Automatica, Volume 129

Volume 129, July 2021

Brief Papers

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  Michael Malisoff, Miroslav Krstic:
  Multivariable extremum seeking with distinct delays using a one-stage sequential predictor. 109462

Regular Papers

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  Zheng Ning, Ge Chen:
  A novel multi-agent model for chemical self-assembly. 109563

Brief Papers

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  Masayuki Sato, Dimitri Peaucelle:
  Causal Gain-scheduled output feedback controllers using parameter-dependent Lyapunov Functions. 109569
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  Anna Scampicchio, Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, Gianluigi Pillonetto:
  Stable and robust LQR design via scenario approach. 109571

Regular Papers

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  Giuseppe Conte, Anna Maria Perdon, Elena Zattoni:
  A structural approach to unknown inputs observation for switching linear systems. 109572

Brief Papers

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  Antonino Sferlazza, Sophie Tarbouriech, Luca Zaccarian:
  State observer with Round-Robin aperiodic sampled measurements with jitter. 109573
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  Langwen Zhang, Bohui Wang, Yuanlong Li, Yang Tang:
  Distributed stochastic model predictive control for cyber-physical systems with multiple state delays and probabilistic saturation constraints. 109574
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  Zhaojian Wang, Wei Wei, Changhong Zhao, Zhiyuan Ma, Zetian Zheng, Yunfan Zhang, Feng Liu:
  Exponential stability of partial primal-dual gradient dynamics with nonsmooth objective functions. 109585

Regular Papers

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  Tam Willy Nguyen, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Emanuele Garone:
  Thrust vector control of constrained multibody systems. 109586

Brief Papers

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  Chunyu Wu, Xudong Zhao, Weiguo Xia, Ji Liu, Tamer Basar:
  L2-gain analysis for dynamic event-triggered networked control systems with packet losses and quantization. 109587

Regular Papers

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  Yulong Gao, Mark Cannon, Lihua Xie, Karl Henrik Johansson:
  Invariant cover: Existence, cardinality bounds, and computation. 109588
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  Stefano Battilotti, Filippo Cacace, Massimiliano D'Angelo:
  A stability with optimality analysis of consensus-based distributed filters for discrete-time linear systems. 109589

Brief Papers

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  Peng Cheng, Shuping He, Xiaoli Luan, Fei Liu:
  Finite-region asynchronous H∞ control for 2D Markov jump systems. 109590

Regular Papers

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  Karthik Raghavan Ramaswamy, Giulio Bottegal, Paul M. J. Van den Hof:
  Learning linear modules in a dynamic network using regularized kernel-based methods. 109591
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  Wei Xiao, Christos G. Cassandras, Calin A. Belta:
  Bridging the gap between optimal trajectory planning and safety-critical control with applications to autonomous vehicles. 109592
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  Wei Li:
  Cooperative control of double-integrator agents with heterogeneous control gains: Exponential consensus conditions and the heterogeneity-metric. 109593

Brief Papers

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  Lei Liu, Tingting Gao, Yanjun Liu, Shaocheng Tong, C. L. Philip Chen, Lei Ma:
  Time-varying IBLFs-based adaptive control of uncertain nonlinear systems with full state constraints. 109595
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  Marco Coraggio, Pietro De Lellis, Mario di Bernardo:
  Convergence and synchronization in networks of piecewise-smooth systems via distributed discontinuous coupling. 109596

Regular Papers

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  Kim Peter Wabersich, Melanie N. Zeilinger:
  A predictive safety filter for learning-based control of constrained nonlinear dynamical systems. 109597
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  Gang Kou, Hui Xiao, Minhao Cao, Loo Hay Lee:
  Optimal computing budget allocation for the vector evaluated genetic algorithm in multi-objective simulation optimization. 109599

Brief Papers

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  Mariana Ballesteros, Andrei Polyakov, Denis V. Efimov, Isaac Chairez, Alexander S. Poznyak:
  Non-parametric identification of homogeneous dynamical systems. 109600
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  Juanjuan Xu, Huanshui Zhang, Tamer Basar:
  Stackelberg solution for a two-agent rational expectations model. 109601

Regular Papers

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  Jijju Thomas, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, Nathan van de Wouw, Jean-Pierre Richard:
  Frequency-domain stability conditions for asynchronously sampled decentralized LTI systems. 109603

Brief Papers

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  Xiangbing Chen, Jie Zhou, Sanfeng Hu:
  Upper bounds for Rao distance on the manifold of multivariate elliptical distributions. 109604
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  Jinhui Zhang, Duanduan Chen, Ganghui Shen, Zhongqi Sun, Yuanqing Xia:
  Disturbance observer based adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control: A dynamic sliding surface approach. 109606
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  Constantinos Kitsos, Gildas Besançon, Christophe Prieur:
  High-gain observer for 3 × 3 linear heterodirectional hyperbolic systems. 109607

Regular Papers

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  Hossein Moradian, Solmaz S. Kia:
  Cluster-based distributed augmented Lagrangian algorithm for a class of constrained convex optimization problems. 109608

Brief Papers

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  Mingxuan Sun, Wei Li, Lingwei Wu:
  Dead-beat terminal sliding-mode control: A guaranteed attractiveness approach. 109609
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  Mohammadali Foroozandeh, Pranav Singh:
  Optimal control of spins by Analytical Lie Algebraic Derivatives. 109611

Regular Papers

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  Qi Yu, Yuanlong Wang, Daoyi Dong, Ian R. Petersen:
  On the capability of a class of quantum sensors. 109612
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  Karl Berntorp:
  Online Bayesian inference and learning of Gaussian-process state-space models. 109613

Brief Papers

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  Andres Cotorruelo, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Daniel R. Ramírez, Daniel Limón, Emanuele Garone:
  Reference dependent invariant sets: Sum of squares based computation and applications in constrained control. 109614

Regular Papers

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  Andrei Polyakov:
  Input-to-State Stability of homogeneous infinite dimensional systems with locally Lipschitz nonlinearities. 109615
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  Zhiyong Sun, Anders Rantzer, Zhongkui Li, Anders Robertsson:
  Distributed adaptive stabilization. 109616

Brief Papers

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  Yan Zhu, Zhendong Sun:
  Stabilizing design for discrete-time reversible switched linear control systems: A deadbeat control approach. 109617

Regular Papers

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  Bernard Vau, Ioan Doré Landau:
  Adaptive rejection of narrow-band disturbances in the presence of plant uncertainties - A dual Youla-Kucera approach. 109618
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  Tairan Liu, Marcio de Queiroz:
  An orthogonal basis approach to formation shape control. 109619
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  Majid Heidarifar, Panagiotis Andrianesis, Michael Caramanis:
  A Riemannian optimization approach to the radial distribution network load flow problem. 109620
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  Sérgio S. Rodrigues:
  Oblique projection output-based feedback exponential stabilization of nonautonomous parabolic equations. 109621
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  Ge Song, Gang Tao:
  Partial-state feedback multivariable MRAC and reduced-order designs. 109622
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  Vinicius Mariano Gonçalves:
  Max-plus approximation for reinforcement learning. 109623

Brief Papers

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  Maopeng Ran, Lihua Xie:
  Practical output consensus of nonlinear heterogeneous multi-agent systems with limited data rate. 109624

Regular Papers

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  Julian Barreiro-Gomez, Salah Eddine Choutri, Hamidou Tembine:
  Risk-awareness in multi-level building evacuation with smoke: Burj Khalifa case study. 109625
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  Yunpeng Hu, Inna Sharf, Lei Chen:
  Distributed orbit determination and observability analysis for satellite constellations with angles-only measurements. 109626

Brief Papers

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  Antonio González, Pedro García:
  Output-feedback anti-disturbance predictor-based control for discrete-time systems with time-varying input delays. 109627
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  Irina V. Alexandrova, Sabine Mondié:
  Necessary stability conditions for linear systems with incommensurate delays. 109628

Regular Papers

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  Yanjun Zhang, Ji-Feng Zhang, Xiao-Kang Liu:
  Implicit function based adaptive control of non-canonical form discrete-time nonlinear systems. 109629

Brief Papers

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  Tingting Zeng, Jonathan Brooks, Prabir Barooah:
  Simultaneous identification of linear building dynamic model and disturbance using sparsity-promoting optimization. 109631

Regular Papers

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  Jijju Thomas, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, Nathan van de Wouw, Jean-Pierre Richard:
  Dissipativity-based framework for stability analysis of aperiodically sampled nonlinear systems with time-varying delay. 109632

Brief Papers

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  Manuel Gnucci, Riccardo Marino:
  Adaptive tracking control for underactuated mechanical systems with relative degree two. 109633
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  Francisco Javier Bejarano:
  Zero dynamics normal form and disturbance decoupling of commensurate and distributed time-delay systems. 109634
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  Romeo Ortega, Alexey A. Bobtsov, Nikolay A. Nikolaev, Johannes Schiffer, Denis Dochain:
  Generalized parameter estimation-based observers: Application to power systems and chemical-biological reactors. 109635

Regular Papers

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  Chengpu Yu, Yao Li, Hao Fang, Jie Chen:
  System identification approach for inverse optimal control of finite-horizon linear quadratic regulators. 109636
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  Ji Wang, Miroslav Krstic:
  Adaptive event-triggered PDE control for load-moving cable systems. 109637
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  Brenner S. Rego, Joseph K. Scott, Davide Martino Raimondo, Guilherme V. Raffo:
  Set-valued state estimation of nonlinear discrete-time systems with nonlinear invariants based on constrained zonotopes. 109638

Brief Papers

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  Hao Yu, Tongwen Chen:
  A new Zeno-free event-triggered scheme for robust distributed optimal coordination. 109639

Regular Papers

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  Yining Chen, Zhiqiang Zuo, Yijing Wang:
  Bipartite consensus for a network of wave PDEs over a signed directed graph. 109640

Brief Papers

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  Rui-Qi Dong, Ai-Guo Wu, Ying Zhang, Guangren Duan:
  Anti-unwinding sliding mode attitude control via two modified Rodrigues parameter sets for spacecraft. 109642

Corrigendum

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  Cailu Wang, Yuegang Tao:
  Corrigendum to "Global optimization for max-plus linear systems and applications in distributed systems" [Automatica 119 (2020) 109104]. 109644

Regular Papers

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  Shidong Zhai, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Dynamic behavior for social networks with state-dependent susceptibility and antagonistic interactions. 109652

Book Review

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  Pierdomenico Pepe:
  Stability, Control, and Computation for Time-Delay Systems, An Eigenvalue-Based Approach, Michiels Wim, Niculescu Silviu-Iulian, in: Advances in Design and Control. SIAM (2014). 109653

Brief Papers

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  Bo Wu, Xiaobin Zhang, Hai Lin:
  Supervisor synthesis of POMDP via automata learning. 109654
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  Gianmario Rinaldi, Prathyush P. Menon, Christopher Edwards, Antonella Ferrara, Yuri B. Shtessel:
  Adaptive dual-layer super-twisting sliding mode observers to reconstruct and mitigate disturbances and communication attacks in power networks. 109656
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  Wanxin Jin, Shaoshuai Mou:
  Distributed inverse optimal control. 109658
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  Xiuxia Yin, David Zhiwei Gao, Dong Yue, Yichuan Fu:
  Convergence of velocities for the short range communicated discrete-time Cucker-Smale model. 109659

Regular Papers

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  Mattia Bianchi, Sergio Grammatico:
  Continuous-time fully distributed generalized Nash equilibrium seeking for multi-integrator agents. 109660

Brief Papers

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  Maojiao Ye, Guoqiang Hu:
  Adaptive approaches for fully distributed Nash equilibrium seeking in networked games. 109661
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  Jing Chen, Biao Huang, Min Gan, C. L. Philip Chen:
  A novel reduced-order algorithm for rational models based on Arnoldi process and Krylov subspace. 109663

Regular Papers

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  Liwei An, Guang-Hong Yang:
  Byzantine-resilient distributed state estimation: A min-switching approach. 109664
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  Daniele Masti, Alberto Bemporad:
  Learning nonlinear state-space models using autoencoders. 109666
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  Yi Cheng, Yuhu Wu, Bao-Zhu Guo:
  Absolute boundary stabilization for an axially moving Kirchhoff beam. 109667
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  Kemi Ding, Xiaoqiang Ren, Hongsheng Qi, Guodong Shi, Xiaofan Wang, Ling Shi:
  Interference Game for Intelligent Sensors in Cyber-physical Systems. 109668
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  Shigemasa Takai:
  A general framework for diagnosis of discrete event systems subject to sensor failures. 109669

Brief Papers

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  Daniele Astolfi, Swann Marx, Nathan van de Wouw:
  Repetitive control design based on forwarding for nonlinear minimum-phase systems. 109671
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  Reza Heydari, Mohammad Farrokhi:
  Robust tube-based model predictive control of LPV systems subject to adjustable additive disturbance set. 109672
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  Hyeong Soo Chang:
  An index-based deterministic convergent optimal algorithm for constrained multi-armed bandit problems. 109673
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  Xiang-Gui Guo, Wei-Dong Xu, Jian-Liang Wang, Ju H. Park:
  Distributed neuroadaptive fault-tolerant sliding-mode control for 2-D plane vehicular platoon systems with spacing constraints and unknown direction faults. 109675

Regular Papers

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  Xuanyu Cao, Tamer Basar:
  Decentralized online convex optimization based on signs of relative states. 109676

Brief Papers

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  Anquan Liu, Tao Li, Yu Gu, Haohui Dai:
  Cooperative extended state observer based control of vehicle platoons with arbitrarily small time headway. 109678
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  Yushen Long, Lihua Xie:
  Unconstrained tracking MPC for continuous-time nonlinear systems. 109680

Regular Papers

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  Francesco Vasca, Carmela Bernardo, Raffaele Iervolino:
  Practical consensus in bounded confidence opinion dynamics. 109683

Brief Papers

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  Lei Liu, Lifeng Ma, Jian Guo, Jie Zhang, Yuming Bo:
  Distributed set-membership filtering for time-varying systems: A coding-decoding-based approach. 109684

Regular Papers

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  Alberto Dalla Libera, Ruggero Carli, Gianluigi Pillonetto:
  Kernel-based methods for Volterra series identification. 109686

Brief Papers

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  Chun Li, Jinliang Ding, Frank L. Lewis, Tianyou Chai:
  A novel adaptive dynamic programming based on tracking error for nonlinear discrete-time systems. 109687

Regular Papers

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  Minghao Han, Yuan Tian, Lixian Zhang, Jun Wang, Wei Pan:
  Reinforcement learning control of constrained dynamic systems with uniformly ultimate boundedness stability guarantee. 109689

Brief Papers

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  Jingyao Zhang, Deyuan Meng:
  Cooperative iterative learning for uncertain nonlinear agents in leaderless switching networks. 109692

Regular Papers

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  Jun Liu:
  On the convergence of reinforcement learning with Monte Carlo Exploring Starts. 109693

Brief Papers

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  Maria Terushkin, Emilia Fridman:
  Network-based deployment of nonlinear multi agents over open curves: A PDE approach. 109697
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  Tao Liu, Jie Huang:
  Exponential estimation of the unknown frequencies of discrete-time multi-tone sinusoidal signals. 109698