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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
15 years 11 months ago
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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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