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CDC
2010
IEEE
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Cost-aware Bayesian sequential decision-making for domain search and object classification
This paper focuses on the development of a cost-aware Bayesian sequential decision-making strategy for the search and classification of multiple unknown objects over a given domain...
Yue Wang, Islam I. Hussein, Donald R. Brown, Richa...
CDC
2010
IEEE
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The internal model principle: Asymptotic tracking and regulation in the behavioral framework
Abstract-- Given a plant, together with an exosystem generating the disturbances and the reference signals, the problem of asymptotic tracking and regulation is to find a controlle...
Shaik Fiaz, Kiyotsugu Takaba, Harry L. Trentelman
CDC
2010
IEEE
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An approximate dual subgradient algorithm for multi-agent non-convex optimization
We consider a multi-agent optimization problem where agents aim to cooperatively minimize a sum of local objective functions subject to a global inequality constraint and a global ...
Minghui Zhu, Sonia Martínez
CDC
2010
IEEE
12 years 12 months ago
Stability robustness in the presence of exponentially unstable isolated equilibria
This note studies nonlinear systems evolving on manifolds with a finite number of asymptotically stable equilibria and a Lyapunov function which strictly decreases outside equilibr...
David Angeli, Laurent Praly
CDC
2010
IEEE
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Optimal UAV coordination for target tracking using dynamic programming
This work focuses on optimal routing for two camera-equipped UAVs cooperatively tracking a single target moving on the ground. The UAVs are small fixed-wing aircraft cruising at a ...
Steven A. P. Quintero, Francesco Papi, Daniel J. K...
CDC
2010
IEEE
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A distributed Newton method for Network Utility Maximization
Most existing work uses dual decomposition and subgradient methods to solve Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problems in a distributed manner, which suffer from slow rate of con...
Ermin Wei, Asuman E. Ozdaglar, Ali Jadbabaie
CDC
2010
IEEE
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Fundamental performance limitations with Kullback-Leibler control cost
This research concerns fundamental performance limitations in control of discrete time nonlinear systems. The fundamental limitations are expressed in terms of the average cost of ...
Sun Yu, Prashant G. Mehta
CDC
2010
IEEE
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Relationship between power loss and network topology in power systems
This paper is concerned with studying how the minimum power loss in a power system is related to its network topology. The existing algorithms in the literature all exploit nonline...
Javad Lavaei, Steven H. Low
CDC
2010
IEEE
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Semi-autonomous networks: Network resilience and adaptive trees
This paper examines the dynamics of a networked multi-agent system operating with a consensus-type coordination algorithm that can be influenced by external agents. We refer to thi...
Airlie Chapman, Mehran Mesbahi
CDC
2010
IEEE
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Multi-robot SLAM using M-Space feature representation
This paper presents a SLAM algorithm for a team of mobile robots exploring an indoor environment, described by adopting the M-Space representation of linear features. Each robot so...
Daniele Benedettelli, Andrea Garulli, Antonio Gian...