Automatica, Volume 45

Volume 45, Number 1, January 2009

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  Tamer Basar:
  Transition in an editorship. 1
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  Mrdjan Jankovic:
  Forwarding, backstepping, and finite spectrum assignment for time delay systems. 2-9
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  Yibing Wang, Markos Papageorgiou, Albert Messmer, Pierluigi Coppola, Athina Tzimitsi, Agostino Nuzzolo:
  An adaptive freeway traffic state estimator. 10-24
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  Bradley M. Bell, James V. Burke, Gianluigi Pillonetto:
  An inequality constrained nonlinear Kalman-Bucy smoother by interior point likelihood maximization. 25-33
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  Aranya Chakrabortty, Murat Arcak:
  Time-scale separation redesigns for stabilization and performance recovery of uncertain nonlinear systems. 34-44
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  Massimo Canale, Lorenzo Fagiano, Mario Milanese:
  Set Membership approximation theory for fast implementation of Model Predictive Control laws. 45-54
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  Changyun Wen, Jing Zhou, Wei Wang:
  Decentralized adaptive backstepping stabilization of interconnected systems with dynamic input and output interactions. 55-67
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  Maciej Niedzwiecki, Piotr Kaczmarek:
  Self-optimizing generalized adaptive notch filters - comparison of three optimization strategies. 68-77
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  Alexander N. Churilov, Alexander Medvedev, Alexander Shepeljavyi:
  Mathematical model of non-basal testosterone regulation in the male by pulse modulated feedback. 78-85
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  Victor M. Zavala, Lorenz T. Biegler:
  The advanced-step NMPC controller: Optimality, stability and robustness. 86-93
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  Xiaobo Li, Kemin Zhou:
  A time domain approach to robust fault detection of linear time-varying systems. 94-102
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  Xiaodong Li, Tommy W. S. Chow, John K. L. Ho:
  Quasi-sliding mode based repetitive control for nonlinear continuous-time systems with rejection of periodic disturbances. 103-108
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  Wu-Hua Chen, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Robust stability and H_∞-control of uncertain impulsive systems with time-delay. 109-117
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  Bin Wang, Xinghuo Yu, Guanrong Chen:
  ZOH discretization effect on single-input sliding mode control systems with matched uncertainties. 118-125
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  Xue-Jun Xie, Jie Tian:
  Adaptive state-feedback stabilization of high-order stochastic systems with nonlinear parameterization. 126-133
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  Ian R. Petersen:
  A notion of possible controllability for uncertain linear systems with structured uncertainty. 134-141
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  Murali R. Rajamani, James B. Rawlings:
  Estimation of the disturbance structure from data using semidefinite programming and optimal weighting. 142-148
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  Nem Stefanovic, Lacra Pavel:
  An analysis of stability with time-delay of link level power control in optical networks. 149-154
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  Matthew C. Turner, Guido Herrmann, Ian Postlethwaite:
  Improving sector-based results for systems with dead-zone nonlinearities and constrained control applications. 155-160
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  Kok Kiong Tan, Sunan Huang, Tong Heng Lee:
  Decentralized adaptive controller design of large-scale uncertain robotic systems. 161-166
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  Mark Cannon, Basil Kouvaritakis, Xingjian Wu:
  Model predictive control for systems with stochastic multiplicative uncertainty and probabilistic constraints. 167-172
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  Gianluigi Pillonetto, Giuseppe De Nicolao, Marco Chierici, Claudio Cobelli:
  Fast algorithms for nonparametric population modeling of large data sets. 173-179
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  Mircea Lazar, W. P. M. H. Heemels:
  Predictive control of hybrid systems: Input-to-state stability results for sub-optimal solutions. 180-185
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  Ligang Wu, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Weighted H_∞ model reduction for linear switched systems with time-varying delay. 186-193
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  Emilia Fridman, Yury Orlov:
  Exponential stability of linear distributed parameter systems with time-varying delays. 194-201
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  Luc Jaulin:
  Robust set-membership state estimation; application to underwater robotics. 202-206
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  José B. Mare, José A. De Doná:
  Symmetry between constrained reference tracking and constrained state estimation. 207-211
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  Derek A. Paley:
  Stabilization of collective motion on a sphere. 212-216
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  Chung-Yao Kao, Ulf Jönsson, Hisaya Fujioka:
  Characterization of robust stability of a class of interconnected systems. 217-224
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  Yupeng Qiao, Daizhan Cheng:
  On partitioned controllability of switched linear systems. 225-229
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  Qingze Zou:
  Optimal preview-based stable-inversion for output tracking of nonminimum-phase linear systems. 230-237
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  Bin Zhou, Zongli Lin, Guang-Ren Duan:
  A parametric Lyapunov equation approach to low gain feedback design for discrete-time systems. 238-244
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  Ying Tan, Dragan Nesic, Iven M. Y. Mareels, Alessandro Astolfi:
  On global extremum seeking in the presence of local extrema. 245-251
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  Benyamin Grosman, Daniel R. Lewin:
  Lyapunov-based stability analysis automated by genetic programming. 252-256
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  Yongqiang Ye, Abdelhamid Tayebi, Peter Xiaoping Liu:
  All-pass filtering in iterative learning control. 257-264
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  Balasubramaniam Srinivasan, P. Huguenin, Dominique Bonvin:
  Global stabilization of an inverted pendulum-Control strategy and experimental verification. 265-269
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  Chenguang Yang, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Tong Heng Lee:
  Output feedback adaptive control of a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems with unknown control directions. 270-276
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  Mei Hong, Torsten Söderström:
  Relations between Bias-Eliminating Least Squares, the Frisch scheme and Extended Compensated Least Squares methods for identifying errors-in-variables systems. 277-282
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  Kenji Kashima:
  A new expression for the H² performance limit based on state-space representation. 283-290
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  Marcelo Moisan, Olivier Bernard, Jean-Luc Gouzé:
  Near optimal interval observers bundle for uncertain bioreactors. 291-295
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  Hyungbo Shim, Nam Hoon Jo:
  An almost necessary and sufficient condition for robust stability of closed-loop systems with disturbance observer. 296-299

Volume 45, Number 2, February 2009

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  Sahika Genc, Stéphane Lafortune:
  Predictability of event occurrences in partially-observed discrete-event systems. 301-311
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  Orest V. Iftime, Michael A. Demetriou:
  Optimal control of switched distributed parameter systems with spatially scheduled actuators. 312-323
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  Feng Ding, Li Qiu, Tongwen Chen:
  Reconstruction of continuous-time systems from their non-uniformly sampled discrete-time systems. 324-332
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  Tytus Wojtara, Masafumi Uchihara, Hideyuki Murayama, Shingo Shimoda, Satoshi Sakai, Hideo Fujimoto, Hidenori Kimura:
  Human-robot collaboration in precise positioning of a three-dimensional object. 333-342
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  Georgios E. Fainekos, Antoine Girard, Hadas Kress-Gazit, George J. Pappas:
  Temporal logic motion planning for dynamic robots. 343-352
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  A. Nazli Gündes, Ahmet Naci Mete, A. N. Palazoglu:
  Reliable decentralized PID controller synthesis for two-channel MIMO processes. 353-363
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  Erik Frisk, Mattias Krysander, Jan Åslund:
  Sensor placement for fault isolation in linear differential-algebraic systems. 364-371
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  Jan-Willem van Wingerden, Michel Verhaegen:
  Subspace identification of Bilinear and LPV systems for open- and closed-loop data. 372-381
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  Marco C. Campi, Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore, Simone Garatti:
  Interval predictor models: Identification and reliability. 382-392
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  Shanshan Li, Gang Tao:
  Feedback based adaptive compensation of control system sensor uncertainties. 393-404
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  J. C. A. de Bruin, Apostolos Doris, Nathan van de Wouw, W. P. M. H. Heemels, Henk Nijmeijer:
  Control of mechanical motion systems with non-collocation of actuation and friction: A Popov criterion approach for input-to-state stability and set-valued nonlinearities. 405-415
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  Ming Liu, Daniel W. C. Ho, Yugang Niu:
  Stabilization of Markovian jump linear system over networks with random communication delay. 416-421
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  Vincent Andrieu, Laurent Praly, Alessandro Astolfi:
  High gain observers with updated gain and homogeneous correction terms. 422-428
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  Wenwu Yu, Guanrong Chen, Jinhu Lu:
  On pinning synchronization of complex dynamical networks. 429-435
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  Sung Jin Yoo, Jin Bae Park, Yoon Ho Choi:
  Decentralized adaptive stabilization of interconnected nonlinear systems with unknown non-symmetric dead-zone inputs. 436-443
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  Andrei Polyakov, Alex Poznyak:
  Lyapunov function design for finite-time convergence analysis: "Twisting" controller for second-order sliding mode realization. 444-448
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  Witold Pedrycz, Partab Rai:
  Experience-consistent modeling: Regression and classification problems. 449-455
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  Hassan A. Yousef, Mohamed Hamdy, E. El-Madbouly, D. Eteim:
  Adaptive fuzzy decentralized control for interconnected MIMO nonlinear subsystems. 456-462
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  Lixian Zhang, El Kébir Boukas:
  Stability and stabilization of Markovian jump linear systems with partly unknown transition probabilities. 463-468
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  Xinkai Chen, Takeshi Hisayama, Chun-Yi Su:
  Pseudo-inverse-based adaptive control for uncertain discrete time systems preceded by hysteresis. 469-476
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  Draguna L. Vrabie, Octavian C. Pastravanu, Murad Abu-Khalaf, Frank L. Lewis:
  Adaptive optimal control for continuous-time linear systems based on policy iteration. 477-484
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  Yue Cheng, Hao Ye, Yongqiang Wang, Donghua Zhou:
  Unbiased minimum-variance state estimation for linear systems with unknown input. 485-491
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  Yuqian Guo, Youyi Wang, Lihua Xie, Jinchuan Zheng:
  Stability analysis and design of reset systems: Theory and an application. 492-497
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  Wuquan Li, Xue-Jun Xie:
  Inverse optimal stabilization for stochastic nonlinear systems whose linearizations are not stabilizable. 498-503
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  Kunihisa Okano, Shinji Hara, Hideaki Ishii:
  Characterization of a complementary sensitivity property in feedback control: An information theoretic approach. 504-509
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  Sara Susca, Francesco Bullo, Sonia Martínez:
  Gradient algorithms for polygonal approximation of convex contours. 510-516
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  Qing-Long Han:
  A discrete delay decomposition approach to stability of linear retarded and neutral systems. 517-524
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  Mathieu Gerard, Bart De Schutter, Michel Verhaegen:
  A hybrid steepest descent method for constrained convex optimization. 525-531
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  Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, George A. Rovithakis:
  Adaptive control with guaranteed transient and steady state tracking error bounds for strict feedback systems. 532-538
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  Ahmad Haidar, El Kébir Boukas:
  Exponential stability of singular systems with multiple time-varying delays. 539-545
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  Liang Chen, Jinhu Lu, Junan Lu, David John Hill:
  Local asymptotic coherence of time-varying discrete ecological networks. 546-552
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  Ichiro Maruta, Tae-Hyoung Kim, Toshiharu Sugie:
  Fixed-structure H_∞ controller synthesis: A meta-heuristic approach using simple constrained particle swarm optimization. 553-559
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  Jinhui Zhang, Yuanqing Xia, Peng Shi:
  Parameter-dependent robust H_∞ filtering for uncertain discrete-time systems. 560-565
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  Antoine Girard, George J. Pappas:
  Hierarchical control system design using approximate simulation. 566-571
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  Alain Sarlette, Rodolphe Sepulchre, Naomi Ehrich Leonard:
  Autonomous rigid body attitude synchronization. 572-577
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  Chong Lin, Zidong Wang, Fuwen Yang:
  Observer-based networked control for continuous-time systems with random sensor delays. 578-584
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  Jacob Engwerda, Salmah:
  The open-loop linear quadratic differential game for index one descriptor systems. 585-592
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  José Claudio Geromel, Grace S. Deaecto:
  Switched state feedback control for continuous-time uncertain systems. 593-597
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  Jin Zhou, Junan Lu, Jinhu Lu:
  Erratum to: "Pinning adaptive synchronization of a general complex dynamical network" [Automatica 44 (2008) 996-1003]. 598-599

Volume 45, Number 3, March 2009

Regular Papers

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  Ashutosh Prasad, Suresh P. Sethi:
  Integrated marketing communications in markets with uncertainty and competition. 601-610
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  Hyungbo Shim, Nam Hoon Jo, Hyeygjeon Chang, Jin Heon Seo:
  A system theoretic study on a treatment of AIDS patient by achieving long-term non-progressor. 611-622
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  László Gerencsér, Håkan Hjalmarsson, Jonas Mårtensson:
  Identification of ARX systems with non-stationary inputs - asymptotic analysis with application to adaptive input design. 623-633
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  Chunlei Zhang, Raúl Ordóñez:
  Robust and adaptive design of numerical optimization-based extremum seeking control. 634-646
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  Xavier Litrico, Vincent Fromion:
  Boundary control of hyperbolic conservation laws using a frequency domain approach. 647-656
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  Kevin Spieser, Daniel E. Davison:
  Multi-agent stabilisation of the psychological dynamics of one-dimensional crowds. 657-664
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  Michael L. Walker, David A. Humphreys:
  On feedback stabilization of the tokamak plasma vertical instability. 665-674
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  Rafal Goebel, Christophe Prieur, Andrew R. Teel:
  Smooth patchy control Lyapunov functions. 675-683
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  Zidong Wang, Daniel W. C. Ho, Yurong Liu, Xiaohui Liu:
  Robust H_∞ control for a class of nonlinear discrete time-delay stochastic systems with missing measurements. 684-691

Brief Papers

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  Tomohisa Hayakawa, Hideaki Ishii, Koji Tsumura:
  Adaptive quantized control for linear uncertain discrete-time systems. 692-700
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  Mario Sznaier:
  Computational complexity analysis of set membership identification of Hammerstein and Wiener systems. 701-705
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  Wenjie Dong, Jay A. Farrell:
  Decentralized cooperative control of multiple nonholonomic dynamic systems with uncertainty. 706-710
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  Brandon J. Moore, Jorge Finke, Kevin M. Passino:
  Optimal allocation of heterogeneous resources in cooperative control scenarios. 711-715
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  Elias B. Kosmatopoulos:
  An adaptive optimization scheme with satisfactory transient performance. 716-723
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  James Fisher, Raktim Bhattacharya:
  Analysis of partial stability problems using sum of squares techniques. 724-730
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  Miroslav Krstic:
  On using least-squares updates without regressor filtering in identification and adaptive control of nonlinear systems. 731-735
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  Er-Wei Bai, Zhijun Cai, Shauna Dudley-Javoroski, Richard K. Shields:
  Identification of a modified Wiener-Hammerstein system and its application in electrically stimulated paralyzed skeletal muscle modeling. 736-743
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  Hanyong Shao:
  New delay-dependent stability criteria for systems with interval delay. 744-749
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  Raymond Kristiansen, Antonio Loría, Antoine Chaillet, Per Johan Nicklasson:
  Spacecraft relative rotation tracking without angular velocity measurements. 750-756
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  Feng Zheng, John Nelson:
  An H_∞ approach to the controller design of AQM routers supporting TCP flows. 757-763
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  Sung Hyun Kim, PooGyeon Park:
  Networked-based robust H_infinity control design using multiple levels of network traffic. 764-770
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  Hisaya Fujioka:
  Stability analysis of systems with aperiodic sample-and-hold devices. 771-775
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  Hideaki Ishii, Roberto Tempo:
  Probabilistic sorting and stabilization of switched systems. 776-782
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  Michael Cantoni, Henrik Sandberg:
  Computing the L₂ gain for linear periodic continuous-time systems. 783-789
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  Bao-Zhu Guo, Wei Guo:
  The strong stabilization of a one-dimensional wave equation by non-collocated dynamic boundary feedback control. 790-797
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  Keqin Gu, Yi Liu:
  Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional for uniform stability of coupled differential-functional equations. 798-804
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  Eric F. Mulder, Pradeep Y. Tiwari, Mayuresh V. Kothare:
  Simultaneous linear and anti-windup controller synthesis using multiobjective convex optimization. 805-811
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  Behzad Samadi, Luis Rodrigues:
  A duality-based convex optimization approach to L₂ -gain control of piecewise affine slab differential inclusions. 812-816
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  Tatiana Kameneva, Dragan Nesic:
  Robustness of quantized control systems with mismatch between coder/decoder initializations. 817-822
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  Hakan Köroglu, Carsten W. Scherer:
  Generalized asymptotic regulation with guaranteed H₂ performance: An LMI solution. 823-829
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  P. B. Dickinson, Andrew Thomas Shenton:
  A parameter space approach to constrained variance PID controller design. 830-835
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  Guoliang Wei, Zidong Wang, Huisheng Shu:
  Robust filtering with stochastic nonlinearities and multiple missing measurements. 836-841

Technical Communiques

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  Wei-Jie Mao, Jian Chu:
  D-stability and D-stabilization of linear discrete time-delay systems with polytopic uncertainties. 842-846

Book and Software Reviews

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  Alireza Shabani:
  Book review. 847-849
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  Guy Campion:
  Book review. 849-850

Volume 45, Number 4, April 2009

Regular Papers

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  Stefan Almér, Ulf Jönsson:
  Harmonic analysis of pulse-width modulated systems. 851-862
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  Luca Grosset, Bruno Viscolani:
  Optimal dynamic advertising with an adverse exogenous effect on brand goodwill. 863-870
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  Yan Pan, Lacra Pavel:
  Games with coupled propagated constraints in optical networks with multi-link topologies. 871-880
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  Yantao Feng, Brian D. O. Anderson, Michael Rotkowitz:
  A game theoretic algorithm to compute local stabilizing solutions to HJBI equations in nonlinear H_∞ control. 881-888
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  Gido Haarbrücker, Daniel Kuhn:
  Valuation of electricity swing options by multistage stochastic programming. 889-899
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  Tiejun Zhang, Gang Feng, Xiao-Jun Zeng:
  Output tracking of constrained nonlinear processes with offset-free input-to-state stable fuzzy predictive control. 900-909
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  Chengtao Wen, Xiaoyan Ma, B. Erik Ydstie:
  Analytical expression of explicit MPC solution via lattice piecewise-affine function. 910-917
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  Keng Peng Tee, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Eng Hock Tay:
  Barrier Lyapunov Functions for the control of output-constrained nonlinear systems. 918-927
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  Sinan Kilicaslan, Stephen P. Banks:
  A separation theorem for nonlinear systems. 928-935
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  Jeffrey H. Ahrens, Hassan K. Khalil:
  High-gain observers in the presence of measurement noise: A switched-gain approach. 936-943
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  Gang George Yin, Le Yi Wang, Shaobai Kan:
  Tracking and identification of regime-switching systems using binary sensors. 944-955
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  Er-Wei Bai, John Reyland Jr.:
  Towards identification of Wiener systems with the least amount of a priori information: IIR cases. 956-964

Brief Papers

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  Liang Lu, Zongli Lin, Haijun Fang:
  L₂ gain analysis for a class of switched systems. 965-972
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  Ryan C. Loxton, Kok Lay Teo, Volker Rehbock, Bingo Wing-Kuen Ling:
  Optimal switching instants for a switched-capacitor DC/DC power converter. 973-980
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  Tom Oomen, Jeroen van de Wijdeven, Okko H. Bosgra:
  Suppressing intersample behavior in iterative learning control. 981-988
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  Wei Zhang, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Jianghai Hu:
  Optimal solutions to a class of power management problems in mobile robots. 989-996
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  Zhao-Jing Wu, Xue-Jun Xie, Peng Shi, Yuanqing Xia:
  Backstepping controller design for a class of stochastic nonlinear systems with Markovian switching. 997-1004
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  Liangmin Zhou, Yiqin Lin, Yimin Wei, Sanzheng Qiao:
  Perturbation analysis and condition numbers of symmetric algebraic Riccati equations. 1005-1011
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  Luis R. Suazo, Weijiu Liu:
  Controlling the motion of charged particles in a vacuum electromagnetic field from the boundary. 1012-1019
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  He Bai, Murat Arcak, John T. Wen:
  Adaptive motion coordination: Using relative velocity feedback to track a reference velocity. 1020-1025
• 
  De-Jin Wang:
  Synthesis of phase-lead/lag compensators with complete information on gain and phase margins. 1026-1031
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  Bo Shen, Zidong Wang, Huisheng Shu, Guoliang Wei:
  H_∞ filtering for nonlinear discrete-time stochastic systems with randomly varying sensor delays. 1032-1037
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  S. Halabi, H. Souley Ali, Hugues Rafaralahy, Michel Zasadzinski:
  H_infinity functional filtering for stochastic bilinear systems with multiplicative noises. 1038-1045
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  Emiliano Pereira, Juan Ramón Trapero, Iván M. Díaz, Vicente B. Feliu:
  Adaptive input shaping for manoeuvring flexible structures using an algebraic identification technique. 1046-1051
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  Mazen Alamir, James S. Welsh, Graham C. Goodwin:
  Redundancy versus multiple starting points in nonlinear system related inverse problems. 1052-1057
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  Iman Shames, Baris Fidan, Brian D. O. Anderson:
  Minimization of the effect of noisy measurements on localization of multi-agent autonomous formations. 1058-1065
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  Teodoro Alamo, Alfonso Cepeda, Mirko Fiacchini, Eduardo F. Camacho:
  Convex invariant sets for discrete-time Lur'e systems. 1066-1071
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  Tao Liu, Furong Gao:
  A generalized relay identification method for time delay and non-minimum phase processes. 1072-1079
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  Alejandro H. González, Darci Odloak:
  Enlarging the domain of attraction of stable MPC controllers, maintaining the output performance. 1080-1085
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  Pavel Trnka, Vladimír Havlena:
  Subspace like identification incorporating prior information. 1086-1091

Technical Communiques

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  Jenq-Lang Wu:
  Stabilizing controllers design for switched nonlinear systems in strict-feedback form. 1092-1096
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  Shambhu Nath Sharma:
  A Kushner approach for small random perturbations of the Duffing-van der Pol system. 1097-1099

Volume 45, Number 5, May 2009

Survey Paper

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  Ruth F. Curtain, Kirsten Morris:
  Transfer functions of distributed parameter systems: A tutorial. 1101-1116

Regular Papers

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  Lotfi Belkoura, Jean-Pierre Richard, Michel Fliess:
  Parameters estimation of systems with delayed and structured entries. 1117-1125
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  Magnus Mossberg, Erik K. Larsson, Eva Mossberg:
  Long-term fading channel estimation from sample covariances. 1126-1133
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  Alexandra Grancharova, Tor Arne Johansen:
  Computation, approximation and stability of explicit feedback min-max nonlinear model predictive control. 1134-1143
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  Silvère Bonnabel, Mazyar Mirrahimi, Pierre Rouchon:
  Observer-based Hamiltonian identification for quantum systems. 1144-1155
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  José Paulo Vilela Soares da Cunha, Ramon R. Costa, Fernando C. Lizarralde, Liu Hsu:
  Peaking free variable structure control of uncertain linear systems based on a high-gain observer. 1156-1164
• 
  Guodong Shi, Yiguang Hong:
  Global target aggregation and state agreement of nonlinear multi-agent systems with switching topologies. 1165-1175
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  Somayeh Sojoudi, Amir G. Aghdam:
  Overlapping control systems with optimal information exchange. 1176-1181
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  Thomas Meurer, Andreas Kugi:
  Tracking control for boundary controlled parabolic PDEs with varying parameters: Combining backstepping and differential flatness. 1182-1194

Brief Papers

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  Ya Zhang, Yu-Ping Tian:
  Consentability and protocol design of multi-agent systems with stochastic switching topology. 1195-1201
• 
  Elena De Santis, Maria Domenica Di Benedetto, Giordano Pola:
  A structural approach to detectability for a class of hybrid systems. 1202-1206
• 
  Martin J. Corless, Christopher K. King, Robert Shorten:
  A result on second order nonlinear operators arising in high-speed networking applications. 1207-1214
• 
  Fei Chen, Zengqiang Chen, LinYing Xiang, Zhongxin Liu, Zhuzhi Yuan:
  Reaching a consensus via pinning control. 1215-1220
• 
  Xuemei Ren, Frank L. Lewis, Jingliang Zhang:
  Neural network compensation control for mechanical systems with disturbances. 1221-1226
• 
  Ilya Ioslovich, Per Olof Gutman, Raphael Linker:
  Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman formalism for optimal climate control of greenhouse crop. 1227-1231
• 
  Xudong Ye:
  Pseudo-decentralized adaptive stabilization of large-scale feedforward nonlinear systems. 1232-1236
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  Johannes M. Schumacher:
  Time-scaling symmetry and Zeno solutions. 1237-1242
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  Stefano Di Cairano, Alberto Bemporad, Jorge Júlvez:
  Event-driven optimization-based control of hybrid systems with integral continuous-time dynamics. 1243-1251
• 
  Seong-Jin Park, Kwang-Hyun Cho:
  Delay-coobservability and its algebraic properties for the decentralized supervisory control of discrete event systems with communication delays. 1252-1259
• 
  Paulo Sérgio Pereira da Silva, Simone Batista:
  On state representations of time-varying nonlinear systems. 1260-1264
• 
  Un Sik Park, Masao Ikeda:
  Stability analysis and control design of LTI discrete-time systems by the direct use of time series data. 1265-1271
• 
  Hiroaki Mukaidani:
  Soft-constrained stochastic Nash games for weakly coupled large-scale systems. 1272-1279
• 
  Christian Løvaas, José B. Mare:
  Affine and predictive control policies for a class of nonlinear systems. 1280-1284
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  Per Ivar Barth Berntsen, Ole Morten Aamo, Bernt J. Leira:
  Ensuring mooring line integrity by dynamic positioning: Controller design and experimental tests. 1285-1290
• 
  Yunjun Xu, Prakash Vedula:
  A quadrature-based method of moments for nonlinear filtering. 1291-1298
• 
  Yongcan Cao, Wei Ren, Yan Li:
  Distributed discrete-time coordinated tracking with a time-varying reference state and limited communication. 1299-1305
• 
  Lu Liu, Zhiyong Chen, Jie Huang:
  Parameter convergence and minimal internal model with an adaptive output regulation problem. 1306-1311
• 
  Pietro De Lellis, Mario di Bernardo, Francesco Garofalo:
  Novel decentralized adaptive strategies for the synchronization of complex networks. 1312-1318
• 
  Nem Stefanovic, Lacra Pavel:
  A stability analysis with time-delay of primal-dual power control in optical links. 1319-1325
• 
  Javad Lavaei, Amir G. Aghdam:
  Overlapping control design for multi-channel systems. 1326-1331
• 
  Lirong Huang, Xuerong Mao:
  Robust delayed-state-feedback stabilization of uncertain stochastic systems. 1332-1339
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  Zhao-Yan Li, Yong Wang, Bin Zhou, Guang-Ren Duan:
  Detectability and observability of discrete-time stochastic systems and their applications. 1340-1346
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  Yu-Ping Tian, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Robust consensus of multi-agent systems with diverse input delays and asymmetric interconnection perturbations. 1347-1353

Technical Communiques

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  Francesco Amato, Roberto Ambrosino, Marco Ariola, Carlo Cosentino:
  Finite-time stability of linear time-varying systems with jumps. 1354-1358

Volume 45, Number 6, June 2009

Regular Papers

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  Roland Tóth, Peter S. C. Heuberger, Paul M. J. Van den Hof:
  Asymptotically optimal orthonormal basis functions for LPV system identification. 1359-1370
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  Jonas Gillberg, Lennart Ljung:
  Frequency-domain identification of continuous-time ARMA models from sampled data. 1371-1378
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  Yoonsoo Kim, Da-Wei Gu, Ian Postlethwaite:
  Spectral radius minimization for optimal average consensus and output feedback stabilization. 1379-1386
• 
  Assaf Gurt, Girish N. Nair:
  Internal stability of dynamic quantised control for stochastic linear plants. 1387-1396
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  Srdjan S. Stankovic, Milos S. Stankovic, Dusan M. Stipanovic:
  Consensus based overlapping decentralized estimation with missing observations and communication faults. 1397-1406
• 
  Benedetto Piccoli, Katarzyna Zadarnowska, Matteo Gaeta:
  Stochastic algorithms for robustness of control performances. 1407-1414

Brief Papers

• 
  Jing Zhou, Changyun Wen, Wei Wang:
  Adaptive backstepping control of uncertain systems with unknown input time-delay. 1415-1422
• 
  Boris M. Miller:
  Optimization of queuing system via stochastic control. 1423-1430
• 
  Luca Zaccarian:
  Dynamic allocation for input redundant control systems. 1431-1438
• 
  Daniil V. Iourtchenko:
  Solution to a class of stochastic LQ problems with bounded control. 1439-1442
• 
  Bo Wahlberg, Håkan Hjalmarsson, Jonas Mårtensson:
  Variance results for identification of cascade systems. 1443-1448
• 
  Rifat Sipahi, Ismail Ilker Delice:
  Extraction of 3D stability switching hypersurfaces of a time delay system with multiple fixed delays. 1449-1454
• 
  Jing Zhou, Qian Wang:
  Convergence speed in distributed consensus over dynamically switching random networks. 1455-1461
• 
  Lixian Zhang, El Kébir Boukas:
  Mode-dependent H_infinity filtering for discrete-time Markovian jump linear systems with partly unknown transition probabilities. 1462-1467
• 
  Bao-Zhu Guo, Kun-Yi Yang:
  Dynamic stabilization of an Euler-Bernoulli beam equation with time delay in boundary observation. 1468-1475
• 
  Enrique A. Medina, Douglas A. Lawrence:
  State feedback stabilization of linear impulsive systems. 1476-1480
• 
  Wu-Hua Chen, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Input-to-state stability and integral input-to-state stability of nonlinear impulsive systems with delays. 1481-1488
• 
  Matthew R. Graham, Maurício C. de Oliveira, Raymond A. de Callafon:
  An alternative Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov lemma and some extensions. 1489-1496
• 
  Jeng-Tze Huang:
  Hybrid-based adaptive NN backstepping control of strict-feedback systems. 1497-1503
• 
  Yuanqing Xia, El Kébir Boukas, Peng Shi, Jinhui Zhang:
  Stability and stabilization of continuous-time singular hybrid systems. 1504-1509
• 
  Hanlei Wang, Yongchun Xie:
  Passivity based adaptive Jacobian tracking for free-floating space manipulators without using spacecraft acceleration. 1510-1517
• 
  Do Wan Kim, Ho Jae Lee:
  Stability connection between sampled-data fuzzy control systems with quantization and their approximate discrete-time model. 1518-1523
• 
  Alexander Medvedev, Magnus Evestedt:
  Elementwise decoupling and convergence of the Riccati equation in the SG algorithm. 1524-1529
• 
  Bing Chen, Xiaoping Liu, Kefu Liu, Chong Lin:
  Direct adaptive fuzzy control of nonlinear strict-feedback systems. 1530-1535
• 
  Graziano Chesi:
  Estimating the domain of attraction for non-polynomial systems via LMI optimizations. 1536-1541
• 
  Ilyasse Aksikas, Adrian Fuxman, J. Fraser Forbes, Joseph J. Winkin:
  LQ control design of a class of hyperbolic PDE systems: Application to fixed-bed reactor. 1542-1548
• 
  Xi Chen, Yu-Chi Ho, Hongxing Bai:
  Complete coverage and point coverage in randomly distributed sensor networks. 1549-1553
• 
  Bing Chen, Xiaoping Liu, Kefu Liu, Chong Lin:
  Novel adaptive neural control design for nonlinear MIMO time-delay systems. 1554-1560
• 
  Soo Hee Han, Bo Kyu Kwon, Wook Hyun Kwon:
  Minimax FIR smoothers for deterministic continuous-time state space models. 1561-1566
• 
  Nader Meskin, Khashayar Khorasani:
  Robust fault detection and isolation of time-delay systems using a geometric approach. 1567-1573

Technical Communiques

• 
  Mona Meisami-Azad, Javad Mohammadpour, Karolos M. Grigoriadis:
  Dissipative analysis and control of state-space symmetric systems. 1574-1579
• 
  Leonardo A. Mozelli, Reinaldo M. Palhares, Fernando de Oliveira Souza, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes:
  Reducing conservativeness in recent stability conditions of TS fuzzy systems. 1580-1583
• 
  Zhijian Ji, Hai Lin, Tong Heng Lee:
  A new perspective on criteria and algorithms for reachability of discrete-time switched linear systems. 1584-1587

Correspondence Items

• 
  Pierre Riedinger:
  Comments on "Optimally switched linear systems". 1588-1590
• 
  Tuhin Das, Ranjan Mukherjee:
  Authors' reply to comments on "Optimally switched linear systems". 1591

Volume 45, Number 7, July 2009

Regular Papers

• 
  Carlos F. Alcala, Si-Zhao Joe Qin:
  Reconstruction-based contribution for process monitoring. 1593-1600
• 
  Alessandro Abate, Ashish Tiwari, Shankar Sastry:
  Box invariance in biologically-inspired dynamical systems. 1601-1610
• 
  Fernando Castaños, Romeo Ortega, Arjan van der Schaft, Alessandro Astolfi:
  Asymptotic stabilization via control by interconnection of port-Hamiltonian systems. 1611-1618
• 
  Ruth F. Curtain, Orest V. Iftime, Hans Zwart:
  System theoretic properties of a class of spatially invariant systems. 1619-1627
• 
  Junyu Zhang, Xi-Ren Cao:
  Continuous-time Markov decision processes with nth-bias optimality criteria. 1628-1638
• 
  Li Xia, Xi Chen, Xi-Ren Cao:
  Policy iteration for customer-average performance optimization of closed queueing systems. 1639-1648
• 
  Zhen Li, Jing Sun, Soryeok Oh:
  Design, analysis and experimental validation of a robust nonlinear path following controller for marine surface vessels. 1649-1658
• 
  Daizhan Cheng, Hongsheng Qi:
  Controllability and observability of Boolean control networks. 1659-1667
• 
  Zhesheng Jiang, Raúl Ordóñez:
  On-line robust trajectory generation on approach and landing for reusable launch vehicles. 1668-1678

Brief Papers

• 
  Halim Alwi, Christopher Edwards, Chee Pin Tan:
  Sliding mode estimation schemes for incipient sensor faults. 1679-1685
• 
  Niranjan A. Subrahmanya, Yung C. Shin:
  Adaptive divided difference filtering for simultaneous state and parameter estimation. 1686-1693
• 
  Qing'an Ren, Yunmin Zhu, Xiaojing Shen, Enbin Song:
  Optimal sensor rules and unified fusion rules for multisensor multi-hypothesis network decision systems with channel errors. 1694-1702
• 
  Jun Zhao, David J. Hill:
  Vector L₂-gain and stability of feedback switched systems. 1703-1707
• 
  Zhendong Sun:
  Stabilizing switching design for switched linear systems: A state-feedback path-wise switching approach. 1708-1714
• 
  Chen Wang, Chong Jin Ong, Melvyn Sim:
  Convergence properties of constrained linear system under MPC control law using affine disturbance feedback. 1715-1720
• 
  Jing Yao, Hua O. Wang, Zhi-Hong Guan, Weisheng Xu:
  Passive stability and synchronization of complex spatio-temporal switching networks with time delays. 1721-1728
• 
  Huijun Gao, Junli Wu, Peng Shi:
  Robust sampled-data H_∞ control with stochastic sampling. 1729-1736
• 
  Taha Boukhobza, Frédéric Hamelin:
  State and input observability recovering by additional sensor implementation: A graph-theoretic approach. 1737-1742
• 
  João Yoshiyuki Ishihara, Marco H. Terra, B. M. Espinoza:
  H_infinity filtering for rectangular discrete-time descriptor systems. 1743-1748
• 
  Miroslav Simandl, Jindrich Duník:
  Derivative-free estimation methods: New results and performance analysis. 1749-1757
• 
  Hiroaki Mukaidani:
  Robust guaranteed cost control for uncertain stochastic systems with multiple decision makers. 1758-1764
• 
  Hyeygjeon Chang, Alessandro Astolfi:
  Enhancement of the immune system in HIV dynamics by output feedback. 1765-1770
• 
  Shaunak Dattaprasad Bopardikar, Francesco Bullo, João P. Hespanha:
  A cooperative Homicidal Chauffeur game. 1771-1777

Technical Communiques

• 
  Vilma A. Oliveira, Lúcia V. Cossi, Marcelo C. M. Teixeira, Alexandre M. F. Silva:
  Synthesis of PID controllers for a class of time delay systems. 1778-1782

Correspondence Items

• 
  Yueyang Li, Qiang Ding, Huihong Zhao:
  Comments on "H_∞ filtering for discrete-time systems with randomly varying sensor delays". 1783
• 
  Yafeng Guo, Shaoyuan Li:
  Comments and improved results on "H_∞ filtering for discrete-time systems with randomly varying sensor delays". 1784-1787
• 
  S. S. Zhou, G. Feng:
  Authors' reply to 'Comments and improved results on "H_infinity Filtering for discrete-time systems with randomly varying sensor delays"', and 'Comments on "H_infinity Filtering for discrete-time systems with randomly varying sensor delays"'. 1788

Volume 45, Number 8, August 2009

Survey Papers

• 
  Vincent Andrieu, Laurent Praly:
  A unifying point of view on output feedback designs for global asymptotic stabilization. 1789-1798

Regular Papers

• 
  Hui Liu, Junan Lu, Jinhu Lu, David J. Hill:
  Structure identification of uncertain general complex dynamical networks with time delay. 1799-1807
• 
  Hisaya Fujioka, Chung-Yao Kao, Stefan Almér, Ulf Jönsson:
  Robust tracking with H_infinit performance for PWM systems. 1808-1818
• 
  Mickaël Hilairet, François Auger, Eric Berthelot:
  Speed and rotor flux estimation of induction machines using a two-stage extended Kalman filter. 1819-1827
• 
  Sandra Hirche, Tilemachos Matiakis, Martin Buss:
  A distributed controller approach for delay-independent stability of networked control systems. 1828-1836
• 
  Hendra I. Nurdin, Matthew R. James, Ian R. Petersen:
  Coherent quantum LQG control. 1837-1846

Brief Papers

• 
  Yong Wang, Zuguang Ying, Weiqiu Zhu:
  Stochastic minimax control for stabilizing uncertain quasi- integrable Hamiltonian systems. 1847-1853
• 
  Shunli Li, Xu Yang, Di Yang:
  Active disturbance rejection control for high pointing accuracy and rotation speed. 1854-1860
• 
  Peng Cheng, Yong-Yan Cao, Youxian Sun:
  Strong gamma_k-gamma cl H_infinity stabilization with a new slack variable approach. 1861-1867
• 
  Tomomichi Hagiwara:
  Separator-type robust stability theorem of sampled-data systems allowing noncausal LPTV scaling. 1868-1872
• 
  Laura Menini, Antonio Tornambè:
  Linearization through state immersion of nonlinear systems admitting Lie symmetries. 1873-1878
• 
  Chao Liu, Zhisheng Duan, Guanrong Chen, Lin Huang:
  L₂ norm performance index of synchronization and LQR control synthesis of complex networks. 1879-1885
• 
  Mohammad Saleh Tavazoei, Mohammad Haeri:
  A proof for non existence of periodic solutions in time invariant fractional order systems. 1886-1890
• 
  Yusheng Liu:
  Robust adaptive observer for nonlinear systems with unmodeled dynamics. 1891-1895
• 
  Fuwen Yang, Yongmin Li:
  Set-membership filtering for systems with sensor saturation. 1896-1902
• 
  Corné E. van Daalen, Thomas Jones:
  Fast conflict detection using probability flow. 1903-1909
• 
  Alejandro Donaire, Sergio Junco:
  On the addition of integral action to port-controlled Hamiltonian systems. 1910-1916
• 
  Dan Sui, Le Feng, Morten Hovd, Chong Jin Ong:
  Decomposition principle in model predictive control for linear systems with bounded disturbances. 1917-1922
• 
  Giorgio Bartolini, Elisabetta Punta, Tullio Zolezzi:
  Simplex sliding mode methods for the chattering reduction control of multi-input nonlinear uncertain systems. 1923-1928
• 
  Tao Li, Ji-Feng Zhang:
  Mean square average-consensus under measurement noises and fixed topologies: Necessary and sufficient conditions. 1929-1936
• 
  Stéphane Thil, Wei Xing Zheng, Marion Gilson, Hugues Garnier:
  Unifying some higher-order statistic-based methods for errors-in-variables model identification. 1937-1942
• 
  Florian Knorn, Oliver Mason, Robert Shorten:
  On linear co-positive Lyapunov functions for sets of linear positive systems. 1943-1947

Technical Communiques

• 
  Qing-Long Han:
  Improved stability criteria and controller design for linear neutral systems. 1948-1952
• 
  Zhendong Sun, Jie Huang:
  A note on connectivity of multi-agent systems with proximity graphs and linear feedback protocol. 1953-1956
• 
  Yan Li, Yangquan Chen:
  When is a Mittag-Leffler function a Nussbaum function? 1957-1959
• 
  Cristian Oara, Serban Sabau:
  All doubly coprime factorizations of a general rational matrix. 1960-1964
• 
  Yan Li, Yangquan Chen, Igor Podlubny:
  Mittag-Leffler stability of fractional order nonlinear dynamic systems. 1965-1969
• 
  Jean-Pierre Barbot, Driss Boutat, Thierry Floquet:
  An observation algorithm for nonlinear systems with unknown inputs. 1970-1974
• 
  Antonio Ferramosca, Daniel Limón, Ignacio Alvarado, Teodoro Alamo, Eduardo F. Camacho:
  MPC for tracking with optimal closed-loop performance. 1975-1978
• 
  Hansheng Wu:
  Adaptive robust control of uncertain nonlinear systems with nonlinear delayed state perturbations. 1979-1984

Volume 45, Number 9, September 2009

Editorial

• 
  Frank Allgöwer:
  Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Systems Biology. 1985

Regular Papers

• 
  Xin Xin, Jin-Hua She, Taiga Yamasaki, Yannian Liu:
  Swing-up control based on virtual composite links for n-link underactuated robot with passive first joint. 1986-1994
• 
  Behzad Samadi, Luis Rodrigues:
  Stability of sampled-data piecewise affine systems: A time-delay approach. 1995-2001
• 
  Francesco Ticozzi, Lorenza Viola:
  Analysis and synthesis of attractive quantum Markovian dynamics. 2002-2009
• 
  Sonia Martínez:
  Practical multiagent rendezvous through modified circumcenter algorithms. 2010-2017
• 
  Torsten Söderström, Magnus Mossberg, Mei Hong:
  A covariance matching approach for identifying errors-in-variables systems. 2018-2031

Brief Papers

• 
  Nader Meskin, Khashayar Khorasani:
  Fault Detection and Isolation of discrete-time Markovian jump linear systems with application to a network of multi-agent systems having imperfect communication channels. 2032-2040
• 
  Zhiyong Chen:
  Global stabilization of nonlinear cascaded systems with a Lyapunov function in superposition form. 2041-2045
• 
  Thomas Thibodeau, Wenchan Tong, Tingshu Hu:
  Set invariance and performance analysis of linear systems via truncated ellipsoids. 2046-2051
• 
  Miroslav Simandl, Ivo Puncochár:
  Active fault detection and control: Unified formulation and optimal design. 2052-2059
• 
  Emilia Fridman, Yury Orlov:
  An LMI approach to H_infinity boundary control of semilinear parabolic and hyperbolic systems. 2060-2066
• 
  Xinmin Song, Huanshui Zhang, Lihua Xie:
  Stochastic linear quadratic regulation for discrete-time linear systems with input delay. 2067-2073
• 
  Delphine Bresch-Pietri, Miroslav Krstic:
  Adaptive trajectory tracking despite unknown input delay and plant parameters. 2074-2081
• 
  David Q. Mayne, Sasa V. Rakovic, Rolf Findeisen, Frank Allgöwer:
  Robust output feedback model predictive control of constrained linear systems: Time varying case. 2082-2087
• 
  Darko Musicki:
  Bearings only single-sensor target tracking using Gaussian mixtures. 2088-2092
• 
  Baocang Ding:
  Quadratic boundedness via dynamic output feedback for constrained nonlinear systems in Takagi-Sugeno's form. 2093-2098
• 
  Rosario Toscano, Patrick Lyonnet:
  Robust PID controller tuning based on the heuristic Kalman algorithm. 2099-2106
• 
  Jing Yao, Zhi-Hong Guan, David J. Hill:
  Passivity-based control and synchronization of general complex dynamical networks. 2107-2113
• 
  Hanlei Wang, Yongchun Xie:
  Adaptive inverse dynamics control of robots with uncertain kinematics and dynamics. 2114-2119
• 
  Ligang Wu, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Passivity-based sliding mode control of uncertain singular time-delay systems. 2120-2127
• 
  Fernando de Oliveira Souza, Maurício C. de Oliveira, Reinaldo M. Palhares:
  Stability independent of delay using rational functions. 2128-2133
• 
  Ling Shi, Lihua Xie, Richard M. Murray:
  Kalman filtering over a packet-delaying network: A probabilistic approach. 2134-2140
• 
  Guangming Xie, Long Wang:
  Periodic stabilizability of switched linear control systems. 2141-2148

Technical Communiques

• 
  Chien-Shu Hsieh:
  Extension of unbiased minimum-variance input and state estimation for systems with unknown inputs. 2149-2153
• 
  Peng Lin, Yingmin Jia:
  Consensus of second-order discrete-time multi-agent systems with nonuniform time-delays and dynamically changing topologies. 2154-2158
• 
  G. Datatreya Reddy, Youngjin Park, Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, A. P. Tiwari:
  Discrete-time output feedback sliding mode control for spatial control of a large PHWR. 2159-2163
• 
  Romain Postoyan, Tarek Ahmed-Ali, Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue:
  Robust backstepping for the Euler approximate model of sampled-data strict-feedback systems. 2164-2168
• 
  Francesco Dinuzzo, Antonella Ferrara:
  Finite-time output stabilization with second order sliding modes. 2169-2171

Errata

• 
  Pierre Riedinger:
  Erratum to: Comments on "Optimally switched linear systems" [Automatica 45 (6) (2009) 1588-1590]. 2172

Book Review

• 
  Margareta Stefanovic, Suresh Muknahallipatna:
  Book review: Advances in control, communication networks, and transportation systems: In honor of Pravin Varaiya. Edited by E.H. Abed, Birkhauser Boston, 2005. 2173-2174

Volume 45, Number 10, October 2009

Regular Papers

• 
  Marco C. Campi, Sangho Ko, Erik Weyer:
  Non-asymptotic confidence regions for model parameters in the presence of unmodelled dynamics. 2175-2186
• 
  Driss Boutat, Abderraouf Benali, Hassan Hammouri, Krishna Busawon:
  New algorithm for observer error linearization with a diffeomorphism on the outputs. 2187-2193
• 
  Mark L. Darby, Michael Nikolaou:
  Multivariable system identification for integral controllability. 2194-2204
• 
  Elham Semsar-Kazerooni, Khashayar Khorasani:
  Multi-agent team cooperation: A game theory approach. 2205-2213
• 
  Urban Maeder, Francesco Borrelli, Manfred Morari:
  Linear offset-free Model Predictive Control. 2214-2222
• 
  Subhrakanti Dey, Alex S. Leong, Jamie S. Evans:
  Kalman filtering with faded measurements. 2223-2233
• 
  Luca Consolini, Aurelio Piazzi:
  Generalized bang-bang control for feedforward constrained regulation. 2234-2243

Brief Papers

• 
  Chunling Du, Lihua Xie, Frank L. Lewis, Youyi Wang:
  Multi-frequency disturbance rejection via blending control technique for hard disk drives. 2244-2249
• 
  Ryan C. Loxton, Kok Lay Teo, Volker Rehbock, Ka Fai Cedric Yiu:
  Optimal control problems with a continuous inequality constraint on the state and the control. 2250-2257
• 
  Emilia Fridman, Michel Dambrine:
  Control under quantization, saturation and delay: An LMI approach. 2258-2264
• 
  Wen-an Zhang, Li Yu:
  Stability analysis for discrete-time switched time-delay systems. 2265-2271
• 
  Lei Zhou, Guoping Lu:
  Detection and stabilization for discrete-time descriptor systems via a limited capacity communication channel. 2272-2277
• 
  Hideaki Ishii:
  Limitations in remote stabilization over unreliable channels without acknowledgements. 2278-2285
• 
  Housheng Su, Xiaofan Wang, Zongli Lin:
  Synchronization of coupled harmonic oscillators in a dynamic proximity network. 2286-2291
• 
  Mondher Farza, Mohammed M'Saad, Tarak Maatoug, Mohamed Kamoun:
  Adaptive observers for nonlinearly parameterized class of nonlinear systems. 2292-2299
• 
  Zhongyang Fei, Huijun Gao, Peng Shi:
  New results on stabilization of Markovian jump systems with time delay. 2300-2306
• 
  Young Il Lee, Basil Kouvaritakis:
  Receding horizon control of switching systems. 2307-2311
• 
  Long Cheng, Zeng-Guang Hou, Min Tan:
  Adaptive neural network tracking control for manipulators with uncertain kinematics, dynamics and actuator model. 2312-2318
• 
  Hao Yang, Bin Jiang, Marcel Staroswiecki:
  Supervisory fault tolerant control for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems. 2319-2324
• 
  Jun Xu, Xiaolin Huang, Shuning Wang:
  Adaptive hinging hyperplanes and its applications in dynamic system identification. 2325-2332
• 
  Kemao Peng, Guowei Cai, Ben M. Chen, Miaobo Dong, Kai-Yew Lum, Tong Heng Lee:
  Design and implementation of an autonomous flight control law for a UAV helicopter. 2333-2338
• 
  Shengyuan Xu, Gang Feng:
  New results on H_∞ control of discrete singularly perturbed systems. 2339-2343
• 
  Brandon Hencey, Andrew G. Alleyne:
  An anti-windup technique for LMI regions. 2344-2349
• 
  Mario Milanese, Carlo Novara, Kenneth Hsu, Kameshwar Poolla:
  The filter design from data (FD2) problem: Nonlinear Set Membership approach. 2350-2357
• 
  Huibing Yin, Paul Wang, Tansu Alpcan, Prashant G. Mehta:
  Hopf bifurcation and oscillations in a communication network with heterogeneous delays. 2358-2367
• 
  Sathyendra Ghantasala, Nael H. El-Farra:
  Robust actuator fault isolation and management in constrained uncertain parabolic PDE systems. 2368-2373
• 
  Yiannis Karayiannidis, Zoe Doulgeri:
  Adaptive control of robot contact tasks with on-line learning of planar surfaces. 2374-2382
• 
  Jeroen van de Wijdeven, Tijs Donkers, Okko H. Bosgra:
  Iterative Learning Control for uncertain systems: Robust monotonic convergence analysis. 2383-2391
• 
  Salim Ibrir:
  Adaptive observers for time-delay nonlinear systems in triangular form. 2392-2399
• 
  Hong Son Hoang, Rémy Baraille, Oliver Talagrand:
  On the stability of a reduced-order filter based on dominant singular value decomposition of the system dynamics. 2400-2405
• 
  Chien-Chern Cheah, Saing Paul Hou, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine:
  Region-based shape control for a swarm of robots. 2406-2411
• 
  Reza Ghaemi, Jing Sun, Ilya V. Kolmanovsky:
  An integrated perturbation analysis and Sequential Quadratic Programming approach for Model Predictive Control. 2412-2418
• 
  A. J. Shaiju, Ian R. Petersen:
  A formula for the optimal cost in the general discrete-time LEQG problem. 2419-2426
• 
  Yongqiang Wang, Hao Ye, Steven X. Ding, Guizeng Wang, Donghua Zhou:
  Residual generation and evaluation of networked control systems subject to random packet dropout. 2427-2434

Technical Communiques

• 
  Sung Wook Yun, Yun Jong Choi, PooGyeon Park:
  H₂ control of continuous-time uncertain linear systems with input quantization and matched disturbances. 2435-2439
• 
  Wen-an Zhang, Li Yu:
  A robust control approach to stabilization of networked control systems with time-varying delays. 2440-2445
• 
  Ying Luo, Yangquan Chen:
  Fractional order [proportional derivative] controller for a class of fractional order systems. 2446-2450
• 
  Adrian D. McKernan, Antonio Sala, Carlos Ariño, George W. Irwin:
  Sampled-data gain scheduling of continuous LTV plants. 2451-2453
• 
  Cloud Makasu:
  Risk-sensitive control for a class of homing problems. 2454-2455
• 
  Robert Schmid:
  Limit or limit superior? Observations on the convergence of some iterative learning control schemes. 2456-2457
• 
  Peng Cui, Chenghui Zhang, Huanshui Zhang, Hongguo Zhao:
  Indefinite linear quadratic optimal control problem for singular discrete-time system with multiple input delays. 2458-2461
• 
  Joon-Young Choi:
  Global stability analysis scheme for a class of nonlinear time delay systems. 2462-2466
• 
  Svante Björklund, Lennart Ljung:
  An improved phase method for time-delay estimation. 2467-2470

Volume 45, Number 11, November 2009

Regular Papers

• 
  Shalabh Bhatnagar, Richard S. Sutton, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Mark Lee:
  Natural actor-critic algorithms. 2471-2482
• 
  Claudia Califano, Salvatore Monaco, Dorothée Normand-Cyrot:
  Canonical observer forms for multi-output systems up to coordinate and output transformations in discrete time. 2483-2490
• 
  Maxim V. Subbotin, Roy S. Smith:
  Design of distributed decentralized estimators for formations with fixed and stochastic communication topologies. 2491-2501
• 
  Jun Zhao, David J. Hill, Tao Liu:
  Synchronization of complex dynamical networks with switching topology: A switched system point of view. 2502-2511
• 
  Jonas Mårtensson, Håkan Hjalmarsson:
  Variance-error quantification for identified poles and zeros. 2512-2525
• 
  Wei Zhang, Alessandro Abate, Jianghai Hu, Michael P. Vitus:
  Exponential stabilization of discrete-time switched linear systems. 2526-2536
• 
  Shuzhi Sam Ge, Chenguang Yang, Shi-Lu Dai, Zongxia Jiao, Tong Heng Lee:
  Robust adaptive control of a class of nonlinear strict-feedback discrete-time systems with exact output tracking. 2537-2545
• 
  Saverio Messineo, Andrea Serrani:
  Offshore crane control based on adaptive external models. 2546-2556

Brief Papers

• 
  Luca Scardovi, Rodolphe Sepulchre:
  Synchronization in networks of identical linear systems. 2557-2562
• 
  Fu-Shiung Hsieh:
  Collaborative reconfiguration mechanism for holonic manufacturing systems. 2563-2569
• 
  Lixian Zhang:
  H_∞ estimation for discrete-time piecewise homogeneous Markov jump linear systems. 2570-2576
• 
  Yangzi Hu, Fuke Wu, Chengming Huang:
  Robustness of exponential stability of a class of stochastic functional differential equations with infinite delay. 2577-2584
• 
  James W. T. Yates, Neil D. Evans, Michael J. Chappell:
  Structural identifiability analysis via symmetries of differential equations. 2585-2591
• 
  Kai Wulff, Fabian Wirth, Robert Shorten:
  A control design method for a class of switched linear systems. 2592-2596
• 
  Seong-Jin Park, Jung-Min Yang:
  Supervisory control for real-time scheduling of periodic and sporadic tasks with resource constraints. 2597-2604
• 
  Feng Xiao, Long Wang, Jie Chen, Yanping Gao:
  Finite-time formation control for multi-agent systems. 2605-2611
• 
  Liping Yin, Lei Guo:
  Fault isolation for multivariate nonlinear non-Gaussian systems using generalized entropy optimization principle. 2612-2619
• 
  Ricardo C. L. F. Oliveira, Pedro L. D. Peres:
  Time-varying discrete-time linear systems with bounded rates of variation: Stability analysis and control design. 2620-2626
• 
  Jiandong Wang, Qinghua Zhang, Lennart Ljung:
  Revisiting Hammerstein system identification through the Two-Stage Algorithm for bilinear parameter estimation. 2627-2633
• 
  Xiao He, Zidong Wang, Donghua Zhou:
  Robust fault detection for networked systems with communication delay and data missing. 2634-2639
• 
  Somayeh Sojoudi, Javad Lavaei, Amir G. Aghdam:
  Robust controllability and observability degrees of polynomially uncertain systems. 2640-2645
• 
  Han Ho Choi:
  Adaptive controller design for uncertain fuzzy systems using variable structure control approach. 2646-2650
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  Valery A. Ugrinovskii:
  Risk-sensitivity conditions for stochastic uncertain model validation. 2651-2658
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  Jin Heon Seo, Hyungbo Shim, Juhoon Back:
  Consensus of high-order linear systems using dynamic output feedback compensator: Low gain approach. 2659-2664
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  Mariagrazia Dotoli, Maria Pia Fanti, Agostino Marcello Mangini, Walter Ukovich:
  On-line fault detection in discrete event systems by Petri nets and integer linear programming. 2665-2672
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  Arturo F. Locatelli, Nicola L. M. Schiavoni:
  Reliable regulation in centralized control systems. 2673-2677
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  Norbert Hohenbichler:
  All stabilizing PID controllers for time delay systems. 2678-2684
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  Runmin Zou, Michel Malabre:
  Almost disturbance decoupling and pole placement. 2685-2691
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  Phil G. Howlett, Peter J. Pudney, Xuan Vu:
  Local energy minimization in optimal train control. 2692-2698
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  Ronghao Zheng, Zhiyun Lin, Gangfeng Yan:
  Ring-coupled unicycles: Boundedness, convergence, and control. 2699-2706
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  Shuping Ma, El-Kébir Boukas:
  A singular system approach to robust sliding mode control for uncertain Markov jump systems. 2707-2713

Technical Communiques

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  Shengyuan Xu, James Lam, Yun Zou, Jianzhen Li:
  Robust admissibility of time-varying singular systems with commensurate time delays. 2714-2717
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  Gianpasquale Martelli:
  Stability of PID-controlled second-order time-delay feedback systems. 2718-2722
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  Emilia Fridman, Uri Shaked, Kun Liu:
  New conditions for delay-derivative-dependent stability. 2723-2727

Volume 45, Number 12, December 2009

Survey Paper

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  Ai Hui Tan:
  Direction-dependent systems - A survey. 2729-2743

Regular Papers

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  Zhixin Liu, Lei Guo:
  Synchronization of multi-agent systems without connectivity assumptions. 2744-2753
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  Jorge Cortés:
  Global and robust formation-shape stabilization of relative sensing networks. 2754-2762
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  Jiandong Wang, Wei Xing Zheng, Tongwen Chen:
  Identification of linear dynamic systems operating in a networked environment. 2763-2772
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  Wen-Xiao Zhao, Han-Fu Chen:
  Adaptive tracking and recursive identification for Hammerstein systems. 2773-2783
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  Shengxiang Jiang, Petros G. Voulgaris:
  A convex optimization approach to signal reconstruction over switching networks. 2784-2793
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  Fredrik Gustafsson, Rickard Karlsson:
  Statistical results for system identification based on quantized observations. 2794-2801
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  Jongeun Choi, Songhwai Oh, Roberto Horowitz:
  Distributed learning and cooperative control for multi-agent systems. 2802-2814
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  Ankur A. Kulkarni, Vivek S. Borkar:
  Finite dimensional approximation and Newton-based algorithm for stochastic approximation in Hilbert space. 2815-2822
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  Alberto Bemporad, David Muñoz de la Peña:
  Multiobjective model predictive control. 2823-2830
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  James Fisher, Raktim Bhattacharya:
  Linear quadratic regulation of systems with stochastic parameter uncertainties. 2831-2841

Brief Papers

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  Gianluigi Pillonetto, Alessandro Chiuso:
  Fast computation of smoothing splines subject to equality constraints. 2842-2849
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  Jun Wu, Gang Li, Sheng Chen, Jian Chu:
  Robust Finite Word Length controller design. 2850-2856
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  Zhijian Ji, Zidong Wang, Hai Lin, Zhen Wang:
  Interconnection topologies for multi-agent coordination under leader-follower framework. 2857-2863
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  Baltazar Aguirre-Hernández, Martín Eduardo Frías-Armenta, Fernando Verduzco:
  Smooth trivial vector bundle structure of the space of Hurwitz polynomials. 2864-2868
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  Ravi Gondhalekar, Jun-ichi Imura, Kenji Kashima:
  Controlled invariant feasibility - A general approach to enforcing strong feasibility in MPC applied to move-blocking. 2869-2875
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  Xinhua Wang, Jinkun Liu, Kai-Yuan Cai:
  Tracking control for a velocity-sensorless VTOL aircraft with delayed outputs. 2876-2882
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  Dimitrios Karagiannis, Mario Sassano, Alessandro Astolfi:
  Dynamic scaling and observer design with application to adaptive control. 2883-2889
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  Lu Lu, Bin Yao, Qingfeng Wang, Zheng Chen:
  Adaptive robust control of linear motors with dynamic friction compensation using modified LuGre model. 2890-2896
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  Igor Boiko:
  Oscillations and transfer properties of relay feedback systems with time-delay linear plants. 2897-2902
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  Coen C. de Visser, Qiping Chu, J. A. Mulder:
  A new approach to linear regression with multivariate splines. 2903-2909
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  Prathyush P. Menon, Christopher Edwards:
  Decentralised static output feedback stabilisation and synchronisation of networks. 2910-2916
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  Dan Dai, Tingshu Hu, Andrew R. Teel, Luca Zaccarian:
  Output feedback design for saturated linear plants using deadzone loops. 2917-2924
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  W. B. J. Hakvoort, Ronald G. K. M. Aarts, Johannes van Dijk, Ben J. B. Jonker:
  A computationally efficient algorithm of iterative learning control for discrete-time linear time-varying systems. 2925-2929
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  Francesco Borrelli, Carmen Del Vecchio, Alessandra Parisio:
  Robust invariant sets for constrained storage systems. 2930-2936
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  Minyue Fu, Carlos E. de Souza:
  State estimation for linear discrete-time systems using quantized measurements. 2937-2945
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  Daniel Ferreira Coutinho, Carlos E. de Souza, Karina A. Barbosa:
  Robust H_infinity filter design for a class of discrete-time parameter varying systems. 2946-2954
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  Zhongwei Lin, Yan Lin, Weihai Zhang:
  A unified design for state and output feedback H_∞ control of nonlinear stochastic Markovian jump systems with state and disturbance-dependent noise. 2955-2962
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  Koji Tsumura, Hideaki Ishii, Hiroto Hoshina:
  Tradeoffs between quantization and packet loss in networked control of linear systems. 2963-2970
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  Katrina Lau, Julio H. Braslavsky, Juan C. Agüero, Graham C. Goodwin:
  An errors-in-variables method for non-stationary data with application to mineral exploration. 2971-2976

Technical Communiques

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  William Paul Heath, Guang Li:
  Lyapunov functions for the multivariable Popov criterion with indefinite multipliers. 2977-2981
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  Giorgio Bartolini, Alessandro Pisano, Elio Usai:
  On the second-order sliding mode control of nonlinear systems with uncertain control direction. 2982-2985
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  Tarek Ahmed-Ali, Romain Postoyan, Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue:
  Continuous-discrete adaptive observers for state affine systems. 2986-2990
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  Zidong Wang, Guoliang Wei, Gang Feng:
  Reliable H_∞ control for discrete-time piecewise linear systems with infinite distributed delays. 2991-2994

Book Review

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  Elisa Franco:
  Book review. 2995-2996