{"title":"Depth Information Integrated Pose Graph Optimization for Multiple UUVs","authors":"Zhikun Zhu;Yichen Li;Wenbin Yu;Cailian Chen;Xinping Guan","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125654","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editor, This letter investigates the pose estimation problem of multiple unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), which suffers from significant accuracy fluctuations due to the harsh underwater environments. Traditional methods rely solely on the observations of individual UUV, leading to the lack of robustness and low accuracy. Aiming at this problem, the designed algorithm enhances estimation accuracy by integrating depth information and relative observations, deriving a stable and fast pose update formula. Through simulations, the advantages of the proposed algorithm are verified by comparisons with different alternative ones.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"13 9","pages":"2169-2171"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11716154","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Privacy-Preserving Distributed Optimization for Economic Dispatch with Event-Triggered Mechanisms: A Linear Time-Varying Transformation Approach","authors":"Lei Sun;Ying Sun","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125696","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editor, This letter addresses the privacy-preserving distributed optimization for economic dispatch (ED) problem. Firstly, the gradient descent method is introduced. Then, an event-triggered mechanism (ETM) and a linear time-varying transformation (LTVT) rule are introduced to alleviate communication pressure and safeguard privacy, respectively. Sufficiency conditions for the convergence of the distributed ED (DED) algorithm are established based on the property of monotonic convergence of sequences. Furthermore, the privacy of the LTVT rule is rigorously proven for both honest-but-curious devices and external eavesdroppers. Moreover, the convergence and privacy aspects of the DED algorithm, integrating general LTVT rules, are extensively discussed. Finally, the effectiveness of the DED algorithm is validated through the IEEE 39-bus system.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"13 9","pages":"2190-2192"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11716142","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconstructing Community-Bridge Networks from Heterogeneous and Outlier-Contaminated Datasets","authors":"Yaozhong Zheng;Hai-Tao Zhang","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2026.125771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2026.125771","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editor, Reconstructing structures of community-bridge networks from nodal states has been a challenge in cyber-physical systems, where observed data are often short in duration, collected under varying conditions, and subject to different noise levels and outliers. This paper proposes a sparse Bayesian learning method that jointly analyzes multiple small datasets by incorporating a hyperblock-coupling prior. A parameter estimation strategy is thereby designed to suppress outliers and accommodate heterogeneous noise. The proposed method is theoretically proved to be convergent. Experiments are conducted to verify its effectiveness and superiority.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"13 9","pages":"2181-2183"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11716148","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kullback-Leibler Divergence Based Stealthy Deception Attacks Against Multi-Sensor Remote State Estimation Under Limited Resources","authors":"Haibin Guo;Lin Li;Zhong-Hua Pang;Honggui Han","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125954","url":null,"abstract":"Cyber-physical systems enable the remote monitoring and control of physical plants by seamlessly integrating computation, communication, and control. Unfortunately, security implications posed by deception attacks have become increasingly prominent. Designing deception attacks is fundamental to analyzing system vulnerabilities, yet their impact is constrained by attack stealthiness and limited attack resources. Thus, an <tex>$varepsilon$</tex>-stealthy deception attack scheme against multi-sensor remote state estimation is proposed in this paper, where only partial sensor residuals are manipulated under limited attack resources. Kullback-Leibler divergence is used to quantify the <tex>$varepsilon$</tex>-stealthiness, and a constraint on the covariance of the compromised residual is established. The estimation error covariance of the compromised system is then derived as the attacked objective. Next, the worst-case covariance of the compromised residual is determined by maximizing the trace of the system estimation error covariance under the residual covariance constraint. Based on this, a constraint optimization problem is formulated to derive a worst-case attack strategy. Finally, simulation results are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed attack scheme.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"13 9","pages":"2039-2048"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Iterative Learning Secure Control for Linear Cyber-Physical Systems with Denial-of-Service Attacks","authors":"Ai-Guo Wu;Xiu-Juan Zhao;Bao-Wen Chen","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125729","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Editor, Iterative learning secure control is investigated for repetitive discrete-time linear cyber-physical systems (CPSs) with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. A novel iterative learning security control algorithm with a tuning parameter and an attack compensation scheme is presented. By using the lifting technique, a condition in the form of the spectral radius of an iteration matrix is provided to guarantee that the tracking error under DoS attacks is convergent. It is verified by a numerical simulation example that the proposed algorithm attenuates the negative impact of the attacks and improves the convergence speed of the tracking error.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"13 9","pages":"2187-2189"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11716156","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Dynamic Event-Triggered Fuzzy $H_{i}/H_{infty}$ Optimization Approach to Fault Detection for T-S Fuzzy Systems","authors":"Xiaoqiang Zhu;Linlin Li;Maiying Zhong;Jingzhong Fang;Jiahong Xu","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2026.125891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2026.125891","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the problem of dynamic event-triggered optimal fault detection (FD) for Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems. Aiming at conserving limited communication resources, a dynamic event-triggering mechanism is implemented to transmit the system measurement to the remote fault detector. Based on it, a dynamic event-triggered T-S fuzzy fault detection filter (FDF) is constructed so that the generated residual is completely decoupled from the event-triggered transmission error. Subsequently, the design of T-S fuzzy FDF is formulated as an <tex>$H_{i}/H_{infty}$</tex> optimization problem such that an optimal tradeoff can be achieved between the robustness against unknown input and the sensitivity to fault. Different from existing linear matrix inequality-based event-triggered FD approaches for T-S fuzzy systems, the optimal solution is obtained by recursively computing the Riccati equations, allowing for the independent implementation of the event generator and the <tex>$H_{i}/H_{infty}$</tex>-FDF. A three-phase induction motor system is employed to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"13 9","pages":"2088-2098"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REMS: A Unified Solution Representation, Problem Modeling and Metaheuristic Algorithm Design for General Combinatorial Optimization Problems","authors":"Aijuan Song;Guohua Wu","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2026.125864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2026.125864","url":null,"abstract":"Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) with discrete variables and finite search spaces are critical across various fields, and solving them in metaheuristic algorithms is popular. However, addressing a specific COP typically requires developing a tailored and handcrafted algorithm. Even minor adjustments, such as constraint changes, may necessitate algorithm redevelopment. Therefore, it is valuable to leverage general problem domain knowledge to establish a framework that formulates diverse COPs into a unified paradigm and supports the design of broadly applicable metaheuristic algorithms. A COP can typically be viewed as the process of giving resources to perform specific tasks, subject to given constraints. Motivated by this, a resource-centered modeling and solving framework (REMS) is introduced. We first extract and define resources and tasks from a COP. Subsequently, given predetermined resources, the solution structure is unified by assigning tasks to resources, from which variables, objectives, and constraints can be derived, thereby constructing the problem model. To solve the COPs, several fundamental operators are designed from the resource-task perspective based on the unified solution structure, including the initial solution, neighborhood structure, destruction and repair, crossover, and ranking. These operators enable the development of various metaheuristic algorithms. Specifically, 4 single-point-based algorithms and 1 population-based algorithm are configured herein. Experiments on 10 COPs, covering routing, location, loading, assignment, scheduling, and graph coloring problems, show that REMS can model these COPs within the unified paradigm and effectively solve them by the algorithms in REMS without any specific design. Furthermore, REMS is more competitive than Gurobi optimizer (GUROBI) and solving constraint integer programs (SCIP) in tackling large-scale instances and complex COPs, and outperforms OR-TOOLS on several challenging COPs.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"13 9","pages":"2062-2077"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joint State and Fault Estimation for Complex Dynamical Networks with Sensor Resolution: Handling Amplify-and-Forward Relays","authors":"Yamei Ju;Shuai Liu;Guoliang Wei;Ying Sun","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125942","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the issues of joint state and fault estimation for a class of complex dynamical networks (CDNs) with respect to sensor resolution (SR) and amplify-and-forward (AaF) relay protocols. To comply with engineering practices, the phenomenon of SR is taken into account for sensors, and AaF relay protocols are utilized between sensors and estimators to accommodate signal transmissions. First, a joint estimator of both system states and faults is constructed for CDNs under engineering-oriented complexities, including SR and the AaF relay protocol. Then, an upper bound of update error covariance is deduced and further minimized in matrix trace sense to receive recursively the desired estimator matrix. Furthermore, the boundedness of the update errors in the mean square is extensively discussed, producing a sufficient condition. Besides, monotonicity is conducted regarding the probability of the channel's packet losses for AaF relay protocols. Finally, a simulation example using RLC circuits is showcased to evidence the theoretical results that have been derived.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"13 9","pages":"2028-2038"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Prescribed-Time Control of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems via a Novel Low-Complexity Analysis Framework","authors":"Hao Li;Changchun Hua;Kuo Li;Pengju Ning","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125828","url":null,"abstract":"The global prescribed-time stability problem of a class of uncertain systems is investigated. Utilizing the proposed <tex>$gamma$</tex>-fold convergence convergence function, a novel low-complexity global prescribed-time stability analysis framework is developed. Existing virtual controllers based on time-varying transformation methods usually involve high-order derivative information of time-varying functions, posing significant challenges for stability analysis. We proposed a new stability criterion, which only involves the partial state variable on the right-hand side of the derivative inequality. The key advantage is that it eliminates the need for directly analyzing the boundedness of the virtual control gain coefficients with high-order time-varying functions. Building off this framework, we address the prescribed-time stabilization problem of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) nonlinear systems, where the Nussbaum gain function is extended to prescribed-time control to deal with time-varying sensor errors. Note that due to the infinitely divergent nature of time-varying functions at the terminal, ensuring the boundedness of the variables in the Nussbaum function is a challenge. Finally, we rigorously prove that all signals are bounded and the proposed controllers ensure that all state variables of systems converge to origin within a specified time, while the transient performance (convergence rate and specified overshoot) of the system output is also guaranteed. A simulation example is provided to illustrate the efficiency of the developed control algorithms.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"13 9","pages":"2019-2027"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149133649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhihong Man;Mingcong Deng;Zenghui Wang;Qing-Long Han
{"title":"A New Parameter Estimation Methodology Using Steady State Yaw Rate Measurements for Lateral Vehicle Dynamics","authors":"Zhihong Man;Mingcong Deng;Zenghui Wang;Qing-Long Han","doi":"10.1109/JAS.2025.125366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2025.125366","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the lateral dynamics of road vehicles (LDRV) is further studied from the viewpoint of vehicle informatics. It is seen that LDRV is first decoupled and the vehicle slip angle is proved to be observable from the yaw rate measurements. A new methodology of parameter estimation using steady-state yaw rate measurements (PESYRM) is then developed to accurately estimate the parameters of LDRV. The important characteristics of PESYRM comprise four parts: 1) The steering angle input to LDRV is chosen as the linear combination of sinusoids; 2) Only the steady state information of yaw rate in any fundamental period is required to accurately estimate the unknown parameters of LDRV; 3) Unlike many existing parameter estimation methods, the time consuming computing of the inverse of high-dimensional data matrix is avoided by making full use of the orthogonal properties of trigonometric base functions; 4) All of system information of LDRV is embedded in the measurements of the steady state yaw rate in any fundamental period. A simulation example is carried out to show the advantages and effectiveness of the new research findings for LDRV.","PeriodicalId":54230,"journal":{"name":"Ieee-Caa Journal of Automatica Sinica","volume":"13 9","pages":"2003-2018"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149133647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}