Scope
The scope of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics includes computational approaches to the field of cybernetics. Specifically, the transactions welcomes papers on communication and control across machines or between machine, human, and organizations. The scope includes such areas as computational intelligence, computer vision, neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, fuzzy systems, cognitive systems, decision making, and robotics, to the extent that they contribute to the theme of cybernetics or demonstrate an application of cybernetics principles.
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics replaced the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B: Cybernetics on January 1, 2013.
Editor-in-Chief
Peng Shi
Editor-In-Chief
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Articles
08 May 2026
The arbitrary-time (AT) nonovershoot adaptive tracking control issue is investigated for uncertain high-order nonlinear systems with guaranteed-performance (GP). Superior to the existing prescribed-time prescribed-performance control strategies that are vulnerable to suddenly unexpected external disturbances, a novel globally segmented AT guaranteed-performance (ATGP) function is proposed to overcome such limitations. First, the...
04 May 2026
This article investigates the attitude-position integrated control of spacecraft formation in the presence of inertia uncertainties and external disturbances. The mathematical model of the spacecraft formation attitude-position integrated control system is established using dual quaternion representation. A novel predefined-time extended state observer (ESO) is developed to estimate the total perturbation,...
14 April 2026
In this article, a prescribed-time output feedback controller is proposed for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with unknown control coefficients and mismatched nonvanishing disturbances. Both unknown control coefficients and mismatched disturbances are tricky to address by the existing prescribed-time output feedback control frameworks. Differently, a novel prescribed-time control criterion...
27 March 2026
This article investigates the distributed formation control of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) under aperiodic denial-of-service (DoS) attacks within a Stackelberg–Nash game (SNG) framework. An actor–critic (AC) reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm is developed to approximate these policies online, ensuring convergence to the Stackelberg–Nash equilibrium (SNE). To enhance resilience against communication interruptions,...
23 March 2026
In this article, an adaptive distributed predefined-time and bounded (PTB) sliding mode controller based on a novel super-twisting-like estimator is proposed for the formation control problem of underactuated uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) subject to unknown disturbances. To leverage the advantages of the super-twisting estimator and achieve ultimate PTB stability in...
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