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The Multi-Agent Rendezvous Problem. An Extended Summary
This paper is concerned with the collective behavior of a group of n > 1 mobile autonomous agents, labelled 1 through n, which can all move in the...
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The Geometry of Sensor Information Utilization in Nonlinear Feedback Control of Vehicle Formations
This paper addresses the problem of distributed motion control of highly structured formations of robot vehicles. Feedback laws based on relative...
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Decentralized Coordination with Local Interactions: Some New Directions
Due to the limited effective range of every physical sensor, as well as potential bandwidth limitations on the communication channels, there is a...
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Coordination Variables and Consensus Building in Multiple Vehicle Systems
Much of the research focus in the cooperative control community has been on formation control problems [1, 3, 7, 10, 19]. This focus may be due to...
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Optimization-Based Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems
There are many applications where a team of mobile robots may be more suitable than a single vehicle, especially where a distributed system of...
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Modeling and Analysis of Cooperative Control Systems for Uninhabited Autonomous Vehicles
A mathematical model is developed for the study of cooperative control problems for multiple uninhabited autonomous vehicles (UAVs). This model...
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A Study of Synchronization and Group Cooperation Using Partial Contraction Theory
Synchronization, collective behavior, and group cooperation have been the object of extensive recent research. A fundamental understanding of...
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Extracting Interactive Control Algorithms from Group Dynamics of Schooling Fish
Biological groups such as schools of Fish, flocks of birds, and herds of ungulates are remarkable for the effectiveness with which they maintain...
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Stochastic Modelling over a Finite Alphabet and Algorithms for Finding Genes from Genomes
In this paper, we study the problem of constructing models for a stationary stochastic process {...
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Thoughts on System Identification
It is a pleasure to dedicate this Festschrift article to Keith Glover on the occasion of his 60-th birthday. Keith came to MIT in 1969, armed with a...
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LMI-Based Gain Scheduled Controller Synthesis for a Class of Linear Parameter Varying Systems
This paper presents a novel method for constructing controllers for a class of single-input multiple-output (SIMO) linear parameter varying (LPV)...
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Novel patterns in the space variable fractional order Gray–Scott model
In this paper, we apply Fourier spectral method to simulate the process of pattern formations of the space variable fractional order Gray–Scott...
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Nonlinear random vibration of damaged cable systems under Gaussian white noise excitations
Cable structures commonly experience structural damage due to material aging, adverse environmental conditions, and other various factors like...
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Vehicle steady drifting control with safety boundary constraints
The study on active safety motion control of automobiles is not only of great significance to the protection of people’s lives and properties, but...
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Binary Darboux transformation and N-dark solitons for the defocusing Kundu-Eckhaus equation in an optical fiber
In this paper, we focus our attention on the defocusing Kundu-Eckhaus equation, which depicts the propagation of the ultra-short optical pulses in an...
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Dynamic modeling considering time-varying contact pairs and parameterized defects of deep groove ball bearings for its vibration characteristic analysis
Bearing vibration characteristic analysis based on dynamic analytical model is of importance for identifying faults of bearing in mechanical systems....
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Hermite polynomial based affine projection Blake Zisserman algorithm for identification of robust sparse nonlinear system
Several adaptive filters have recently incorporated the Maximum Versoria criteria (MVC) and Blake Zisserman techniques to demonstrate their...
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Exploiting internal resonance of 3D-printed weakly coupled structures for piezoelectric energy harvesting
This work presents a novel design based on weakly-coupled beam-based structural elements with engineered nonlinearities that hosts a piezoelectric...
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Wirtinger-based fractional summation inequality for stability analysis of nabla discrete fractional-order time-delay systems
This paper centers on the stability analysis of nabla discrete fractional-order systems with time delay. The innovation in this study lies in the...
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The critical community size on network
A heterogeneous mean-field SIRS infectious disease stochastic dynamic model with population size is established, the main period of the model and the...
