An Adaptive Dynamic Programming algorithm for nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics is developed. The algorithm is initialized with a positive definite cost functional / stabilizing control law pair (V0, k0) (coupled via the Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equation). Given (Vi, ki), one runs the system using control law ki recording the state and control trajectories, with these trajectories used to ...

Trade secrecy is unique among the major forms of intellectual property as not being primarily governed by a federal statute. Unlike patents and copyrights, trade secrecy is a creation of state law, arising in the nineteenth century out of a variety of common law to become a separate source of protection against the improper acquisition, disclosure, and use of commercially-valuable information t...

In this paper we deal with the problem of controlling timed continuous Petri nets in order to reach a nal steady state con guration while minimizing a quadratic performance index The formulation of a discrete time linear positive model with dynamic or state based constraints on the control input enables us to design a state feedback control law based on explicit model predictive control eMPC Th...

In this note we present a result that can be employed to infer robustness of a state feedback control law, in closed-loop with a constrained discrete-time nonlinear control system, to state measurement errors from robustness of the state feedback control law to additive disturbances. The result allows for possible discontinuity and set-valuedness of the state feedback control law. In particular...

Since the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) released their Electronic Crime Needs Assessment for State and Local Law Enforcement study results in 2001, several critical strides have been made in improving the tools and training that state and local law enforcement organizations have access to. One area that has not received much attention is the computer crime first responder. This paper focu...

Attorneys-at-law, both at the individual and group level, i.e., as a professional self-government, when performing their duties obligations arising from provisions of law deontological norms defining status, have role systemic nature to play. This is intended contribute strengthening development democratic character Republic Poland. A particularly important tool for carrying out this task Natio...