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Discrete-time Layered-network Epidemics Model with Time-varying Transition Rates and Multiple Resources
Shaoxuan Cui, Fangzhou Liu, Hildeberto Jardón-Kojakhmetov +1
This paper studies a discrete-time time-varying multi-layer networked SIWS (susceptible-infected-water-susceptible) model with multiple resources under both single-virus and compet…
Limit Cycles Analysis and Control of Evolutionary Game Dynamics with Environmental Feedback
Lulu Gong, Weijia Yao, Jian Gao +1
Recently, an evolutionary game dynamics model taking into account the environmental feedback has been proposed to describe the co-evolution of strategic actions of a population of…
Topological Analysis of Vector-Field Guided Path Following on Manifolds
Weijia Yao, Bohuan Lin, Brian D. O. Anderson +1
A path-following control algorithm enables a system's trajectories under its guidance to converge to and evolve along a given geometric desired path. There exist various such algor…
Different Environment Feedback in Fast-slow Eco-evolutionary Dynamics
Lulu Gong, Ming Cao
The fast-slow dynamics of an eco-evolutionary system are studied, where we consider the feedback actions of environmental resources that are classified into those that are self-ren…
Highway Traffic Control via Smart e-Mobility -- Part II: Dutch A13 Case Study
Carlo Cenedese, Michele Cucuzzella, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen +2
In this paper, we study how to alleviate highway traffic congestions by encouraging plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles to stop at charging stations around peak congestion times.…
Highway Traffic Control via Smart e-Mobility -- Part I: Theory
Carlo Cenedese, Michele Cucuzzella, Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen +2
In this paper, we study how to alleviate highway traffic congestion by encouraging plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles to stop at a charging station around peak congestion times.…
Forced variational integrator for distance-based shape control with flocking behavior of multi-agent systems
Leonardo Colombo, Patricio Moreno, Mengbin Ye +2
A multi-agent system designed to achieve distance-based shape control with flocking behavior can be seen as a mechanical system described by a Lagrangian function and subject to ad…
Vector Field Guided Path Following Control: Singularity Elimination and Global Convergence
Weijia Yao, Hector Garcia de Marina, Ming Cao
Vector field guided path following (VF-PF) algorithms are fundamental in robot navigation tasks, but may not deliver the desirable performance when robots encounter singular points…
Path Following Control in 3D Using a Vector Field
Weijia Yao, Ming Cao
Using a designed vector field to control a mobile robot to follow a given desired path is intuitive and practical, and to build a rigorous theory to guide its implementation is ess…
Partial Exponential Stability Analysis of Slow-fast Systems via Periodic Averaging
Yuzhen Qin, Yu Kawano, Brian D. O. Anderson +1
This paper presents some new criteria for partial exponential stability of a slow-fast nonlinear system with a fast scalar variable using periodic averaging methods. Unlike classic…
Recurrent Averaging Inequalities in Multi-Agent Control and Social Dynamics Modeling
Anton V. Proskurnikov, Giuseppe Calafiore, Ming Cao
Many multi-agent control algorithms and dynamic agent-based models arising in natural and social sciences are based on the principle of iterative averaging. Each agent is associate…
Angle rigidity and its usage to stabilize planar formations
Liangming Chen, Ming Cao, Chuanjiang Li
Motivated by the challenging formation stabilization problem for mobile robotic teams when no distance or relative displacement measurements are available and each robot can only m…
Distributed Global Output-Feedback Control for a Class of Euler-Lagrange Systems
Qingkai Yang, Hao Fang, Jie Chen +2
This published paper investigates the distributed tracking control problem for a class of Euler-Lagrange multi-agent systems when the agents can only measure the positions. In this…
Lyapunov Criterion for Stochastic Systems and Its Applications in Distributed Computation
Yuzhen Qin, Ming Cao, Brian D. O. Anderson
This paper presents new sufficient conditions for convergence and asymptotic or exponential stability of a stochastic discrete-time system, under which the constructed Lyapunov fun…
Design of Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Controllers
Yu Kawano, Ming Cao
As a quantitative criterion for privacy of "mechanisms" in the form of data-generating processes, the concept of differential privacy was first proposed in computer science and has…
Quantization effects and convergence properties of rigid formation control systems with quantized distance measurements
Zhiyong Sun, Hector Garcia de Marina, Brian D. O. Anderson +1
In this paper, we discuss quantization effects in rigid formation control systems when target formations are described by inter-agent distances. Because of practical sensing and me…
Optimal Universal Controllers for Roll Stabilization
Yuri A. Kapitanyuk, Anton V. Proskurnikov, Ming Cao
Roll stabilization is an important problem of ship motion control. This problem becomes especially difficult if the same set of actuators (e.g. a single rudder) has to be used for…
Persistent Flows and Non-Reciprocal Interactions in Deterministic Networks
Weiguo Xia, Guodong Shi, Ziyang Meng +2
This paper studies deterministic consensus networks with discrete-time dynamics under persistent flows and non-reciprocal agent interactions. An arc describing the interaction stre…
Opinion evolution in time-varying social influence networks with prejudiced agents
Anton V. Proskurnikov, Roberto Tempo, Ming Cao +1
Investigation of social influence dynamics requires mathematical models that are "simple" enough to admit rigorous analysis, and yet sufficiently "rich" to capture salient features…
Controlling a triangular flexible formation of autonomous agents
Hector Garcia de Marina, Zhiyong Sun, Ming Cao +1
In formation control, triangular formations consisting of three autonomous agents serve as a class of benchmarks that can be used to test and compare the performances of different…
Distributed algorithm for controlling scale-free polygonal formations
Hector Garcia de Marina, Bayu Jayawardhana, Ming Cao
This paper presents a distributed algorithm for controlling the deployment of a team of mobile agents in formations whose shapes can be characterized by a broad class of polygons,…
Modulus consensus in discrete-time signed networks and properties of special recurrent inequalities
Anton V. Proskurnikov, Ming Cao
Recently the dynamics of signed networks, where the ties among the agents can be both positive (attractive) or negative (repulsive) have attracted substantial attention of the rese…
Local and global analysis of endocrine regulation as a non-cyclic feedback system
Hadi Taghvafard, Anton V. Proskurnikov, Ming Cao
To understand the sophisticated control mechanisms of the human's endocrine system is a challenging task that is a crucial step towards precise medical treatment of many disfunctio…
A guiding vector field algorithm for path following control of nonholonomic mobile robots
Yuri A. Kapitanyuk, Anton V. Proskurnikov, Ming Cao
In this paper we propose an algorithm for path following control of the nonholonomic mobile robot based on the idea of the guiding vector field (GVF). The desired path may be an ar…