An exact procedure is developed for sequentially updating the optimal solution for a general discrete-time nonlinear least-squares estimation problem as the process length increases and new observations are obtained. The optimal sequential estimation equations are derived by means of an...

A method is proposed for the sequential updating of criterion functions on the basis of past reward observations in analogy to Bayes' rule for the updating of probability distribution functions. 

The objective of this paper is to correct and improve the results obtained by Van der Ploeg (1984a, 1984b) and utilized in the literature related to feedback stochastic optimal control sensitive to constant exogenous risk-aversion (Karp 1987; Whittle 1989, 1990; Chow 1993, amongst others). More...

The loss of cell cycle control is often associated with cancers and other different diseases. With the accumulation of omics data, the network for molecule interactions in the cell cycle process will become much clearer. The identification of the crucial modules in a giant network and...

This paper presents an adaptive control scheme for a hyper-redundant robot articulated nimble adaptable trunk (ANAT) subject to spatial constraints. An optimization scheme is applied to avoid obstacles in 3D space present in the robot's trajectory by using redundancy, and to prevent the robot...

This paper presents an indirect adaptive control scheme for nominally stabilizable, non-necessarily inversely stable, first-order continuous-time systems with unmodeled dynamics. The control objective is the adaptive stabilization of the closed-loop system with a bounded tracking error between...

Cascade control configurations offer interesting possibilities to improve the control of processes. However, the tuning of cascade controllers can be quite complex, which hampers a wider spread of applications. Using an on-line pattern recognition approach and fuzzy inferencing it is possible to...

In this paper, we study perturbed Chua’s system. First, we study the stability of equilibrium points of perturbed Chua’s system. Then, we control the chaotic behavior of perturbed Chua’s system to its equilibrium points using linear feedback control and adaptive control methods. Finally,...

We address the problem of control and synchronization of a class of uncertain chaotic systems. Our approach follows techniques of sliding mode control and adaptive estimation law. The adaptive algorithm is constructed based on the sliding mode control to ensure perfect tracking and...