From black box to physically interpretable: Trustworthy computing for AI-driven decision-making and control
June 2026
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes deeply integrated into the physical world, ensuring verifiable, robust, and safe decision-making and control is paramount. Purely data-driven methods, while successful...
Reinforcement-learning-based structured optimal control for linear stochastic systems
Available online 26 June 2026
This paper investigates the reinforcement-learning-based structured optimal control for linear stochastic systems with an unknown state matrix under communication topology constraints. A data-driven...
Transformer-Kalman fusion for monocular 3D surgical instrument localization
Available online 20 June 2026
Precise and real-time localization of surgical instruments is essential for perception-driven automation in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery. This work presents a unified monocular 3D localization...
Distributed optimization for unknown linear systems: A direct data-driven approach
Available online 4 June 2026
This paper studies the distributed-optimization problems of general linear multi-agent systems (MASs) with unknown dynamics. The goal is to collaboratively optimize the global objective function composed...
A comprehensive review of quadruped robots: Vision perception, motion control, applications and challenges
Available online 28 May 2026
With the ongoing technological advancements, mobile robots with biomimetic structures have garnered significant attention due to their dynamic performance and adaptability to complex environments. Among...
A survey on robust stability and performance for networked control systems
Available online 26 May 2026
This survey presents a comprehensive overview of networked control systems (NCSs), focusing on stability and performance guarantees under network-induced effects and constraints, mainly emphasizing...
EKF-enhanced hybrid visual servoing with deep perception for autonomous endoscope control in robotic surgery
Available online 4 April 2026
In robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (MIS), precise automatic control of the endoscope is crucial for maintaining optimal visualization. Regarding the additional burden imposed on surgeons due...
Coding-based distributed filtering for cyber–physical systems under denial of service attacks
March 2026
This article investigates the distributed recursive filtering problem for discrete-time stochastic cyber–physical systems. A particular feature of our work is that we consider systems in which the state...
Adaptive event-triggered coding and decoding scheme based on fuzzy logic
March 2026
In this paper, we propose a fuzzy logic-based coded event-triggered control with self-adjustable prescribed performance (FL-CEC-SPP) to address the trade-off between control performance and communication...
Agentic AI: The age of reasoning—A review
March 2026
Artificial intelligence has experienced a significant boom with the emergence of agentic AI, where autonomous agents are increasingly replacing human intervention, enabling systems to perceive, reason,...
Output feedback prescribed performance state synchronization for leader-following high-order uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems
March 2026
This paper addresses the synchronization of follower agents’ state vectors with that of a leader in high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems. The proposed low-complexity control scheme employs high-gain...
Adaptive optimal tracking control for underactuated surface vessels using extended state observer and reinforcement learning
March 2026
This paper investigates the adaptive optimal tracking control (AOTC) for underactuated surface vessels (USVs). Compared to the majority of existing studies, the control strategy in this paper innovatively...
Essay on robust prescribed-time stabilization
March 2026
As well-known, prescribed-time stabilizing design faces the need of using time-varying high gains which escape to infinity as time approaches the desired instant. In the presence of measurement noise,...
GRA: Graph-based reward aggregation for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning
March 2026
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has proven its effectiveness in cooperative multi-agent systems (MASs) but still faces issues on the curse of dimensionality and learning efficiency. The main...
Dual-channel event-triggered data-driven control for energy storage system with input saturation and packet loss
Available online 10 March 2026
This paper proposes a dual-channel dynamic event-triggered (DET) constrained control strategy with packet loss compensation to regulate power in battery energy storage systems (BESSs) under packet loss...
Data-driven dual-channel event-triggered attitude control for helicopter with quantized information
Available online 10 March 2026
In this paper, a dual-channel event-triggered quantized model-free adaptive control method for a three-degree-of-freedom helicopter attitude control system with limited communication resources is presented....
Quadrotor-based trajectory tracking control of wind turbine blades: A dual-closed-loop ADRC approach
Available online 4 March 2026
This paper is concerned with the tracking control problem of a quadrotor for the motion trajectory of wind turbine blades subject to external disturbances. Due to the unpredictability and complexity...
Finite-time data-driven sliding-mode control for bridge cranes under sensor saturation and quantized information
Available online 3 March 2026
This paper addresses sliding-mode control for bridge crane systems within a finite time horizon, accounting for uncertain dynamics and sensor saturation constraints. Firstly, partial feedback linearization...
Asymptotic attitude tracking control for uncertain quadrotors based on enhanced controllability condition
Available online 26 February 2026
In this work, we delve into the asymptotic attitude tracking control problem of a class of uncertain quadrotors, considering multiple kinds of uncertainties including unknown system parameters, unmodeled...
Accurate pulmonary nodule detection via progressive multi-scale networks and geometric constraint refinement
Available online 17 February 2026
Pulmonary nodule detection in CT images plays a crucial role in the early diagnosis of lung cancer. However, the development of efficient detection systems, especially in reliable detection of small...
DistFormer+: A robotic arm collision distance estimator for multi-obstacle environments
Available online 15 January 2026
Learning-based collision detectors have been widely applied in path planning due to their faster detection speed compared to traditional computational geometry-based collision detectors. Existing learning-based...
Robust stability analysis via disturbance-dependent Lyapunov functions
Available online 31 December 2025
The Lyapunov functions method is a powerful stability analysis tool of complex dynamic systems. In this work, it is revised for stability analysis under uncertain conditions to augment the arsenal of...