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AUTOMATICA
2008
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Collective circular motion of multi-vehicle systems
This paper addresses a collective motion problem for a multi-agent system composed of nonholonomic vehicles. The aim of the vehicles is to achieve circular motion around a virtual...
Nicola Ceccarelli, Mauro Di Marco, Andrea Garulli,...
WCE
2007
14 years 18 days ago
Autolanding of Commercial Aircrafts by Genetic Programming
—The genetic programming approach is applied to the problem of aircraft autolanding, subject to wind disturbances. The derived control law is tested successfully, using a lineari...
Dimitris C. Dracopoulos
WCE
2007
14 years 18 days ago
Four Rotors Helicopter Yaw and Altitude Stabilization
— In this paper an appropriate four rotors helicopter nonlinear dynamic model for identi cation and control law synthesis is obtained via modelization procedure where several phe...
L. Derafa, A. Ouldali, Tarek Madani, Abdelaziz Ben...
PKDD
2000
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Application of Reinforcement Learning to Electrical Power System Closed-Loop Emergency Control
This paper investigates the use of reinforcement learning in electric power system emergency control. The approach consists of using numerical simulations together with on-policy M...
Christophe Druet, Damien Ernst, Louis Wehenkel
ECRTS
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Managing Quality-of-Control Performance Under Overload Conditions
A common method for dealing with overload conditions in periodic task systems is to reduce the load by enlarging activation periods. When a periodic task implements a digital cont...
Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Manel Velasco, Pau Mart&iacut...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
A General Algorithm for Dynamic Feedback Linearization of Robots with Elastic Joints
For a general class of robots with elastic joints, we introduce an inversion algorithm for the synthesis of a dynamic feedback control law that gives input-output decoupling and f...
Alessandro De Luca, Pasquale Lucibello
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
A Comparative Study of Vision-Based Lateral Control Strategies for Autonomous Highway Driving
ct This paper willpresent the resultsof a comparative study of a set of vision-based control strategies that have been applied to the problem of steering an autonomous vehicle alon...
Jana Kosecka, Robert Blasi, Camillo J. Taylor, Jit...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Visual Servoing from Lines
In this paper we present a new approach to visual servoing using lines. It is based on a theoretical and geometrical study of the main line representations which allows us to deï¬...
Nicolas Andreff, Bernard Espiau, Radu Horaud
CDC
2009
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
An exploration strategy by constructing Voronoi diagrams with provable completeness
— We present novel exploration algorithms and a control law that enable the construction of Voronoi diagrams over unknown areas using a single autonomous vehicle equipped with ra...
Jonghoek Kim, Fumin Zhang, Magnus Egerstedt
CDC
2009
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Stability of quantized time-delay nonlinear systems: A Lyapunov-Krasowskii-functional approach
Lyapunov-Krasowskii functionals are used to design quantized continuous-time control laws for nonlinear systems in the presence of time-invariant pointwise delays in the input. Th...
Claudio De Persis, Frédéric Mazenc