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16 January 2022

This study focuses on the finite-time set reachability of probabilistic Boolean multiplex control networks (PBMCNs). Firstly, based on the state transfer graph (STG) reconstruction technique, the PBMCNs are extended to random logic dynamical systems....

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  • Open Access
1,715 Views
14 Pages

31 October 2022

In this paper, we focus on the symmetrical relationship between multi-properties objective reachability problems and multi-objective sets reachability problems over FKS based on Zadeh logic. First, we give the formal definitions of those two problems...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,606 Views
10 Pages

5 January 2024

This paper investigates reachable set estimation and state-feedback controller design for linear time-delay control systems with bounded disturbances. By constructing an appropriate Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional, we obtain a delay-dependent co...

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890 Views
24 Pages

17 November 2025

Collision risk assessment is essential for navigators or automatic navigation systems to identify potential risks in specific encounter scenarios and to make informed decisions regarding subsequent collision avoidance measures. This paper proposes a...

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11 Citations
3,630 Views
17 Pages

This paper presents a solution strategy for deterministic time-optimal pursuit–evasion games with linear state constraints, convex control constraints, and linear dynamics that is consistent with linearized relative orbital motion models such a...

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1 Citations
1,077 Views
13 Pages

28 December 2024

This paper studies the estimation of reachable sets for discrete-time singular systems with time-varying delays and bounded peak inputs. A novel linear matrix inequality condition for the reachable set estimation of the time-varying time-delay discre...

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1 Citations
2,154 Views
24 Pages

30 October 2021

In this paper, the mixed performance and reachable set of uncertain discrete systems with slow variation interval time-varying delay are considered. The original uncertain discrete systems with interval time-varying delay are first transformed into a...

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2 Citations
2,375 Views
22 Pages

This work investigates the short-term dynamics caused by shape changes of morphing aircraft. We select a symmetric variable sweep morphing aircraft as the object of study and establish a six-degree-of-freedom multi-loop cascade model, and the couplin...

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  • Open Access
880 Views
23 Pages

A New Methodological Approach to the Reachability Analysis of Aerodynamic Interceptors

  • Tuğba Bayoğlu Akalın,
  • Gökcan Akalın and
  • Ali Türker Kutay

Advanced air defense methods are essential to address the growing complexity of aerial threats. The increasing number of targets necessitates better defensive coordination, and a promising strategy involves the use of interceptors together to protect...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,849 Views
18 Pages

10 July 2023

This paper proposes a method for the stability analysis of dynamic neural networks. The stability analysis of dynamic neural networks is a challenging task due to internal feedback connections. In this research work, we propose an algorithm based on...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,067 Views
20 Pages

30 May 2023

This paper considers the active fault isolation problem for a class of uncertain multimode fault systems with a high-dimensional state-space model. It has been observed that the existing approaches in the literature based on a steady-state active fau...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,779 Views
14 Pages

4 January 2024

In this paper, the distributed interval estimation problem for networked Cyber-Physical systems suffering from both disturbances and noise is investigated. In the distributed interval observers, there are some connected interval observers built for t...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,014 Views
11 Pages

5 August 2025

This paper addresses the controller design problem for linear systems with time-varying delays. By constructing a novel Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional incorporating delay-partitioning techniques, we establish delay-dependent stability criteria...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,793 Views
16 Pages

10 May 2024

Optimal control is a critical tool for mechanical robotic systems, facilitating the precise manipulation of dynamic processes. These processes are described through differential equations governed by a control function, addressing a time-optimal prob...

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  • Open Access
411 Views
13 Pages

Data-Driven Planning Phase of Maritime SAR Using Satellite Observations

  • Hengameh R. Dehkordi and
  • Majid Forghani-elahabad

19 November 2025

Maritime search and rescue operations rely on accurate drift predictions to define effective search areas for missing persons. Existing systems often depict uncertainty using statistical ellipses or ensemble-based probability maps, which may not effe...

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7 Citations
3,763 Views
30 Pages

The reachable set of controlled dynamical systems is the set of all reachable states from an initial condition over a certain time horizon, subject to operational constraints and exogenous disturbances. In astrodynamics, rapid approximation of reacha...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,504 Views
16 Pages

19 January 2024

There are many problems based on solving nonautonomous differential equations of the form x¨(t)+ω2(t)x(t)=0, where x(t) represents the coordinate of a material point and ω is the angular frequency. The inverse problem involves finding...

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1,392 Views
24 Pages

28 February 2025

This paper investigates a specialized variant of the set covering problem, addressing the optimal allocation of service centers to ensure that all customers (or larger entities, such as urban areas) have access to specialized services within a predef...

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1 Citations
26,230 Views
20 Pages

24 October 2024

Recent progress in autonomous vehicle technology has led to the development of accurate and efficient tools for ensuring safety, which is crucial for verifying the reliability and security of vehicles. These vehicles operate under diverse conditions,...

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2,484 Views
12 Pages

27 May 2022

If (A,B) is a reachable linear system over a commutative von Neumann regular ring R, a finite collection of idempotent elements is defined, constituting a complete set of invariants for the feedback equivalence. This collection allows us to construct...

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1,461 Views
15 Pages

In modern fishery management, fishing vessel trajectory data are used to monitor and analyze fishing vessel activities. However, trajectory data are often of low quality, probably due to environmental factors, equipment failures, signal loss and oper...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,032 Views
14 Pages

Set-Based B-Series

  • Julien Alexandre dit Sandretto

2 September 2022

B-series were defined to unify the formalism of solutions for ordinary differential equations defined by series. Runge–Kutta schemes can be seen as truncated B-series, similar to Taylor series. In the prolific domain of reachability analysis, i...

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9 Citations
3,788 Views
13 Pages

29 December 2017

Using the algebraic state space representation, this paper studies the robust consensus of networked evolutionary games (NEGs) with attackers and forbidden profiles. Firstly, an algebraic form is established for NEGs with attackers and forbidden prof...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,842 Views
18 Pages

Efficient Processing of k-Hop Reachability Queries on Directed Graphs

  • Xian Tang,
  • Junfeng Zhou,
  • Yunyu Shi,
  • Xiang Liu and
  • Keng Lin

8 March 2023

Given a directed graph, a k-hop reachability query, u?kv, is used to check for the existence of a directed path from u to v that has a length of at most k. Addressing k-hop reachability queries is a fundamental task in graph theory and has been...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,068 Views
21 Pages

Path planning for stratospheric airships in dynamic wind fields is challenging due to complex wind variations and strict nighttime energy constraints. This paper proposes a hybrid Level-Set Particle Swarm Optimization (LS-PSO) framework. Firstly, it...

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  • Open Access
242 Views
20 Pages

A Comparison of Algorithms to Achieve the Maximum Entropy in the Theory of Evidence

  • Joaquín Abellán,
  • Aina López-Gay,
  • Maria Isabel A. Benítez and
  • Francisco Javier G. Castellano

21 February 2026

Within the framework of evidence theory, maximum entropy is regarded as a measure of total uncertainty that satisfies a comprehensive set of mathematical properties and behavioral requirements. However, its practical applicability is severely questio...

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6 Citations
5,006 Views
36 Pages

Robust Multi-Stage Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Using Sigma Points

  • Sakthi Thangavel,
  • Radoslav Paulen and
  • Sebastian Engell

16 July 2020

We address the question of how to reduce the inevitable loss of performance that is incurred by robust multi-stage NMPC due to the lack of knowledge compared to the case where the exact plant model (no uncertainty) is available. Multi-stage NMPC in t...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,406 Views
22 Pages

In vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), smart data dissemination is crucial for efficient exchange of traffic and road information. Given the dynamic nature of VANET, the challenge is to design an adaptive multi-hop broadcast scheme that achieves high...

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  • Open Access
230 Views
18 Pages

This work develops an energy-based reachability framework for linear fractional-order dynamical systems governed by Caputo derivatives of order α(0,1) in the presence of time-dependent delays acting on both the state and control channels....

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  • Open Access
1,716 Views
22 Pages

13 December 2022

Reachability, as a vital parameter in product maintainability design, exerts a tremendous influence in practical maintenance, especially in the usage stage. To decrease subjectivity in maintenance reachability analysis, this study proposes an automat...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,424 Views
8 Pages

In this article, the inverse problem of the differential inclusion theory is considered. For a given ε > 0 and a given special type set valued map tV(t), t ∈ [t*, t*], it is required to define differential inclusion such that the Hausdorff dist...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,850 Views
19 Pages

Time-Optimal Control Problem of Two Non-Synchronous Oscillators

  • Leonid Berlin,
  • Andrey Galyaev and
  • Pavel Lysenko

29 September 2022

The time-optimal control problem for a system consisting of two non-synchronous oscillators is considered. Each oscillator is controlled with a shared limited scalar control. The objective of the control is to accelerate the oscillatory system to a g...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,971 Views
17 Pages

22 February 2021

Autonomous driving helps drivers avoid paying attention to keeping to a lane or keeping a distance from the vehicle ahead. However, the autonomous driving is limited by the need to park upon the completion of driving. In this sense, automated valet p...

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1,299 Views
23 Pages

28 February 2025

Business processes without inconsistent data errors resulting from inappropriate data operations are regarded as a fundamental and important subject in major application areas. At present, such errors are always explored by only focusing on process d...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,912 Views
25 Pages

In this paper, we investigate the problem of grasping previously unseen objects in unstructured environments which are cluttered with multiple objects. Object geometry, reachability, and force-closure analysis are considered to address this problem....

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,594 Views
15 Pages

Adding Edges for Maximizing Weighted Reachability

  • Federico Corò,
  • Gianlorenzo D'Angelo and
  • Cristina M. Pinotti

18 March 2020

In this paper, we consider the problem of improving the reachability of a graph. We approach the problem from a graph augmentation perspective, in which a limited set size of edges is added to the graph to increase the overall number of reachable nod...

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  • Open Access
2,057 Views
17 Pages

21 March 2021

In this paper, we discuss the approximate controllability for a class of retarded semilinear neutral control systems of fractional order by investigating the relations between the reachable set of the semilinear retarded neutral system of fractional...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,758 Views
15 Pages

23 July 2023

In a household setting, a wheelchair-mounted robotic arm (WMRA) can be useful for assisting elderly and disabled individuals. However, the current WMRA can only perform movement and grasping tasks through joystick remote control. This method results...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,536 Views
20 Pages

7 May 2023

This work applies concepts from algorithmic probability to Boolean and quantum combinatorial logic circuits. The relations among the statistical, algorithmic, computational, and circuit complexities of states are reviewed. Thereafter, the probability...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,884 Views
20 Pages

9 March 2017

This paper addresses the design of Petri net (PN) supervisor using the theory of regions for forbidden state problem with a set of general mutual exclusion constraints. In fact, as any method of supervisory control based on reachability graph, the th...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,253 Views
18 Pages

8 March 2021

Continuous-time linear systems with uncertain parameters are widely used for modeling real-life processes. The uncertain parameters, contained in the system and input matrices, can be constant or time-varying. In the latter case, they may represent s...

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  • Open Access
152 Views
14 Pages

11 February 2026

Fault detection is an important topic in control theory and engineering. This article analyzes the active fault detection of switched multi-valued logical control networks with state constraints based on the semi-tensor product of matrices. Firstly,...

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795 Views
19 Pages

27 November 2025

To address the triple challenges of data sparsity, highly nonlinear dynamics, and maneuver uncertainty in tracking non-cooperative targets in cislunar space, we propose a collaborative framework combining Particle Filter (PF) and Unscented Kalman Fil...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,412 Views
20 Pages

11 November 2021

The traditional set stability of Boolean networks (BNs) refers to whether all the states can converge to a given state subset. Different from the existing results, the set stability investigated in this paper is whether all states in a given initial...

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  • Open Access
251 Views
25 Pages

Optimal Path Planning for High-Altitude Low-Speed Aerostats Under Complex Constraints

  • Jiaqi Zhai,
  • Xiaolong Wu,
  • Yongdong Zhang,
  • Hu Ye,
  • Ziwei Wang and
  • Peng Yin

12 February 2026

High-altitude low-speed aerostats are ideal unmanned platforms for communication coverage, remote sensing, environmental monitoring, aviation support, and other applications. To address practical operational needs such as rapid emergency deployment,...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,523 Views
17 Pages

31 August 2020

In this paper, we study the time optimal control problem in a DC-DC buck converter in the underdamped oscillatory regime. In particular, we derive analytic expressions for the admissible regions in the state space, satisfying the condition that every...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,894 Views
25 Pages

2 November 2018

Theoretical models on network formation focus mostly on the stability and efficiency of equilibria, but they cannot deliver an understanding of why specific equilibrium networks are selected or whether they are all actually reachable from any startin...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,422 Views
20 Pages

6 December 2019

In recent years, many applications, as well as theoretical properties of interval analysis have been investigated. Without any claim for completeness, such applications and methodologies range from enclosing the effect of round-off errors in highly a...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,703 Views
16 Pages

Due to the development of financial markets, products, financial and mathematical models, portfolio selection today represents a comprehensive set of activities. Investors take into consideration many different factors, such as the market factors, re...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,114 Views
12 Pages

13 December 2021

In this paper, we compare the performance of three different folding models when they are applied to three different map folding settings. Precisely, the three folding models include the simple folding model, the simple folding–unfolding model,...

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