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CDC
2008
IEEE
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Controllability and observability of leader-based multi-agent systems
— In this work we analyze the controllability and observability properties of several interconnection configurations such as the chain topology and cyclic topology as well as co...
Rogelio Lozano, Mark W. Spong, Jose Alfredo Guerre...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Exploiting Laguerre functions to improve the feasibility/performance compromise in MPC
Abstract— This paper develops a novel mechanism for managing the performance and feasibility trade off withing predictive control. Specifically, it demonstrates that the potenti...
J. Anthony Rossiter, Liuping Wang
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Almost sure convergence to consensus in Markovian random graphs
— In this paper we discuss the consensus problem for a network of dynamic agents with undirected information flow and random switching topologies. The switching is determined by...
Ion Matei, Nuno C. Martins, John S. Baras
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Stable adaptive neural network control of MIMO nonaffine nonlinear discrete-time systems
Lianfei Zhai, Tianyou Chai, Chenguang Yang, Shuzhi...
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Maximum-likelihood Kalman filtering for switching discrete-time linear systems
— State estimation is addressed for a class of discrete-time systems that may switch among different modes taken from a finite set. The system and measurement equations of each ...
Angelo Alessandri, Marco Baglietto, Giorgio Battis...
CDC
2008
IEEE
124views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
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A proximal center-based decomposition method for multi-agent convex optimization
— In this paper we develop a new dual decomposition method for optimizing a sum of convex objective functions corresponding to multiple agents but with coupled constraints. In ou...
Ion Necoara, Johan A. K. Suykens
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Controlling the longitudinal dynamics of a vehicle using sensor based haptic feedback
Abstract— This paper considers a sensor based haptic feedback law for control of the longitudinal dynamics of a vehicle. The environment impedance is implemented in parallel as f...
Robert E. Mahony, Muhammad Atif, Jochen Trumpf
CDC
2008
IEEE
127views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
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Distributed control: A sequentially semi-separable approach
— We consider the problem of designing controllers for spatially-varying interconnected systems distributed in one spatial dimension. The matrix structure of such systems can be ...
Justin K. Rice, Michel Verhaegen
CDC
2008
IEEE
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A collocation model for water-hammer dynamics with application to leak detection
— This paper presents a new model for so-called water hammer equations based on a collocation method. This model is shown to fairly represent possible leak effects in a pipeline ...
Flor Lizeth Torres Ortiz, Gildas Besancon, Didier ...
CDC
2008
IEEE
109views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
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Control of acyclic formations of mobile autonomous agents
— This paper proposes distributed control laws for maintaining the shape of a formation of mobile autonomous agents in the plane for which the desired shape is defined in terms ...
Ming Cao, Brian D. O. Anderson, A. Stephen Morse, ...