Automatica, Volume 155

Volume 155, September 2023

Regular Papers

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  Lei Zou, Zidong Wang, Bo Shen, Hongli Dong:
  Moving horizon estimation over relay channels: Dealing with packet losses. 111079

Brief Papers

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  Chao Huang, Brian D. O. Anderson, Hao Zhang, Huaicheng Yan:
  Distributed convex optimization as a tool for solving f-consensus problems. 111087
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  Hideki Sano, Toshikazu Kuniya:
  Observer design for an infectious disease PDE model considering reinfection. 111091
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  Marco Forgione, Aneri Muni, Dario Piga, Marco Gallieri:
  On the adaptation of recurrent neural networks for system identification. 111092
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  Salim Zekraoui, Nicolás Espitia, Wilfrid Perruquetti:
  Finite/fixed-time stabilization of a chain of integrators with input delay via PDE-based nonlinear backstepping approach. 111095

Regular Papers

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  Marcin Nowicki, Witold Respondek:
  Mechanical linearization of mechanical control systems without controllability assumption. 111098

Brief Papers

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  Kai Zhao, Frank L. Lewis, Lin Zhao:
  Unifying performance specifications in tracking control of MIMO nonlinear systems with actuation faults. 111102

Regular Papers

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  Satoshi Nakano, Tam Willy Nguyen, Emanuele Garone, Tatsuya Ibuki, Mitsuji Sampei:
  Explicit reference governor on SO(3) for torque and pointing constraint management. 111103
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  Joseph Breeden, Dimitra Panagou:
  Robust Control Barrier Functions under high relative degree and input constraints for satellite trajectories. 111109

Brief Papers

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  Daniele Masti, Valentina Breschi, Simone Formentin, Alberto Bemporad:
  Auto-tuning of reference models in direct data-driven control. 111110
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  Pablo R. Baldivieso Monasterios, Mahdieh Sadat Sadabadi, George C. Konstantopoulos:
  Two-layer nonlinear control of DC-DC buck converters with meshed network topology. 111111

Regular Papers

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  Trevor Avant, Kristi A. Morgansen:
  On the sensitivity of pose estimation neural networks: Rotation parameterizations, Lipschitz constants, and provable bounds. 111112

Brief Papers

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  Yuxin Wu, Deyuan Meng:
  Data-based trackability criteria and control design for disturbed learning systems. 111113

Regular Papers

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  Yanbo Yang, Zhunga Liu, Yuemei Qin, Quan Pan:
  Novel pseudo-linear Kalman filtering for 3D angle-only tracking in the presence of observer's location errors. 111114

Brief Papers

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  A. M. Ishtiaque Mahbub, Viet-Anh Le, Andreas A. Malikopoulos:
  A safety-prioritized receding horizon control framework for platoon formation in a mixed traffic environment. 111115

Regular Papers

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  Fabrizio Caccavale, Francesco Pierri:
  Distributed source-user estimation over directed graphs. 111116

Brief Papers

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  Francisco F. C. Rego:
  Distributed observers for LTV systems: A distributed constructibility gramian based approach. 111117

Regular Papers

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  Andrei Polyakov, Denis V. Efimov, Xubin Ping:
  Consistent discretization of homogeneous finite/fixed-time controllers for LTI systems. 111118

Brief Papers

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  Lejun Chen, James F. Whidborne:
  Flight data validation of an icing accretion estimation scheme using super-twisting observers. 111119

Technical Communiques

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  Zhehao Jin, Andong Liu, Wen-an Zhang, Li Yu, Chenguang Yang:
  Gaussian process movement primitive. 111120

Brief Papers

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  Cristiano Maria Verrelli, Patrizio Tomei:
  Global adaptive observers for electrical motors with an arbitrary rate of exponential convergence. 111121

Regular Papers

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  Hamed Taghavian, Ross Drummond, Mikael Johansson:
  Logarithmically completely monotonic rational functions. 111122
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  Rodrigo Aldana-López, Rosario Aragüés, Carlos Sagüés:
  Latency vs precision: Stability preserving perception scheduling. 111123
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  Shuixin Xiao, Yuanlong Wang, Jun Zhang, Daoyi Dong, Shota Yokoyama, Ian R. Petersen, Hidehiro Yonezawa:
  On the regularization and optimization in quantum detector tomography. 111124

Brief Papers

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  Bin Zhou, Kang-Kang Zhang, Huaiyuan Jiang:
  Prescribed-time control of perturbed nonholonomic systems by time-varying feedback. 111125

Regular Papers

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  Lintao Ye, Zhi-Wei Liu, Ming Chi, Vijay Gupta:
  Maximization of nonsubmodular functions under multiple constraints with applications. 111126

Brief Papers

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  Kanghong Shi, Ian R. Petersen, Igor G. Vladimirov:
  Making nonlinear systems negative imaginary via state feedback. 111127
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  Zhongyang Ming, Huaguang Zhang, Juan Zhang, Xiangpeng Xie:
  A novel actor-critic-identifier architecture for nonlinear multiagent systems with gradient descent method. 111128

Technical Communiques

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  Valeri A. Ugrinovskii, Ian R. Petersen, Iman Shames:
  A robust control approach to asymptotic optimality of the heavy ball method for optimization of quadratic functions. 111129

Regular Papers

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  Michael Hibbard, Takashi Tanaka, Ufuk Topcu:
  Simultaneous perception-action design via invariant finite belief sets. 111140

Brief Papers

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  Junbo Tan, Huailiang Zheng, Deshan Meng, Bo Yuan, Xueqian Wang, Bin Liang:
  Confidence set-based analysis of minimal detectable fault under hybrid Gaussian and bounded uncertainties. 111141

Regular Papers

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  Sina Arefizadeh, Sadegh Arefizadeh, S. Rasoul Etesami, Sadegh Bolouki:
  Robustness of dynamics in games: A contraction mapping decomposition approach. 111142

Brief Papers

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  Marouane Alma, Mohamed Darouach, Harouna Souley Ali:
  Adaptive observer design for a class of nonlinear descriptor systems. 111143
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  Yuchen Zhang, Bo Chen, Li Yu:
  Distributed zonotopic estimation for interconnected systems: A fusing overlapping states strategy. 111144
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  Ai-Guo Wu:
  A fundamental matrix based approach to design predictor-based control laws for discrete-time systems with state and input delays. 111145
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  Bolun Dai, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Andrew Papanicolaou, Farshad Khorrami:
  State constrained stochastic optimal control for continuous and hybrid dynamical systems using DFBSDE. 111146

Regular Papers

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  Arunava Naha, André M. H. Teixeira, Anders Ahlén, Subhrakanti Dey:
  Quickest detection of deception attacks on cyber-physical systems with a parsimonious watermarking policy. 111147
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  Joel Reis, Gan Yu, Carlos Silvestre:
  Kalman-based velocity-free trajectory tracking control of an underactuated aerial vehicle with unknown system dynamics. 111148

Brief Papers

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  Ji-Hong Li:
  3D trajectory tracking of underactuated non-minimum phase underwater vehicles. 111149

Regular Papers

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  Yu Xuan, Yongqiang Wang:
  Gradient-tracking based differentially private distributed optimization with enhanced optimization accuracy. 111150
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  Yacine Chitour, Ihab Haidar, Paolo Mason, Mario Sigalotti:
  Upper and lower bounds for the maximal Lyapunov exponent of singularly perturbed linear switching systems. 111151

Brief Papers

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  Sunjeev Venkateswaran, Costas Kravaris:
  Design of linear unknown input observers for sensor fault estimation in nonlinear systems. 111152

Regular Papers

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  Jirí Balun, Tomás Masopust:
  Verifying weak and strong k-step opacity in discrete-event systems. 111153

Brief Papers

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  Samuele Zoboli, Daniele Astolfi, Vincent Andrieu:
  Total stability of equilibria motivates integral action in discrete-time nonlinear systems. 111154
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  Paolo Mason, Yacine Chitour, Mario Sigalotti:
  On universal classes of Lyapunov functions for linear switched systems. 111155

Regular Papers

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  Guiyuan Ma, Chi Chung Siu, Sheung Chi Phillip Yam, Zeyu Zhou:
  Dynamic trading with Markov liquidity switching. 111156

Brief Papers

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  Shirin Panahi, Ali Akbar Ahmadi Kashani, Claus Danielson:
  Primal-dual interior-point algorithm for symmetric model predictive control. 111157

Regular Papers

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  Gal Barkai, Leonid Mirkin, Daniel Zelazo:
  On the internal stability of diffusively coupled multi-agent systems and the dangers of cancel culture. 111158
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  Weichao Sun, Yeqing Yuan:
  Passivity based hierarchical multi-task tracking control for redundant manipulators with uncertainties. 111159

Brief Papers

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  Hongtian Chen, Zhongyan Liu, Biao Huang:
  Data-driven fault detection for Lipschitz nonlinear systems: From open to closed-loop systems. 111161
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  Zhenhui Xu, Tielong Shen, Minyi Huang:
  Model-free policy iteration approach to NCE-based strategy design for linear quadratic Gaussian games. 111162

Regular Papers

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  Hao Liu, Yewei Zhang, Yuzhe Li, Ben Niu:
  Proactive attack detection scheme based on watermarking and moving target defense. 111163
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  Xiao-Kang Liu, Yan-Wu Wang, Zhi-Wei Liu, Yuehua Huang:
  On the stability of distributed secondary control for DC microgrids with grid-forming and grid-feeding converters. 111164
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  Guillaume O. Berger, Sriram Sankaranarayanan:
  Counterexample-guided computation of polyhedral Lyapunov functions for piecewise linear systems. 111165
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  Alexandre Anahory Simoes, Efstratios Stratoglou, Anthony M. Bloch, Leonardo J. Colombo:
  Virtual nonholonomic constraints: A geometric approach. 111166

Brief Papers

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  Yu Kawano, Michele Cucuzzella, Shuai Feng, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen:
  Krasovskii and shifted passivity based output consensus. 111167
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  Meng Wang, Jianbin Qiu, Huaicheng Yan, Yongxiao Tian, Zhichen Li:
  Data-driven control for discrete-time piecewise affine systems. 111168

Regular Papers

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  András Sasfi, Melanie N. Zeilinger, Johannes Köhler:
  Robust adaptive MPC using control contraction metrics. 111169

Technical Communiques

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  Bosen Lian, Wenqian Xue, Yijing Xie, Frank L. Lewis, Ali Davoudi:
  Off-policy inverse Q-learning for discrete-time antagonistic unknown systems. 111171

Regular Papers

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  Haoyuan Xu, Yake Yang, Jun Shang, Jun Fu, Yuzhe Li:
  Integrity attacks on remote estimation with spatial-temporal information sources. 111172

Brief Papers

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  Qie Liu, Biao Huang, Yi Chai, Wenbo Li:
  Topology identification of sparse network: A stochastic variational Bayesian approach. 111173

Regular Papers

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  Ganghui Cao, Jinzhi Wang:
  A distributed reduced-order unknown input observer. 111174

Brief Papers

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  Zhaojing Wu:
  Pulse width modulation control for stochastic Lagrange systems. 111175