Automatica, Volume 47

Volume 47, Number 1, January 2011

Regular Papers

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  Valery A. Ugrinovskii:
  Distributed robust filtering with H_infinity consensus of estimates. 1-13
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  Yoshio Ebihara, Dimitri Peaucelle, Denis Arzelier:
  Periodically time-varying memory state-feedback controller synthesis for discrete-time linear systems. 14-25
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  Rui Ru Chen, Kash Khorasani:
  A robust adaptive congestion control strategy for large scale networks with differentiated services traffic. 26-38
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  Thomas B. Schön, Adrian Wills, Brett Ninness:
  System identification of nonlinear state-space models. 39-49
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  Timothy M. Caldwell, Todd D. Murphey:
  Switching mode generation and optimal estimation with application to skid-steering. 50-64
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  Andrew R. Liu, Robert R. Bitmead:
  Stochastic observability in network state estimation and control. 65-78

Brief Papers

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  Yan Zhang, Yong He, Min Wu, Jie Zhang:
  Stabilization for Markovian jump systems with partial information on transition probability based on free-connection weighting matrices. 79-84
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  Alexey S. Matveev, Hamid Teimoori, Andrey V. Savkin:
  Navigation of a unicycle-like mobile robot for environmental extremum seeking. 85-91
• 
  Tan-Jan Ho:
  A switched IMM-Extended Viterbi estimator-based algorithm for maneuvering target tracking. 92-98
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  Keith Dupree, Parag M. Patre, Zachary D. Wilcox, Warren E. Dixon:
  Asymptotic optimal control of uncertain nonlinear Euler-Lagrange systems. 99-107
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  Nima Monshizadeh-Naini, Alireza Fatehi, Ali Khaki-Sedigh:
  Descriptive vector, relative error matrix, and interaction analysis of multivariable plants. 108-114
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  Ruggero Carli, Giacomo Como, Paolo Frasca, Federica Garin:
  Distributed averaging on digital erasure networks. 115-121
• 
  Vasile Dragan:
  Stabilizing composite control for a class of linear systems modeled by singularly perturbed Ito differential equations. 122-126
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  Rafal Goebel:
  Set-valued Lyapunov functions for difference inclusions. 127-132
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  Francesco Scibilia, Sorin Olaru, Morten Hovd:
  On feasible sets for MPC and their approximations. 133-139
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  Frédéric Mazenc, Olivier Bernard:
  Interval observers for linear time-invariant systems with disturbances. 140-147
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  Wei Feng, Jie Tian, Ping Zhao:
  Stability analysis of switched stochastic systems. 148-157
• 
  Davi Antônio dos Santos, Takashi Yoneyama:
  A Bayesian solution to the multiple composite hypothesis testing for fault diagnosis in dynamic systems. 158-163
• 
  Frédéric Rotella, Irène Zambettakis:
  Minimal single linear functional observers for linear systems. 164-169
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  Keyou You, Weizhou Su, Minyue Fu, Lihua Xie:
  Attainability of the minimum data rate for stabilization of linear systems via logarithmic quantization. 170-176
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  Alexey S. Matveev, Hamid Teimoori, Andrey V. Savkin:
  Range-only measurements based target following for wheeled mobile robots. 177-184
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  Kushal Mukherjee, Asok Ray, Thomas A. Wettergren, Shalabh Gupta, Shashi Phoha:
  Real-time adaptation of decision thresholds in sensor networks for detection of moving targets. 185-191
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  Joan Peuteman, Dirk Aeyels:
  Averaging techniques without requiring a fast time-varying differential equation. 192-200
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  Jian Chen, Vilas K. Chitrakaran, Darren M. Dawson:
  Range identification of features on an object using a single camera. 201-206
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  Huaguang Zhang, Qinglai Wei, Derong Liu:
  An iterative adaptive dynamic programming method for solving a class of nonlinear zero-sum differential games. 207-214
• 
  Wenxue Li, Huan Su, Ke Wang:
  Global stability analysis for stochastic coupled systems on networks. 215-220
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  Josep M. Olm, Xavier Ros-Oton, Yuri B. Shtessel:
  Stable inversion of Abel equations: Application to tracking control in DC-DC nonminimum phase boost converters. 221-226
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  Stefano Bifaretti, Patrizio Tomei, Cristiano Maria Verrelli:
  A global robust iterative learning position control for current-fed permanent magnet step motors. 227-234

Technical Communiques

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  PooGyeon Park, Jeong Wan Ko, Changki Jeong:
  Reciprocally convex approach to stability of systems with time-varying delays. 235-238
• 
  Fernando Daniel Bianchi, Ricardo S. Sánchez Peña:
  Interpolation for gain-scheduled control with guarantees. 239-243
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  Amir Shahzad, Bryn Ll. Jones, Eric C. Kerrigan, George A. Constantinides:
  An efficient algorithm for the solution of a coupled Sylvester equation appearing in descriptor systems. 244-248
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  Younseok Choo:
  An elementary proof of the Jury test for real polynomials. 249-252

Volume 47, Number 2, February 2011

Regular Papers

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  Robert J. Elliott, Tak Kuen Siu:
  A BSDE approach to a risk-based optimal investment of an insurer. 253-261
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  Daniele Casagrande, Alessandro Astolfi, Romeo Ortega:
  Asymptotic stabilization of passive systems without damping injection: A sampled integral technique. 262-271
• 
  Torsten Söderström, Magnus Mossberg:
  Accuracy analysis of a covariance matching approach for identifying errors-in-variables systems. 272-282
• 
  Carlos Renato Vázquez, Manuel Silva Suárez:
  Timing and liveness in continuous Petri nets. 283-290
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  Gianluigi Pillonetto, Alessandro Chiuso, Giuseppe De Nicolao:
  Prediction error identification of linear systems: A nonparametric Gaussian regression approach. 291-305

Brief Papers

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  Bin Zhou, Wei Xing Zheng, Guang-Ren Duan:
  An improved treatment of saturation nonlinearity with its application to control of systems subject to nested saturation. 306-315
• 
  Bin Zhou, Guang-Ren Duan, Zongli Lin:
  A parametric periodic Lyapunov equation with application in semi-global stabilization of discrete-time periodic systems subject to actuator saturation. 316-325
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  Ravi Gondhalekar, Colin N. Jones:
  MPC of constrained discrete-time linear periodic systems - A framework for asynchronous control: Strong feasibility, stability and optimality via periodic invariance. 326-333
• 
  Elmer G. Gilbert, Chong Jin Ong:
  Constrained linear systems with hard constraints and disturbances: An extended command governor with large domain of attraction. 334-340
• 
  Behçet Açikmese, Lars Blackmore:
  Lossless convexification of a class of optimal control problems with non-convex control constraints. 341-347
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  Saeed M. Hoseini, Mohammad Farrokhi, A. Jafari Koshkouei:
  Robust adaptive control of nonlinear non-minimum phase systems with uncertainties. 348-357
• 
  Jiangfeng Zhang, Xiaohua Xia:
  A model predictive control approach to the periodic implementation of the solutions of the optimal dynamic resource allocation problem. 358-362
• 
  Hüseyin Akçay:
  Frequency domain subspace-based identification of discrete-time power spectra from uniformly spaced measurements. 363-367
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  Housheng Su, Guanrong Chen, Xiaofan Wang, Zongli Lin:
  Adaptive second-order consensus of networked mobile agents with nonlinear dynamics. 368-375
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  Alejandro J. Rojas:
  Signal-to-noise ratio fundamental constraints in discrete-time linear output feedback control. 376-380
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  Meng-Bi Cheng, Verica Radisavljevic, Wu-Chung Su:
  Sliding mode boundary control of a parabolic PDE system with parameter variations and boundary uncertainties. 381-387
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  Salim Ibrir:
  Observer-based control of a class of time-delay nonlinear systems having triangular structure. 388-394
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  Taha Boukhobza, Frédéric Hamelin:
  Observability of switching structured linear systems with unknown input. A graph-theoretic approach. 395-402
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  Øyvind Nistad Stamnes, Ole Morten Aamo, Glenn-Ole Kaasa:
  Redesign of adaptive observers for improved parameter identification in nonlinear systems. 403-410
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  Ian R. Petersen:
  Guaranteed cost control of stochastic uncertain systems with slope bounded nonlinearities via the use of dynamic multipliers. 411-417
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  Chao Xu, Yongsheng Ou, Eugenio Schuster:
  Sequential linear quadratic control of bilinear parabolic PDEs based on POD model reduction. 418-426

Correspondence Items

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  Yang Su, Kok Kiong Tan, Tong Heng Lee:
  Comments on "Model predictive control for systems with stochastic multiplicative uncertainty and probabilistic constraints" [Automatica 45 (2009) 167-172]. 427-428

Volume 47, Number 3, March 2011

Editorial

• 
  Frank M. Callier:
  Charles A. Desoer, 1926-2010. 429-430

Regular Papers

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  Martin J. Corless, Robert Shorten:
  On a class of generalized eigenvalue problems and equivalent eigenvalue problems that arise in systems and control theory. 431-442
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  William M. McEneaney:
  Distributed dynamic programming for discrete-time stochastic control, and idempotent algorithms. 443-451
• 
  Mou Chen, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Beibei Ren:
  Adaptive tracking control of uncertain MIMO nonlinear systems with input constraints. 452-465
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  Oswaldo L. V. Costa, Guilherme R. A. M. Benites:
  Linear minimum mean square filter for discrete-time linear systems with Markov jumps and multiplicative noises. 466-476
• 
  Suman Chakravorty, Roshmik Saha:
  A frequentist approach to mapping under uncertainty. 477-484
• 
  Emmanuel Nuño, Luis Basañez, Romeo Ortega:
  Passivity-based control for bilateral teleoperation: A tutorial. 485-495
• 
  Feng Lin:
  Opacity of discrete event systems and its applications. 496-503
• 
  Hakan Köroglu, Carsten W. Scherer:
  Scheduled control for robust attenuation of non-stationary sinusoidal disturbances with measurable frequencies. 504-514
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  Alexey S. Matveev, Hamid Teimoori, Andrey V. Savkin:
  A method for guidance and control of an autonomous vehicle in problems of border patrolling and obstacle avoidance. 515-524
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  Frédéric Mazenc, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu:
  Generating positive and stable solutions through delayed state feedback. 525-533

Brief Papers

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  Dong Hwan Lee, Jin Bae Park, Young Hoon Joo:
  Approaches to extended non-quadratic stability and stabilization conditions for discrete-time Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems. 534-538
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  C. X. Zhu, W. Q. Zhu:
  Feedback control of nonlinear stochastic systems for targeting a specified stationary probability density. 539-544
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  Giulio Bottegal, Giorgio Picci, Stefano Pinzoni:
  On the identifiability of errors-in-variables models with white measurement errors. 545-551
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  Gabriel Mihai Lipsa, Nuno C. Martins:
  Optimal memoryless control in Gaussian noise: A simple counterexample. 552-558
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  Matthias Heinkenschloss, Timo Reis, Athanasios C. Antoulas:
  Balanced truncation model reduction for systems with inhomogeneous initial conditions. 559-564
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  Denis V. Efimov, Leonid M. Fridman:
  Global sliding-mode observer with adjusted gains for locally Lipschitz systems. 565-570
• 
  Farhad Bayat, Tor Arne Johansen, Ali Akbar Jalali:
  Using hash tables to manage the time-storage complexity in a point location problem: Application to explicit model predictive control. 571-577
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  Jonas Mårtensson, Cristian R. Rojas, Håkan Hjalmarsson:
  Conditions when minimum variance control is the optimal experiment for identifying a minimum variance controller. 578-583
• 
  Fabio Celani:
  Output regulation for the TORA benchmark via rotational position feedback. 584-590
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  Frédéric Crevecoeur, Rodolphe Sepulchre, Jean-Louis Thonnard, Philippe Lefèvre:
  Improving the state estimation for optimal control of stochastic processes subject to multiplicative noise. 591-596
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  Jung-Min Yang:
  Model matching inclusion for input/state asynchronous sequential machines. 597-602
• 
  Fangfei Li, Jitao Sun:
  Controllability of Boolean control networks with time delays in states. 603-607
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  Fabien Lauer, Gérard Bloch, René Vidal:
  A continuous optimization framework for hybrid system identification. 608-613

Technical Communiques

• 
  Francesco Amato, Francesco Calabrese, Carlo Cosentino, Alessio Merola:
  Stability analysis of nonlinear quadratic systems via polyhedral Lyapunov functions. 614-617
• 
  Soohee Han:
  Stochastic feedback and its relation to the entropy criterion. 618-620
• 
  Graziano Chesi:
  LMI conditions for time-varying uncertain systems can be non-conservative. 621-624
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  Amir Ajorlou, Ahmadreza Momeni, Amir G. Aghdam:
  Sufficient conditions for the convergence of a class of nonlinear distributed consensus algorithms. 625-629
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  Dong Eui Chang:
  A simple proof of the Pontryagin maximum principle on manifolds. 630-633
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  Vimal Singh:
  Stability of discrete-time systems joined with a saturation operator on the state-space: Generalized form of Liu-Michel's criterion. 634-637

Volume 47, Number 4, April 2011

Regular Papers

• 
  Andrea Paoli, Matteo Sartini, Stéphane Lafortune:
  Active fault tolerant control of discrete event systems using online diagnostics. 639-649
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  Erik Wernholt, Stig Moberg:
  Nonlinear gray-box identification using local models applied to industrial robots. 650-660
• 
  Hoi Tin Kong, Qing Zhang, Gang George Yin:
  A trend-following strategy: Conditions for optimality. 661-667
• 
  Laurent Bako:
  Identification of switched linear systems via sparse optimization. 668-677
• 
  Jan H. Richter, W. P. M. H. Heemels, Nathan van de Wouw, Jan Lunze:
  Reconfigurable control of piecewise affine systems with actuator and sensor faults: Stability and tracking. 678-691
• 
  Ricardo G. Sanfelice, Andrew R. Teel:
  On singular perturbations due to fast actuators in hybrid control systems. 692-701
• 
  Daizhan Cheng, Yin Zhao:
  Identification of Boolean control networks. 702-710
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  Carlo Novara, Tyrone L. Vincent, Kenneth Hsu, Mario Milanese, Kameshwar Poolla:
  Parametric identification of structured nonlinear systems. 711-721
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  Wei He, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Bernard Voon Ee How, Yoo Sang Choo, Keum-Shik Hong:
  Robust adaptive boundary control of a flexible marine riser with vessel dynamics. 722-732

Brief Papers

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  Baoxian Wang, Zhi-Hong Guan, Fu-Shun Yuan:
  Optimal tracking and two-channel disturbance rejection under control energy constraint. 733-738
• 
  Riccardo Marino, Patrizio Tomei:
  An adaptive learning regulator for uncertain minimum phase systems with undermodeled unknown exosystems. 739-747
• 
  Bin Liu:
  Initial condition of costate in linear optimal control using convex analysis. 748-753
• 
  Yang Shi, Bo Yu:
  Robust mixed H₂/H_∞ control of networked control systems with random time delays in both forward and backward communication links. 754-760
• 
  Ian J. Couchman, Eric C. Kerrigan, Christoph Böhm:
  Model reduction of homogeneous-in-the-state bilinear systems with input constraints. 761-768
• 
  Zhiyun Lin, Mireille E. Broucke:
  On a reachability problem for affine hypersurface systems on polytopes. 769-775
• 
  Ming Cao, Changbin Yu, Brian D. O. Anderson:
  Formation control using range-only measurements. 776-781
• 
  Fuchun Liu, Hai Lin, Zbigniew Dziong:
  Bisimilarity control of partially observed nondeterministic discrete event systems and a test algorithm. 782-788
• 
  Wu-Hua Chen, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Input-to-state stability for networked control systems via an improved impulsive system approach. 789-796
• 
  Zhongkui Li, Zhisheng Duan, Guanrong Chen:
  On H_∞ and H₂ performance regions of multi-agent systems. 797-803
• 
  Jiaxing Guo, Gang Tao, Yu Liu:
  A multivariable MRAC scheme with application to a nonlinear aircraft model. 804-812
• 
  Agnes Rensfelt, Torsten Söderström:
  Parametric identification of complex modulus. 813-818
• 
  Wuquan Li, Yuanwei Jing, Siying Zhang:
  Adaptive state-feedback stabilization for a large class of high-order stochastic nonlinear systems. 819-828
• 
  Divya Garg, William W. Hager, Anil V. Rao:
  Pseudospectral methods for solving infinite-horizon optimal control problems. 829-837
• 
  Ali Bazaei, S. O. Reza Moheimani, Abu Sebastian:
  An analysis of signal transformation approach to triangular waveform tracking. 838-847
• 
  Peng Lin, Yingmin Jia:
  Multi-agent consensus with diverse time-delays and jointly-connected topologies. 848-856

Technical Communiques

• 
  Hendrik Lens, Jürgen Adamy, Dilyana Domont-Yankulova:
  A fast nonlinear control method for linear systems with input saturation. 857-860
• 
  He Huang, Dewei Li, Zongli Lin, Yugeng Xi:
  An improved robust model predictive control design in the presence of actuator saturation. 861-864
• 
  Cristiano Maria Verrelli:
  Establishing improved convergence properties for the adaptive learning control. 865-867

Volume 47, Number 5, May 2011

Editorial

• 
  Tamer Basar:
  Transition in an Editorship. 869

Regular Papers

• 
  Roberto Naldi, Lorenzo Marconi:
  Optimal transition maneuvers for a class of V/STOL aircraft. 870-879
• 
  Makan Fardad, Mihailo R. Jovanovic:
  Design of optimal controllers for spatially invariant systems with finite communication speed. 880-889
• 
  Mohammad Karimadini, Hai Lin:
  Guaranteed global performance through local coordinations. 890-898
• 
  Jun Liu, Xinzhi Liu, Wei-Chau Xie:
  Input-to-state stability of impulsive and switching hybrid systems with time-delay. 899-908
• 
  Sophie Legras, Georges Zaccour:
  Temporal flexibility of permit trading when pollutants are correlated. 909-919
• 
  Shuai Liu, Lihua Xie, Huanshui Zhang:
  Distributed consensus for multi-agent systems with delays and noises in transmission channels. 920-934
• 
  Thomas Meurer:
  Flatness-based trajectory planning for diffusion-reaction systems in a parallelepipedon - A spectral approach. 935-949

Brief Papers

• 
  Xudong Ye:
  Adaptive stabilization of time-delay feedforward nonlinear systems. 950-955
• 
  Alexandr A. Zevin, Mark A. Pinsky:
  Optimal exponential feedback stabilization of planar systems. 956-961
• 
  Xianfu Zhang, Qingrong Liu, Luc Baron, El Kébir Boukas:
  Feedback stabilization for high order feedforward nonlinear time-delay systems. 962-967
• 
  Frédéric Mazenc, Michael Malisoff, Marcio S. de Queiroz:
  Tracking control and robustness analysis for a nonlinear model of human heart rate during exercise. 968-974
• 
  Dina Shona Laila, Marco Lovera, Alessandro Astolfi:
  A discrete-time observer design for spacecraft attitude determination using an orthogonality-preserving algorithm. 975-980
• 
  Gianmaria De Tommasi, Sergio Galeani, Alfredo Pironti, Gianluca Varano, Luca Zaccarian:
  Nonlinear dynamic allocator for optimal input/output performance trade-off: Application to the JET tokamak shape controller. 981-987
• 
  Carlos Andrey Maia, C. R. Andrade, Laurent Hardouin:
  On the control of max-plus linear system subject to state restriction. 988-992
• 
  Robert J. Fuentes, Gregory Hicks, Jason Osborne:
  The spring paradigm in tracking control of simple mechanical systems. 993-1000
• 
  Yoshito Ohta:
  Stochastic system transformation using generalized orthonormal basis functions with applications to continuous-time system identification. 1001-1006
• 
  Paulo Andre Nobre Rosa, Jeff S. Shamma, Carlos Silvestre, Michael Athans:
  Stability overlay for adaptive control laws. 1007-1014
• 
  Andrey V. Borisov:
  The Wonham filter under uncertainty: A game-theoretic approach. 1015-1019
• 
  Rita Cunha, Carlos Silvestre, João Pedro Hespanha, A. Pedro Aguiar:
  Vision-based control for rigid body stabilization. 1020-1027
• 
  Yufeng Chen, ZhiWu Li:
  Design of a maximally permissive liveness-enforcing supervisor with a compressed supervisory structure for flexible manufacturing systems. 1028-1034
• 
  Giuseppe Notarstefano, Magnus Egerstedt, Musad A. Haque:
  Containment in leader-follower networks with switching communication topologies. 1035-1040
• 
  Alicia Esparza, Juan C. Agüero, Cristian R. Rojas, Boris I. Godoy:
  Asymptotic statistical analysis for model-based control design strategies. 1041-1046
• 
  Wei-Song Lin:
  Optimality and convergence of adaptive optimal control by reinforcement synthesis. 1047-1052
• 
  Xiaojing Shen, Yunmin Zhu, Zhisheng You:
  An efficient sensor quantization algorithm for decentralized estimation fusion. 1053-1059
• 
  Fabio Morbidi, Francesco Bullo, Domenico Prattichizzo:
  Visibility maintenance via controlled invariance for leader-follower vehicle formations. 1060-1067
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  Peter Wieland, Rodolphe Sepulchre, Frank Allgöwer:
  An internal model principle is necessary and sufficient for linear output synchronization. 1068-1074
• 
  Wu-Hua Chen, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Exponential stability of nonlinear time-delay systems with delayed impulse effects. 1075-1083

Technical Communiques

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  Tomislav B. Sekara, Miroslav R. Matausek:
  Relay-based critical point estimation of a process with the PID controller in the loop. 1084-1088
• 
  Ling Shi, Qing-Shan Jia, Yilin Mo, Bruno Sinopoli:
  Sensor scheduling over a packet-delaying network. 1089-1092

Erratum

• 
  Emmanuel Nuño, Romeo Ortega, Luis Basañez:
  Erratum to "An adaptive controller for nonlinear teleoperators" [Automatica 46 (2010) 155-159]. 1093-1094

Volume 47, Number 6, June 2011

Editorial

• 
  Frank Allgöwer, Frank J. Doyle III:
  Introduction to the special issue on systems biology. 1095-1096

Regular Articles

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  Michael Ederer, Ernst Dieter Gilles, Oliver Sawodny:
  The Glansdorff-Prigogine stability criterion for biochemical reaction networks. 1097-1104
• 
  Madalena Chaves, Jean-Luc Gouzé:
  Exact control of genetic networks in a qualitative framework: The bistable switch example. 1105-1112
• 
  Michael M. Zavlanos, A. Agung Julius, Stephen P. Boyd, George J. Pappas:
  Inferring stable genetic networks from steady-state data. 1113-1122
• 
  Gentian Buzi, Ufuk Topcu, John C. Doyle:
  Analysis of autocatalytic networks in biology. 1123-1130
• 
  Graziano Chesi:
  Robustness analysis of genetic regulatory networks affected by model uncertainty. 1131-1138
• 
  Steffen Waldherr, Frank Allgöwer:
  Robust stability and instability of biochemical networks with parametric uncertainty. 1139-1146
• 
  Alexandros Kiparissides, Michalis Koutinas, Cleo Kontoravdi, Athanasios Mantalaris, Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos:
  'Closing the loop' in biological systems modeling - From the in silico to the in vitro. 1147-1155
• 
  Konstantinos Koutroumpas, John Lygeros:
  Modeling and analysis of DNA replication. 1156-1164
• 
  James Anderson, Yo-Cheng Chang, Antonis Papachristodoulou:
  Model decomposition and reduction tools for large-scale networks in systems biology. 1165-1174
• 
  Harish J. Palanthandalam-Madapusi, Sachin Goyal:
  Robust estimation of nonlinear constitutive law from static equilibrium data for modeling the mechanics of DNA. 1175-1182
• 
  Mazen Alamir, James S. Welsh, Graham C. Goodwin:
  Synaptic plasticity based model for epileptic seizures. 1183-1192
• 
  Alessio Franci, Antoine Chaillet, William Pasillas-Lépine:
  Existence and robustness of phase-locking in coupled Kuramoto oscillators under mean-field feedback. 1193-1202
• 
  Yutaka Hori, Tae-Hyoung Kim, Shinji Hara:
  Existence criteria of periodic oscillations in cyclic gene regulatory networks. 1203-1209
• 
  Anne Goelzer, Vincent Fromion, Gérard Scorletti:
  Cell design in bacteria as a convex optimization problem. 1210-1218
• 
  Murat Arcak:
  Certifying spatially uniform behavior in reaction-diffusion PDE and compartmental ODE systems. 1219-1229

Brief Papers

• 
  Ye Yuan, Guy-Bart Stan, Sean Warnick, Jorge M. Goncalves:
  Robust dynamical network structure reconstruction. 1230-1235
• 
  Yongqiang Wang, Francis J. Doyle III:
  On influences of global and local cues on the rate of synchronization of oscillator networks. 1236-1242
• 
  Juan Gonzalo Barajas-Ramírez, Erik Steur, R. Femat, Henk Nijmeijer:
  Synchronization and activation in a model of a network of β-cells. 1243-1248
• 
  Kenji Kashima, Yasuyuki Kawamura, Jun-ichi Imura:
  Oscillation analysis of linearly coupled piecewise affine systems: Application to spatio-temporal neuron dynamics. 1249-1254
• 
  Raphaël M. Jungers, Francisca Zamorano, Vincent D. Blondel, Alain Vande Wouwer, Georges Bastin:
  Fast computation of minimal elementary decompositions of metabolic flux vectors. 1255-1259
• 
  Koichi Kobayashi, Kunihiko Hiraishi:
  An integer programming approach to optimal control problems in context-sensitive probabilistic Boolean networks. 1260-1264
• 
  Filippo Menolascina, Mario di Bernardo, Diego di Bernardo:
  Analysis, design and implementation of a novel scheme for in-vivo control of synthetic gene regulatory networks. 1265-1270
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  Hyeygjeon Chang, Alessandro Astolfi, Hyungbo Shim:
  A control theoretic approach to malaria immunotherapy with state jumps. 1271-1277

Volume 47, Number 7, July 2011

Survey Paper

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  Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore, Fabrizio Dabbene, Roberto Tempo:
  Research on probabilistic methods for control system design. 1279-1293

Regular Papers

• 
  Emanuele Garone, Francesco Tedesco, Alessandro Casavola:
  Sensorless supervision of linear dynamical systems: The Feed-Forward Command Governor approach. 1294-1303
• 
  Alessandro Chiuso, Luca Schenato:
  Information fusion strategies and performance bounds in packet-drop networks. 1304-1316
• 
  Danqin Yang, Tsan-Ming Choi, Tiaojun Xiao, T. C. E. Cheng:
  Coordinating a two-supplier and one-retailer supply chain with forecast updating. 1317-1329
• 
  Yilin Mo, Roberto Ambrosino, Bruno Sinopoli:
  Sensor selection strategies for state estimation in energy constrained wireless sensor networks. 1330-1338
• 
  Behçet Açikmese, Martin J. Corless:
  Observers for systems with nonlinearities satisfying incremental quadratic constraints. 1339-1348
• 
  Fei Qi, Biao Huang:
  Bayesian methods for control loop diagnosis in the presence of temporal dependent evidences. 1349-1356
• 
  Yacov Tsur, Amos Zemel:
  On the dynamics of competing energy sources. 1357-1365
• 
  Gang George Yin, Yu Sun, Le Yi Wang:
  Asymptotic properties of consensus-type algorithms for networked systems with regime-switching topologies. 1366-1378
• 
  Santosh Devasia:
  Nonlinear minimum-time control with pre- and post-actuation. 1379-1387
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  Cristian R. Rojas, Håkan Hjalmarsson, László Gerencsér, Jonas Mårtensson:
  An adaptive method for consistent estimation of real-valued non-minimum phase zeros in stable LTI systems. 1388-1398
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  Eva Besada-Portas, José Antonio López Orozco, Juan A. Besada, Jesús Manuel de la Cruz:
  Multisensor fusion for linear control systems with asynchronous, Out-Of-Sequence and erroneous data. 1399-1408

Brief Papers

• 
  Carlos Arturo Loredo-Villalobos, Baltazar Aguirre-Hernández:
  Necessary conditions for Hadamard factorizations of Hurwitz polynomials. 1409-1413
• 
  Alex A. Kurzhanskiy, Pravin Varaiya:
  Reach set computation and control synthesis for discrete-time dynamical systems with disturbances. 1414-1426
• 
  Cédric Langbort, Valery A. Ugrinovskii:
  Diagonal stability of stochastic systems subject to nonlinear disturbances and diagonal H₂ norms. 1427-1434
• 
  Weitian Chen, Mehrdad Saif:
  Actuator fault diagnosis for a class of nonlinear systems and its application to a laboratory 3D crane. 1435-1442
• 
  Rune Schlanbusch, Raymond Kristiansen, Per Johan Nicklasson:
  Spacecraft formation reconfiguration with collision avoidance. 1443-1449
• 
  Andrei Polyakov, Alex Poznyak:
  Invariant ellipsoid method for minimization of unmatched disturbances effects in sliding mode control. 1450-1454
• 
  Mustapha Ait Rami, Didier Henrion:
  A hierarchy of LMI inner approximations of the set of stable polynomials. 1455-1460
• 
  Alain Yetendje, José A. De Doná, María M. Seron:
  Multisensor fusion fault tolerant control. 1461-1466
• 
  Jorge Dávila, Alexander S. Poznyak:
  Dynamic sliding mode control design using attracting ellipsoid method. 1467-1472
• 
  Sophie Tarbouriech, Isabelle Queinnec, Teodoro Alamo, Mirko Fiacchini, Eduardo F. Camacho:
  Ultimate bounded stability and stabilization of linear systems interconnected with generalized saturated functions. 1473-1481
• 
  Huai-Ning Wu, Jun-Wei Wang, Peng Shi:
  A delay decomposition approach to L₂-L_infinity filter design for stochastic systems with time-varying delay. 1482-1488
• 
  Tal Monovich, Michael Margaliot:
  A second-order maximum principle for discrete-time bilinear control systems with applications to discrete-time linear switched systems. 1489-1495
• 
  Wenwu Yu, Wei Xing Zheng, Guanrong Chen, Wei Ren, Jinde Cao:
  Second-order consensus in multi-agent dynamical systems with sampled position data. 1496-1503
• 
  Ping Li, James Lam, Zidong Wang, Paresh Date:
  Positivity-preserving H_∞ model reduction for positive systems. 1504-1511
• 
  Xiongping Dai, Yu Huang, Mingqing Xiao:
  Periodically switched stability induces exponential stability of discrete-time linear switched systems in the sense of Markovian probabilities. 1512-1519

Technical Communiques

• 
  Hua Yong Liang, Tong Zhou:
  Robust state estimation for uncertain discrete-time stochastic systems with missing measurements. 1520-1524
• 
  Guoping Lu, Daniel W. C. Ho, Lei Zhou:
  A note on the existence of a solution and stability for Lipschitz discrete-time descriptor systems. 1525-1529
• 
  Jianhong Xu, Mingqing Xiao:
  A characterization of the generalized spectral radius with Kronecker powers. 1530-1533
• 
  Yuri A. W. Shardt, Biao Huang:
  Closed-loop identification condition for ARMAX models using routine operating data. 1534-1537
• 
  Tao Shen, Zhugang Yuan, Xiaohong Wang:
  A new stability criterion for fixed-point state-space digital filters using two's complement arithmetic. 1538-1541

Correspondence Items

• 
  Juliang Yin, Suiyang Khoo:
  Comments on "Finite-time stability theorem of stochastic nonlinear systems" [Automatica 46 (2010) 2105-2108]. 1542-1543
• 
  Weisheng Chen, Licheng Jiao:
  Authors' reply to "Comments on 'Finite-time stability theorem of stochastic nonlinear systems [Automatica 46 (2010) 2105-2108]"'. 1544-1545

Volume 47, Number 8, August 2011

Regular Papers

• 
  Guillaume Mercère, Laurent Bako:
  Parameterization and identification of multivariable state-space systems: A canonical approach. 1547-1555
• 
  Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, Frank L. Lewis:
  Multi-player non-zero-sum games: Online adaptive learning solution of coupled Hamilton-Jacobi equations. 1556-1569
• 
  Chao Zhu:
  Optimal control of the risk process in a regime-switching environment. 1570-1579
• 
  Peter Kingston, Magnus Egerstedt:
  Time and output warping of control systems: Comparing and imitating motions. 1580-1588
• 
  Alain Bensoussan, Metin Çakanyildirim, Suresh P. Sethi, Ruixia Shi:
  Computation of approximate optimal policies in a partially observed inventory model with rain checks. 1589-1604
• 
  Yong Hu, Gangfeng Yan, Zhiyun Lin:
  Gait generation and control for biped robots with underactuation degree one. 1605-1616
• 
  Chun-Hung Chiu, Tsan-Ming Choi, Xun Li:
  Supply chain coordination with risk sensitive retailer under target sales rebate. 1617-1625
• 
  Juan C. Agüero, Graham C. Goodwin, Paul M. J. Van den Hof:
  A virtual closed loop method for closed loop identification. 1626-1637
• 
  Konstantinos I. Kouramas, Nuno P. Faísca, Christos Panos, Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos:
  Explicit/multi-parametric model predictive control (MPC) of linear discrete-time systems by dynamic and multi-parametric programming. 1638-1645
• 
  Feng Ding, Guangjun Liu, Peter Xiaoping Liu:
  Parameter estimation with scarce measurements. 1646-1655
• 
  Torsten Söderström:
  A generalized instrumental variable estimation method for errors-in-variables identification problems. 1656-1666
• 
  Ameet Shridhar Deshpande:
  Max-plus representation for the fundamental solution of the time-varying differential Riccati equation. 1667-1676

Brief Papers

• 
  Patrizio Colaneri, Paolo Bolzern, José Claudio Geromel:
  Root mean square gain of discrete-time switched linear systems under dwell time constraints. 1677-1684
• 
  Luca De Cicco, Saverio Mascolo, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu:
  Robust stability analysis of Smith predictor-based congestion control algorithms for computer networks. 1685-1692
• 
  Ling Shi, Peng Cheng, Jiming Chen:
  Sensor data scheduling for optimal state estimation with communication energy constraint. 1693-1698
• 
  Denis V. Efimov, Ali Zolghadri, Tarek Raïssi:
  Actuator fault detection and compensation under feedback control. 1699-1705
• 
  Shihua Li, Haibo Du, Xiangze Lin:
  Finite-time consensus algorithm for multi-agent systems with double-integrator dynamics. 1706-1712
• 
  Grace S. Deaecto, José Claudio Geromel, Jamal Daafouz:
  Dynamic output feedback H_infinity control of switched linear systems. 1713-1720
• 
  Paolo Rapisarda, Harry L. Trentelman:
  Identification and data-driven model reduction of state-space representations of lossless and dissipative systems from noise-free data. 1721-1728
• 
  Eduardo I. Silva, Sebastian A. Pulgar:
  Control of LTI plants over erasure channels. 1729-1736
• 
  Roel J. E. Merry, D. J. Kessels, W. P. M. H. Heemels, M. J. G. van de Molengraft, Maarten Steinbuch:
  Delay-varying repetitive control with application to a walking piezo actuator. 1737-1743
• 
  Saeid Jafari, Amir Ajorlou, Amir G. Aghdam:
  Leader localization in multi-agent systems subject to failure: A graph-theoretic approach. 1744-1750
• 
  Francisco Javier Bejarano:
  Partial unknown input reconstruction for linear systems. 1751-1756
• 
  Ian R. Petersen:
  Cascade cavity realization for a class of complex transfer functions arising in coherent quantum feedback control. 1757-1763
• 
  Pedro Gajardo, Jérôme Harmand, Héctor Ramírez Cabrera, Alain Rapaport:
  Minimal time bioremediation of natural water resources. 1764-1769
• 
  Panagiotis Patrinos, Haralambos Sarimveis:
  Convex parametric piecewise quadratic optimization: Theory and algorithms. 1770-1777
• 
  Lucíola Campestrini, Diego Eckhard, Michel Gevers, Alexandre S. Bazanella:
  Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning for non-minimum phase plants. 1778-1784
• 
  Maja Karasalo, Xiaoming Hu:
  An optimization approach to adaptive Kalman filtering. 1785-1793
• 
  Vito Cerone, Dario Piga, Diego Regruto:
  Set-membership LPV model identification of vehicle lateral dynamics. 1794-1799
• 
  Yuan Fan, Gang Feng, Yong Wang, Jianbin Qiu:
  A novel approach to coordination of multiple robots with communication failures via proximity graph. 1800-1805
• 
  Zhijun Cai, Er-Wei Bai:
  Making parametric Hammerstein system identification a linear problem. 1806-1812
• 
  Bin Zhou, Wei Xing Zheng, Guang-Ren Duan:
  Stability and stabilization of discrete-time periodic linear systems with actuator saturation. 1813-1820
• 
  Izumi Masubuchi, Iori Kurata:
  Gain-scheduled control via filtered scheduling parameters. 1821-1826
• 
  Fouad Giri, Youssef Rochdi, Adil Brouri, F. Z. Chaoui:
  Parameter identification of Hammerstein systems containing backlash operators with arbitrary-shape parametric borders. 1827-1833

Technical Communiques

• 
  Masoud Yazdani, H. Salarieh:
  On the existence of periodic solutions in time-invariant fractional order systems. 1834-1837
• 
  Phan Thanh Nam, Pubudu N. Pathirana:
  Further result on reachable set bounding for linear uncertain polytopic systems with interval time-varying delays. 1838-1841
• 
  Gjerrit Meinsma, Hanumant Singh Shekhawat:
  Frequency-truncated system norms. 1842-1845

Correspondence Item

• 
  Li Kui Wang:
  Comments on "Parameter-dependent robust H_∞ filtering for uncertain discrete-time systems" [Automatica 45 (2009) 560-565]. 1846-1847

Volume 47, Number 9, September 2011

• 
  Karl Rieger, Kurt Schlacher:
  Implicit discrete-time systems and accessibility. 1849-1859
• 
  Martin Enqvist:
  Separability of scalar random multisine signals. 1860-1867
• 
  Tony Huschto, Gustav Feichtinger, Richard F. Hartl, Peter M. Kort, Sebastian Sager, Andrea Seidl:
  Numerical solution of a conspicuous consumption model with constant control delay. 1868-1877
• 
  Luca Schenato, Federico Fiorentin:
  Average TimeSynch: A consensus-based protocol for clock synchronization in wireless sensor networks. 1878-1886
• 
  Alireza Esna Ashari, Ramine Nikoukhah, Stephen L. Campbell:
  Auxiliary signal design for robust active fault detection of linear discrete-time systems. 1887-1895
• 
  Christian Lyzell, S. Torkel Glad, Martin Enqvist, Lennart Ljung:
  Difference algebra and system identification. 1896-1904
• 
  Boris I. Godoy, Graham C. Goodwin, Juan C. Agüero, Damián Marelli, Torbjörn Wigren:
  On identification of FIR systems having quantized output data. 1905-1915
• 
  Francesca Ceragioli, Claudio De Persis, Paolo Frasca:
  Discontinuities and hysteresis in quantized average consensus. 1916-1928
• 
  Zhiyong Chen, Hai-Tao Zhang:
  No-beacon collective circular motion of jointly connected multi-agents. 1929-1937
• 
  Cristian R. Rojas, Märta Barenthin, James S. Welsh, Håkan Hjalmarsson:
  The cost of complexity in system identification: The Output Error case. 1938-1948

Brief Papers

• 
  George H. Hines, Murat Arcak, Andrew K. Packard:
  Equilibrium-independent passivity: A new definition and numerical certification. 1949-1956
• 
  Fernando Castaños, Leonid M. Fridman:
  Dynamic switching surfaces for output sliding mode control: An H_infinity approach. 1957-1961
• 
  Gang Chen, Frank L. Lewis, Lihua Xie:
  Finite-time distributed consensus via binary control protocols. 1962-1968
• 
  Igor Boiko:
  On frequency-domain criterion of finite-time convergence of second-order sliding mode control algorithms. 1969-1973
• 
  Myung-Gon Yoon, Koji Tsumura:
  Transfer function representation of cyclic consensus systems. 1974-1982
• 
  Jiahu Qin, Wei Xing Zheng, Huijun Gao:
  Consensus of multiple second-order vehicles with a time-varying reference signal under directed topology. 1983-1991
• 
  Wen-an Zhang, Li Yu, Gang Feng:
  Optimal linear estimation for networked systems with communication constraints. 1992-2000
• 
  Min Shi, Zaihua Wang:
  An effective analytical criterion for stability testing of fractional-delay systems. 2001-2005
• 
  Tao Li, Lihua Xie:
  Distributed consensus over digital networks with limited bandwidth and time-varying topologies. 2006-2015
• 
  Panagiotis Patrinos, Pantelis Sopasakis, Haralambos Sarimveis:
  A global piecewise smooth Newton method for fast large-scale model predictive control. 2016-2022
• 
  Wenjie Dong:
  On consensus algorithms of multiple uncertain mechanical systems with a reference trajectory. 2023-2028
• 
  Tiago Roux Oliveira, Liu Hsu, Alessandro Jacoud Peixoto:
  Output-feedback global tracking for unknown control direction plants with application to extremum-seeking control. 2029-2038
• 
  Dinh Hoa Nguyen, David Banjerdpongchai:
  A convex optimization approach to robust iterative learning control for linear systems with time-varying parametric uncertainties. 2039-2043
• 
  Wencen Wu, Fumin Zhang:
  Cooperative exploration of level surfaces of three dimensional scalar fields. 2044-2051
• 
  Jee-Hun Park, Tae-Hyoung Kim, Toshiharu Sugie:
  Output feedback model predictive control for LPV systems based on quasi-min-max algorithm. 2052-2058
• 
  Coen C. de Visser, Qiping Chu, J. A. Mulder:
  Differential constraints for bounded recursive identification with multivariate splines. 2059-2066
• 
  Shaunak Dattaprasad Bopardikar, Stephen L. Smith, Francesco Bullo:
  On vehicle placement to intercept moving targets. 2067-2074
• 
  Qi Luo, Xuerong Mao, Yi Shen:
  Generalised theory on asymptotic stability and boundedness of stochastic functional differential equations. 2075-2081
• 
  Eugenio Cinquemani, Mayank Agarwal, Debasish Chatterjee, John Lygeros:
  Convexity and convex approximations of discrete-time stochastic control problems with constraints. 2082-2087
• 
  Tengfei Liu, David J. Hill, Zhong-Ping Jiang:
  Lyapunov formulation of ISS cyclic-small-gain in continuous-time dynamical networks. 2088-2093
• 
  Duan Li, Xiaoling Sun, Jianjun Gao, Shenshen Gu, Xiaojin Zheng:
  Reachability determination in acyclic Petri nets by cell enumeration approach. 2094-2098
• 
  Fulvio Forni, Dragan Nesic, Luca Zaccarian:
  Reset passivation of nonlinear controllers via a suitable time-regular reset map. 2099-2106
• 
  Christopher K. King, Wynita M. Griggs, Robert N. Shorten:
  A Kalman-Yakubovich-Popov-type lemma for systems with certain state-dependent constraints. 2107-2111
• 
  Arun Gupta, Sharad Bhartiya, P. S. V. Nataraj:
  A novel approach to multiparametric quadratic programming. 2112-2117

Technical Communiques

• 
  Jin-Hoon Kim:
  Note on stability of linear systems with time-varying delay. 2118-2121
• 
  Mohammad Bozorg, Faezeh Termeh:
  Domains of PID controller coefficients which guarantee stability and performance for LTI time-delay systems. 2122-2125
• 
  Huaguang Zhang, Zhenwei Liu:
  Stability analysis for linear delayed systems via an optimally dividing delay interval approach. 2126-2129
• 
  Cheng-Lin Liu, Fei Liu:
  Stationary consensus of heterogeneous multi-agent systems with bounded communication delays. 2130-2133
• 
  Francisco J. Vargas, Mario E. Salgado, Eduardo I. Silva:
  Optimal ripple-free deadbeat control using an integral of time squared error (ITSE) index. 2134-2137

Book and Software Review

• 
  Scott Beatty:
  Book review. 2138-2139

Volume 47, Number 10, October 2011

Regular Papers

• 
  Mario Milanese, Carlo Novara:
  Unified Set Membership theory for identification, prediction and filtering of nonlinear systems. 2141-2151
• 
  Shuai Liu, Lihua Xie, Frank L. Lewis:
  Synchronization of multi-agent systems with delayed control input information from neighbors. 2152-2164
• 
  Ricardo G. Sanfelice, Laurent Praly:
  On the performance of high-gain observers with gain adaptation under measurement noise. 2165-2176
• 
  Mihály Petreczky, Jan H. van Schuppen:
  Partial-realization theory for linear switched systems - A formal power series approach. 2177-2184
• 
  Ioan Doré Landau, Marouane Alma, Tudor-Bogdan Airimitoaie:
  Adaptive feedforward compensation algorithms for active vibration control with mechanical coupling. 2185-2196
• 
  Wei Wang, Changyun Wen:
  Adaptive compensation for infinite number of actuator failures or faults. 2197-2210

Brief Papers

• 
  Min-Sung Koo, Ho-Lim Choi, Jong-Tae Lim:
  Universal control of nonlinear systems with unknown nonlinearity and growth rate by adaptive output feedback. 2211-2217
• 
  Long Cheng, Zeng-Guang Hou, Yingzi Lin, Min Tan, Wenjun Chris Zhang:
  Solving a modified consensus problem of linear multi-agent systems. 2218-2223
• 
  Fuke Wu, Shigeng Hu:
  Attraction, stability and robustness for stochastic functional differential equations with infinite delay. 2224-2232
• 
  Øyvind Nistad Stamnes, Ole Morten Aamo, Glenn-Ole Kaasa:
  A constructive speed observer design for general Euler-Lagrange systems. 2233-2238
• 
  Maciej Niedzwiecki, Szymon Gackowski:
  On noncausal weighted least squares identification of nonstationary stochastic systems. 2239-2244
• 
  Ienkaran Arasaratnam, Simon Haykin:
  Cubature Kalman smoothers. 2245-2250
• 
  Hanz Richter:
  A multi-regulator sliding mode control strategy for output-constrained systems. 2251-2259
• 
  Adrian M. Medioli, María M. Seron, Richard H. Middleton:
  Maximal controllability of input constrained unstable systems by the addition of implicit constraints. 2260-2266
• 
  Mauro Cimino, Prabhakar R. Pagilla:
  Optimal location of mouse sensors on mobile robots for position sensing. 2267-2272
• 
  Céline Casenave:
  Time-local formulation and identification of implicit Volterra models by use of diffusive representation. 2273-2278
• 
  Boris Houska, Hans Joachim Ferreau, Moritz Diehl:
  An auto-generated real-time iteration algorithm for nonlinear MPC in the microsecond range. 2279-2285
• 
  Alexander Yu. Aleksandrov, Y. Chen, Alexey V. Platonov, L. Zhang:
  Stability analysis for a class of switched nonlinear systems. 2286-2291
• 
  Michal Kvasnica, Johan Löfberg, Miroslav Fikar:
  Stabilizing polynomial approximation of explicit MPC. 2292-2297
• 
  Kristiaan Pelckmans:
  MINLIP for the identification of monotone Wiener systems. 2298-2305
• 
  Kwang-Kyo Oh, Hyo-Sung Ahn:
  Formation control of mobile agents based on inter-agent distance dynamics. 2306-2312
• 
  Chien-Shu Hsieh:
  Optimal filtering for systems with unknown inputs via the descriptor Kalman filtering method. 2313-2318

Technical Communiques

• 
  Xiaofeng Wang, Michael D. Lemmon:
  On event design in event-triggered feedback systems. 2319-2322
• 
  Ichiro Jikuya, Ichijo Hodaka:
  On the Klimushchev-Krasovskii theorem. 2323-2325
• 
  Rong Su, Gerhard J. Woeginger:
  String execution time for finite languages: Max is easy, min is hard. 2326-2329

Volume 47, Number 11, November 2011

Editorial

• 
  Tamer Basar:
  Automatica Prize Paper Awards 2011. 2331

Regular Papers

• 
  Nitin Sharma, Shubhendu Bhasin, Qiang Wang, Warren E. Dixon:
  Predictor-based control for an uncertain Euler-Lagrange system with input delay. 2332-2342
• 
  Shaik Fiaz, Kiyotsugu Takaba, Harry L. Trentelman:
  Tracking and regulation in the behavioral framework. 2343-2354
• 
  Silvia Mastellone, Juan S. Mejía, Dusan M. Stipanovic, Mark W. Spong:
  Formation control and coordinated tracking via asymptotic decoupling for Lagrangian multi-agent systems. 2355-2363
• 
  S. Laurie Ricker, Benoît Caillaud:
  Mind the gap: Expanding communication options in decentralized discrete-event control. 2364-2372
• 
  Diego Napp, Paolo Rapisarda, Paula Rocha:
  Time-relevant stability of 2D systems. 2373-2382
• 
  Abdelkader Abdessameud, Abdelhamid Tayebi:
  Formation control of VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with communication delays. 2383-2394
• 
  Weiguo Xia, Ming Cao:
  Clustering in diffusively coupled networks. 2395-2405

Brief Papers

• 
  Matthew M. Peet, Pierre-Alexandre Bliman:
  On the conservatism of the sum-of-squares method for analysis of time-delayed systems. 2406-2411
• 
  Ying Tan, Jian-Xin Xu, Mikael Norrlöf, Christopher T. Freeman:
  On reference governor in iterative learning control for dynamic systems with input saturation. 2412-2419
• 
  Benjamin L. Pence, Hosam K. Fathy, Jeffrey L. Stein:
  Recursive maximum likelihood parameter estimation for state space systems using polynomial chaos theory. 2420-2424
• 
  Rachid Malti, Mohamed Aoun, François Levron, Alain Oustaloup:
  Analytical computation of the H₂-norm of fractional commensurate transfer functions. 2425-2432
• 
  Giorgio Bartolini, Elisabetta Punta, Tullio Zolezzi:
  Simplex sliding mode control of multi-input systems with chattering reduction and mono-directional actuators. 2433-2437
• 
  Simone Del Favero, Sandro Zampieri:
  A majorization inequality and its application to distributed Kalman filtering. 2438-2443
• 
  Andrew H. C. Gosline, Vincent Hayward, Hannah Michalska:
  Ineluctability of oscillations in systems with digital implementation of derivative feedback. 2444-2450
• 
  Francesca Albertini, Francesco Ticozzi:
  Discrete-time controllability for feedback quantum dynamics. 2451-2456
• 
  Hak-Keung Lam:
  Output-feedback sampled-data polynomial controller for nonlinear systems. 2457-2461
• 
  Rachid Malti, Xavier Moreau, Firas Khemane, Alain Oustaloup:
  Stability and resonance conditions of elementary fractional transfer functions. 2462-2467
• 
  Joachim Deutscher:
  Output regulation for linear distributed-parameter systems using finite-dimensional dual observers. 2468-2473
• 
  Yulei Wang, Guangfu Ma, Steven X. Ding, Chuanjiang Li:
  Subspace aided data-driven design of robust fault detection and isolation systems. 2474-2480
• 
  Dirk Aeyels, Filip De Smet:
  Cluster formation in a time-varying multi-agent system. 2481-2487
• 
  Vito Cerone, Dario Piga, Diego Regruto:
  Enforcing stability constraints in set-membership identification of linear dynamic systems. 2488-2494
• 
  Mauro Franceschelli, Alessandro Giua, Carla Seatzu:
  Quantized consensus in Hamiltonian graphs. 2495-2503
• 
  Matthew O. T. Cole:
  A discrete-time approach to impulse-based adaptive input shaping for motion control without residual vibration. 2504-2510
• 
  Keng Peng Tee, Beibei Ren, Shuzhi Sam Ge:
  Control of nonlinear systems with time-varying output constraints. 2511-2516
• 
  Mohamed Darouach, Latifa Boutat-Baddas, Mohamed Zerrougui:
  H_∞ observers design for a class of nonlinear singular systems. 2517-2525
• 
  Baocang Ding:
  Stabilization of linear systems over networks with bounded packet loss and its use in model predictive control. 2526-2533
• 
  Thomas Meurer, Miroslav Krstic:
  Finite-time multi-agent deployment: A nonlinear PDE motion planning approach. 2534-2542

Technical Communiques

• 
  Sarit K. Das, Kaustav K. Paul:
  Robust compensation of a Cart-Inverted Pendulum system using a periodic controller: Experimental results. 2543-2547
• 
  Zhiguang Feng, James Lam, Huijun Gao:
  α-Dissipativity analysis of singular time-delay systems. 2548-2552

Volume 47, Number 12, December 2011

Editorial

• 
  John Baillieul:
  Survey articles in Automatica. 2553

Regular Papers

• 
  Reine Talj, Romeo Ortega, Alessandro Astolfi:
  Passivity and robust PI control of the air supply system of a PEM fuel cell model. 2554-2561
• 
  Rob H. Gielen, Mircea Lazar:
  Stabilization of polytopic delay difference inclusions via the Razumikhin approach. 2562-2570
• 
  Lorenzo Marconi, Roberto Naldi, Luca Gentili:
  Modelling and control of a flying robot interacting with the environment. 2571-2583
• 
  Christian Commault, Jean-Michel Dion, Trong Hieu Do:
  Sensor location and classification for disturbance rejection by measurement feedback. 2584-2594
• 
  Lina Fu, Ümit Özgüner:
  Extremum seeking with sliding mode gradient estimation and asymptotic regulation for a class of nonlinear systems. 2595-2603
• 
  Marco Morgado, Pedro Tiago Martins Batista, Paulo Jorge Ramalho Oliveira, Carlos Silvestre:
  Position USBL/DVL sensor-based navigation filter in the presence of unknown ocean currents. 2604-2614
• 
  Jun Zhao, David J. Hill, Tao Liu:
  Stability of dynamical networks with non-identical nodes: A multiple v-Lyapunov function method. 2615-2625
• 
  Jesús Marín-Solano, Ekaterina V. Shevkoplyas:
  Non-constant discounting and differential games with random time horizon. 2626-2638
• 
  Peter Benner, Ralph Byers, Philip Losse, Volker Mehrmann, Hongguo Xu:
  Robust formulas for optimal H_∞ controllers. 2639-2646
• 
  Keyou You, Minyue Fu, Lihua Xie:
  Mean square stability for Kalman filtering with Markovian packet losses. 2647-2657

Brief Papers

• 
  Bojana Drincic, Xiaobo Tan, Dennis S. Bernstein:
  Why are some hysteresis loops shaped like a butterfly? 2658-2664
• 
  Jakob Kjøbsted Huusom, Håkan Hjalmarsson, Niels Kjølstad Poulsen, Sten Bay Jørgensen:
  A design algorithm using external perturbation to improve Iterative Feedback Tuning convergence. 2665-2670
• 
  Juliang Yin, Suiyang Khoo, Zhihong Man, Xinghuo Yu:
  Finite-time stability and instability of stochastic nonlinear systems. 2671-2677
• 
  Taha Boukhobza, Frédéric Hamelin:
  Observability analysis and sensor location study for structured linear systems in descriptor form with unknown inputs. 2678-2683
• 
  David Rijlaarsdam, Pieter Nuij, Johan Schoukens, Maarten Steinbuch:
  Spectral analysis of block structured nonlinear systems and higher order sinusoidal input describing functions. 2684-2688
• 
  Jun Liu, Xinzhi Liu, Wei-Chau Xie, Hongtao Zhang:
  Stochastic consensus seeking with communication delays. 2689-2696
• 
  Zhixin Liu, Jing Han, Xiaoming Hu:
  The proportion of leaders needed for the expected consensus. 2697-2703
• 
  Håkan Hjalmarsson, Jonas Mårtensson, Cristian R. Rojas, Torsten Söderström:
  On the accuracy in errors-in-variables identification compared to prediction-error identification. 2704-2712
• 
  Qing Hui:
  Optimal distributed linear averaging. 2713-2719
• 
  Zhiyun Lin, Min Wu, Gangfeng Yan:
  Reachability and stabilization of discrete-time affine systems with disturbances. 2720-2727
• 
  Wei He, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Shuang Zhang:
  Adaptive boundary control of a flexible marine installation system. 2728-2734
• 
  Behzad Samadi, Luis Rodrigues:
  A unified dissipativity approach for stability analysis of piecewise smooth systems. 2735-2742
• 
  Alexander L. Fradkov, Boris R. Andrievsky:
  Passification-based robust flight control design. 2743-2748
• 
  Cheng Song, Gang Feng, Yuan Fan, Yong Wang:
  Decentralized adaptive awareness coverage control for multi-agent networks. 2749-2756
• 
  Iman Shames, André Teixeira, Henrik Sandberg, Karl Henrik Johansson:
  Distributed fault detection for interconnected second-order systems. 2757-2764
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  Fangfei Li, Jitao Sun:
  Controllability of probabilistic Boolean control networks. 2765-2771
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  Liang Liu, Xue-Jun Xie:
  Output-feedback stabilization for stochastic high-order nonlinear systems with time-varying delay. 2772-2779
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  Thomas Voss, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen:
  Stabilization and shape control of a 1D piezoelectric Timoshenko beam. 2780-2785
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  Masayuki Sato:
  Gain-scheduled output-feedback controllers depending solely on scheduling parameters via parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions. 2786-2790

Technical Communiques

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  László Gerencsér, Lorenzo Finesso:
  A two-stage information criterion for stochastic systems revisited. 2791-2795
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  Zhongwei Lin, Jizhen Liu, Weihai Zhang, Yuguang Niu:
  Stabilization of interconnected nonlinear stochastic Markovian jump systems via dissipativity approach. 2796-2800
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  Jong Hae Kim:
  Reduced-order delay-dependent H_∞ filtering for uncertain discrete-time singular systems with time-varying delay. 2801-2804
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  Rongni Yang, Peng Shi, Guo-Ping Liu, Huijun Gao:
  Network-based feedback control for systems with mixed delays based on quantization and dropout compensation. 2805-2809

Errata

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  Alessandro Casavola, Domenico Famularo, Giuseppe Franzè:
  Erratum to: "Robust constrained predictive control of uncertain norm-bounded linear systems" [Automatica 40 (2004), 1865-1876]. 2810