Automatica, Volume 125

Volume 125, March 2021

Brief Papers

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  Yanan Liu, Daoyi Dong, Sen Kuang, Ian R. Petersen, Hidehiro Yonezawa:
  Two-step feedback preparation of entanglement for qubit systems with time delay. 109174
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  Fernando Lejarza, Michael Baldea:
  Economic model predictive control for robust optimal operation of sparse storage networks. 109346

Regular Papers

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  Bernard Vau, Henri Bourlès:
  Closed-loop output error identification algorithms with predictors based on generalized orthonormal transfer functions: Convergence conditions and bias distribution. 109377
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  Yaser Ghaedsharaf, Milad Siami, Christoforos Somarakis, Nader Motee:
  Centrality in time-delay consensus networks with structured uncertainties. 109378

Brief Papers

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  Huan Yu, Miroslav Krstic:
  Output feedback control of two-lane traffic congestion. 109379

Regular Papers

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  Pablo R. Baldivieso Monasterios, Paul A. Trodden:
  Coalitional predictive control: Consensus-based coalition forming with robust regulation. 109380

Brief Papers

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  Mark Burkhardt, Huan Yu, Miroslav Krstic:
  Stop-and-go suppression in two-class congested traffic. 109381
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  H. J. Dreef, M. C. F. Donkers:
  H∞ and H2 optimal sampled-data controller synthesis: A hybrid systems approach with mixed discrete/continuous specifications. 109382
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  Alain Ajami, Jean-Paul Gauthier, Ludovic Sacchelli:
  Dynamic output stabilization of control systems: An unobservable kinematic drone model. 109383

Regular Papers

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  Hamed Rezaee, Thomas Parisini, Marios M. Polycarpou:
  Resiliency in dynamic leader-follower multiagent systems. 109384

Brief Papers

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  Haoyuan Sun, Jian Sun, Jie Chen:
  Analysis and synthesis of networked control systems with random network-induced delays and sampling intervals. 109385

Regular Papers

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  Konstantinos Gatsis, George J. Pappas:
  Statistical learning for analysis of networked control systems over unknown channels. 109386

Brief Papers

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  Mohammadreza Kamaldar, Dennis S. Bernstein:
  Dynamic output-feedback control of a chain of discrete-time integrators with arbitrary zeros and asymmetric input saturation. 109387

Regular Papers

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  Juan Deng, Lin Wang, Zhixin Liu:
  Attitude synchronization and rigid formation of multiple rigid bodies over proximity networks. 109388

Brief Papers

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  Xian-Ming Zhang, Qing-Long Han, Xiaohua Ge:
  Sufficient conditions for a class of matrix-valued polynomial inequalities on closed intervals and application to H∞ filtering for linear systems with time-varying delays. 109390
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  Rui Li, Qi Zhang, Tianguang Chu:
  On quotients of Boolean control networks. 109401

Regular Papers

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  Chao Ning, Fengqi You:
  Online learning based risk-averse stochastic MPC of constrained linear uncertain systems. 109402

Brief Papers

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  Benjamin Jahn, Lars Watermann, Johann Reger:
  On the design of stable periodic orbits of a triple pendulum on a cart with experimental validation. 109403

Regular Papers

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  Bin Zhu, Augusto Ferrante, Johan Karlsson, Mattia Zorzi:
  M2-spectral estimation: A relative entropy approach. 109404
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  Xiaojie Su, Chunlian Wang, Hongbin Chang, Yue Yang, Wudhichai Assawinchaichote:
  Event-triggered sliding mode control of networked control systems with Markovian jump parameters. 109405

Brief Papers

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  Zhipeng Li, Damián Marelli, Minyue Fu, Qianqian Cai, Wei Meng:
  Linear quadratic Gaussian Stackelberg game under asymmetric information patterns. 109406

Regular Papers

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  Zhongguo Li, Zhen Dong, Zhongchao Liang, Zhengtao Ding:
  Surrogate-based distributed optimisation for expensive black-box functions. 109407

Brief Papers

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  Bogang Qu, Zidong Wang, Bo Shen:
  Fusion estimation for a class of multi-rate power systems with randomly occurring SCADA measurement delays. 109408

Technical Communiques

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  Likui Wang, Hak-Keung Lam:
  H∞ control for continuous-time Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model by applying generalized Lyapunov function and introducing outer variables. 109409

Brief Papers

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  Nguyen Huu Du, Nguyen Hai Dang, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu, George Yin:
  Stability of stochastic functional differential equations with random switching and applications. 109410

Regular Papers

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  Javier de Frutos, Paula M. López-Pérez, Guiomar Martín-Herrán:
  Equilibrium strategies in a multiregional transboundary pollution differential game with spatially distributed controls. 109411
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  Mohammadhadi Balaghiinaloo, Duarte J. Antunes, W. P. Maurice H. Heemels:
  An ℓ2-consistent event-triggered control policy for linear systems. 109412

Technical Communiques

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  He Cai, Jie Huang:
  Output based adaptive distributed output observer for leader-follower multiagent systems. 109413

Brief Papers

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  Jun Zheng, Guchuan Zhu:
  Approximations of Lyapunov functionals for ISS analysis of a class of higher dimensional nonlinear parabolic PDEs. 109414

Regular Papers

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  Federico Bianchi, Valentina Breschi, Dario Piga, Luigi Piroddi:
  Model structure selection for switched NARX system identification: A randomized approach. 109415

Technical Communiques

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  Soulaimane Berkane, Dimos V. Dimarogonas:
  Constrained stabilization on the n-sphere. 109416

Regular Papers

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  Or Tslil, Tal Feiner, Avishy Carmi:
  Distributed information fusion in tangle networks. 109417

Brief Papers

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  Rong-Heng Cui, Xue-Jun Xie:
  Finite-time stabilization of stochastic low-order nonlinear systems with time-varying orders and FT-SISS inverse dynamics. 109418
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  Zhen-Guo Liu, Ling-Rong Xue, Weihai Zhang:
  Universal adaptive control strategies for stochastic nonlinear time-delay systems with odd rational powers. 109419
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  Mazen Alamir, Gabriele Pannocchia:
  A new formulation of Economic Model Predictive Control without terminal constraint. 109420

Regular Papers

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  Huiping Li, Bo Jin, Weisheng Yan:
  Distributed model predictive control for linear systems under communication noise: Algorithm, theory and implementation. 109422

Brief Papers

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  Zhi-liang Zhao, Tianyou Chai, Cui Wei, Dongxu Liu, Tengfei Liu, Zhong-Ping Jiang:
  Compensation-signal-driven control for a class of nonlinear uncertain systems. 109423
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  Romeo Ortega, Bowen Yi, Slobodan N. Vukosavic, Kwanghee Nam, Jongwon Choi:
  A globally exponentially stable position observer for interior permanent magnet synchronous motors. 109424

Regular Papers

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  Elvis Omar Jara Alegria, Mateus Giesbrecht, Celso Pascoli Bottura:
  Causal regression for online estimation of highly nonlinear parametrically varying models. 109425

Brief Papers

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  Vaibhav Katewa, Anguluri Rajasekhar, Fabio Pasqualetti:
  On a security vs privacy trade-off in interconnected dynamical systems. 109426
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  Konstantin Zimenko, Denis V. Efimov, Andrey Polyakov, Artem Kremlev:
  On necessary and sufficient conditions for output finite-time stability. 109427
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  Viktor Bezborodov, Luca Di Persio, Riccardo Muradore:
  Minimal controllability time for systems with nonlinear drift under a compact convex state constraint. 109428

Regular Papers

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  Isao Okawa, Kenichiro Nonaka:
  Linear complementarity model predictive control with limited iterations for box-constrained problems. 109429
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  Arun Raman, Ramavarapu S. Sreenivas:
  Liveness enforcing supervisory policies tolerant to controllability failures for discrete-event systems modeled by Petri Nets. 109430

Brief Papers

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  Xavier Bombois, Federico Morelli, Håkan Hjalmarsson, Laurent Bako, Kévin Colin:
  Robust optimal identification experiment design for multisine excitation. 109431
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  Diganta Bhattacharjee, Kamesh Subbarao:
  Extremum seeking control with attenuated steady-state oscillations. 109432
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  Defeng He, Haiping Li, Haiping Du:
  Lexicographic multi-objective MPC for constrained nonlinear systems with changing objective prioritization. 109433

Regular Papers

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  Chao Shang, Steven X. Ding, Hao Ye:
  Distributionally robust fault detection design and assessment for dynamical systems. 109434

Technical Communiques

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  Sasa V. Rakovic:
  Minkowski-Bellman inequality and equation. 109435

Regular Papers

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  Khadidja Chaib-Draa, Ali Zemouche, Fazia Bedouhene, Rajesh Rajamani, Yan Wang, Hamid Reza Karimi, Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati:
  Finite-time estimation algorithms for LPV discrete-time systems with application to output feedback stabilization. 109436
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  Sasa V. Rakovic:
  Robust control Minkowski-Lyapunov functions. 109437
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  Kaito Ito, Takuya Ikeda, Kenji Kashima:
  Sparse optimal stochastic control. 109438

Technical Communiques

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  Cesar Santoyo, Maxence Dutreix, Samuel Coogan:
  A barrier function approach to finite-time stochastic system verification and control. 109439

Regular Papers

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  Peter Landgren, Vaibhav Srivastava, Naomi Ehrich Leonard:
  Distributed cooperative decision making in multi-agent multi-armed bandits. 109445

Brief Papers

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  Joachim Deutscher:
  Cooperative output regulation for a network of parabolic systems with varying parameters. 109446
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  Iury Bessa, Vicenç Puig, Reinaldo Martinez Palhares:
  Passivation blocks for fault tolerant control of nonlinear systems. 109450

Regular Papers

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  Feng Xu:
  Generalized set-theoretic interval observer using element-wise nonnegativity transformation. 109452

Brief Papers

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  David Murrugarra, Elena S. Dimitrova:
  Quantifying the total effect of edge interventions in discrete multistate networks. 109453

Correspondence Item

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  David Vázquez, Jorge Álvarez:
  Comments on "Finite-time and fixed-time stabilization: Implicit Lyapunov function approach". 109454

Regular Papers

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  Zhiyu Sheng, Ziyue Sun, Vahidreza Molazadeh, Nitin Sharma:
  Switched control of an N-degree-of-freedom input delayed wearable robotic system. 109455

Brief Papers

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  Alexey P. Zhabko, Irina V. Alexandrova:
  Complete type functionals for homogeneous time delay systems. 109456
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  Xiaoru Niu, Wei Lin, Xianwen Gao:
  Static output feedback control of a chain of integrators with input constraints using multiple saturations and delays. 109457

Regular Papers

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  Abraham P. Vinod, Meeko M. K. Oishi:
  Stochastic reachability of a target tube: Theory and computation. 109458

Brief Papers

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  Gang Chen, Zhiyong Li:
  Distributed optimal resource allocation over strongly connected digraphs: A surplus-based approach. 109459
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  Biao Lu, Yongchun Fang:
  Gain-adapting coupling control for a class of underactuated mechanical systems. 109461

Regular Papers

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  Zheming Wang, Raphaël M. Jungers, Chong Jin Ong:
  Computation of the maximal invariant set of discrete-time linear systems subject to a class of non-convex constraints. 109463

Brief Papers

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  Kevin Coleman, He Bai, Clark N. Taylor:
  Extended invariant-EKF designs for state and additive disturbance estimation. 109464
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  Jilie Zhang, Zhiyong Chen, Hongwei Zhang, Tao Feng:
  Coupling effect and pole assignment in trajectory regulation of multi-agent systems. 109465

Regular Papers

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  Artur Babiarz, Le Viet Cuong, Adam Czornik, Thai Son Doan:
  Necessary and sufficient conditions for assignability of dichotomy spectra of continuous time-varying linear systems. 109466
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  Christoph Kawan, Alexey S. Matveev, Alexander Yu. Pogromsky:
  Remote state estimation problem: Towards the data-rate limit along the avenue of the second Lyapunov method. 109467
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  Yingchun Wang, Baopeng Zhu, Huaguang Zhang, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Functional observer-based finite-time adaptive ISMC for continuous systems with unknown nonlinear function. 109468
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  Andreas A. Malikopoulos, Logan Beaver, Ioannis Vasileios Chremos:
  Optimal time trajectory and coordination for connected and automated vehicles. 109469

Brief Papers

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  Kexue Zhang, Elena Braverman:
  Time-delay systems with delayed impulses: A unified criterion on asymptotic stability. 109470
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  Nidhish Raj, Leonardo J. Colombo, Ashutosh Simha:
  Structure preserving reduced attitude control of gyroscopes. 109471

Technical Communiques

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  Yuangong Sun:
  D-stability of generalized homogeneous cooperative systems. 109472

Regular Papers

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  Matthew M. Peet:
  A Partial Integral Equation (PIE) representation of coupled linear PDEs and scalable stability analysis using LMIs. 109473

Brief Papers

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  Daniel Neri Cardoso, Sergio Esteban, Guilherme V. Raffo:
  A robust optimal control approach in the weighted Sobolev space for underactuated mechanical systems. 109474
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  Joel Reis, Pedro Batista, Paulo Oliveira, Carlos Silvestre:
  Attitude, body-fixed Earth rotation rate, and sensor bias estimation using single observations of direction of gravitational field. 109475
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  Jia Xu, Ton J. J. van den Boom, Bart De Schutter:
  Optimistic optimization for continuous nonconvex piecewise affine functions. 109476

Regular Papers

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  Shan Ma, Matthew J. Woolley, Ian R. Petersen, Naoki Yamamoto:
  Linear open quantum systems with passive Hamiltonians and a single local dissipative process. 109477

Brief Papers

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  Vitalii Slyn'ko, Vladyslav Bivziuk:
  Stability and stabilization of linear periodic systems: A commutator calculus approach. 109478
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  Tan Chen, Bill Goodwine:
  Controllability and accessibility results for N-link horizontal planar manipulators with one unactuated joint. 109480