The determination of directed control paths in complex networks is important because control paths indicate the structure of the propagation of control signals through edges. A challenging problem is to identify them in complex networked systems char...
Low power over wireless personal area networks (LoWPAN), in particular wireless sensor networks, represent an emerging technology with high potential to be employed in critical situations like security surveillance, battlefields, smart-grids, and in...
The stability guarantee of wireless networked control systems is still challenging due to the complex interaction among the layers and the vulnerability to network faults, such as link and node failures. In this paper, we propose a robust wireless se...
Robot formation control has several advantages that make it interesting for research. Multiple works have been published in the literature using different control approaches. This work presents the control of different groups of robots to achieve a d...
Complex networks make an enticing research topic that has been increasingly attracting researchers from control systems and various other domains over the last two decades. The aim of this paper was to survey the interest in control related to comple...
In this paper, we present an impulsive pinning control algorithm for discrete-time complex networks with different node dynamics, using a linear algebra approach and a neural network as an identifier, to synthesize a learning control law. The model o...
This paper provides a survey of recent research progress in mathematical modeling and distributed control of wide-area networks. Firstly, the modeling is introduced for two types of wide-area networks, i.e., coopetitive networks and cooperative netwo...
Vehicular networks need to guarantee the communication reliability levels necessary to satisfy the application requirements, while ensuring a stable network operation even under dense deployments. To this aim, congestion and awareness control protoco...
Following striking developments in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology, the use of UAVs has been researched in various industrial fields. Furthermore, a number of studies on operating multiple autonomous networking UAVs suggest a potential to us...
We consider wireless multi-hop networks in which each node aims to securely transmit a message. To guarantee the secure transmission, we employ an independent randomization encoding strategy to encode the confidential message. We aim to maximize the...
The current analysis of cascading failures in command and control networks pays little attention to their roles and mechanisms, resulting in challenges in quantifying survivability evaluation metrics and limiting practical application. To address the...
This paper proposes a stochastic model predictive control (MPC) framework for traffic signal coordination and control in urban traffic networks. One of the important features of the proposed stochastic MPC model is that uncertain traffic demands and...
The problem of controlling a spreading process in a two-layer multiplex networks in such a way that the extinction state becomes a global attractor is addressed. The problem is formulated in terms of a Markov-chain based susceptible-infected-suscepti...
With the continuous development of information technology, a spontaneous interdependent network has formed within the air traffic control network. Due to the internal interdependence, any small, failed node may trigger a cascade failure of the entire...
This paper primarily focuses on the chaos synchronisation analysis of neural networks (NNs) under a hybrid controller. Firstly, we design a suitable hybrid controller with saturated impulse control, combined with time-dependent intermittent control....
In this work, a neural impulsive pinning controller for a twenty-node dynamical discrete complex network is presented. The node dynamics of the network are all different types of discrete versions of chaotic attractors of three dimensions. Using the...
5G cellular networks are already more than six times faster than 4G networks, and their packet loss rate, especially in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), can reach 0.5% in many cases, such as when there is high-speed movement or obstacles nearby. In su...
This paper describes the complete integration of a fuzzy control of multiple evaporator systems with the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, in which we study several important aspects for this kind of system, like a detailed analysis of the end-to-end real-time...
This paper investigates the role of trust and control in networks of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a focus on both their direct and interaction effects on value creation. To delve into the interplay between trust and control, we unp...
This paper proposes a new middleware solution called Network Adaptive Deadband (NAD) for long time operation of Networked Control Systems (NCS) through the Internet or any shared network based on IP technology. The proposed middleware takes into acco...
Access Control Policies (ACPs) are essential for ensuring secure and authorized access to resources in IoT networks. Recognizing these policies involves identifying relevant statements within project documents expressed in natural language. While cur...
This paper develops a parameter tuning method for solving the set restabilization problem of perturbed Boolean control networks (BCNs). First, the absorbable attractor, which we previously proposed, is recalled. Based on the relationship between attr...
This paper investigates the asymptotic output tracking problem in probabilistic Boolean control networks by introducing the concept of the tracking region of attraction (TROA). For a constant reference signal, we provide a formal definition of the TR...
Fixed-time synchronization problem for delayed dynamical complex networks is explored in this paper. Compared with some correspondingly existed results, a few new results are obtained to guarantee fixed-time synchronization of delayed dynamical netwo...
The increasing integration of distributed renewable energy sources into distribution networks results in significant voltage regulation challenges. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel data-driven approach for voltage regulation that uti...
The recent development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has shown the possibility of using UAVs in many research and industrial fields. One of them is for UAVs moving in swarms to provide wireless networks in environments where there is no...
This paper presents an overview on applications of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to robot control systems and outlines the contributions of ANNs. Adaptive neurocontrol architectures are introduced and compared to traditional adaptive control meth...
This paper proposes an impulsive control scheme for a complex network that helps reduce the spread of two epidemic diseases: influenza type A and COVID-19. Both are respiratory infections; thus, they have a similar form of transmission, and it is pos...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted considerable interest in the research community, because of their wide range of applications. However, due to the distributed nature of WSNs and their deployment in remote areas, these networks are vulne...
This article deals with the use of neural networks for estimation of deceleration model parameters for the adaptive cruise control unit. The article describes the basic functionality of adaptive cruise control and creates a mathematical model of brak...
The problems of social networks analysis and calculation of the resulting opinions of network agents are considered. Algorithms for identifying strong subgroups and satellites as well as for calculating some quantitative characteristics of a network...
This paper presents a traffic light system based on wireless communication that provides a support infrastructure for intelligent control in the context of smart cities and aerotropolis areas. An aerotropolis is a metropolitan subregion with an infra...
This paper considers a decentralized and autonomous wireless network of low SWaP (size, weight, and power) fixed-wing UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) used for remote exploration and monitoring of targets in an inaccessible area lacking communication...
With the integration of large-scale renewable energy and the implementation of demand response, the complexity and volatility of distribution network operations are increasing. This has led to the inconsistency between the actual net power consumptio...
This work presents a methodological framework for the design of a resource-aware supervisory control system for process networks with model uncertainty and communication resource constraints. The developed framework aims to balance the objective of c...
The conversion between logic and algebraic expressions of Boolean control networks plays a worthy role in the analysis and design of digital circuits. In this paper, for a single Boolean function, a direct conversion between the minterm canonical for...
Complex network theory involves network structure and dynamics; dynamics on networks and interactions between networks; and dynamics developed over a network. As a typical application of complex networks, the dynamics of disease spreading and control...
Next-generation cellular networks are large-scale systems composed of numerous base stations interacting with many diverse users. One of the main challenges with these networks is their high energy consumption due to the expected number of connected...
The question of targeted control over trajectories of systems of differential equations encountered in the theory of genetic and neural networks is considered. Examples are given of transferring trajectories corresponding to network states from the b...
Boolean network (BN) is a simple model widely used to study complex dynamic behaviour of biological systems. Nonetheless, it might be difficult to gather enough data to precisely capture the behavior of a biological system into a set of Boolean funct...
This paper aims to find optimal feedback policies for the tracking control of Markovian jump Boolean control networks (MJBCNs) over a finite horizon. The tracking objective is a predetermined time-varying trajectory with a finite length. To minimize...
With the large-scale integration of heterogeneous energy resources and the increasing demand for flexible control, centralized control is facing challenges in terms of operational efficiency and system responsiveness when handling high-precision regu...
A problem for drainage systems managers is the increase in extreme rain events that are increasing in various parts of the world. Their occurrence produces hydraulic overload in the drainage system and consequently floods. Adapting the existing infra...
In applications where high precision in micro- and nanopositioning is required, piezoelectric actuators (PEA) are an optimal micromechatronic choice. However, the accuracy of these devices is affected by a natural phenomenon called “hysteresis” that...
Complex dynamical networks with time-varying connections have characteristics that allow a better representation of real-world complex systems, especially interest in their not static behavior and topology. Their applications reach areas such as comm...
Heterogeneous networks are rapidly emerging as one of the key enablers of beyond fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks. It is gradually becoming clear to the network operators that existing cellular networks may not be able to support the traffic d...
For smooth integration with middleboxes on the Internet, TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is favorably considered as a transport-layer protocol for IoT (Internet of Things) networks. In constrained networks, TCP tends to perform well with a small...
This paper studies the robust stabilization of impulsive Boolean control networks (IBCNs) with function perturbation. A Boolean control network (BCN) with a state-dependent impulsive sequence is converted to an equivalent BCN by the semi-tensor produ...
Active Distribution Networks are Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) systems with coupled dynamics, which cause interactions among the control loops of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). This undesired effect leads to performance degradation of voltage...
Pressure control in water distribution networks (WDNs) is one of the interventions commonly employed to improve the reliability and sustainability of water supply. Various approaches have been proposed to solve the problem of pressure control. Howeve...
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