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CDC
2009
IEEE
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Integral input-to-state stability of interconnected iISS systems by means of a lower-dimensional comparison system
Abstract-- We consider arbitrarily many interconnected integral Input-to-State Stable (iISS) systems in an arbitrary interconnection topology and provide an (i)ISS comparison princ...
Björn Sebastian Rüffer, Christopher M. K...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Improving the performance of active set based Model Predictive Controls by dataflow methods
Abstract-- Dataflow representations of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) software have been developing since the 1980's. They have proven to be useful in identifying bottlenecks...
Ruirui Gu, Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, William S. Lev...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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The entropy penalized minimum energy estimator
This paper addresses the state estimation problem of nonlinear systems. We formulate the problem using a minimum energy estimator (MEE) approach and propose an entropy penalized sc...
Sergio Daniel Pequito, A. Pedro Aguiar, Diogo A. G...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Controllability analysis for current profile control in tokamaks
Abstract-- The control of the toroidal current density spatial profile in tokamak plasmas will be absolutely critical in future commercial-grade reactors to enable high fusion gain...
Yongsheng Ou, Eugenio Schuster
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Control of ramp-up current profile dynamics in tokamak plasmas via the minimal-surface theory
The central task of current profile control during the ramp-up phase of a tokamak discharge is to find the actuator trajectories that are necessary to achieve certain desired curre...
Chao Xu, Eugenio Schuster
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Formation control of unicycle mobile robots: a virtual structure approach
— In this paper, the formation control problem for unicycle mobile robots is studied. A virtual structure control strategy with mutual coupling between the robots is proposed.
Thijs H. A. van den Broek, Nathan van de Wouw, Hen...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Nonlinear attitude estimation using active vision and inertial measurements
Abstract— In this paper we consider the problem of estimating the attitude of a rigid body equipped with a triad of rate gyros and a pan and tilt camera. The nonlinear attitude o...
Sérgio Bras, Rita Cunha, José Fernan...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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Distributed and optimal reduced primal-dual algorithm for uplink OFDM resource allocation
— Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is the key component of many emerging broadband wireless access standards. The resource allocation in OFDM uplink, however, is...
Xiao-Xin Zhang, Liang Chen, Jianwei Huang, Minghua...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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An algorithm for event-based optimal feedback control
— We present an algorithm for an event based approach to the global optimal control of nonlinear systems with coarsely quantized state measurement. The quantized measurements ind...
Lars Grüne, Florian Mueller
CDC
2009
IEEE
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The Kalman like particle filter: Optimal estimation with quantized innovations/measurements
— We study the problem of optimal estimation using quantized innovations, with application to distributed estimation over sensor networks. We show that the state probability dens...
Ravi Teja Sukhavasi, Babak Hassibi