Automatica, Volume 133

Volume 133, November 2021

Technical Communiques

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  Mahmoud A. M. AbdelGalil, Haithem E. Taha:
  Lie bracket approximation-based extremum seeking with vanishing input oscillations. 109735
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  Feng Li, Wei Xing Zheng, Shengyuan Xu, Deming Yuan:
  A novel ε-dependent Lyapunov function and its application to singularly perturbed systems. 109749

Correspondence Items

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  MirSaleh Bahavarnia:
  Comments on "An ISS self-triggered implementation of linear controllers" [Automatica 46 (2010) 1310-1314]. 109755

Technical Communiques

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  Javier Pliego-Jiménez, Rigoberto Martínez-Clark, César Cruz-Hernández, Adrian Arellano-Delgado:
  Trajectory tracking of wheeled mobile robots using only Cartesian position measurements. 109756

Brief Papers

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  Fei Dong, Keyou You:
  The isoline tracking in unknown scalar fields with concentration feedback. 109779

Regular Papers

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  Daniel Andreas Deenen, Bardia Sharif, Sebastiaan van den Eijnden, Hendrik Nijmeijer, Maurice Heemels, Marcel Heertjes:
  Projection-based integrators for improved motion control: Formalization, well-posedness and stability of hybrid integrator-gain systems. 109830
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  Eduardo Poupard, William Paul Heath, Stefan Güttel:
  A Hamiltonian decomposition for fast interior-point solvers in model predictive control. 109833

Brief Papers

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  Kun Cao, Zhimin Han, Zhiyun Lin, Lihua Xie:
  Bearing-only distributed localization: A unified barycentric approach. 109834
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  Jiangyan Pu, Qi Zhang:
  Robust consumption portfolio optimization with stochastic differential utility. 109835

Regular Papers

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  Raphael Julio Barcelos, João Carlos Basilio:
  Enforcing current-state opacity through shuffle and deletions of event observations. 109836

Brief Papers

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  Yang-Yang Qian, Yan Wan:
  Design of distributed adaptive event-triggered consensus control strategies with positive minimum inter-event times. 109837
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  Ziyue Ma, Xiang Yin, Zhiwu Li:
  Verification and enforcement of strong infinite- and k-step opacity using state recognizers. 109838

Regular Papers

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  Rafal Wisniewski, Manuela-Luminita Bujorianu:
  Safety of stochastic systems: An analytic and computational approach. 109839
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  Mario Sassano, Alessandro Astolfi:
  Constructive design of open-loop Nash equilibrium strategies that admit a feedback synthesis in LQ games. 109840

Brief Papers

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  Wei Wang, Jiang Long, Jing Zhou, Jiangshuai Huang, Changyun Wen:
  Adaptive backstepping based consensus tracking of uncertain nonlinear systems with event-triggered communication. 109841

Regular Papers

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  Paul Kotyczka, Tobias Thoma:
  Symplectic discrete-time energy-based control for nonlinear mechanical systems. 109842

Brief Papers

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  Min Xue, Huaicheng Yan, Hao Zhang, Hao Shen, Peng Shi:
  Dissipativity-based filter design for Markov jump systems with packet loss compensation. 109843
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  Lixian Zhang, Hui Wang, Yanzheng Zhu, Jianan Yang:
  Tube-based attitude control of rigid-bodies with magnitude-bounded disturbances. 109845

Regular Papers

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  Suad Krilasevic, Sergio Grammatico:
  Learning generalized Nash equilibria in multi-agent dynamical systems via extremum seeking control. 109846
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  Chen Gao, Zidong Wang, Xiao He, Dong Yue:
  Sampled-data-based fault-tolerant consensus control for multi-agent systems: A data privacy preserving scheme. 109847

Brief Papers

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  Sheril Kunhippurayil, Matthew W. Harris, Olli Jansson:
  Lossless convexification of optimal control problems with annular control constraints. 109848

Regular Papers

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  Dong Zhang, Satadru Dey, Shu-Xia Tang, Ross Drummond, Scott J. Moura:
  Battery internal temperature estimation via a semilinear thermal PDE model. 109849

Brief Papers

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  Anna-Carina Kurth, Kevin Schmidt, Oliver Sawodny:
  Tracking-control for age-structured population dynamics with self-competition governed by integro-PDEs. 109850
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  Wen-Hua Chen, Callum Rhodes, Cunjia Liu:
  Dual Control for Exploitation and Exploration (DCEE) in autonomous search. 109851
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  Noelia Pizzi, Ernesto Kofman, Damián Edgardo Marelli, José A. De Doná, María M. Seron:
  Probabilistic ultimate bounds and invariant sets in nonlinear systems. 109853
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  Józef Wiora:
  Least Lp-norm low-pass filter. 109854
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  Federico Morelli, Xavier Bombois, Håkan Hjalmarsson, Laurent Bako, Kévin Colin:
  Least costly identification experiment for the identification of one module in a dynamic network. 109855
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  Víctor Costa da Silva Campos, Anh-Tu Nguyen, Reinaldo Martinez Palhares:
  Adaptive gain-scheduling control for continuous-time systems with polytopic uncertainties: An LMI-based approach. 109856
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  Weilin Yang, Dezhi Xu, Bin Jiang, Peng Shi:
  A novel dual-mode robust model predictive control approach via alternating optimizations. 109857

Regular Papers

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  Rodrigo A. González, Cristian R. Rojas, Siqi Pan, James S. Welsh:
  Consistent identification of continuous-time systems under multisine input signal excitation. 109859

Brief Papers

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  Ankush Chakrabarty, Mouhacine Benosman:
  Safe learning-based observers for unknown nonlinear systems using Bayesian optimization. 109860
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  Ashish Cherukuri, Tjerk Stegink, Claudio De Persis, Arjan van der Schaft, Jorge Cortés:
  Frequency-driven market mechanisms for optimal dispatch in power networks. 109861

Regular Papers

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  Shaobao Li, Petar Durdevic, Zhenyu Yang:
  Model-free H∞ tracking control for de-oiling hydrocyclone systems via off-policy reinforcement learning. 109862

Brief Papers

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  Ryosuke Koike, Takahiro Endo, Fumitoshi Matsuno:
  Output-based dynamic event-triggered consensus control for linear multiagent systems. 109863

Regular Papers

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  Nan Li, Anouck Girard, Ilya V. Kolmanovsky:
  Chance-constrained controller state and reference governor. 109864

Brief Papers

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  Maciej Niedzwiecki, Marcin Ciolek, Artur Gancza, Piotr Kaczmarek:
  Application of regularized Savitzky-Golay filters to identification of time-varying systems. 109865

Regular Papers

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  Sheng Cheng, Derek A. Paley:
  Optimal control of a 2D diffusion-advection process with a team of mobile actuators under jointly optimal guidance. 109866

Brief Papers

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  Wei Chen, Zidong Wang, Derui Ding, Hongli Dong:
  Consensusability of discrete-time multi-agent systems under binary encoding with bit errors. 109867

Regular Papers

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  Michael Hertneck, Steffen Linsenmayer, Frank Allgöwer:
  Efficient stability analysis approaches for nonlinear weakly-hard real-time control systems. 109868
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  Tianju Sui, Xi-Ming Sun:
  The vulnerability of distributed state estimator under stealthy attacks. 109869

Brief Papers

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  Hongjiu Yang, Qing Li, Zhiqiang Zuo, Hai Zhao:
  Self-triggered MPC for nonholonomic systems with multiple constraints by adaptive transmission intervals. 109870
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  He Kong, Mao Shan, Salah Sukkarieh, Tianshi Chen, Wei Xing Zheng:
  Kalman filtering under unknown inputs and norm constraints. 109871

Regular Papers

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  Jiaqi Yan, Chao Deng, Changyun Wen:
  Resilient output regulation in heterogeneous networked systems under Byzantine agents. 109872

Brief Papers

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  Brahim Boukanjime, Mohamed El Fatini, Aziz Laaribi, Regragui Taki, Kai Wang:
  A Markovian regime-switching stochastic hybrid time-delayed epidemic model with vaccination. 109881

Regular Papers

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  Tao Qian, Xiaoyin Wang, Liming Zhang:
  MIMO frequency domain system identification using matrix-valued orthonormal functions. 109882
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  Joonho Lee, Joo-Hwan Seo, Jongeun Choi:
  Output feedback control design using Extended High-Gain Observers and dynamic inversion with projection for a small scaled helicopter. 109883
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  Jirí Balun, Tomás Masopust:
  On verification of D-detectability for discrete event systems. 109884

Brief Papers

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  Han-Wen Zhang, Jun-Min Wang, Jian-Jun Gu:
  Exponential input-to-state stabilization of an ODE cascaded with a reaction-diffusion equation subject to disturbances. 109885
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  Graham C. Goodwin, María M. Seron, Galina Mirzaeva:
  Open-loop resonant poles and zeros: Frequency and time domain implications for feedback systems. 109887
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  Zhijin Chen, Branko Ristic, Jeremie Houssineau, Du Yong Kim:
  Observer control for bearings-only tracking using possibility functions. 109888
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  Andrei Sperila, Bogdan D. Ciubotaru, Cristian Oara:
  The optimal H2 controller for generalized discrete-time systems. 109889

Regular Papers

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  Lorenzo Sabug, Fredy Ruiz, Lorenzo Fagiano:
  SMGO: A set membership approach to data-driven global optimization. 109890