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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09 October 2025
This article investigates a distributed event-triggered control approach that integrates a partial time-interval error constraint (PTIEC) for multirobot cooperative manipulation of a shared object. Considering the scenario where only a subset of robots possesses accurate information regarding the positions (orientations) and corresponding velocities of the object’s desired local trajectory, a...
07 October 2025
This article aims to address the challenge of dynamically exploring coverage for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) system with mission-driven framework in an obstacle environment. A novel cross-domain collaborative exploration and coverage (CDCEC) framework is proposed to enhance the overall performance of the proposed full and...
06 October 2025
In this article, a novel adaptive second-order sliding mode (ASOSM) control law is constructed for a general category of sliding mode control (SMC) systems with mismatched uncertainties, including a nonvanishing external disturbance. This innovative control design proposal is accomplished through three key mechanisms. First, the new sliding mode dynamics subject...
06 October 2025
In this article, we propose an event-triggered unified fault-tolerant control strategy for continuum robots with prescribed performance, considering multiple levels of actuator failures. First, by integrating a Kelvin–Voigt model, this article introduces an improved constant curvature model for continuum robots accounting for dissipative effects. Second, a comprehensive fault-handling framework is...
30 September 2025
This study concentrates on adaptive prescribed-time tracking control for n-link flexible-joint (FJ) manipulators with unmeasurable state variables. First of all, auxiliary signals are constructed utilizing measurable variables. Based on auxiliary signals, the observer is directly designed to estimate the system states, which allows the observer dynamics to incorporate unknown terms....

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