise covariance matrix Q by solving an optim...
Maja Karasalo, Xiaoming Hu
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Time varying controllers in discrete-time decentralized control
— In this paper, we consider the problem of finding a time-varying controller which can stabilize a decentralized discrete-time system. In continuous-time, it was already known ...
Ciprian Deliu, Anton A. Stoorvogel, Ali Saberi, Sa...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Algorithms and stability analysis for content distribution over multiple multicast trees
Abstract— The paper investigates theoretical issues in applying the universal swarming technique to efficient content distribution. In a swarming session, a file is distributed...
Xiaoying Zheng, Chunglae Cho, Ye Xia