Contributed by Kay Tancock, k.tancock@elsevier.com
Automatica
Volume 129, July 2021
Regular Papers
• Tam Willy Nguyen, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Emanuele Garone, Thrust vector control of constrained multibody systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109586
• Gang Kou, Hui Xiao, Minhao Cao, Loo Hay Lee, Optimal computing budget allocation for the vector evaluated genetic algorithm in multi-objective simulation optimization, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109599
• Giuseppe Conte, Anna Maria Perdon, Elena Zattoni, A structural approach to unknown inputs observation for switching linear systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109572
• Wei Li, Cooperative control of double-integrator agents with heterogeneous control gains: Exponential consensus conditions and the heterogeneity-metric, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109593
• Julian Barreiro-Gomez, Salah Eddine Choutri, Hamidou Tembine, Risk-awareness in multi-level building evacuation with smoke: Burj Khalifa case study, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109625
• Yulong Gao, Mark Cannon, Lihua Xie, Karl Henrik Johansson, Invariant cover: Existence, cardinality bounds, and computation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109588
• Kim Peter Wabersich, Melanie N. Zeilinger, A predictive safety filter for learning-based control of constrained nonlinear dynamical systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109597
• Karl Berntorp, Online Bayesian inference and learning of Gaussian-process state–space models, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109613
• Yunpeng Hu, Inna Sharf, Lei Chen, Distributed orbit determination and observability analysis for satellite constellations with angles-only measurements, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109626
• Bernard Vau, Ioan Doré Landau, Adaptive rejection of narrow-band disturbances in the presence of plant uncertainties—A dual Youla–Kucera approach, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109618
• Majid Heidarifar, Panagiotis Andrianesis, Michael Caramanis, A Riemannian optimization approach to the radial distribution network load flow problem, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109620
• Karthik Raghavan Ramaswamy, Giulio Bottegal, Paul M.J. Van den Hof, Learning linear modules in a dynamic network using regularized kernel-based methods, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109591
• Qi Yu, Yuanlong Wang, Daoyi Dong, Ian R. Petersen, On the capability of a class of quantum sensors, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109612
• Sérgio S. Rodrigues, Oblique projection output-based feedback exponential stabilization of nonautonomous parabolic equations, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109621
• Andrey Polyakov, Input-to-State Stability of homogeneous infinite dimensional systems with locally Lipschitz nonlinearities, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109615
• Zhiyong Sun, Anders Rantzer, Zhongkui Li, Anders Robertsson, Distributed adaptive stabilization, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109616
• Tairan Liu, Marcio de Queiroz, An orthogonal basis approach to formation shape control, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109619
• Ge Song, Gang Tao, Partial-state feedback multivariable MRAC and reduced-order designs, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109622
• Yanjun Zhang, Ji-Feng Zhang, Xiao-Kang Liu, Implicit function based adaptive control of non-canonical form discrete-time nonlinear systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109629
• Hossein Moradian, Solmaz S. Kia, Cluster-based distributed augmented Lagrangian algorithm for a class of constrained convex optimization problems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109608
• Vinicius Mariano Gonçalves, Max-plus approximation for reinforcement learning, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109623
• Stefano Battilotti, Filippo Cacace, Massimiliano d’Angelo, A stability with optimality analysis of consensus-based distributed filters for discrete-time linear systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109589
• Wei Xiao, Christos G. Cassandras, Calin A. Belta, Bridging the gap between optimal trajectory planning and safety-critical control with applications to autonomous vehicles, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109592
• 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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109632
• Jijju Thomas, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, Nathan van de Wouw, Jean-Pierre Richard, Frequency-domain stability conditions for asynchronously sampled decentralized LTI systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109603
• Chengpu Yu, Yao Li, Hao Fang, Jie Chen, System identification approach for inverse optimal control of finite-horizon linear quadratic regulators, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109636
• Yining Chen, Zhiqiang Zuo, Yijing Wang, Bipartite consensus for a network of wave PDEs over a signed directed graph, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109640
• Zheng Ning, Ge Chen, A novel multi-agent model for chemical self-assembly, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109563
• Ji Wang, Miroslav Krstic, Adaptive event-triggered PDE control for load-moving cable systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109637
• Brenner S. Rego, Joseph K. Scott, Davide M. Raimondo, Guilherme V. Raffo, Set-valued state estimation of nonlinear discrete-time systems with nonlinear invariants based on constrained zonotopes, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109638
• Mattia Bianchi, Sergio Grammatico, Continuous-time fully distributed generalized Nash equilibrium seeking for multi-integrator agents, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109660
• Yi Cheng, Yuhu Wu, Bao-Zhu Guo, Absolute boundary stabilization for an axially moving Kirchhoff beam, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109667
• Daniele Masti, Alberto Bemporad, Learning nonlinear state–space models using autoencoders, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109666
• Liwei An, Guang-Hong Yang, Byzantine-resilient distributed state estimation: A min-switching approach, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109664
• Shidong Zhai, Wei Xing Zheng, Dynamic behavior for social networks with state-dependent susceptibility and antagonistic interactions, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109652
• Xuanyu Cao, Tamer Başar, Decentralized online convex optimization based on signs of relative states, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109676
• Minghao Han, Yuan Tian, Lixian Zhang, Jun Wang, Wei Pan, Reinforcement learning control of constrained dynamic systems with uniformly ultimate boundedness stability guarantee, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109689
• Kemi Ding, Xiaoqiang Ren, Hongsheng Qi, Guodong Shi, ... Ling Shi, Interference Game for Intelligent Sensors in Cyber–physical Systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109668
• Jun Liu, On the convergence of reinforcement learning with Monte Carlo Exploring Starts, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109693
• Shigemasa Takai, A general framework for diagnosis of discrete event systems subject to sensor failures, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109669
• Francesco Vasca, Carmela Bernardo, Raffaele Iervolino, Practical consensus in bounded confidence opinion dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109683
• Alberto Dalla Libera, Ruggero Carli, Gianluigi Pillonetto, Kernel-based methods for Volterra series identification, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109686
Brief Papers
• Jinhui Zhang, Duanduan Chen, Ganghui Shen, Zhongqi Sun, Yuanqing Xia, Disturbance observer based adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control: A dynamic sliding surface approach, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109606
• Masayuki Sato, Dimitri Peaucelle, Causal Gain-scheduled output feedback controllers using parameter-dependent Lyapunov Functions, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109569
• Chun Li, Jinliang Ding, Frank L. Lewis, Tianyou Chai, A novel adaptive dynamic programming based on tracking error for nonlinear discrete-time systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109687
• Anna Scampicchio, Aleksandr Aravkin, Gianluigi Pillonetto, Stable and robust LQR design via scenario approach, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109571
• Xiangbing Chen, Jie Zhou, Sanfeng Hu, Upper bounds for Rao distance on the manifold of multivariate elliptical distributions, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109604
• Peng Cheng, Shuping He, Xiaoli Luan, Fei Liu, Finite-region asynchronous H∞ control for 2D Markov jump systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109590
• Zhaojian Wang, Wei Wei, Changhong Zhao, Zhiyuan Ma, ... Feng Liu, Exponential stability of partial primal–dual gradient dynamics with nonsmooth objective functions, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109585
• Lei Liu, Tingting Gao, Yan-Jun Liu, Shaocheng Tong, ... Lei Ma, Time-varying IBLFs-based adaptive control of uncertain nonlinear systems with full state constraints, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109595
• 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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109574
• Juanjuan Xu, Huanshui Zhang, Tamer Başar, Stackelberg solution for a two-agent rational expectations model, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109601
• Antonino Sferlazza, Sophie Tarbouriech, Luca Zaccarian, State observer with Round-Robin aperiodic sampled measurements with jitter, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109573
• Mariana Ballesteros, Andrey Polyakov, Denis Efimov, Isaac Chairez, Alexander S. Poznyak, Non-parametric identification of homogeneous dynamical systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109600
• Irina V. Alexandrova, Sabine Mondié, Necessary stability conditions for linear systems with incommensurate delays, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109628
• Antonio González, Pedro García, Output-feedback anti-disturbance predictor-based control for discrete-time systems with time-varying input delays, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109627
• Chunyu Wu, Xudong Zhao, Weiguo Xia, Ji Liu, Tamer Başar, L2-gain analysis for dynamic event-triggered networked control systems with packet losses and quantization, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109587
• Constantinos Kitsos, Gildas Besançon, Christophe Prieur, High-gain observer for 3 × 3 linear heterodirectional hyperbolic systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109607
• Mohammadali Foroozandeh, Pranav Singh, Optimal control of spins by Analytical Lie Algebraic Derivatives, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109611
• Marco Coraggio, Pietro De Lellis, Mario di Bernardo, Convergence and synchronization in networks of piecewise-smooth systems via distributed discontinuous coupling, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109596
• Andres Cotorruelo, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Daniel R. Ramirez, Daniel Limon, Emanuele Garone, Reference dependent invariant sets: Sum of squares based computation and applications in constrained control, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109614
• Yan Zhu, Zhendong Sun, Stabilizing design for discrete-time reversible switched linear control systems: A deadbeat control approach, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109617
• Hao Yu, Tongwen Chen, A new Zeno-free event-triggered scheme for robust distributed optimal coordination, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109639
• Rui-Qi Dong, Ai-Guo Wu, Ying Zhang, Guang-Ren Duan, Anti-unwinding sliding mode attitude control via two modified Rodrigues parameter sets for spacecraft, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109642
• Romeo Ortega, Alexey Bobtsov, Nikolay Nikolaev, Johannes Schiffer, Denis Dochain, Generalized parameter estimation-based observers: Application to power systems and chemical–biological reactors, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109635
• Manuel Gnucci, Riccardo Marino, Adaptive tracking control for underactuated mechanical systems with relative degree two, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109633
• Maopeng Ran, Lihua Xie, Practical output consensus of nonlinear heterogeneous multi-agent systems with limited data rate, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109624
• Tingting Zeng, Jonathan Brooks, Prabir Barooah, Simultaneous identification of linear building dynamic model and disturbance using sparsity-promoting optimization, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109631
• Mingxuan Sun, Wei Li, Lingwei Wu, Dead-beat terminal sliding-mode control: A guaranteed attractiveness approach, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109609
• Francisco Javier Bejarano, Zero dynamics normal form and disturbance decoupling of commensurate and distributed time-delay systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109634
• Michael Malisoff, Miroslav Krstic, Multivariable extremum seeking with distinct delays using a one-stage sequential predictor, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2020.109462
• Bo Wu, Xiaobin Zhang, Hai Lin, Supervisor synthesis of POMDP via automata learning, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109654
• 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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109663
• Hyeong Soo Chang, An index-based deterministic convergent optimal algorithm for constrained multi-armed bandit problems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109673
• 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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109675
• Xiuxia Yin, Zhiwei Gao, Dong Yue, Yichuan Fu, Convergence of velocities for the short range communicated discrete-time Cucker–Smale model, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109659
• Reza Heydari, Mohammad Farrokhi, Robust tube-based model predictive control of LPV systems subject to adjustable additive disturbance set, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109672
• Maojiao Ye, Guoqiang Hu, Adaptive approaches for fully distributed Nash equilibrium seeking in networked games, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109661
• Daniele Astolfi, Swann Marx, Nathan van de Wouw, Repetitive control design based on forwarding for nonlinear minimum-phase systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109671
• Gianmario Rinaldi, Prathyush P. Menon, Christopher Edwards, Antonella Ferrara, Yuri Shtessel, Adaptive dual-layer super-twisting sliding mode observers to reconstruct and mitigate disturbances and communication attacks in power networks, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109656
• Wanxin Jin, Shaoshuai Mou, Distributed inverse optimal control, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109658
• Maria Terushkin, Emilia Fridman, Network-based deployment of nonlinear multi agents over open curves: A PDE approach, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109697
• Jingyao Zhang, Deyuan Meng, Cooperative iterative learning for uncertain nonlinear agents in leaderless switching networks, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109692
• Anquan Liu, Tao Li, Yu Gu, Haohui Dai, Cooperative extended state observer based control of vehicle platoons with arbitrarily small time headway, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109678
• Tao Liu, Jie Huang, Exponential estimation of the unknown frequencies of discrete-time multi-tone sinusoidal signals, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109698
• Lei Liu, Lifeng Ma, Jian Guo, Jie Zhang, Yuming Bo, Distributed set-membership filtering for time-varying systems: A coding–decoding-based approach, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109684
• Yushen Long, Lihua Xie, Unconstrained tracking MPC for continuous-time nonlinear systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109680
Book Review
• Pierdomenico Pepe, Michiels Wim, Niculescu Silviu-Iulian, Stability, Control, and Computation for Time-Delay Systems, An Eigenvalue-Based Approach, in: Advances in Design and Control, SIAM (2014), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109653
Corrigendum
• Cailu Wang, Yuegang Tao, Corrigendum to “Global optimization for max-plus linear systems and applications in distributed systems” [Automatica 119 (2020) 109104], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109644
