Publications - Miscellaneous

Bart De Schutter

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  1. Z. Hidayat, R. Babuska, B. De Schutter, and A. Núñez, "Decentralized Kalman filter comparison for distributed-parameter systems: A case study for a 1D heat conduction process," Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2011), Toulouse, France, 8 pp., Sept. 2011.  (abstract,  bibtex)

  2. Z. Hidayat, R. Babuska, B. De Schutter, and A. Núñez, "Observers for linear distributed-parameter systems: A survey," Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE 2011), Montreal, Canada, pp. 166-171, Sept. 2011.  (abstract,  bibtex)

  3. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Stability analysis and observer design for string-connected TS systems," Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, pp. 12795-12800, Aug.-Sept. 2011.  (abstract,  bibtex)

  4. S. Lin, B. De Schutter, A. Hegyi, J. Hellendoorn, and Y. Xi, "On a spatiotemporally discrete urban traffic model," Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, pp. 10697-10702, Aug.-Sept. 2011.  (abstract,  bibtex)

  5. A. Núñez, D. Sáez, I. Skrjanc, and B. De Schutter, "A new method for hybrid-fuzzy identification," Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, pp. 15013-15018, Aug.-Sept. 2011.  (abstract,  bibtex)

  6. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Sequential stability analysis and observer design for distributed TS fuzzy systems," Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 174, no. 1, pp. 1-30, July 2011.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex)

  7. L. Busoniu, R. Munos, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Optimistic planning for sparsely stochastic systems," Proceedings of the Workshop on Monte-Carlo Tree Search: Theory and Applications (MCTS) at the 21st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2011), Freiburg, Germany, 2 pp., June 2011.  (bibtex)

  8. Zs. Lendek, J. Lauber, T.M. Guerra, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Erratum to "Adaptive observers for TS fuzzy systems with unknown polynomial inputs" [Fuzzy Sets and Systems 161 (2010) 2043-2065]," Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 171, no. 1, pp. 106-107, May 2011.  (online version,  abstract,  bibtex)

  9. L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Approximate reinforcement learning: An overview," Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2011), Paris, France, pp. 1-8, Apr. 2011.  (abstract,  bibtex)

  10. L. Busoniu, R. Munos, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Optimistic planning for sparsely stochastic systems," Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2011), Paris, France, pp. 48-55, Apr. 2011.  (bibtex)

  11. L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Cross-entropy optimization of control policies with adaptive basis functions," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 196-209, Feb. 2011.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex)

  12. A.A. Alvarez Cabrera, M.J. Foeken, O.A. Tekin, K. Woestenenk, M.S. Erden, B. De Schutter, M.J.L. van Tooren, R. Babuska, F.J.A.M. van Houten, and T. Tomiyama, "Towards automation of control software: A review of challenges in mechatronic design," Mechatronics, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 876-886, Dec. 2010.  (online paper,  bibtex)

  13. Z. Hidayat, Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Fuzzy observer for state estimation of the METANET traffic model," Proceedings of the 13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2010), Madeira Island, Portugal, pp. 19-24, Sept. 2010.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  14. K. Stanková and B. De Schutter, "First steps towards finding a solution of a dynamic investor-bank game," Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 2065-2070, Sept. 2010.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  15. Zs. Lendek, J. Lauber, T.M. Guerra, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Adaptive observers for TS fuzzy systems with unknown polynomial inputs," Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 161, no. 15, pp. 2043-2065, Aug. 2010.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  16. L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Online least-squares policy iteration for reinforcement learning control," Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 486-491, June-July 2010.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  17. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Fuzzy models and observers for freeway traffic state tracking," Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 2278-2283, June-July 2010.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  18. L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Approximate dynamic programming with a fuzzy parameterization," Automatica, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 804-814, May 2010.  (online paper,  bibtex)

  19. L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, R. Babuska, and D. Ernst, "Using prior knowledge to accelerate online least-squares policy iteration," Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR 2010), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 6 pp., May 2010. Paper A-S2-1/3005.  (bibtex)

  20. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Stability bounds for fuzzy estimation and control - Part II: Output-feedback control," Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR 2010), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 2010. Paper A-S1-4/3030.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  21. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Stability bounds for fuzzy estimation and control - Part I: State estimation," Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics (AQTR 2010), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 2010. Paper A-S1-3/3023.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  22. L. Busoniu, R. Babuska, B. De Schutter, and D. Ernst, Reinforcement Learning and Dynamic Programming Using Function Approximators. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, ISBN 978-1-4398-2108-4, 270 pp., 2010.  (online link,  bibtex)

  23. L. Busoniu, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Approximate dynamic programming and reinforcement learning," in Interactive Collaborative Information Systems (R. Babuska and F.C.A. Groen, eds.), vol. 281 of Studies in Computational Intelligence, Berlin, Germany: Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-11687-2, pp. 3-44, 2010.  (online version,  bibtex)

  24. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Stability bounds for fuzzy estimation and control," Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 3-12, 2010.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  25. Zs. Lendek, T.M. Guerra, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, Stability Analysis and Nonlinear Observer Design Using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models. vol. 262 of Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Berlin, Germany: Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-16775-1, 196 pp., 2010.  (online link,  bibtex)

  26. B. De Schutter and S.E. Shladover, "Introduction to the special section on IV'08," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 557-559, Dec. 2009.  (online version,  abstract,  bibtex)

  27. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Stability of cascaded fuzzy systems and observers," IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 641-653, June 2009.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  28. Ö.A. Tekin, R. Babuska, T. Tomiyama, and B. De Schutter, "Toward a flexible control design framework to automatically generate control code for mechatronic systems," Proceedings of the 2009 American Control Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, pp. 4933-4938, June 2009.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  29. L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Policy search with cross-entropy optimization of basis functions," Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2009), Nashville, Tennessee, pp. 153-160, Mar.-Apr. 2009.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  30. B. De Schutter, R.R. Negenborn, M. Diehl, K. Gevaert, and C. Savorgnan, "Report on the set-up of a website including downloads of reports, presentations, open-source software and a database of benchmark problems," Deliverable D8.1.1, European FP7 STREP project HD-MPC, 11 pp., Mar. 2009.  (bibtex)

  31. M. Gerard, B. De Schutter, and M. Verhaegen, "A hybrid steepest descent method for constrained convex optimization," Automatica, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 525-531, Feb. 2009.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  32. A. Bemporad, M.K. Çamlibel, W.P.M.H. Heemels, A.J. van der Schaft, J.M. Schumacher, and B. De Schutter, "Further switched systems," Chapter 5 in Handbook of Hybrid Systems Control - Theory, Tools, Applications (J. Lunze and F. Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, eds.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-76505-3, pp. 139-192, 2009.  (bibtex)

  33. W.P.M.H. Heemels, D. Lehmann, J. Lunze, and B. De Schutter, "Introduction to hybrid systems," Chapter 1 in Handbook of Hybrid Systems Control - Theory, Tools, Applications (J. Lunze and F. Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, eds.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-76505-3, pp. 3-30, 2009.  (bibtex)

  34. B. De Schutter, W.P.M.H. Heemels, J. Lunze, and C. Prieur, "Survey of modeling, analysis, and control of hybrid systems," Chapter 2 in Handbook of Hybrid Systems Control - Theory, Tools, Applications (J. Lunze and F. Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, eds.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-76505-3, pp. 31-55, 2009.  (bibtex)

  35. L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Fuzzy partition optimization for approximate fuzzy Q-iteration," Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, pp. 5629-5634, July 2008.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  36. Zs. Lendek, K.M. van Schagen, R. Babuska, A. Veersma, and B. De Schutter, "Cascaded parameter estimation for a water treatment plant using particle filters," Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, pp. 10857-10862, July 2008.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  37. L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Consistency of fuzzy model-based reinforcement learning," Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2008), Hong Kong, pp. 518-524, June 2008.  (bibtex)

  38. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Stability analysis and observer design for decentralized TS fuzzy systems," Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2008), Hong Kong, pp. 631-636, June 2008.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  39. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Distributed Kalman filtering for cascaded systems," Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 457-469, Apr. 2008.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  40. L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Continuous-state reinforcement learning with fuzzy approximation," in Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems III. Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning (K. Tuyls, A. Nowé, Z. Guessoum, and D. Kudenko, eds.), vol. 4865 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin, Germany: Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-77947-6, pp. 27-43, 2008.  (online version,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  41. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "TS fuzzy controllers for cascaded systems," Proceedings of the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Advanced Fuzzy and Neural Control (AFNC 07), Valenciennes, France, 6 pp., Oct. 2007. Paper MO4-2.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  42. L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Fuzzy approximation for convergent model-based reinforcement learning," Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2007), London, UK, pp. 968-973, July 2007.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  43. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "Stability of cascaded Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems," Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2007), London, UK, pp. 505-510, July 2007.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  44. L. Busoniu, D. Ernst, B. De Schutter, and R. Babuska, "Continuous-state reinforcement learning with fuzzy approximation," Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Adaptive and Learning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (ALAMAS 2007) (K. Tuyls, S. de Jong, M. Ponsen, and K. Verbeeck, eds.), Maastricht, The Netherlands, pp. 21-35, Apr. 2007.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  45. B. De Schutter and A. Hegyi, "Introduction to the special section on ITSC'05," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1-3, Mar. 2007.  (online version,  abstract,  bibtex)

  46. B. De Schutter, J. Schepers, and I. Van Mechelen, "On algorithms for a binary-real (max,×) matrix approximation problem," Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, pp. 5168-5173, Dec. 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  47. H. Taale, S. Hoogendoorn, M. van den Berg, and B. De Schutter, "Anticiperende netwerkregelingen," NM Magazine, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 22-27, Dec. 2006. In Dutch.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  48. Zs. Lendek, R. Babuska, and B. De Schutter, "State estimation under uncertainty: A survey," Tech. rep. 06-004, Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 65 pp., Feb. 2006.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  49. R.R. Negenborn, B. De Schutter, M.A. Wiering, and H. Hellendoorn, "Learning-based model predictive control for Markov decision processes," Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 6 pp., July 2005. Paper 2106 / We-M16-TO/2.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  50. R.R. Negenborn, B. De Schutter, M.A. Wiering, and J. Hellendoorn, "Experience-based model predictive control using reinforcement learning," Proceedings of the 8th TRAIL Congress 2004 - A World of Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics - CD-ROM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 18 pp., Nov. 2004.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  51. S. Kanev, C. Scherer, M. Verhaegen, and B. De Schutter, "Robust output-feedback controller design via local BMI optimization," Automatica, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 1115-1127, July 2004.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  52. S. Kanev, C. Scherer, M. Verhaegen, and B. De Schutter, "A BMI optimization approach to robust output-feedback control," Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, pp. 851-856, Dec. 2003.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  53. S. Kanev, B. De Schutter, and M. Verhaegen, "An ellipsoid algorithm for probabilistic robust controller design," Systems & Control Letters, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 365-375, Aug. 2003.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  54. S. Kanev, B. De Schutter, and M. Verhaegen, "The ellipsoid algorithm for probabilistic robust controller design," Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 2248-2253, Dec. 2002.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  55. G.J.C. Copinga, B. De Schutter, J.M.A. Scherpen, and M.J.J.M. van de Ven, "A web-based study support environment for systems and control courses," Proceedings of the 2001 American Control Conference, Arlington, Virginia, pp. 1155-1160, June 2001.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  56. B. De Schutter, "Stability Analysis of Discrete Event Systems (by K.M. Passino and K.L. Burgess, A volume in the Wiley Series on Adaptive and Learning Systems for Signal Processing, Communications, and Control (S. Haykin, ed.), New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998)," Automatica, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 799-801, May 2001. Book review.  (online version,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  57. B. De Schutter, "Minimal state-space realization in linear system theory: An overview," Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Special Issue on Numerical Analysis in the 20th Century - Vol. I: Approximation Theory, vol. 121, no. 1-2, pp. 331-354, Sept. 2000.  (online paper,  abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  58. G. Nijsse, M. Verhaegen, B. De Schutter, D. Westwick, and N. Doelman, "State space modeling in multichannel active control systems," Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Active Control of Sound and Vibration (ACTIVE 99) (S. Douglas, ed.), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pp. 909-920, Dec. 1999.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  59. B. De Schutter, "Designing optimal timing and sequencing strategies for a continuous steel foundry," Proceedings of the European Control Conference 1999 (ECC'99), Karlsruhe, Germany, 5 pp., Aug.-Sept. 1999. Paper 160/BP-2.6.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  60. G. Nijsse, D. Westwick, B. De Schutter, and M. Verhaegen, "Simplification of multichannel active noise control systems: A feasibility study," Tech. rep. TUD/ITS/ET/SCE:1999.05, Control Systems Engineering, Fac. of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 46 pp., June 1999. Final report for the TNO-TPD project on active noise control. Confidential.  (bibtex)

  61. D. Westwick, G. Nijsse, B. De Schutter, and M. Verhaegen, "Simplification of multichannel active noise control systems: Midterm progress report," Tech. rep. TUD/ITS/ET/SCE:1999.01, Control Systems Engineering, Fac. of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, 30 pp., Mar. 1999. Midterm progress report for the TNO-TPD project on active noise control. Confidential.  (bibtex)

  62. T. Van Gestel, K. De Cock, R. Jans, B. De Schutter, Z. Degraeve, and B. De Moor, "Discrete stochastic modelling of ATM-traffic with circulant transition matrices," Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (Proceedings of the MTNS-98 Symposium, held in Padova, Italy, July 1998) (A. Beghi, L. Finesso, and G. Picci, eds.), Padova, Italy: Il Poligrafo, pp. 891-894, 1998.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))

  63. T. Van Gestel, K. De Cock, R. Jans, B. De Schutter, Z. Degraeve, and B. De Moor, "Discrete stochastic modelling of ATM-traffic with circulant transition matrices: A time domain approach," Tech. rep. 97-108, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 15 pp., Nov. 1997.  (abstract,  bibtex,  report (pdf))

  64. B. De Moor, P. De Gersem, B. De Schutter, and W. Favoreel, "DAISY: A database for identification of systems," Journal A, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 4-5, Sept. 1997.  (abstract,  bibtex,  tech. rep. (pdf))


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