Publications

Siena research unit

• Identification for robust control

  [1] IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Special Issue on System Identification for Robust Control Design, July 1992.
  [2] Automatica, Special Issue on Trends in System Identification, December 1995.
  [3] S.R. Venkatesh and M.A. Dahleh, "System identification for complex systems: problem formulation and results", Proc. 36th IEEE CDC, San Diego, 1997.
  [4] K. Nagpal and P. Khargonekar, "Filtering and smoothing in an H_infinity setting", IEEE Trans. Aut. Contr., pp. 152-166, 1991.
  [5] B. Hassibi, A.H. Sayed and T. Kailath, "Linear estimation in Krein spaces - Part II", IEEE Trans. Aut. Contr., 1996.
  [6] A. Rantzer and A. Megretsky, "A convex parameterization of robustly stabilizing controllers", IEEE Trans. Aut. Contr., pp. 1802-1808, 1994.
  [7] S. Boyd. L. El Ghaoui, E. Feron and V. Balakrishnan, "Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory", SIAM, Philadelphia, 1994.
  [8] M. Morari and J. H. Lee, "Model Predictive Control: Past, Present and Future", Joint 6th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (PSE'97) and 30th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE-7), May 25 - 29 1997, Trondheim, Norway.
  [9] F. Blanchini, Set invariance in control, Automatica 35 (11) (1999) pp. 1747-1767.
  [10] M.V. Kothare, V. Balakrishnan, M. Morari, "Robust Constrained Model Predictive Control using Linear Matrix Inequalities", Automatica 32 (10) (1996) pp. 1361-1379.
  [11] A. Bemporad, "Reducing conservativeness in predictive control of constrained systems with disturbances", 37-th IEEE CDC, Tampa, pp.1384-1391, 1998
  [12] A. Bemporad, A. Garulli, "Output-feedback predictive control of constrained linear systems with disturbances via set-membership state estimation", Int. Journ. of Control, to appear.
  [13] A. Garulli, D. Prattichizzo and A. Vicino, "A set theoretic approach for time to contact estimation in dynamic vision", 37-th IEEE CDC, Tampa, 1998.
  [14] A. Garulli, C. Mocenni, A. Vicino, "Identification of simplified biological models of a lagoon", 14-th IFAC World Congress, Beijing, 1999.
  [15] A. Garulli, A. Vicino, G. Zappa, "Conditional central algorithms for worst-case set membership identification and filtering", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, 45(1), pp. 14-23, 2000.
  [16] W. Reinelt, A. Garulli and L. Ljung, "Comparing different approaches to model error modeling in robust identification", Automatica, vol. 38, pp. 787-803, 2002.





• Optimal state estimation and filtering

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• Synthesis of reduced-complexity robust controllers

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• Robust predictive control

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Roma research unit

[R1] Osvaldo Maria Grasselli, Sauro Longhi and Antonio Tornambč, ``Periodic Systems Largely System Equivalent To Periodic Discrete-Time Processes'', Kybernetika, Vol. 37, No. 1, Pp. 1-20, 2001.
[R2] O. M. Grasselli, L. Menini, and P. Valigi, ``Ripple-free robust output regulation and tracking for multirate sampled-data systems", International Journal of Control, January 2002, vol.75, pp.80-96.
[R3] L. Menini and A. Tornambč, ``Asymptotic tracking of periodic trajectories for a simple mechanical system subject to non-smooth impacts", IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. 46, July 2001, pp.1122-1126.
[R4] L. Menini and A. Tornambč, ``Velocity observers for linear mechanical systems subject to single non-smooth impacts", Systems and Control Letters, vol. 43, pp. 193-202, 2001.
[R5] L. Menini and A. Tornambč, ``Control of mechanical systems subject to non-smooth impacts", IFAC Annual Reviews in Control, vol. 25, pp. 25-42, 2001.
[C1] S. Paoletti, O. M. Grasselli, and L. Menini, "A comparison between the classes of unstructured perturbations allowed by two well-known robust stability conditions", in Proc. of the 14-th Int. Symp. On Math. Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Perpignan, France, 2000.
[C2] S. Galeani, O. M. Grasselli, and L. Menini, "Linear periodic control for strong rho-stabilization with infinite gain margin", in Proc. of the American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 1164-1168, 2000.
[C3] S. Galeani, O. M. Grasselli, and L. Menini, "Asymptotic tracking with infinite gain margin through linear periodic control", in Proc. of IFAC Symposium on RObust CONtrol Design, Praga, Czech Republic, 2000.
[C4] L. Menini and A. Tornambč, "Dead-beat control laws for impacting systems in presence of uncertainties", in Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, (Sidney, Australia), pp. 3181-3182, December 2000.
[C5] G. Grimm, I. Postlethwaite, A.R. Teel, M.C. Turner, and L. Zaccarian. "Linear matrix inequalities for full and reduced order anti-windup synthesis", in American Control Conference, pages 4134-4139, Arlington (VA), USA, June 2001.
[C6] S. Galeani, O. M. Grasselli, and L. Menini, ``Linear periodic control for rho-stabilization and asymptotic tracking under unbounded output multiplicative perturbations", in Proc. of the IFAC Workshop on Periodic Control Systems, Cernobbio-Como, Italy, 2001.
[C7] L. Menini and A. Tornambč, ``Use of non-smooth impacts for the control of (otherwise) uncontrollable linear mechanical systems", in 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando (FL, USA), 2001.
[C8] L. Menini and A. Tornambč, ``Modification of the Youla-Kucera parameterization for linear mechanical systems subject to non-smooth impacts", in 40thIEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando (FL, USA), 2001.
[C9] A. Astolfi and L. Menini, ``Noninteracting control with stability for nonlinear m-inputs m-outputs Hamiltonian systems", in 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando (FL, USA), 2001.
[C10] G. Grimm, Jay Hatfield, I. Postlethwaite, A.R. Teel, M.C. Turner, and L. Zaccarian, "Experimental results in optimal linear anti-windup compensation", in 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando (FL), USA, December 2001.
[C11] L. Caminiti, O.M.Grasselli and S. Paoletti. "Sufficient conditions for robust stability and performance", in Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Mediterranean Conference (Lisbona, Portogallo) 2002.
[C12] G. Grimm, A. R. Teel, and L. Zaccarian, "Results on linear LMI-based external anti-windup design", in Proceedings of the 41th Conference on Decision and Control, (Las Vegas (NV), USA), December 2002.
[C13] G. Grimm, A. R. Teel, and L. Zaccarian, "Robust LMI-based linear anti-windup design: optimizing the unconstrained response recovery", in Proceedings of the 41th Conference on Decision and Control, (Las Vegas (NV), USA), December 2002.

Udine research unit

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F. Blanchini, ``The gain scheduling and the robust state feedback stabilization problems", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-45, no.11, pp. 2061-2070, November 2000.

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F. Blanchini, S. Miani, ``Stabilization of LPV systems: state feedback, state estimation and duality", SIAM Journal on Contr. and Opt., in print.

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F. Blanchini and S. Miani. "Dual results for LPV systems". In Proc. European Control Conference ECC01, Porto, Portugal, pp. 3068-3073, 2001.

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F.Blanchini, S. Miani, "Set based constant reference tracking for continuous-time constrained systems", Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory, 1(2), 121-132, 2001.

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F. Blanchini and P. Giannattasio, ``Adaptive control of compressor surge instability", Automatica, Vol. 38. no. 8. pp. 1373-1380, August, 2002.

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F. Blanchini and P. Giannattasio, P. Pinamonti and D. Micheli, ``Experimental Evaluation of a High-Gain Control for Compressor Surge Suppression", ASME Journal on Turbomachinery, Vol. 124, no.1, pp.27-35, 2002, 2001 ASME Oil & Gas Application Committee Best Paper Award.

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F. Blanchini, S. Miani, F. A. Pellegrino, "Suboptimal receding horizon control for continuous-time systems". In Proc. Contr. Dec. Conference CDC02, Las Vegas-NV, USA, pp. 1558-1563, December 2002. Also to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2003.

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Franco Blanchini and Raffaele Pesenti, ``Min-max control of uncertain multi-inventory systems with multiplicative uncertainties, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol, AC-46, pp. 955-959, June 2001.

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F. Blanchini, S. Miani, R. Pesenti, F. Rinaldi, and W. Ukovich. "Robust control of production-distribution systems". In S. O. R. Moheimani, Editor, ``Perspectives in Robust Control'', Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science, pp. 13-28, Springer-Verlag, London, 2001.

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F. Blanchini, S. Miani, R. Pesenti and F. Rinaldi, ``Stabilization of multi-inventory systems with uncertain demand and setups", IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation, February 2003.

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F. Blanchini, S. Miani, R. Pesenti, and F. Rinaldi. "Control policies for multi-inventory systems with uncertain demand and setups". In Proc. Contr. Dec. Conference CDC01, Orlando-FL, USA, pp., 2001.

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F. Blanchini, S. Miani, and F. Rinaldi. "Guaranteed cost control for multi-inventory systems with uncertain demand". In Proc. 2002 IFAC Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July 2002.

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A. Gasparetto and S. Miani. "Modeling and control of a flexible rotating channel". In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Control Applications CCA01, Mexico City, Mexico, pp. 559-563, 2001.