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This paper addresses the full-state prescribed performance-based consensus problem for double-integrator multi-agent systems with jointly connected topologies. To improve the transient performance, a distributed prescribed performance…
Efficient methods to provide sub-optimal solutions to non-convex optimization problems with knowledge of the solution's sub-optimality would facilitate the widespread application of nonlinear optimal control algorithms. To that end,…
Individual Pitch Control (IPC) is an effective and widely-used strategy to mitigate blade loads in wind turbines. However, conventional IPC fails to cope with blade and actuator faults, and this situation may lead to an emergency shutdown…
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Point cloud processing is a computational bottleneck in autonomous driving systems, especially for real-time applications, while energy efficiency remains a critical system constraint. This work presents FPPS, an FPGA-accelerated point…
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