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[1] D. Cheng, L. Guo, J. Huang. On quadratic Lyapunov function. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2003, 48(5): 885 – 890.
[2] H. Chen. Stochastic Approximation and Its Applications. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2002.
[3] Z. Cai, K. Fu. Robot planning expert systems. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Washington: IEEE, 1986: 1973
– 1978.
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