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The scope of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems includes the field of systems engineering. It also includes issue formulation, analysis and modeling, decision making, and issue interpretation for any of the systems engineering lifecycle phases associated with the definition, development, and deployment of large systems. Other topics include systems management, systems engineering processes, and a variety of systems engineering methods such as optimization, modeling and simulation.

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans was renamed IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems on January 1, 2013.

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Huijun Gao

Editor-In-Chief
Harbin Institute of Technology
Research Institute of Intelligent Control and Systems
Harbin, 150001, China

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05 June 2026
Event-Triggered Fixed-Time Orbital Tracking Control of Spacecraft via Fuzzy Reinforcement Learning
This article addresses the fixed-time stable relative orbital tracking control problem of spacecraft by adopting a fuzzy reinforcement learning (RL) approach with an event-triggered mechanism. An identifier-critic-actor RL framework is established to integrate performance assessment and controller design. First, identifier fuzzy logic systems (FLSs) are utilized to approximate nonlinear uncertainties...
05 June 2026
Collision-Free Output Feedback Distributed Coordination of MASs Under Unreliable Communication Topologies
This article investigates the problem of collision-free output feedback distributed coordination (OFDC) of multi-agent systems under unreliable communication topologies. Unreliable communication topologies (e.g., induced by communication failures and adversarial attacks) can disrupt cooperative decision-making among agents, and only output information being available can also limit the transient performance of the...
03 June 2026
Reinforcement Learning-Based Zero-Sum Games for Fuzzy Markov Jump Systems via Single-Loop Policy Iteration
In this article, a reinforcement learning-based single-loop iteration scheme is developed to address the zero-sum game problem for nonlinear Markov jump systems (MJSs), where the Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy model is employed to describe the nonlinear dynamics. By resorting to game theory, the zero-sum game problem can be reformulated as solving the...
27 May 2026
Event-Triggered Impulsive Control for Nonlinear Systems: A Q-Learning-Enhanced Memory-Based Method
An intelligent memory-based event-triggered impulsive control (METIC) scheme is proposed to address the stabilization problem for a class of nonlinear systems while accounting for exponential convergence, dynamic performance, and control frequency. The contribution of the scheme is the incorporation of weighted historical data into the triggering condition, using both fixed...
26 February 2026
Orthogonal Projected Gradient Differential Neural Solution to Linear and Quadratic Constrained Optimization: Theory and Applications
In this research, an orthogonal projected gradient differential neural solution (OPGDNS) is introduced, specifically tailored for addressing linear and quadratic constrained optimization (LQCO) problems. The orthogonal projection theorem and gradient information are strategically leveraged, enabling the proposed solution to exhibit superior efficacy over existing methods, particularly those derived from a...

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