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      Adaptive LQ control with anti-windup augmentation to optimize UAV performance in autonomous soaring applications 

      Kahveci, N. E.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Mirmirani, M. D. (2008)
      The performance of a glider can be considerably improved by means of soaring and optimization of its trajectory. Recent advances in the area of static soaring assume known linear glider dynamics and no actuator saturation ...
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      Adaptive mixing control with multiple estimators 

      Baldi, S.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Kosmatopoulos, E. B. (2012)
      A recently proposed adaptive control scheme with mixing involves the use of precalculated candidate controllers whose output is weighted on the basis of the parameter estimates generated by an online parameter estimator. ...
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      Adaptive mode suppression scheme for an aeroelastic airbreathing hypersonic cruise vehicle 

      Levin, J.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Mirmirani, M. D. (2008)
      This paper presents an adaptive mode suppression scheme that is simulated on a longitudinal model of a generic airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicle. An aerodynamically optimized vehicle model is used which has a long ...
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      Adaptive mode-suppression and disturbance-rejection scheme with application to disk drives 

      Levin, J.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2009)
      The goal of a track-following controller for a disk drive is to maintain as close to perfect tracking as possible. Better tracking allows for more data to be stored on a single disk. There are several factors which make ...
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      Adaptive nonlinear congestion controller for a differentiated-services framework 

      Pitsillides, Andreas; Ioannou, Petros A.; Lestas, Marios; Rossides, Loukas (2005)
      The growing demand of computer usage requires efficient ways of managing network traffic in order to avoid or at least limit the level of congestion in cases where increases in bandwidth are not desirable or possible. In ...
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      Adaptive notch filter using real-time parameter estimation 

      Levin, J.; Pérez-Arancibia, N. O.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2011)
      The control of flexible systems is often difficult due to the exact frequencies of the elastic modes being hard to identify. These flexible modes may change over time, or vary between units of the same system. The variation ...
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      Adaptive optimization for active queue management supporting TCP flows 

      Baldi, S.; Kosmatopoulos, E. B.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Lestas, Marios; Ioannou, Petros A.; Wan, Y. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
      An adaptive decentralized strategy for active queue management of TCP flows over communication networks is presented. The proposed strategy solves locally, at each link, an optimal control problem, minimizing a cost composed ...
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      Adaptive sliding mode control design for a hypersonic flight vehicle 

      Xu, H.; Mirmirani, M. D.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2004)
      A multi-input/multi-output adaptive sliding controller is designed and analyzed for the longitudinal dynamics of a generic hypersonic air vehicle. This vehicle model is nonlinear, multivariable, and unstable and includes ...
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      Adaptive sliding mode control of a hypersonic flight vehicle 

      Xu, H.; Leung, P.; Mirmirani, M.; Boussalis, Helen R.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2001)
      A Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) adaptive sliding controller is designed and analyzed for the longitudinal dynamics of a generic hypersonic air vehicle. This vehicle model is highly nonlinear, multivariable, unstable and ...
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      Adaptive stabilization of not necessarily minimum phase plants 

      Ioannou, Petros A. (1986)
      We show that a first-order adaptive regulator can stabilize any linear time-invariant plant (LTI) whose transfer function has arbitrary relative degree and order, and is not necessarily minimum phase, provided the dominant ...
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      Adaptive steering control for uncertain ship dynamics and stability analysis 

      Kahveci, N. E.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2013)
      Marine transportation offers a cost-effective and viable alternative to cargo aircraft, trains, and trucks in general. Traffic control in congested waterways has recently become a challenging task demanding higher accuracy ...
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      Adaptive suppression of periodic disturbances in MIMO linear systems 

      Jafari, S.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2013)
      Suppression of unknown periodic disturbances with time-varying characteristics has many industrial applications. The purpose of this paper is to propose a robust adaptive control scheme to suppress noise-corrupted disturbances ...
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      Adaptive throttle control for speed tracking 

      Xu, Z.; Ioannou, Petros A. (1994)
      Electronic throttle control is an important part of every advanced vehicle control system. In this paper we design an adaptive control for electronic throttle that achieves good tracking of arbitrary constant speed commands ...
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      Adaptive vehicle following control system with variable time headways 

      Zhang, J.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2005)
      In this paper, we design a vehicle following control system with variable time headways, using adaptive control design methodology. It is shown that the designed vehicle following control system guarantees closed-loop ...
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      Adaptive virtual circuit routing 

      Economides, Anastasios A.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Silvester, J. A. (1996)
      The paper deals with the adaptive routing problem in virtual circuit communication networks. A newly arriving call at a source node is routed along the minimum length path to its destination node. All packets belonging to ...
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      Advanced static soaring flight controls for input constrained aircraft 

      Kahveci, N. E.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2010)
      Control surface actuator nonlinearities are recognized as a source of significant problems in flight control system design and verification. Recently developed adaptive control design methodologies with anti-windup ...
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      Aircraft dynamics with input rate constraints: An adaptive flight control application 

      Kahveci, N. E.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2009)
      Magnitude and rate limitations imposed on the input signal in control systems can be handled using antiwindup compensator design procedures with near-optimal system performance guarantees in case the system experiences ...
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      Altitude and velocity tracking control for an airbreathing hypersonic cruise vehicle 

      Huo, Y.; Mirmirani, M.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Kuipers, M. (2006)
      This paper describes an adaptive linear quadratic (ALQ) altitude and velocity tracking control algorithm for the longitudinal model of a generic airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicle hypersonic flight vehicle. The vehicle ...
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      Analysis of an adaptive mixing control scheme for an airbreathing hypersonic vehicle model 

      Kuipers, M.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Fidan, B.; Mirmirani, M. (2009)
      Recently the adaptive mixing control (AMC) approach has been applied to an airbreathing hypersonic flight vehicle (AHFV) model, and simulation results demonstrate that this adaptive scheme may be capable of improving ...
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      Analysis of traffic flow with mixed manual and semi-automated vehicles 

      Bose, Arnab; Ioannou, Petros A. (IEEE, 1999)
      While dedicated highways with fully automated vehicles is a far in the future objective, the introduction of semi-automated vehicles on current highways designed to operate with manually driven vehicles is a realistic near ...