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CDC
2008
IEEE
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A nonlinear, control-oriented model for ionic polymer-metal composite actuators
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) form an important category of electroactive polymers and have many potential applications in biomedical, robotic and micro/nano manipulation ...
Zheng Chen, Dawn R. Hedgepeth, Xiaobo Tan
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Simultaneous placement and assignment for exploration in mobile backbone networks
Abstract— This paper presents new algorithms for conducting cooperative sensing using a mobile backbone network. This hierarchical sensing approach combines backbone nodes, which...
Emily M. Craparo, Jonathan P. How, Eytan Modiano
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Hybrid control of a constrained velocity unicycle with local sensing
— This paper introduces a hybrid control scheme for steering a non-holonomic agent with limited sensing capabilities and input constraints through a stationary but unknown worksp...
Apollo S. Oikonomopoulos, Savvas G. Loizou, Kostas...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Optimal control of a parabolic PDE system arising in plasma transport via diffusivity-interior-boundary actuation
— In this paper, we study an optimal control problem arising in plasma transport which is governed by a singularly perturbed system. Time-scale separation allows us to focus on a...
Chao Xu, Joseph N. Dalessio, Eugenio Schuster
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Subgradient methods and consensus algorithms for solving convex optimization problems
— In this paper we propose a subgradient method for solving coupled optimization problems in a distributed way given restrictions on the communication topology. The iterative pro...
Björn Johansson, Tamás Keviczky, Mikae...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Dynamical structure analysis of sparsity and minimality heuristics for reconstruction of biochemical networks
— Network reconstruction, i.e. obtaining network structure from input-output information, is a central theme in systems biology. A variety of approaches aim to obtaining structur...
Russell Howes, Lee John Eccleston, Jorge M. Goncal...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Convergence of rule-of-thumb learning rules in social networks
— We study the problem of dynamic learning by a social network of agents. Each agent receives a signal about an underlying state and communicates with a subset of agents (his nei...
Daron Acemoglu, Angelia Nedic, Asuman E. Ozdaglar
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Analysis of sampled-data interconnected systems
Abstract— In this paper, we consider the sampled-data problem of interconnected systems, specifically, time- and spaceinvariant systems. Our main contribution is to provide suf...
Chun Zhang, Geir E. Dullerud
CDC
2008
IEEE
102views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
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Conservation laws and open systems on higher-dimensional networks
— We discuss a framework for defining physical open systems on higher-dimensional complexes. We start with the formalization of the dynamics of open electrical circuits and the ...
Arjan van der Schaft, Bernhard Maschke