Automatica, Volume 43

Volume 43, Number 1, January 2007

Regular Papers

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  Feng Ding, Tongwen Chen:
  Performance analysis of multi-innovation gradient type identification methods. 1-14
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  Weizhou Su, Li Qiu, Jie Chen:
  Fundamental limit of discrete-time systems in tracking multi-tone sinusoidal signals. 15-30
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  Shuzhi Sam Ge, Keng Peng Tee:
  Approximation-based control of nonlinear MIMO time-delay systems. 31-43
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  Ian R. Petersen:
  Equivalent realizations for uncertain systems with an IQC uncertainty description. 44-55

Brief Papers

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  Yun Zou, Weiqun Wang, Shengyuan Xu, Lihua Xie:
  Jump modes analysis and observer design for discrete singular systems. 56-62
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  Knut Graichen, Michael Treuer, Michael Zeitz:
  Swing-up of the double pendulum on a cart by feedforward and feedback control with experimental validation. 63-71
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  PooGyeon Park, Doo Jin Choi, Seong G. Kong:
  Output feedback variable structure control for linear systems with uncertainties and disturbances. 72-79
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  Junlin Xiong, James Lam:
  Stabilization of linear systems over networks with bounded packet loss. 80-87
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  Maria Letizia Corradini, Giuseppe Orlando:
  Linear unstable plants with saturating actuators: Robust stabilization by a time varying sliding surface. 88-94
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  Wu-Hua Chen, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Delay-dependent robust stabilization for uncertain neutral systems with distributed delays. 95-104
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  Veronica Adetola, Martin Guay:
  Parameter convergence in adaptive extremum-seeking control. 105-110
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  Steven Gillijns, Bart De Moor:
  Unbiased minimum-variance input and state estimation for linear discrete-time systems. 111-116
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  Qingze Zou, Santosh Devasia:
  Precision preview-based stable-inversion for nonlinear nonminimum-phase systems: The VTOL example. 117-127
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  Maciej Niedzwiecki, Adam Sobocinski:
  Generalized adaptive notch filters with frequency debiasing for tracking of polynomial phase systems. 128-134
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  A. Nazli Gündes, Hitay Özbay, A. Bülent Özgüler:
  PID controller synthesis for a class of unstable MIMO plants with I/O delays. 135-142
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  Zairong Xi, Zhengtao Ding:
  Global adaptive output regulation of a class of nonlinear systems with nonlinear exosystems. 143-149
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  Leonid B. Freidovich, Hassan K. Khalil:
  Lyapunov-based switching control of nonlinear systems using high-gain observers. 150-157

Technical Communiques

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  BaoCang Ding, Yugeng Xi, Marcin T. Cychowski, Thomas O'Mahony:
  Improving off-line approach to robust MPC based-on nominal performance cost. 158-163
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  Zhendong Sun:
  Reachability analysis of constrained switched linear systems. 164-167
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  Ji-Woong Lee, Geir E. Dullerud:
  A stability and contractiveness analysis of discrete-time Markovian jump linear systems. 168-173
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  Zhengtao Ding:
  Asymptotic rejection of unknown sinusoidal disturbances in nonlinear systems. 174-177
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  Antonio Sala:
  Integrating virtual reference feedback tuning into a unified closed-loop identification framework. 178-183
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  Qi Gong, Chunjiang Qian:
  Global practical tracking of a class of nonlinear systems by output feedback. 184-189

Volume 43, Number 2, February 2007

Survey Paper

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  Jeremy G. VanAntwerp, Andrew P. Featherstone, Richard D. Braatz, Babatunde A. Ogunnaike:
  Cross-directional control of sheet and film processes. 191-211

Regular Papers

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  Joaquín Cervera, A. J. van der Schaft, Alfonso Baños:
  Interconnection of port-Hamiltonian systems and composition of Dirac structures. 212-225
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  Lacra Pavel:
  An extension of duality to a game-theoretic framework. 226-237
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  Shu-Jun Liu, Ji-Feng Zhang, Zhong-Ping Jiang:
  Decentralized adaptive output-feedback stabilization for large-scale stochastic nonlinear systems. 238-251
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  Lorenzo Marconi, Fabio Ronchi, Andrea Tilli:
  Robust nonlinear control of shunt active filters for harmonic current compensation. 252-263
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  Xuerong Mao, Gang George Yin, Chenggui Yuan:
  Stabilization and destabilization of hybrid systems of stochastic differential equations. 264-273

Brief Papers

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  Javad Lavaei, Amir G. Aghdam:
  Simultaneous LQ control of a set of LTI systems using constrained generalized sampled-data hold functions. 274-280
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  Roberto Sanchis, Ignacio Peñarrocha, Pedro Albertos:
  Design of robust output predictors under scarce measurements with time-varying delays. 281-289
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  Lyudmila Mihaylova, René K. Boel, Andreas Hegyi:
  Freeway traffic estimation within particle filtering framework. 290-300
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  Hiroaki Fukushima, Tae-Hyoung Kim, Toshiharu Sugie:
  Adaptive model predictive control for a class of constrained linear systems based on the comparison model. 301-308
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  Graziano Chesi, Andrea Garulli, Alberto Tesi, Antonio Vicino:
  Robust stability of time-varying polytopic systems via parameter-dependent homogeneous Lyapunov functions. 309-316
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  Yasumasa Fujisaki, Yasuaki Oishi:
  Guaranteed cost regulator design: A probabilistic solution and a randomized algorithm. 317-324
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  Ching-Wen Liao, Jong-Yih Lin:
  New FIR filter-based adaptive algorithms incorporating with commutation error to improve active noise control performance. 325-331
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  Young Soo Suh, Vinh Hao Nguyen, Young Shick Ro:
  Modified Kalman filter for networked monitoring systems employing a send-on-delta method. 332-338
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  Izumi Masubuchi:
  Output feedback controller synthesis for descriptor systems satisfying closed-loop dissipativity. 339-345
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  Yun Liu, Er-Wei Bai:
  Iterative identification of Hammerstein systems. 346-354
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  Hyung Keun Lee, Jang Gyu Lee:
  Fault-tolerant compression filters by time-propagated measurement fusion. 355-361
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  Giovanna Fanizza, Ryozo Nagamune:
  Spectral estimation by least-squares optimization based on rational covariance extension. 362-370

Technical Communiques

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  Yong He, Qing-Guo Wang, Chong Lin, Min Wu:
  Delay-range-dependent stability for systems with time-varying delay. 371-376
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  Seong-Jin Park, Kwang-Hyun Cho:
  Decentralized supervisory control of nondeterministic discrete event systems: The existence condition of a robust and nonblocking supervisor. 377-383

Corrigendum

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  Alessandro Casavola, Edoardo Mosca:
  A correction to "Min-max predictive control strategies for input-saturated polytopic uncertain systems" [Automatica 36 (2000) 125-133]. 384-385

Volume 43, Number 3, March 2007

Regular Papers

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  Changbin Yu, Julien M. Hendrickx, Baris Fidan, Brian D. O. Anderson, Vincent D. Blondel:
  Three and higher dimensional autonomous formations: Rigidity, persistence and structural persistence. 387-402
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  Yuzhen Wang, Gang Feng, Daizhan Cheng:
  Simultaneous stabilization of a set of nonlinear port-controlled Hamiltonian systems. 403-415
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  Markus Gerdin, Thomas B. Schön, Torkel Glad, Fredrik Gustafsson, Lennart Ljung:
  On parameter and state estimation for linear differential-algebraic equations. 416-425
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  Changyun Wen, Jing Zhou:
  Decentralized adaptive stabilization in the presence of unknown backlash-like hysteresis. 426-440

Brief Papers

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  Robert Shorten, Christopher K. King, Fabian Wirth, Douglas J. Leith:
  Modelling TCP congestion control dynamics in drop-tail environments. 441-449
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  Mohsen Mojiri, Alireza R. Bakhshai:
  Stability analysis of periodic orbit of an adaptive notch filter for frequency estimation of a periodic signal. 450-455
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  Alexey V. Pavlov, Nathan van de Wouw, Henk Nijmeijer:
  Global nonlinear output regulation: Convergence-based controller design. 456-463
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  Roberto Diversi, Roberto Guidorzi, Umberto Soverini:
  Maximum likelihood identification of noisy input-output models. 464-472
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  Asma Al-Tamimi, Frank L. Lewis, Murad Abu-Khalaf:
  Model-free Q-learning designs for linear discrete-time zero-sum games with application to H-infinity control. 473-481
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  Tao Cheng, Frank L. Lewis, Murad Abu-Khalaf:
  A neural network solution for fixed-final time optimal control of nonlinear systems. 482-490
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  Guang-Hong Yang, Kai-Yew Lum:
  Comparisons among robust stability criteria for linear systems with affine parameter uncertainties. 491-498
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  Wenjing Ma, Mario Sznaier, Constantino M. Lagoa:
  A risk adjusted approach to robust simultaneous fault detection and isolation. 499-504
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  Franco Blanchini, Stefano Miani, Matteo Tomasini, Luca Tubiana, Umberto Viaro, Mauro Zigliotto:
  A minimum-time control strategy for torque tracking in permanent magnet AC motor drives. 505-512
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  Weihai Zhang, Yulin Huang, Huanshui Zhang:
  Stochastic H₂/H_infinity control for discrete-time systems with state and disturbance dependent noise. 513-521
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  Salim Ibrir, Wen-Fang Xie, Chun-Yi Su:
  Adaptive tracking of nonlinear systems with non-symmetric dead-zone input. 522-530
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  Salah Laghrouche, Franck Plestan, Alain Glumineau:
  Higher order sliding mode control based on integral sliding mode. 531-537
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  Yasuaki Oishi:
  Polynomial-time algorithms for probabilistic solutions of parameter-dependent linear matrix inequalities. 538-545
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  Keliang Zhou, Danwei Wang, Bin Zhang, Yigang Wang, Jan Abraham Ferreira, Sjoerd W. H. de Haan:
  Dual-mode structure digital repetitive control. 546-554
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  Zhengtao Ding:
  Asymptotic rejection of asymmetric periodic disturbances in output-feedback nonlinear systems. 555-561

Technical Communique

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  Xinghuo Yu, Jian-Xin Xu, Yiguang Hong, Shuanghe Yu:
  Analysis of a class of discrete-time systems with power rule. 562-566

Correspondence

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  Yuanxin Wu, Dewen Hu, Xiaoping Hu:
  Comments on "Performance evaluation of UKF-based nonlinear filtering". 567-568
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  K. Xiong, H. Y. Zhang, C. W. Chan:
  Author's reply to "Comments on 'Performance evaluation of UKF-based nonlinear filtering"'. 569-570
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  Xu-Guang Li, Xin-Jian Zhu:
  Comments on "Delay-dependent robust H_infinity control for uncertain systems with a state-delay". 571
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  Young Sam Lee, Wook Hyun Kwon, PooGyeon Park:
  Author's reply: Comments on delay-dependent robust H_infinity control for uncertain systems with a state-delay. 572-573

Volume 43, Number 4, April 2007

Editorial

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  Tamer Basar:
  A retirement and a new editor: Book and software reviews. 575

Regular Papers

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  Arie Levant:
  Principles of 2-sliding mode design. 576-586
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  Oswaldo Luiz V. Costa, Wanderlei Lima de Paulo:
  Indefinite quadratic with linear costs optimal control of Markov jump with multiplicative noise systems. 587-597
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  Minyi Huang, Subhrakanti Dey:
  Stability of Kalman filtering with Markovian packet losses. 598-607
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  Zhao-Jing Wu, Xue-Jun Xie, Siying Zhang:
  Adaptive backstepping controller design using stochastic small-gain theorem. 608-620

Brief Papers

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  Rik Pintelon, Johan Schoukens:
  Frequency domain maximum likelihood estimation of linear dynamic errors-in-variables models. 621-630
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  Philippe Müllhaupt, Davide Buccieri, Dominique Bonvin:
  A numerical sufficiency test for the asymptotic stability of linear time-varying systems. 631-638
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  Linh Vu, Debasish Chatterjee, Daniel Liberzon:
  Input-to-state stability of switched systems and switching adaptive control. 639-646
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  Gianluigi Pillonetto, Claudio Cobelli:
  Identifiability of the stochastic semi-blind deconvolution problem for a class of time-invariant linear systems. 647-654
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  Manuel López-Martínez, Manuel G. Ortega, Carlos Vivas, Francisco R. Rubio:
  Nonlinear L₂ control of a laboratory helicopter with variable speed rotors. 655-661
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  Zhijian Ji, Long Wang, Xiaoxia Guo:
  Design of switching sequences for controllability realization of switched linear systems. 662-668
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  Stefano Liuzzo, Riccardo Marino, Patrizio Tomei:
  Adaptive learning control of linear systems by output error feedback. 669-676
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  Hongbin Ma:
  Finite-model adaptive control using WLS-like algorithm. 677-684
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  Tingshu Hu:
  Nonlinear control design for linear differential inclusions via convex hull of quadratics. 685-692
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  Teodoro Alamo, Daniel R. Ramírez, David Muñoz de la Peña, Eduardo F. Camacho:
  Min-max MPC using a tractable QP problem. 693-700
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  Pierdomenico Pepe:
  On Liapunov-Krasovskii functionals under Carathéodory conditions. 701-706
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  Noboru Sebe:
  Unification of independent and sequential procedures for decentralized controller design. 707-713
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  Ioannis Lestas, Glenn Vinnicombe:
  Scalable robust stability for nonsymmetric heterogeneous networks. 714-723
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  Pierre Apkarian, Dominikus Noll:
  Nonsmooth optimization for multiband frequency domain control design. 724-731
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  Jin-De Chang, Bao-Zhu Guo:
  Identification of variable spacial coefficients for a beam equation from boundary measurements. 732-737

Technical Communiques

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  Seong-Jin Park, Kwang-Hyun Cho:
  Decentralized supervisory control of discrete event systems with communication delays based on conjunctive and permissive decision structures. 738-743
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  Gustav Feichtinger, Richard F. Hartl, Peter M. Kort, Yuri A. Yegorov:
  A new solution property in optimal control: The lens. 744-747

Book Review

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  Si-Zhao Joe Qin:
  Subspace methods for system identification: Tohru Katayama; Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 1-85233-981-0. 748-749

Volume 43, Number 5, May 2007

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  Francesco Carravetta, Gabriella Mavelli:
  Suboptimal stochastic linear feedback control of linear systems with state- and control-dependent noise: The incomplete information case. 751-757
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  Roland Hildebrand, Gabriel Solari:
  Identification for control: Optimal input intended to identify a minimum variance controller. 758-767
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  Trong Dong Nguyen, Asgeir J. Sørensen, Ser Tong Quek:
  Design of hybrid controller for dynamic positioning from calm to extreme sea conditions. 768-785
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  Eero Immonen:
  Practical output regulation for bounded linear infinite-dimensional state space systems. 786-794
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  Dimitri Peaucelle, Denis Arzelier, Didier Henrion, Frédéric Gouaisbaut:
  Quadratic separation for feedback connection of an uncertain matrix and an implicit linear transformation. 795-804
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  Zi Qiang Lang, Stephen A. Billings, R. Yue, J. Li:
  Output frequency response function of nonlinear Volterra systems. 805-816
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  Sumeetpal S. Singh, Nikolaos Kantas, Ba-Ngu Vo, Arnaud Doucet, Robin J. Evans:
  Simulation-based optimal sensor scheduling with application to observer trajectory planning. 817-830
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  Sasa V. Rakovic, Eric C. Kerrigan, David Q. Mayne, Konstantinos I. Kouramas:
  Optimized robust control invariance for linear discrete-time systems: Theoretical foundations. 831-841

Brief Papers

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  Wail Gueaieb, Salah Al-Sharhan, Miodrag Bolic:
  Robust computationally efficient control of cooperative closed-chain manipulators with uncertain dynamics. 842-851
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  Gabriele Pannocchia, James B. Rawlings, Stephen J. Wright:
  Fast, large-scale model predictive control by partial enumeration. 852-860
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  Srdjan S. Stankovic, Dusan M. Stipanovic, Dragoslav D. Siljak:
  Decentralized dynamic output feedback for robust stabilization of a class of nonlinear interconnected systems. 861-867
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  Rik Pintelon, Johan Schoukens, Patrick Guillaume:
  Box-Jenkins identification revisited - Part III: Multivariable systems. 868-875
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  Y. M. Zhang, Y. C. Liu:
  Control of dynamic keyhole welding process. 876-884
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  Mark L. Darby, Michael Nikolaou:
  A parametric programming approach to moving-horizon state estimation. 885-891
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  Hyo-Sung Ahn, Kevin L. Moore, Yangquan Chen:
  Stability analysis of discrete-time iterative learning control systems with interval uncertainty. 892-902
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  Li-Sheng Hu, Tao Bai, Peng Shi, Ziming Wu:
  Sampled-data control of networked linear control systems. 903-911
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  Zhiwei Gao, Steven X. Ding:
  Actuator fault robust estimation and fault-tolerant control for a class of nonlinear descriptor systems. 912-920
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  Jinxin Hao, Gang Li:
  An efficient controller structure with minimum roundoff noise gain. 921-927
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  Tobias Damm:
  On detectability of stochastic systems. 928-933

Technical Communique

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  Steven Gillijns, Bart De Moor:
  Unbiased minimum-variance input and state estimation for linear discrete-time systems with direct feedthrough. 934-937

Volume 43, Number 6, June 2007

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  Torsten Söderström:
  Errors-in-variables methods in system identification. 939-958

Regular Papers

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  Chung-Yao Kao, Anders Rantzer:
  Stability analysis of systems with uncertain time-varying delays. 959-970
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  Jonathan Chauvin, Gilles Corde, Nicolas Petit, Pierre Rouchon:
  Periodic input estimation for linear periodic systems: Automotive engine applications. 971-980
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  Naoki Yamamoto, Koji Tsumura, Shinji Hara:
  Feedback control of quantum entanglement in a two-spin system. 981-992
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  Cristian R. Rojas, James S. Welsh, Graham C. Goodwin, Arie Feuer:
  Robust optimal experiment design for system identification. 993-1008
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  Hisaya Fujioka, Chung-Yao Kao, Stefan Almér, Ulf Jönsson:
  LQ optimal control for a class of pulse width modulated systems. 1009-1020
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  T. P. Zhang, Shuzhi Sam Ge:
  Adaptive neural control of MIMO nonlinear state time-varying delay systems with unknown dead-zones and gain signs. 1021-1033
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  Alessandro Chiuso:
  The role of vector autoregressive modeling in predictor-based subspace identification. 1034-1048

Brief Papers

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  Ji Xiang, Guanrong Chen:
  On the V-stability of complex dynamical networks. 1049-1057
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  Ton J. J. van den Boom, Bernd Heidergott:
  Complexity reduction in MPC for stochastic max-plus-linear discrete event systems by variability expansion. 1058-1063
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  Wenguo Liu, Jie Chen, Hossny El-Sherief:
  Probabilistic bounds for l₁ uncertainty model validation. 1064-1071
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  Vladimir Suplin, Emilia Fridman, Uri Shaked:
  Sampled-data H_infinity control and filtering: Nonuniform uncertain sampling. 1072-1083
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  Alex da Rosa, Ricardo J. G. B. Campello, Wagner C. Amaral:
  Choice of free parameters in expansions of discrete-time Volterra models using Kautz functions. 1084-1091
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  Amir G. Aghdam, Edward J. Davison:
  Decentralized switching control for hierarchical systems. 1092-1100
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  Yue Fu, Tianyou Chai:
  Nonlinear multivariable adaptive control using multiple models and neural networks. 1101-1110
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  Min-Shin Chen, Chia-Hung Chen, Fu-Yun Yang:
  An LTR-observer-based dynamic sliding mode control for chattering reduction. 1111-1116
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  Hernan Haimovich, Ernesto Kofman, María M. Seron:
  Systematic ultimate bound computation for sampled-data systems with quantization. 1117-1123

Volume 43, Number 7, July 2007

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  Claire Valentin, Miguel Magos, Bernhard Maschke:
  A port-Hamiltonian formulation of physical switching systems with varying constraints. 1125-1133
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  Marta Neve, Giuseppe De Nicolao, Laura Marchesi:
  Nonparametric identification of population models via Gaussian processes. 1134-1144
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