Transactions on SMC: Systems

Scope

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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Editor-in-Chief

Robert Kozma, Editor-In-Chief
Robert Kozma

Editor-In-Chief
FedEx Institute of Technology
Department of Mathematics
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152, USA

Articles

09 January 2025
This article is focused on the stabilization and control of variable fractional-order (VFO) neutral delay systems with time-varying structured uncertainties and delays. Using the Lyapunov theorem, the delay- and order-dependent stability criterion of both the nominal and uncertain VFO systems of neutral-type with time-varying delays are derived using a set...
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10 June 2025
In this study, the fault-tolerant consensus control (FTCC) challenge is investigated for nonlinear multiagent systems (MASs) in the simultaneous occurrence of abrupt and incipient actuator/sensor faults in the physical level and hybrid Deception/Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks in the cyber level. For security enhancement and/or safety maintenance purposes, an unknown state and...
05 June 2025
This article focuses on the consensus and tracking problem of multiagent systems under communication delays, and proposes an observer-based distributed predictive control scheme to actively compensate for communication delays. First, an auxiliary variable and its corresponding estimator are innovatively designed to provide an observation of a globally consensus value that...
04 June 2025
In this article, the collision-free adaptive fuzzy secure formation control problem is investigated for uncertain nonlinear multiagent systems (MASs) under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Since the DoS attacks block the signal transmission between agents, the leader’s states and output are inaccessible to the followers, a distributed command governor is designed to...
02 June 2025
Based on output triggering, an adaptive prescribed-time tracking control strategy is proposed for a class of uncertain strict-feedback nonlinear systems with unknown control gains in this article. The nondifferentiability of the virtual control signals is identified as the most prominent design difficulty in this research. In order to solve the...
29 May 2025
In complex and dynamic environments, achieving autonomous decision-making and control of agent remains a challenging task. Traditional reinforcement learning algorithms often struggle to effectively learn optimal policies when faced with high-dimensional state spaces, sparse rewards, and dynamic obstacles. This article proposes an enhanced deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm. First,...

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