YU KAWANO

Last Updated :2025/06/04

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Associate Professor
Web Site
https://sites.google.com/site/yukawanoweb
E-mail
ykawanohiroshima-u.ac.jp

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2020/04/01, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Associate Professor
  • 2019/04/01, 2020/03/31, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Engineering, Associate Professor
  • 2016/11/16, 2019/03, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Researcher
  • 2013/10/01, 2016/11, Kyoto University, Postdoctoral Researcher
  • 2023/02, 2023/03, University of Pavia, Italy, Faculty of Engineering, Visiting Professor
  • 2015/04, 2015/11, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Visiting Researcher

Educational Backgrounds

  • Osaka University, Japan, 2011/04, 2013/09
  • Osaka University, Japan, 2009/04, 2011/03
  • Tallinn Univ. of Technology, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia, 2012/08, 2012/11

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D. (Engineering), Osaka University
  • Master (Engineering), Osaka University

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • IEEE Control Systems Society

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Design and Optimization of Mechanical Systems
  2. 2025, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 4Term, Introduction to Mechanical Engineering
  3. 2025, Undergraduate Education, First Semester, Experiments in Mechanical Engineering I
  4. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Second Semester, Experiments in Mechanical Engineering II
  5. 2025, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Measurement Signal Processing
  6. 2025, Undergraduate Education, Year, Graduation Thesis
  7. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Special Exercises on Mechanical Engineering A
  8. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Special Exercises on Mechanical Engineering A
  9. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Special Exercises on Mechanical Engineering B
  10. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Special Exercises on Mechanical Engineering B
  11. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Year, Special Study on Mechanical Engineering
  12. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Advanced Control Engineering
  13. 2025, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Control System Design
  14. 2025, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Year, Special Study on Mechanical Engineering

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Forty Plus Years of Model Reduction and Still Learning, 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control, 4480-4493, 20250226
  2. Stabilizing control design by integrable differential passive outputs, 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control, 3723-3728, 20250226
  3. Balancing for nonlinear differential-algebraic control systems, 2024 American Control Conference, 3231-3236, 20240905
  4. Model reduction of cooperative systems using separable energy functions, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 58(5), 96-101, 20240816
  5. Cooperative Distributed Stabilization of Nonlinear Networks and Its Application to Driver Node Selection -An Approach based on Incremental Exponential Dissipativity-, 60(11), 595-603, 202411
  6. Youla-Kucera Parameterization in Contraction Framework, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 70(3), 1667-1682, 202503
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  7. Krasovskii Passivity for Sampled-Data Stabilization and Output Consensus, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 70(2), 1038-1053, 202502
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  8. Decentralized Voltage Control of Boost Converters in DC Microgrids: Feasibility Guarantees, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY, 33(1), 3-15, 202501
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  9. Incremental Versus Differential Approaches to Exponential Stability and Passivity, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 69(9), 6450-6457, 202409
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  10. K-Monotonicity and Feedback Synthesis for Incrementally Stable Networks, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 69(10), 7067-7074, 202410
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  11. Estimation of States and Cornering Stiffness of a Vehicle by LPV-MHE, IEEJ TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, 19(10), 1673-1682, 202410
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  12. Estimation of Crosswind Disturbances for a Vehicle by LPV-MHE and its Application to Disturbance Cancellation, IEEJ TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, 19(10), 1690-1700, 202410
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  13. Full Differential Privacy Preserving for Switched LPV Systems, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN CYBERNETICS-SYSTEMS, 54(5), 3153-3163, 202405
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  14. Contraction Analysis of Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 69(2), 982-997, 20240201
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  15. Stabilizing Unknown Nonlinear Systems via Decentralized High-gain Adaptive Control, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 9209-9214, 20231122
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  16. Symplectic discrete-time Krasovskii passivity-based control for output consensus, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 8562-8567, 20231122
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  17. Image and Kernel Representations for Variational Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 797-802, 20231122
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  18. Passivity of Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 8568-8573, 20231122
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  19. Stabilization for a Class of Positive Bilinear Systems, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 7, 3519-3524, 20231121
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  20. Balancing for nonlinear differential-algebraic systems, Proc. 42nd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, 203-203, 202303
  21. Output consensus control for linear port-Hamiltonian systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 55(30), 230-235, 202211
  22. Parametrization of Linear Controllers for p-Dominance, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 7, 1879-1884, 20230605
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  23. Novel Control Approaches Based on Projection Dynamics, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 7, 2179-2184, 20230614
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  24. Voltage Control of Boost Converters: Feasibility Guarantees, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2), 803-808, 20231122
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  25. Stabilization for a Class of Bilinear Systems: A Unified Approach, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 7, 2791-2796, 20230626
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  26. Krasovskii and shifted passivity based output consensus, AUTOMATICA, 155, 20230901
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  27. Krasovskii and Shifted Passivity Approaches to Mixed Input/Output Consensus, IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS, 7, 1951-1956, 20230605
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  28. Nonlinear Eigenvalue Approach to Differential Riccati Equations for Contraction Analysis, 20160719
  29. Towards time-varying proximal dynamics in Multi-Agent Network Games, 20181111
  30. Empirical Differential Gramians for Nonlinear Model Reduction, 20191029
  31. Krasovskii's Passivity, 20190622
  32. Partial Phase Cohesiveness in Networks of Kuramoto Oscillator Networks, 20190603
  33. Krasovskii and Shifted Passivity Based Control, 20200126
  34. Asynchronous and time-varying proximal type dynamics multi-agent network games, 20190924
  35. Partial Exponential Stability Analysis of Slow-fast Systems via Periodic Averaging, 20191016
  36. Scalable Control Design for K-positive Linear Systems, 20200126
  37. An LMI framework for contraction-based nonlinear control design by derivatives of Gaussian process regression, AUTOMATICA, 151, 20230501
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  38. Controller Reduction for Nonlinear Systems by Generalized Differential Balancing, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 67(11), 5856-5871, 202211
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  39. Partial Exponential Stability Analysis of Slow-Fast Systems via Periodic Averaging, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 67(10), 5479-5486, 202210
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  40. Path-Based Stability Analysis for Monotone Control Systems on Proper Cones, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 67(10), 5517-5524, 202210
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  41. Scalable Control Design for K-positive Linear Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 54, 84-89, 20210901
  42. Partial phase cohesiveness in networks of networks of Kuramoto oscillators, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 66(12), 6100-6107, 20211201
  43. Krasovskii and shifted passivity based control, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 66(10), 4926-4932, 20211001
  44. Privacy protection with heavy-tailed noise for linear dynamical systems, Automatica, 131, 109732, 20210901
  45. Accessibility and system reduction of nonlinear time-delay control systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 66(8), 3781-3788, 20210801
  46. Asynchronous and time-varying proximal type dynamics in multi-agent network games, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 66(6), 2861-2867, 20210601
  47. Empirical differential Gramians for nonlinear model reduction, Automatica, 127, 109534, 20210501
  48. Modular control under privacy protection: fundamental trade-offs, Automatica, 127, 109518, 20210501
  49. Contraction analysis of virtually positive systems, SYSTEMS & CONTROL LETTERS, 168, 202210
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  50. Asynchronous and Time-Varying Proximal Type Dynamics in Multiagent Network Games, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 66(6), 2861-2867, 202106
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  51. Modular control under privacy protection: Fundamental trade-offs, AUTOMATICA, 127, 202105
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  52. Empirical differential Gramians for nonlinear model reduction, AUTOMATICA, 127, 202105
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  53. Realizations in feedforward forms of nonlinear input-output equations with time-delays, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL, 30(17), 7560-7573, 20201125
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  54. Design of Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Controllers, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 65(9), 3863-3878, 20200901
  55. Contraction Analysis of Monotone Systems via Separable Functions, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 65(8), 3486-3501, 202008
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  56. Data-Driven Model Reduction of Monotone Systems by Nonlinear DC Gains, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 65(5), 2094-2106, 202005
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  57. Design of Intermittent Control for Cortisol Secretion Under Time-Varying Demand and Holding Cost Constraints, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, 67(2), 556-564, 202002
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  58. Converse stability theorems for positive linear time-varying systems, Automatica, 20200101
  59. Resolving discrepancies in problem formulations for electricity pricing by control engineers and economists, Economically Enabled Energy Management: Interplay Between Control Engineering and Economics, 59-78, 20200101
  60. Real-time pricing for electric power systems by nonlinear model predictive control, Economically Enabled Energy Management: Interplay Between Control Engineering and Economics, 245-277, 20200101
  61. Neural Network-Based Adaptive Control for Spacecraft Under Actuator Failures and Input Saturations, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS, 31(9), 3696-3710, 2020
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  62. Robust Passivity-Based Control of Boost Converters in DC Microgrids, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2019-December, 8435-8440, 20191201
  63. Krasovskii’s passivity, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(16), 466-471, 20190901
  64. Balanced Model Reduction for Linear Time-Varying Symmetric Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64(7), 3060-3067, 20190701
  65. Model Reduction of Multiagent Systems Using Dissimilarity-Based Clustering, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64(4), 1663-1670, 20190401
  66. Evolutionary dynamics of two communities under environmental feedback, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 3(2), 254-259, 20190401
  67. Revisit Input Observability: A New Approach to Attack Detection and Privacy Preservation, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2018-December, 7095-7100, 20190118
  68. Stability of Remote Synchronization in Star Networks of Kuramoto Oscillators, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2018-December, 5209-5214, 20190118
  69. Towards Time-Varying Proximal Dynamics in Multi-Agent Network Games, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2018-December, 4378-4383, 20190118
  70. Adaptive Failure-Tolerant Control for Spacecraft Attitude Tracking, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(3), 67-72, 20190101
  71. Structural Accessibility and Its Applications to Complex Networks Governed by Nonlinear Balance Equations, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 64(11), 4607-4614, 2019
  72. Structure Preserving Truncation of Nonlinear Port Hamiltonian Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63(12), 4286-4293, 20181201
  73. Partial Phase Cohesiveness in Networks of Communitinized Kuramoto Oscillators, 2018 European Control Conference, ECC 2018, 2028-2033, 20181127
  74. Algebraic approach to nonlinear finite-horizon optimal control problems with terminal constraints, 2017 Asian Control Conference, ASCC 2017, 2018-January, 1-6, 20180207
  75. Structural observability and sensor node selection for complex networks governed by nonlinear balance equations, 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2017, 2018-January, 2587-2592, 20180118
  76. Differential Privacy and Qualitative Privacy Analysis for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51(23), 52-57, 20180101
  77. Algebraic approach to nonlinear finite-horizon optimal control problems of discrete-time systems with terminal constraints, 2017 56th Annual Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan, SICE 2017, 2017-November, 220-225, 20171110
  78. Reduction of Second-Order Network Systems with Structure Preservation, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62(10), 5026-5038, 20171001
  79. Model Reduction by Differential Balancing Based on Nonlinear Hankel Operators, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62(7), 3293-3308, 20170701
  80. Empirical Differential Balancing for Nonlinear Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50(1), 6326-6331, 20170701
  81. PBH tests for nonlinear systems, Automatica, 80, 135-142, 20170601
  82. Observability Conditions by Polynomial Ideals, Asian Journal of Control, 19(3), 821-831, 20170501
  83. Load frequency control by integrating real-Time price presentations for consumers and direct commands issued to generators and batteries, IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, ICSET, 0, 396-400, 20170109
  84. Graph structure-preserving model reduction of linear network systems, 2016 European Control Conference, ECC 2016, 1970-1975, 20170106
  85. Nonlinear Eigenvalue Approach to Differential Riccati Equations for Contraction Analysis, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 62(12), 6497-6504, 2017
  86. Real-time Pricing with Consumers Estimation by a Particle Filter, Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 53(8), 463-472, 2017
  87. Spot Pricing of Electricity Market with Network Structure Composed of Consumers, Suppliers, and Transmission Companies, Transactions of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, 30(9), 366-372, 2017
  88. Real-Time Pricing by On-Line Estimation of Consumer Characteristics, Proceedings of the Conference of Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology, 2017(0), B-3-5, 2017
  89. A Recursive Elimination Method for Finite-Horizon Optimal Control Problems of Discrete-Time Polynomial Systems with Fixed Terminal States, Proceedings of the Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference, 59(0), 969-973, 2016
  90. Single-experiment observability decomposition of discrete-time analytic systems, SYSTEMS & CONTROL LETTERS, 97, 193-199, 2016
  91. Load Frequency Control in Electric Power Systems via Real-time Price Optimization:—Cost Function Design for Distribution of Renewable Energy—, Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 52(12), 653-660, 2016
  92. Model reduction of second-order network systems using graph clustering, 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2016, 7471-7476, 20161227
  93. Any dynamical system is fully accessible through one single actuator and related problems, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 26(8), 1748-1754, 20160525
  94. Real-Time Price Optimization for Load Frequency Control in Electric Power Systems with Wind Farms, Proceedings of 2016 SICE International Symposium on Control Systems, ISCS 2016, 20160513
  95. Commutative algebraic methods for controllability of discrete-time polynomial systems, International Journal of Control, 89(2), 343-351, 20160201
  96. Generalized Differential Balancing for Variationally Symmetric Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 49(18), 844-849, 20160101
  97. Load Frequency Control by Combining Direct Commands to Generators and Batteries with Real-time Price Presentations to Consumers, Proceedings of the Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference, 59(0), 154-158, 2016
  98. Stability criteria with nonlinear eigenvalues for diagonalizable nonlinear systems, Systems and Control Letters, 86, 41-47, 20151201
  99. On differential balancing: Energy functions and balanced realization, 2015 European Control Conference, ECC 2015, 1165-1170, 20151116
  100. Model predictive control based real-time pricing for load frequency control of 60 Hz electric power system in western Japan, 59, 20150520
  101. Sufficient condition for minimal realization of incrementally stable nonlinear systems based on differential energy functions, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 54rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,CDC 2015, 4656-4661, 20150208
  102. On integrability of observable space for discrete-time analytic systems, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 54rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,CDC 2015, 7137-7142, 20150208
  103. Model reduction by generalized differential balancing, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 461, 349-362, 20150101
  104. On Integrability of Observable Space for Discrete-Time Polynomial Control Systems, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 60(7), 1987-1991, 2015
  105. Polynomial accessibility condition for the multi-input multi-output nonlinear control system, Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 63(2), 136-150, 20140101
  106. Algebraic Function Solutions to Infinite-horizon Nonlinear Discrete-time Optimal Control Problems, Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 50(7), 556-558, 2014
  107. Sufficiency of a necessary condition for local observability of discrete-time polynomial systems, 2013 European Control Conference, ECC 2013, 1722-1727, 20131201
  108. Observability analysis of nonlinear systems using pseudo-linear transformation, IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline), 9(PART 1), 606-611, 20131022
  109. Simple Sufficient Conditions for Reachability of Discrete-Time Polynomial Systems, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 58(12), 3203-3206, 2013
  110. Observability at an initial state for polynomial systems, AUTOMATICA, 49(5), 1126-1136, 2013
  111. Analysis of Nonlinear Systems by Applying Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra(Advanced Theory for Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Systems), SYSTEMS, CONTROL AND INFORMATION, 57(6), 230-235, 2013
  112. Algebraic Properties of Transfer Function Matrices for Meromorphic Nonlinear Time-Varying Systems, Transactions of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, 26(6), 185-192, 2013
  113. Necessary condition for local observability of discrete-time polynomial systems, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 6757-6762, 20121126
  114. An algebraic solution method for the unsteady Hamilton-Jacobi equation, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 7741-7746, 20111201
  115. An algebraic approach to Hamilton's canonical equations, Proceedings of the SICE Annual Conference, 370-375, 20110101
  116. An algebraic approach to local observability at an initial state for discrete-time polynomial systems, IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline), 44(1 PART 1), 6449-6453, 20110101
  117. Global Observability of Input-affine Polynomial Systems, 46(6), 353-355, 20100630
  118. Global observability of polynomial systems, Proceedings of the SICE Annual Conference, 2038-2041, 20100101
  119. Decentralized Control for Large Flexible Space Structures by Local Proper Controllers Using Displacement Output, Proceedings of the Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference, 52(0), 272-272, 2009
  120. Robust Stabilization for Flexible Space Structures by a Proper Controller Using Displacement Output, Proceedings of the Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference, 51(0), 303-303, 2008
  121. Privacy protection with heavy-tailed noise for linear dynamical systems, AUTOMATICA, 131, 202109
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  122. Accessibility and System Reduction of Nonlinear Time-Delay Control Systems, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 66(8), 3781-3788, 202108
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  123. Krasovskii and Shifted Passivity-Based Control, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 66(10), 4926-4932, 202110
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  124. Partial Phase Cohesiveness in Networks of Networks of Kuramoto Oscillators, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, 66(12), 6100-6107, 202112
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