Automatica, Volume 113

Volume 113, March 2020

Regular Papers

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  Changxi Li, Yu Xing, Fenghua He, Daizhan Cheng:
  A strategic learning algorithm for state-based games. 108615

Brief Papers

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  Masaaki Nagahara, Debasish Chatterjee, Niharika Challapalli, Mathukumalli Vidyasagar:
  CLOT norm minimization for continuous hands-off control. 108679

Regular Papers

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  Kemi Ding, Xiaoqiang Ren, Daniel E. Quevedo, Subhrakanti Dey, Ling Shi:
  Defensive deception against reactive jamming attacks in remote state estimation. 108680

Brief Papers

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  Qi Li, Bo Shen, Zidong Wang, Weiguo Sheng:
  Recursive distributed filtering over sensor networks on Gilbert-Elliott channels: A dynamic event-triggered approach. 108681
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  Maksim V. Dolgopolik, Alexander L. Fradkov, Boris R. Andrievsky:
  Observer-based boundary control of the sine-Gordon model energy. 108682
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  Yangsheng Hu, Yunfeng Jiang, Raymond A. de Callafon:
  Variance reduction in Covariance Based Realization Algorithm with application to closed-loop data. 108683
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  Wei Liu, Jie Huang:
  Output regulation of linear systems via sampled-data control. 108684
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  Vaibhav Katewa, Fabio Pasqualetti:
  On the real stability radius of sparse systems. 108685

Regular Papers

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  Khaled F. Aljanaideh, Dennis S. Bernstein:
  Output-only identification of input-output models. 108686

Brief Papers

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  Yabin Gao, Guanghui Sun, Jianxing Liu, Yang Shi, Ligang Wu:
  State estimation and self-triggered control of CPSs against joint sensor and actuator attacks. 108687
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  Gianni Bianchini, Daniele Pepe, Antonio Vicino:
  Estimation of photovoltaic generation forecasting models using limited information. 108688
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  Tong Ma:
  Filtering adaptive tracking controller for multivariable nonlinear systems subject to constraints using online optimization method. 108689
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  Qinyuan Liu, Zidong Wang, Qing-Long Han, Changjun Jiang:
  Quadratic estimation for discrete time-varying non-Gaussian systems with multiplicative noises and quantization effects. 108714
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  Huaqing Xiong, Yuejie Chi, Bin Hu, Wei Zhang:
  Analytical convergence regions of accelerated gradient descent in nonconvex optimization under Regularity Condition. 108715

Technical Communiques

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  Graham C. Goodwin, María M. Seron:
  Fundamental performance properties of a general class of observers for linear systems having predictable disturbances. 108717
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  Wen-Shyan Chua, Joseph Chang Lun Chan, Chee Pin Tan, Edwin Kah Pin Chong, Sajeeb Saha:
  Robust fault reconstruction for a class of nonlinear systems. 108718

Regular Papers

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  Boris I. Godoy, Victor Solo, Syed Ahmed Pasha:
  Truncated Hawkes point process modeling: System theory and system identification. 108733
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  Johan Markdahl, Johan Thunberg, Jorge M. Goncalves:
  High-dimensional Kuramoto models on Stiefel manifolds synchronize complex networks almost globally. 108736

Technical Communiques

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  Zuowei Cai, Lihong Huang:
  Generalized Lyapunov approach for functional differential inclusions. 108740

Brief Papers

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  Guofeng Zhang, Ian R. Petersen:
  Structural decomposition for quantum two-level systems. 108751
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  Francesco Lo Iudice, José Ángel Acosta, Franco Garofalo, Pietro De Lellis:
  Estimation and control of oscillators through short-range noisy proximity measurements. 108752
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  Qingrong Liu, Xianfu Zhang, Hanfeng Li:
  Global regulation for feedforward systems with both discrete delays and distributed delays. 108753
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  Erfan Nozari, Pavankumar Tallapragada, Jorge Cortés:
  Event-triggered stabilization of nonlinear systems with time-varying sensing and actuation delay. 108754
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  Xinli Shi, Xinghuo Yu, Jinde Cao, Guanghui Wen:
  Continuous distributed algorithms for solving linear equations in finite time. 108755

Technical Communiques

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  Zhichen Li, Huaicheng Yan, Hao Zhang, Yan Peng, Ju H. Park, Yong He:
  Stability analysis of linear systems with time-varying delay via intermediate polynomial-based functions. 108756

Regular Papers

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  Shenyu Liu, Daniel Liberzon, Vadim Zharnitsky:
  Almost Lyapunov functions for nonlinear systems. 108758

Brief Papers

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  Alex S. Leong, Arunselvan Ramaswamy, Daniel E. Quevedo, Holger Karl, Ling Shi:
  Deep reinforcement learning for wireless sensor scheduling in cyber-physical systems. 108759
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  Bin Zhou:
  Finite-time stabilization of linear systems by bounded linear time-varying feedback. 108760

Regular Papers

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  Marco A. Gómez, Raphaël M. Jungers, Wim Michiels:
  On the m-dimensional Cayley-Hamilton theorem and its application to an algebraic decision problem inferred from the H2 norm analysis of delay systems. 108761

Brief Papers

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  Martin Lazar, Jérôme Lohéac:
  Output controllability in a long-time horizon. 108762

Technical Communiques

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  Cristiano Maria Verrelli, Patrizio Tomei:
  AC motors: Letter swap potentialities. 108763

Brief Papers

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  Chuan-Ke Zhang, Fei Long, Yong He, Wei Yao, Lin Jiang, Min Wu:
  A relaxed quadratic function negative-determination lemma and its application to time-delay systems. 108764

Correspondence Item

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  Ai-Guo Wu, Yu Wang:
  Comment on "New predictive scheme for the control of LTI systems with input delay and unknown disturbances" [Automatica 52 (2015) 179-184]. 108765

Regular Papers

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  Yang Tang, Xiaotai Wu, Peng Shi, Feng Qian:
  Input-to-state stability for nonlinear systems with stochastic impulses. 108766
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  Siqi Pan, Rodrigo A. González, James S. Welsh, Cristian R. Rojas:
  Consistency analysis of the Simplified Refined Instrumental Variable method for Continuous-time systems. 108767

Brief Papers

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  Yalu Li, Haitao Li, Xueying Ding:
  Set stability of switched delayed logical networks with application to finite-field consensus. 108768

Regular Papers

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  Yuji Ito, Md. Abdus Samad Kamal, Takayoshi Yoshimura, Shun-ichi Azuma:
  Pseudo-perturbation-based broadcast control of multi-agent systems. 108769
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  Pulkit Nahata, Raffaele Soloperto, Michele Tucci, Andrea Martinelli, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate:
  A passivity-based approach to voltage stabilization in DC microgrids with ZIP loads. 108770

Brief Papers

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  Antoine Lesage-Landry, Iman Shames, Joshua A. Taylor:
  Predictive online convex optimization. 108771

Regular Papers

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  Corrado Possieri, Mario Sassano, Sergio Galeani, Andrew R. Teel:
  The linear quadratic regulator for periodic hybrid systems. 108772

Technical Communiques

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  Torbjørn Cunis, Jean-Philippe Condomines, Laurent Burlion:
  Local stability analysis for large polynomial spline systems. 108773

Regular Papers

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  Yan Ma, Minyi Huang:
  Linear quadratic mean field games with a major player: The multi-scale approach. 108774

Brief Papers

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  Spandan Roy, Simone Baldi:
  Towards structure-independent stabilization for uncertain underactuated Euler-Lagrange systems. 108775
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  Dina Irofti:
  An anticipatory protocol to reach fast consensus in multi-agent systems. 108776

Regular Papers

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  Spyros A. Reveliotis:
  On the state liveness of some classes of guidepath-based transport systems and its computational complexity. 108777

Brief Papers

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  Jihan Kim, Juhoon Back, Gyunghoon Park, Chanhwa Lee, Hyungbo Shim, Petros G. Voulgaris:
  Neutralizing zero dynamics attack on sampled-data systems via generalized holds. 108778

Regular Papers

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  Davide Invernizzi, Marco Lovera:
  A projection-based controller for fast spacecraft detumbling using magnetic actuation. 108779

Brief Papers

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  Xiucai Huang, Yongduan Song, Changyun Wen:
  Output feedback control for constrained pure-feedback systems: A non-recursive and transformational observer based approach. 108789
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  A. Nazli Gündes, Hitay Özbay:
  Controller redesign for delay margin improvement. 108790
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  An-Min Zou, Krishna Dev Kumar, Anton H. J. de Ruiter:
  Fixed-time attitude tracking control for rigid spacecraft. 108792

Technical Communiques

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  Hiroshi Ito:
  Interval observer of minimal error dynamics. 108794
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  Jung-Min Yang:
  Coordinated static control of asynchronous sequential machines. 108795

Brief Papers

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  Feng-Fei Jin, Wei Guo:
  Boundary state feedback exponential stabilization for a one-dimensional wave equation with velocity recirculation. 108796
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  Haibo Du, Guanghui Wen, Di Wu, Yingying Cheng, Jinhu Lü:
  Distributed fixed-time consensus for nonlinear heterogeneous multi-agent systems. 108797

Regular Papers

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  Tao Yang, Jemin George, Jiahu Qin, Xinlei Yi, Junfeng Wu:
  Distributed least squares solver for network linear equations. 108798

Brief Papers

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  Ola Skeik, Alexander Lanzon:
  Robust output consensus of homogeneous multi-agent systems with negative imaginary dynamics. 108799
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  Wu Yang, Yan-Wu Wang, Changyun Wen, Jamal Daafouz:
  Exponential stability of singularly perturbed switched systems with all modes being unstable. 108800

Regular Papers

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  Dominic Liao-McPherson, Ilya V. Kolmanovsky:
  FBstab: A proximally stabilized semismooth algorithm for convex quadratic programming. 108801

Technical Communiques

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  Chao Ning, Fengqi You:
  A transformation-proximal bundle algorithm for multistage adaptive robust optimization and application to constrained robust optimal control. 108802

Brief Papers

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  Jiahe Jiang, Yangyang Jiang:
  Leader-following consensus of linear time-varying multi-agent systems under fixed and switching topologies. 108804
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  Ziwen Yang, Shanying Zhu, Cailian Chen, Gang Feng, Xinping Guan:
  Entrapping a target in an arbitrarily shaped orbit by a single robot using bearing measurements. 108805
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  Qing Guo, Zongyu Zuo, Zhengtao Ding:
  Parametric adaptive control of single-rod electrohydraulic system with block-strict-feedback model. 108807
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  Cemal Tugrul Yilmaz, Halil Ibrahim Basturk:
  Adaptive output regulator for wave PDEs with unknown harmonic disturbance. 108808
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  Wei Guo, Feng-Fei Jin:
  Adaptive error feedback regulator design for 1 D heat equation. 108810

Regular Papers

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  Antonio González, Rosario Aragues, Gonzalo López-Nicolás, Carlos Sagüés:
  Predictor-feedback synthesis in coordinate-free formation control under time-varying delays. 108811
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  Justin P. Koeln, Vignesh Raghuraman, Brandon Hencey:
  Vertical hierarchical MPC for constrained linear systems. 108817

Brief Papers

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  Jun Shen, James Lam:
  On the algebraic Riccati inequality arising in cone-preserving time-delay systems. 108820
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  Kaïs Ammari, Mohamed Ouzahra:
  Feedback stabilization for a bilinear control system under weak observability inequalities. 108821
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  Juan Zhang, Shifeng Li:
  The structure-preserving doubling algorithm and convergence analysis for a nonlinear matrix equation. 108822