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On Average Performance and Stability of Economic Model Predictive Control by Angeli, D., Amrit, R., Rawlings, J. B.

“…Control performance and cost optimization can be conflicting goals in the management of industrial processes. Even when optimal or optimization-based control…”
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CasADi: a software framework for nonlinear optimization and optimal control by Andersson, Joel A. E., Gillis, Joris, Horn, Greg, Rawlings, James B., Diehl, Moritz

“…We present CasADi, an open-source software framework for numerical optimization. CasADi is a general-purpose tool that can be used to model and solve…”
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A Lyapunov Function for Economic Optimizing Model Predictive Control by Diehl, M, Amrit, R, Rawlings, J B

“…Standard model predictive control (MPC) yields an asymptotically stable steady-state solution using the following procedure. Given a dynamic model, a steady…”
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Optimizing process economics online using model predictive control by Amrit, Rishi, Rawlings, James B., Biegler, Lorenz T.

“…•Economics optimizing nonlinear dynamic MPC problems are considered.•Nonlinear dynamic control problems were converted to large scale NLP.•Sparse interior…”
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Critical Evaluation of Extended Kalman Filtering and Moving-Horizon Estimation by Haseltine, Eric L, Rawlings, James B

“…State estimators for physical processes often must address different challenges, including nonlinear dynamics, states subject to hard constraints (e.g.,…”
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Estimation of the disturbance structure from data using semidefinite programming and optimal weighting by Rajamani, Murali R., Rawlings, James B.

“…Designing a state estimator for a linear state-space model requires knowledge of the characteristics of the disturbances entering the states and the…”
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Mental Training Enhances Attentional Stability: Neural and Behavioral Evidence by Lutz, Antoine, Slagter, Heleen A, Rawlings, Nancy B, Francis, Andrew D, Greischar, Lawrence L, Davidson, Richard J

“…The capacity to stabilize the content of attention over time varies among individuals, and its impairment is a hallmark of several mental illnesses…”
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Long-Term Meditators Self-Induce High-Amplitude Gamma Synchrony during Mental Practice by Lutz, Antoine, Greischar, Lawrence L., Rawlings, Nancy B., Ricard, Matthieu, Davidson, Richard J., Singer, Burton H.

“…Practitioners understand "meditation," or mental training, to be a process of familiarization with one's own mental life leading to long-lasting changes in…”
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Disturbance models for offset-free model-predictive control by Pannocchia, Gabriele, Rawlings, James B.

“…Model predictive control algorithms achieve offset‐free control objectives by adding integrating disturbances to the process model. The purpose of these…”
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Distributed MPC Strategies With Application to Power System Automatic Generation Control by Venkat, A.N., Hiskens, I.A., Rawlings, J.B., Wright, S.J.

“…A distributed model predictive control (MPC) framework, suitable for controlling large-scale networked systems such as power systems, is presented. The overall…”
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Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs by Rawlings, Laura B., Rubio, Gloria M.

“…Several developing economies have recently introduced conditional cash transfer programs, which provide money to poor families contingent on certain behavior,…”
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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality? by Bhalotra, Sonia, Rawlings, Samantha B.

“…This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This…”
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Promoting parent-child relationships and preventing violence via home-visiting: a pre-post cluster randomised trial among Rwandan families linked to social protection programmes by Betancourt, Theresa S, Jensen, Sarah K G, Barnhart, Dale A, Brennan, Robert T, Murray, Shauna M, Yousafzai, Aisha K, Farrar, Jordan, Godfroid, Kalisa, Bazubagira, Stephanie M, Rawlings, Laura B, Wilson, Briana, Sezibera, Vincent, Kamurase, Alex

“…Sugira Muryango is a father-engaged early child development and violence-prevention home-visiting programme delivered by trained lay workers. This…”
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Metal deposition via electroless surface limited redox replacement by Ambrozik, S., Rawlings, B., Vasiljevic, N., Dimitrov, N.

“…The development of electroless SLRR (ESLRR) utilizing a galvanic cell configuration is demonstrated at a proof-of concept level by the deposition of epitaxial…”
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Constrained state estimation for nonlinear discrete-time systems: stability and moving horizon approximations by Rao, C.V., Rawlings, J.B., Mayne, D.Q.

“…State estimator design for a nonlinear discrete-time system is a challenging problem, further complicated when additional physical insight is available in the…”
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Effect of a home-visiting parenting program to promote early childhood development and prevent violence: a cluster-randomized trial in Rwanda by Jensen, Sarah KG, Placencio-Castro, Matias, Murray, Shauna M, Brennan, Robert T, Goshev, Simo, Farrar, Jordan, Yousafzai, Aisha, Rawlings, Laura B, Wilson, Briana, Habyarimana, Emmanuel, Sezibera, Vincent, Betancourt, Theresa S

“…IntroductionFamilies living in extreme poverty require interventions to support early-childhood development (ECD) due to broad risks. This longitudinal cluster…”
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Coordinating multiple optimization-based controllers: New opportunities and challenges by Rawlings, James B., Stewart, Brett T.

“…The status of using many, distributed optimization-based controllers for feedback control of large-scale, dynamic processes is presented and evaluated. We show…”
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Constrained linear state estimation—a moving horizon approach by Rao, Christopher V., Rawlings, James B., Lee, Jay H.

“…This article considers moving horizon strategies for constrained linear state estimation. Additional information for estimating state variables from output…”
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Unreachable Setpoints in Model Predictive Control by Rawlings, J.B., Bonne, D., Jorgensen, J.B., Venkat, A.N., Jorgensen, S.B.

“…In this work, a new model predictive controller is developed that handles unreachable setpoints better than traditional model predictive control methods. The…”
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A new autocovariance least-squares method for estimating noise covariances by Odelson, Brian J., Rajamani, Murali R., Rawlings, James B.

“…Industrial implementation of model-based control methods, such as model predictive control, is often complicated by the lack of knowledge about the…”
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