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CDC
2008
IEEE
14 years 15 days ago
Shannon meets Bellman: Feature based Markovian models for detection and optimization
— The goal of this paper is to develop modeling techniques for complex systems for the purposes of control, estimation, and inference: (i) A new class of Hidden Markov Models is ...
Sean P. Meyn, George Mathew
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Resource pooling for optimal evacuation of a large building
— This paper is concerned with modeling, analysis and optimization/control of occupancy evolution in a large building. The main concern is efficient evacuation of a building in ...
Kun Deng, Wei Chen, Prashant G. Mehta, Sean P. Mey...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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On the characterisation of stabilisability by means of time-delayed feedback control
— In this paper we consider the stabilisability of nonlinear dynamical systems via time-delayed state and output feedback control. Based on an eigenvalue optimisation approach in...
H. J. C. Huijberts, Wim Michiels, Henk Nijmeijer
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Data-driven precompensator tuning for linear parameter varying systems
— Methods for direct data-driven tuning of the parameters of precompensators for LPV systems are developed. Since the commutativity property is not always satisfied for LPV syst...
Mark Edward John Butcher, Alireza Karimi, Roland L...
CDC
2008
IEEE
14 years 15 days ago
Passivity-based output synchronization and flocking algorithm in SE(3)
Abstract— This paper addresses passivity-based output synchronization and a collision avoidance problem of rigid bodies in the Special Euclidean group SE(3) under the assumption ...
Yuji Igarashi, Takeshi Hatanaka, Masayuki Fujita, ...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Area-constrained coverage optimization by robotic sensor networks
Abstract— This paper studies robotic sensor networks performing coverage optimization tasks with area constraints. The network coverage of the environment is a function of the ro...
Jorge Cortés
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Distributed subgradient methods and quantization effects
Abstract— We consider a convex unconstrained optimization problem that arises in a network of agents whose goal is to cooperatively optimize the sum of the individual agent objec...
Angelia Nedic, Alexander Olshevsky, Asuman E. Ozda...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Metabolic networks analysis using convex optimization
— Metabolic networks map the biochemical reactions in a living cell to the flow of various chemical substances in the cell, which are called metabolites. A standard model of a m...
A. Agung Julius, Marcin Imielinski, George J. Papp...
CDC
2008
IEEE
14 years 15 days ago
Gain margins of multivariable MRAC systems
Abstract— This paper studies the gain margins (GM) of multivariable model reference adaptive control (MRAC) systems: the parameter range of a control gain matrix in a designed MR...
Qian Sang, Gang Tao
CDC
2008
IEEE
14 years 15 days ago
Stability analysis and model-based control in EXTRAP-T2R with time-delay compensation
Erik Olofsson, Emmanuel Witrant, Corentin Briat, S...