Automatica, Volume 63

Volume 63, January 2016

Brief Papers

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  Emilia Fridman, Maria Terushkin:
  New stability and exact observability conditions for semilinear wave equations. 1-10

Technical Communiques

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  Minh-Duc Hua, Philippe Martin, Tarek Hamel:
  Stability analysis of velocity-aided attitude observers for accelerated vehicles. 11-15
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  Damiano Rotondo, Fatiha Nejjari, Vicenç Puig:
  Dilated LMI characterization for the robust finite time control of discrete-time uncertain linear systems. 16-20
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  Xin-Jiang Wei, Zhaojing Wu, Hamid Reza Karimi:
  Disturbance observer-based disturbance attenuation control for a class of stochastic systems. 21-25

Brief Papers

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  Dan Yu, Suman Chakravorty:
  A stochastic unknown input realization and filtering technique. 26-33

Technical Communiques

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  Sohom Chakrabarty, Bijnan Bandyopadhyay:
  A generalized reaching law with different convergence rates. 34-37

Brief Papers

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  Michel Gevers, Alexandre S. Bazanella, Daniel F. Coutinho, Soura Dasgupta:
  Identifiability and excitation of linearly parametrized rational systems. 38-46

Regular Papers

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  Lisandro De Nicolo, Hernan Haimovich, Richard H. Middleton:
  Ideal switched-model dynamic stability conditions for semi-quasi-Z-source inverters. 47-59
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  Jingtao Shi, Guangchen Wang, Jie Xiong:
  Leader-follower stochastic differential game with asymmetric information and applications. 60-73

Brief Papers

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  Frédéric Mazenc, Emilia Fridman:
  Predictor-based sampled-data exponential stabilization through continuous-discrete observers. 74-81

Regular Papers

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  Minghui Zhu, Emilio Frazzoli:
  Distributed robust adaptive equilibrium computation for generalized convex games. 82-91
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  Ping Zhao, Le Yi Wang, Gang George Yin:
  Controllability and adaptation of linear time-invariant systems under irregular and Markovian sampling. 92-100
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  Johannes Henikl, Wolfgang Kemmetmüller, Thomas Meurer, Andreas Kugi:
  Infinite-dimensional decentralized damping control of large-scale manipulators with hydraulic actuation. 101-115

Brief Papers

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  Damien Koenig, Benoît Marx, Sébastien Varrier:
  Filtering and fault estimation of descriptor switched systems. 116-121
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  Yong Chen, James Lam, Baoyong Zhang:
  Estimation and synthesis of reachable set for switched linear systems. 122-132

Technical Communiques

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  Orest V. Iftime:
  From a standard factorization to a J-spectral factorization for a class of infinite-dimensional systems. 133-137

Regular Papers

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  Johan Markdahl, Xiaoming Hu:
  Exact solutions to a class of feedback systems on. 138-147

Brief Papers

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  Na Huang, Zhisheng Duan, Guanrong Ron Chen:
  Some necessary and sufficient conditions for consensus of second-order multi-agent systems with sampled position data. 148-155
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  Jemin George:
  A robust estimator for stochastic systems under unknown persistent excitation. 156-161

Technical Communiques

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  Bo Shen, Zidong Wang, Tingwen Huang:
  Stabilization for sampled-data systems under noisy sampling interval. 162-166

Brief Papers

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  Gang Zheng, Denis V. Efimov, Wilfrid Perruquetti:
  Design of interval observer for a class of uncertain unobservable nonlinear systems. 167-174
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  Ting Hou, Hongji Ma, Weihai Zhang:
  Spectral tests for observability and detectability of periodic Markov jump systems with nonhomogeneous Markov chain. 175-181

Technical Communiques

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  Hyeong Soo Chang:
  Sleeping experts and bandits approach to constrained Markov decision processes. 182-186

Regular Papers

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  Mohammad Mehdi Asadi, Amir Ajorlou, Amir G. Aghdam:
  Distributed control of a network of single integrators with limited angular fields of view. 187-197
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  Kai Höffner, Kamil A. Khan, Paul I. Barton:
  Generalized derivatives of dynamic systems with a linear program embedded. 198-208
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  Yiannis Kantaros, Michael M. Zavlanos:
  Distributed communication-aware coverage control by mobile sensor networks. 209-220
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  Yossi Joseph Peretz:
  A randomized approximation algorithm for the minimal-norm static-output-feedback problem. 221-234
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  Dennis J. F. Heck, Alessandro Saccon, Nathan van de Wouw, Henk Nijmeijer:
  Guaranteeing stable tracking of hybrid position-force trajectories for a robot manipulator interacting with a stiff environment. 235-247

Brief Papers

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  Jun Shen, James Lam:
  Static output-feedback stabilization with optimal L₁-gain for positive linear systems. 248-253

Regular Papers

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  Aivar Sootla, Diego A. Oyarzún, David Angeli, Guy-Bart Stan:
  Shaping pulses to control bistable systems: Analysis, computation and counterexamples. 254-264
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  Dhruva V. Raman, James Anderson, Antonis Papachristodoulou:
  On the performance of nonlinear dynamical systems under parameter perturbation. 265-273

Brief Papers

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  Cristiano Maria Verrelli, Patrizio Tomei, Valerio Salis, Stefano Bifaretti:
  Repetitive learning position control for full order model permanent magnet step motors. 274-286

Technical Communiques

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  Zhijun Li, Ziting Chen, Jun Fu, Changyin Sun:
  Direct adaptive controller for uncertain MIMO dynamic systems with time-varying delay and dead-zone inputs. 287-291

Regular Papers

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  Jalal Habibi, Behzad Moshiri, Ali Khaki-Sedigh, Manfred Morari:
  Low-complexity control of hybrid systems using approximate multi-parametric MILP. 292-301

Brief Papers

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  Maopeng Ran, Qing Wang, Chaoyang Dong:
  Stabilization of a class of nonlinear systems with actuator saturation via active disturbance rejection control. 302-310

Regular Papers

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  Mohammad Mostafa Asheghan, Joaquín Míguez:
  Stability analysis and robust control of heart beat rate during treadmill exercise. 311-320

Brief Papers

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  Sze Zheng Yong, Minghui Zhu, Emilio Frazzoli:
  A unified filter for simultaneous input and state estimation of linear discrete-time stochastic systems. 321-329
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  Vincent Bachtiar, Eric C. Kerrigan, William H. Moase, Chris Manzie:
  Continuity and monotonicity of the MPC value function with respect to sampling time and prediction horizon. 330-337

Regular Papers

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  Ying Shang, Laurent Hardouin, Mehdi Lhommeau, Carlos Andrey Maia:
  An integrated control strategy to solve the disturbance decoupling problem for max-plus linear systems with applications to a high throughput screening system. 338-348
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  Cheng Song, Lu Liu, Gang Feng, Shengyuan Xu:
  Coverage control for heterogeneous mobile sensor networks on a circle. 349-358

Brief Papers

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  Dong Shen, Wei Zhang, Youqing Wang, Chiang-Ju Chien:
  On almost sure and mean square convergence of P-type ILC under randomly varying iteration lengths. 359-365

Regular Papers

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  Lei Zou, Zidong Wang, Huijun Gao:
  Observer-based H_∞ control of networked systems with stochastic communication protocol: The finite-horizon case. 366-373

Brief Papers

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  Yujuan Wang, Yongduan Song, Miroslav Krstic, Changyun Wen:
  Fault-tolerant finite time consensus for multiple uncertain nonlinear mechanical systems under single-way directed communication interactions and actuation failures. 374-383