Automatica, Volume 159

Volume 159, January 2024

Regular Papers

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  Ying Chen, Néstor Osvaldo Pérez-Arancibia:
  Adaptive control of a VTOL uncrewed aerial vehicle for high-performance aerobatic flight. 109922

Brief Papers

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  Wenxin Lai, Yuanlong Li, Zongli Lin:
  Performance-based activation of anti-windup compensation for control of linear systems subject to actuator saturation. 111298

Survey Paper

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  Carmela Bernardo, Claudio Altafini, Anton V. Proskurnikov, Francesco Vasca:
  Bounded confidence opinion dynamics: A survey. 111302

Brief Papers

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  Shaoxuan Cui, Fangzhou Liu, Hildeberto Jardón-Kojakhmetov, Ming Cao:
  Discrete-time layered-network epidemics model with time-varying transition rates and multiple resources. 111303

Technical Communiques

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  Yi Shi, Bowen Yi, Wei Xie, Weidong Zhang:
  Enhancing prescribed performance of tracking control using monotone tube boundaries. 111304

Regular Papers

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  Koen J. A. Scheres, Romain Postoyan, W. P. Maurice H. Heemels:
  Robustifying event-triggered control to measurement noise. 111305

Brief Papers

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  Tian-Yu Zhang, Dan Ye, Guang-Hong Yang:
  Ripple effect of cooperative attacks in multi-agent systems: Results on minimum attack targets. 111307
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  Yi Huang, Ziyang Meng, Jian Sun, Gang Wang:
  Distributed continuous-time proximal algorithm for nonsmooth resource allocation problem with coupled constraints. 111309
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  Jing Chen, Yanjun Liu, Min Gan, Quanmin Zhu:
  Sequential stabilizing spline algorithm for linear systems: Eigenvalue approximation and polishing. 111313

Regular Papers

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  Haozhan Meng, X. Rong Li, Vesselin P. Jilkov:
  Discrete-time linear skew-Gaussian system and its recursive fixed-dimensional exact density filtering. 111314

Brief Papers

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  Twinkle Tripathy, Tal Shima:
  On convergence results for nonlinear cyclic pursuit strategies. 111315

Regular Papers

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  Mathieu Bajodek, Alexandre Seuret, Frédéric Gouaisbaut:
  On the necessity of sufficient LMI conditions for time-delay systems arising from Legendre approximation. 111322
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  Ali Salamati, Abolfazl Lavaei, Sadegh Soudjani, Majid Zamani:
  Data-driven verification and synthesis of stochastic systems via barrier certificates. 111323
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  Simone Mariano, Riccardo Bertollo, Romain Postoyan, Luca Zaccarian:
  Hybrid coupling rules for leaderless heterogeneous oscillators: Uniform global asymptotic and finite-time synchronization. 111324
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  Dan Wang, Wei Chen, Li Qiu:
  Synchronization of diverse agents via phase analysis. 111325

Brief Papers

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  Chi Zhang, Jun Fu:
  Multi-objective dynamic optimization of path-constrained switched systems. 111326

Regular Papers

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  Anubhab Ghosh, Mohamed Abdalmoaty, Saikat Chatterjee, Håkan Hjalmarsson:
  DeepBayes - An estimator for parameter estimation in stochastic nonlinear dynamical models. 111327
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  Deming Yuan, Lei Wang, Alexandre Proutière, Guodong Shi:
  Distributed zeroth-order optimization: Convergence rates that match centralized counterpart. 111328
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  Joel D. Simard, Alessandro Astolfi:
  On the construction and parameterization of interpolants in the Loewner framework. 111329
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  Jingshi Yao, Shaoyuan Li, Xiang Yin:
  Sensor deception attacks against security in supervisory control systems. 111330
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  Jianghai Hu, Jinglai Shen, Donghwan Lee:
  Optimal stabilizing rates of switched linear control systems under arbitrary known switchings. 111331
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  Filippos Fotiadis, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis:
  Learning-based actuator selection for increased attack resilience of uncertain systems. 111332
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  Xiaozhu Fang, Tianshi Chen:
  On kernel design for regularized non-causal system identification. 111335
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  Weiming Yang, Gan Yu, Joel Reis, Carlos Silvestre:
  Robust nonlinear 3D control of an inverted pendulum balanced on a quadrotor. 111336

Technical Communiques

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  Luis Ovalle, Leonid M. Fridman:
  Sliding mode control for systems with zero-crossing control gain under matched and mismatched disturbances. 111337

Brief Papers

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  Yuanzhuo Song, Zhen Wu:
  The general maximum principle for discrete-time stochastic control problems. 111338

Regular Papers

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  Nan Bai, Zhisheng Duan, Qishao Wang:
  Distributed optimal consensus of multi-agent systems: A randomized parallel approach. 111339

Brief Papers

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  Haitao Li, Xiaojun Pang:
  A polynomial-time criterion for stability of large-scale switched conjunctive Boolean networks. 111340

Regular Papers

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  Ron Ofir, Alexander I. Ovseevich, Michael Margaliot:
  Contraction and k-contraction in Lurie systems with applications to networked systems. 111341

Brief Papers

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  Tan Hou, Yuanlong Li, Zongli Lin:
  Approximation of the infinite-horizon value function of the switched LQR problem. 111342
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  Jaime González-Sierra, Mario Ramirez-Neria, Jesús Santiaguillo-Salinas, Eduardo Gamaliel Hernández-Martínez:
  Saturated formation containment control for a heterogeneous multi-agent system with unknown perturbations. 111343

Regular Papers

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  Jean-François Trégouët, Jérémie Kreiss:
  Input redundancy under input and state constraints. 111344

Brief Papers

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  Zhikai Zhang, Yi Dong, Guangren Duan:
  Global asymptotic fault-tolerant tracking for time-varying nonlinear complex systems with prescribed performance. 111345

Regular Papers

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  Hongzhe Liu, Wenwu Yu, Wei Xing Zheng, Angelia Nedic, Yanan Zhu:
  Distributed constrained optimization algorithms with linear convergence rate over time-varying unbalanced graphs. 111346
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  Gianluigi Pillonetto, Mauro Bisiacco:
  Kernel-based linear system identification: When does the representer theorem hold? 111347

Brief Papers

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  Ondrej Straka, Ivo Puncochár:
  Active fault diagnosis for stochastic large scale systems under non-separable costs. 111348

Regular Papers

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  Chao Huang:
  Identification of polynomial nonlinear systems based on center manifold. 111349

Brief Papers

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  Román Comelli, Sorin Olaru, Ernesto Kofman:
  Inner-outer approximation of robust control invariant sets. 111350

Technical Communiques

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  Ivan Markovsky, Hamid R. Ossareh:
  Finite-data nonparametric frequency response evaluation without leakage. 111351

Regular Papers

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  Shengchao Zhao, Yongchao Liu:
  Confidence region for distributed stochastic optimization problem via stochastic gradient tracking method. 111352
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  Shana Moothedath, Dinuka Sahabandu, Joey Allen, Linda Bushnell, Wenke Lee, Radha Poovendran:
  Stochastic Dynamic Information Flow Tracking game using supervised learning for detecting advanced persistent threats. 111353

Brief Papers

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  Yiheng Fu, Pouria Ramazi:
  Evolutionary matrix-game dynamics under imitation in heterogeneous populations. 111354
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  Rongni Yang, Shufen Ding, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Event-triggered sliding mode control for 2-D Roesser model with mismatched disturbance. 111355
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  Tongyu Wang, Peng Yi, Jie Chen:
  Distributed mirror descent method with operator extrapolation for stochastic aggregative games. 111356
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  Pouria Ramazi, Fan Zhang, Ming Cao:
  Cooperative concurrent targeting for planar arrays of point sources. 111357
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  Jianhui Huang, Zhenghong Qiu, Shujun Wang, Zhen Wu:
  Linear quadratic mean-field game-team analysis: A mixed coalition approach. 111358
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  Xiao Tan, Dimos V. Dimarogonas:
  On the undesired equilibria induced by control barrier function based quadratic programs. 111359
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  Kaixin Lu, Zhi Liu, Haoyong Yu, C. L. Philip Chen, Yun Zhang:
  A small-gain approach to inverse optimal adaptive control of nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics. 111360
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  Rui Fu, Olga Movilla Miangolarra, Amirhossein Taghvaei, Yongxin Chen, Tryphon T. Georgiou:
  Stochastic thermodynamic engines under time-varying temperature profile. 111361

Regular Papers

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  Tong Zhou, Yubing Li, Kailin Yin:
  Frequency domain identifiability and sloppiness of descriptor systems with an LFT structure. 111362
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  Navjot Singh, Xuanyu Cao, Suhas N. Diggavi, Tamer Basar:
  Decentralized multi-task stochastic optimization with compressed communications. 111363

Brief Papers

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  Jie Liu, Lulu Li, Daniel W. C. Ho:
  Distributed constrained optimization with periodic dynamic quantization. 111364
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  Yi Dong, Xiaoyu Wang, Yiguang Hong:
  Safety critical control design for nonlinear system with tracking and safety objectives. 111365
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  Alexander Medvedev:
  Closed-form expressions for the pure time delay in terms of the input and output Laguerre spectra. 111366
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  Zeyu Kang, Qiang Shen, Shufan Wu, Christopher J. Damaren:
  Saturated adaptive pose tracking control of spacecraft on SE(3) under attitude constraints and obstacle-avoidance constraints. 111367

Regular Papers

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  Yixuan Lin, Vijay Gupta, Ji Liu:
  Finite-time error bounds for distributed linear stochastic approximation. 111368

Brief Papers

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  Xianwei Li, Yang Tang, Yuanyuan Zou, Shaoyuan Li, Wei Xing Zheng:
  A hybrid time/event-triggered interaction framework for multi-agent consensus with relative measurements. 111369

Regular Papers

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  Housheng Su, Yali Wu, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Distributed observer for LTI systems under stochastic impulsive sequential attacks. 111370
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  Jeong Woo Kim, Jin Gyu Lee, Donggil Lee, Hyungbo Shim:
  A design method of distributed algorithms via discrete-time blended dynamics theorem. 111371

Brief Papers

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  Wenjian Hao, Bowen Huang, Wei Pan, Di Wu, Shaoshuai Mou:
  Deep Koopman learning of nonlinear time-varying systems. 111372
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  Tao Liu, Jie Huang:
  Distributed exponential state estimation of linear systems over jointly connected switching networks. 111373

Technical Communiques

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  Lixia Yan, Bao-Li Ma, Yingmin Jia:
  Trajectory tracking control of nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots using only measurements for position and velocity. 111374

Brief Papers

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  Huu Thien Nguyen, Ngoc Thinh Nguyen, Ionela Prodan:
  Notes on the terminal region enlargement of a stabilizing NMPC design for a multicopter. 111375

Regular Papers

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  Chengrui Wang, Houde Liu, Feng Xu:
  Performance metric and analytical gain optimality for set-based robust fault detection. 111376
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  Zesen Liu, Meng Guo, Zhongkui Li:
  Time minimization and online synchronization for multi-agent systems under collaborative temporal logic tasks. 111377

Brief Papers

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  Xiaoru Niu, Wei Lin:
  Global state regulation of time-delay minimum-phase systems by delay-free dynamic compensation. 111378

Regular Papers

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  Anton V. Proskurnikov, Håkan Runvik, Alexander Medvedev:
  Cycles in Impulsive Goodwin's Oscillators of arbitrary order. 111379

Technical Communiques

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  Talha Mushtaq, Peter Seiler, Maziar S. Hemati:
  On the convexity of static output feedback control synthesis for systems with lossless nonlinearities. 111380

Brief Papers

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  Fabio Bonassi, Alessio La Bella, Marcello Farina, Riccardo Scattolini:
  Nonlinear MPC design for incrementally ISS systems with application to GRU networks. 111381

Technical Communiques

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  Rui Gao, Guang-Hong Yang:
  Resilient cluster consensus for discrete-time high-order multi-agent systems against malicious adversaries. 111382

Corrigenda/Errata

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  Chengcheng Fu, Hao Zhang, Chao Huang, Zhuping Wang, Huaicheng Yan:
  Corrigendum to "Adaptive cooperative output regulation of polytopic systems via spectrum estimation: An H∞ perspective" [Automatica 151 (2023) 110943]. 111383

Brief Papers

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  Hong Son Hoang, Rémy Baraille, Oliver Talagrand:
  State estimation in presence of uncertain model error statistics based on filter stability. Application to an adaptive filter. 111384

Regular Papers

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  Yuezu Lv, Zhongkui Li, Zhisheng Duan:
  Minimal-order specified-time unknown input observers. 111385

Brief Papers

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  Jie Wang, Baoli Ma, Kai Yan:
  Target circumnavigation of mobile robots using range-only measurements. 111386
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  Ron Ofir, Michael Margaliot:
  The k-compound of a difference-algebraic system. 111387
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  Piyush Gupta, Vaibhav Srivastava:
  Structural properties of optimal fidelity selection policies for human-in-the-loop queues. 111388
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  Marcelo Alves dos Santos, Antonio Ferramosca, Guilherme Vianna Raffo:
  Set-point tracking MPC with avoidance features. 111390
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  Yaru Yu, Dewei Li, Dongya Zhao, Yugeng Xi, Aoyun Ma:
  A co-design method of online learning SMC law via an input-mapping strategy. 111392

Regular Papers

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  Lukas Schwenkel, Alexander Hadorn, Matthias A. Müller, Frank Allgöwer:
  Linearly discounted economic MPC without terminal conditions for periodic optimal operation. 111393
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  Marco Casini, Andrea Garulli, Antonio Vicino:
  Set membership state estimation for discrete-time linear systems with binary sensor measurements. 111396

Brief Papers

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  Haitao Li, Xiaojun Pang:
  Stability analysis of large-scale Boolean networks via compositional method. 111397
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  Qin Fang, Zhengqiang Zhang:
  Inexact predictor feedback for multi-input nonlinear systems with distinct input delays. 111399
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  Alesi A. de Paula, Davide M. Raimondo, Guilherme V. Raffo, Bruno Otávio Soares Teixeira:
  Set-based state estimation for discrete-time constrained nonlinear systems: An approach based on constrained zonotopes and DC programming. 111401

Regular Papers

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  Logan E. Beaver, Andreas A. Malikopoulos:
  Optimal control of differentially flat systems is surprisingly easy. 111404

Brief Papers

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  Junyao You, Chengpu Yu:
  Sparse plus low-rank identification for dynamical latent-variable graphical AR models. 111405
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  Bin Zhou, Zhe Zhang, Wim Michiels:
  Functional and dual observer based prescribed-time control of linear systems by periodic delayed feedback. 111406
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  Yang Yu, Xiuxian Li, Li Li, Lihua Xie:
  Distributed online optimization for heterogeneous linear multi-agent systems with coupled constraints. 111407

Regular Papers

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  Cong Zhang, Jiahu Qin, Chengzhen Yan, Yang Shi, Yaonan Wang, Man Li:
  Towards invariant extended Kalman filter-based resilient distributed state estimation for moving robots over mobile sensor networks under deception attacks. 111408

Brief Papers

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  Henglei Xu, Xuerong Mao:
  Structured stabilisation of superlinear delay systems by bounded discrete-time state feedback control. 111409
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  Pablo Krupa, Omar Inverso, Mirco Tribastone, Alberto Bemporad:
  Certification of the proximal gradient method under fixed-point arithmetic for box-constrained QP problems. 111411