Search Results - "Hespanha, João"
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A Robust Control Strategy With Perturbation Estimation for the Parrot Mambo Platform
Published in IEEE transactions on control systems technology (01-07-2021)“…This article addresses theoretical and practical challenges associated with a commercially available and ready-to-fly small-scale unmanned aircraft system…”
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High-Precision Control of Plasma Drug Levels Using Feedback-Controlled Dosing
Published in ACS pharmacology & translational science (09-11-2018)“…By, in effect, rendering pharmacokinetics an experimentally adjustable parameter, the ability to perform feedback-controlled dosing informed by high-frequency…”
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Self-Triggered and Event-Triggered Set-Valued Observers
Published in Information sciences (01-02-2018)“…This paper addresses the problem of reducing the required network load and computational power for the implementation of Set-Valued Observers (SVOs) in…”
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Mistuning-Based Control Design to Improve Closed-Loop Stability Margin of Vehicular Platoons
Published in IEEE transactions on automatic control (01-09-2009)“…We consider a decentralized bidirectional control of a platoon of N identical vehicles moving in a straight line. The control objective is for each vehicle to…”
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Dubins Traveling Salesman Problem with Neighborhoods: A Graph-Based Approach
Published in Algorithms (01-03-2013)“…We study the problem of finding the minimum-length curvature constrained closed path through a set of regions in the plane. This problem is referred to as the…”
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On Discrete-Time Pursuit-Evasion Games With Sensing Limitations
Published in IEEE transactions on robotics (01-12-2008)“…In this paper, we address discrete-time pursuit-evasion games in the plane where every player has identical sensing and motion ranges restricted to closed…”
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Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Translating Demands: Stability Analysis and Receding-Horizon Policies
Published in IEEE transactions on automatic control (01-11-2010)“…We introduce a problem in which demands arrive stochastically on a line segment, and upon arrival, move with a fixed velocity perpendicular to the segment. We…”
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Optimal Estimation on the Graph Cycle Space
Published in IEEE transactions on signal processing (01-06-2011)“…This paper addresses the problem of estimating the states of a group of agents from noisy measurements of pairwise differences between agents' states. The…”
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A derivative matching approach to moment closure for the stochastic logistic model
Published in Bulletin of mathematical biology (01-08-2007)“…Continuous-time birth-death Markov processes serve as useful models in population biology. When the birth-death rates are nonlinear, the time evolution of the…”
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Nonlinear norm-observability notions and stability of switched systems
Published in IEEE transactions on automatic control (01-02-2005)“…This work proposes several definitions of "norm-observability" for nonlinear systems and explores relationships among them. These observability properties…”
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Quadratic control of stochastic hybrid systems with renewal transitions
Published in Automatica (Oxford) (01-11-2014)“…We study the quadratic control of a class of stochastic hybrid systems with linear continuous dynamics for which the lengths of time that the system stays in…”
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Randomized sampling for large zero-sum games
Published in Automatica (Oxford) (01-05-2013)“…This paper addresses the solution of large zero-sum matrix games using randomized methods. We formalize a procedure, termed as the sampled security policy…”
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Path-following for nonminimum phase systems removes performance limitations
Published in IEEE transactions on automatic control (01-02-2005)“…We highlight an essential difference between path-following and reference-tracking for nonminimum phase systems. It is well known that in the…”
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Approximate Moment Dynamics for Chemically Reacting Systems
Published in IEEE transactions on automatic control (01-02-2011)“…In the stochastic formulation of chemical kinetics, the differential equation that describes the time evolution of the lower-order statistical moments for the…”
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Approximate optimal adaptive control for weakly coupled nonlinear systems: A neuro-inspired approach
Published in International journal of adaptive control and signal processing (01-08-2016)“…Summary This paper proposes a new approximate dynamic programming algorithm to solve the infinite‐horizon optimal control problem for weakly coupled nonlinear…”
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Asymptotically Stable Adaptive-Optimal Control Algorithm With Saturating Actuators and Relaxed Persistence of Excitation
Published in IEEE transaction on neural networks and learning systems (01-11-2016)“…This paper proposes a control algorithm based on adaptive dynamic programming to solve the infinite-horizon optimal control problem for known deterministic…”
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Lyapunov conditions for input-to-state stability of impulsive systems
Published in Automatica (Oxford) (01-11-2008)“…This paper introduces appropriate concepts of input-to-state stability (ISS) and integral-ISS for impulsive systems, i.e., dynamical systems that evolve…”
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Game Theoretic Stochastic Routing for Fault Tolerance and Security in Computer Networks
Published in IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems (01-09-2007)“…We introduce the game-theoretic stochastic routing (GTSR) framework, a proactive alternative to today's reactive approaches to route repair. GTSR minimizes the…”
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Stochastic Programming Using Expected Value Bounds
Published in IEEE transactions on automatic control (01-06-2023)“…In this article, we address the problem of minimizing an expected value with stochastic constraints, known in the literature as stochastic programming. Our…”
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Supervisory Control of Discrete-Event Systems Under Attacks
Published in Dynamic games and applications (01-12-2019)“…We consider a multi-adversary version of the supervisory control problem for discrete-event systems (DES), in which an adversary corrupts the observations…”
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