AUTOMATICA.IT 2022

Cagliari, September 1st-3rd

IMPORTANT DATES

June 20, 2022 

Initial contribution
submissions

July 28, 2022

Deadline for submissions

August 8, 2022

Early registration deadline


TECHNICAL PROGRAM
September 1st-3th, 2022, Cagliari, Italia
Thursday      Friday      Saturday 

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NOTE: The conference venue for September 1st and 2nd is the Cittadella dei Musei, whereas the September 3rd activities will be at Aula Magna – Facoltà di Ingegneria.

*** Last updated on August 10, 2022. This program is tentative and subject to change ***

September 1st, Thursday (Venue: Cittadella dei Musei)
Parallel regular sessions: ThA1 and ThB1 @ 09:00-11:00 CEST
Room: Verde ThA1: Analysis and Control I

Chairs: Prof. Alberto Cavallo, Prof. Guido Maione

09:00-09:15 ThA1.1: A global finite-time first-order sliding mode strong observer design with certain semi-global fixed-time convergence characteristics

Alessandro Pilloni, Alessandro Pisano, Elio Usai

09:15-09:30 ThA1.2: Data-driven Dynamic Relatively Optimal Control

Felice Andrea Pellegrino, Franco Blanchini, Gianfranco Fenu, Erica Salvato

09:30-09:45 ThA1.3: The pseudo inversion paradigm and the definition of a new and more general 2DOF control scheme

Valentina Orsini

09:45-10:00 ThA1.4: Data-driven mixed-sensitivity control with automatic weights design

Nicholas Valceschini, Mirko Mazzoleni, Simone Formentin, Fabio Previdi

10:00-10:15 ThA1.5: On the use of SDC parameterisation in nonlinear systems for nonlinear optimal control problems

Giuseppe Antonio Scala, Andrea Bonci, Sauro Longhi

10:15-10:30 ThA1.6: An indirect realization of non-integer order discrete-time Tustin operators for non-integer order controllers

Guido Maione

10:30-10:45 ThA1.7: Further characterizations of integral input-to-state stability for hybrid systems

Antonio Russo. Alberto Cavallo

10:45-11:00 ThA1.8: Stability Analysis of a Class of Discontinuous Discrete-Time Systems

Francesco Ferrante, Giorgio Valmorbida

Room: Rossa ThB1: Robotics 

Chairs: Prof. Graziana Cavone, Prof. Roberto Meattini

09:00-09:15 ThB1.1: Multi-Trajectory Model Predictive Control for safe UAV Navigation in an Unknown Environment

Danilo Saccani, Leonardo Cecchin, Lorenzo Fagiano

09:15-09:30 ThB1.2: Vision-Based Modal Analysis of the Built Environment with Multiple Drones

Michele Bolognini, Giovanni Izzo, Daniele Marchisotti, Lorenzo Fagiano, Maria Pina Limongelli, Emanuele Zappa

09:30-09:45 ThB1.3: sEMG-driven HITL Robotic Grasping: Soft-DTW Neural Networks Allow Minimally Supervised Regression-based Myocontrol

Alessandra Bernardini, Roberto Meattini, Gianluca Palli, Claudio Melchiorri

09:45-10:00 ThB1.4: Human-Robot Collaboration for Dental Implant Surgery Using Adaptive Virtual Fixture and Image guiding Method

Mohammad Hossein Hamedani, Fan Shao, Fanny Ficuciello

10:00-10:15 ThB1.5: Safe and Ergonomic Human-Drone Interaction in Warehouses

Silvia Proia, Raffaele Carli, Graziana Cavone, Mariagrazia Dotoli

10:15-10:30 ThB1.6: Motor Maps for legged locomotion control

Luca Patanè, Alessia Li Noce, Fabio Di Pietro, Paolo Arena

10:30-10:45 ThB1.7: A UV-based disinfection mobile robot with microbiological experimental analysis

Andrea Borgese, Dario Calogero Guastella, Giovanni Muscato, Stefania Stefani, Stefano Stracquadanio, Giuseppe Sutera

Parallel regular sessions: ThA2 and ThB2 @ 11:30-13:00 CEST
Room: Verde ThA2: Analysis and Control II

Chairs: Prof. Elena De Sanctis, Prof. Alessandro Freddi 

11:30-11:45 ThA2.1: Security and Critical Observability of Finite State Machines under Cyber-attacks

Naeimeh Fakhr Shamloo, Elena De Santis, Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

11:45-12:00 ThA2.2: Chance-constrained sets approximation: A probabilistic scaling approach

Martina Mammarella, Victor Mirasierra, Matthias Lorenzen, Teodoro Alamo, Fabrizio Dabbene

12:00-12:15 ThA2.3: On the control of MIMO systems with uncertain control direction

Alessandro Pisano and Giorgio Bartolini

12:15-12:30 ThA2.4: Distributed control invariant set: the linear affine case

Davide Liuzza, Angel Molina, Paolo Falcone, Liugi Glielmo

12:30-12:45 ThA2.5: On Semi-Global Exponential Stability Under Sampling for Locally Lipschitz Time-Delay Systems

Mario Di Ferdinando, Pierdomenico Pepe, Stefano Di Gennaro

12:45-13:00 ThA2.6: Modeling and Control of a Telescopic Quadrotor Using Disturbance Observer Based Control

Alessandro Baldini, Riccardo Felicetti, Alessandro Freddi, Sauro Longhi, Andrea Monteriù

Room: Rossa ThB2: Control & Applications I

Chairs: Prof. Riccardo Caponetto, Prof. Antonio Russo

11:30-11:45 ThB2.1: Model-based selective image downsampling in remote driving applications

Maziar Ebrahimi Dehshalie, Francesco Prignoli, Paolo Falcone, Marko Bertogna

11:45-12:00 ThB2.2: On the stability of a sampled-data Image-Based Visual Servoing Control Scheme

Marco Costanzo, Ciro Natale, Antonio Russo

12:00-12:15 ThB2.3: New Automatic Motor Speed Reference Generators for Cruise and Lateral Control of Electric Vehicles with in-Wheel Motors

Cristiano Maria Verrelli, Mohamed El Arayshi

12:15-12:30 ThB2.4: Road User Position Prediction using Averaging

Angelos Toytziaridis, Paolo Falcone, Jonas Sjöberg

12:30-12:45 ThB2.5: Simultaneous Design of Passive and Active Spacecraft Attitude Control via Black-Box Optimization

Lorenzo Jr Sabug, Gian Paolo Incremona, Mara Tanelli, Fredy Ruiz, Lorenzo Fagiano

12:45-13:00 ThB2.6: Implementation of a fully analog feedback loop with a Carbon-Black-based Fractional Order

Riccardo Caponetto, Luca Patanè, Maria Gabriella Xibilia

Parallel regular sessions: ThA3 and ThB3  @ 14:30-16:00 CEST
Room: Verde ThA3: Identification and Estimation

Chairs: Prof. Simone Paoletti, Prof. Saverio Farsoni

14:30-14:45 ThA3.1: Set-membership identification of continuous-time systems through model transformation

Vito Cerone, Sophie Fosson, Simone Pirrera, Diego Regruto Tomalino

14:45-15:00 ThA3.2: Variational Bayes Moving Horizon Estimation

Xiangxiang Dong, Giorgio Battistelli, Luigi Chisci, Yunze Cai

15:00-15:15 ThA3.3: Switching Observer for Finite State Machines and Its Application to Opacity

Naeimeh Fakhr Shamloo, Elena De Santis, Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

15:15-15:30 ThA3.4: Data-driven Output Regulation via Gaussian Processes and Luenberger Internal Models

Lorenzo Gentilini, Michelangelo Bin, Lorenzo Marconi

15:30-15:45 ThA3.5: An iterative optimization-based approach to piecewise affine system identification

Simone Paoletti, Andrea Garulli, Antonio Vicino

15:45-16:00 ThA3.6: LS-SVM Identification of LPV Systems: Solution in Primal and Dual Space

Luca Cavanini, Francesco Ferracuti, Sauro Longhi, Andrea Monteriù

16:00-16:15 ThA3.7: Physics Informed Gaussian Process Regression Methods for Robot Inverse Dynamics Identification

Giulio Giacomuzzo, Alberto Dalla Libera, Diego Romeres, Ruggero Carli

16:15-16:30 ThA3.8: Safe and physically-consistent identification of robot payload in collaborative applications: an approach exploiting dynamic motion planning, mixed-reality and sensor fusion

Saverio Farsoni, Jacopo Rizzi, Marcello Bonfè, Silvio Simani

Room: Rossa ThB3: Learning

Chairs: Prof. Franco Angelini, Prof. Giacomo Baggio

14:30-14:45 ThB3.1: Learning-Based Model Predictive Control Using Expected Sarsa Algorithm

Hoomaan Moradimaryamnegari, Marco Frego, Angelika Peer

14:45-15:00 ThB3.2: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Visual Active Exploration and Tracking

Alberto Dionigi, Gabriele Costante, Alessandro Devo, Leonardo Guiducci

15:00-15:15 ThB3.3: Learning and control of Networked Control systems

Luis Felipe Florenzan Reyes, Francesco Smarra, Alessandro D’Innocenzo

15:15-15:30 ThB3.4: Functional Iterative Learning Control for Linear Systems

Franco Angelini, Cosimo Della Santina

15:30-15:45 ThB3.5: Learning with Bayesian Frequentist Bounds

Giacomo Baggio, Algo Carè, Anna Scampicchio, Gianluigi Pillonetto

15:45-16:00 ThB3.6: Switched ARX models: stability analysis and learning with guarantees

Vittorio De Iuliis, Francesco Smarra, Costanzo Manes, Alessandro D’Innocenzo

16:00-16:15 ThB3.7: Sparse learning with concave regularization: relaxation of the irrepresentable condition

Vito Cerone, Sophie Fosson, Diego Regruto

16:15-16:30 ThB3.8: On Multi-Agent Cognitive Cooperation: a Reinforcement Learning Decentralized Multi-Agent Control Approach

Salvatore D’Avella, Gerardo Camacho-Gonzalez, Carlo Alberto Avizzano, Paolo Tripicchio

September 2nd, Friday (Venue: Cittadella dei Musei)
Parallel regular sessions: FrA1 and FrB1 @ 09:00-11:00 CEST
Room: Verde FrA1: Control Applications II

Chairs: Prof. Cecilia Pasquale, Prof. Michele Roccotelli

09:00-09:15 FrA1.1: Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for connected Electric and Autonomous Vehicles to prevent Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) Attacks

Wasim Ali, Michele Roccotelli, Maria Pia Fanti

09:15-09:30 FrA1.2: Optimal control of electric and autonomous buses on intercity lines based on traffic prediction

Cecilia Pasquale, Simona Sacone, Silvia Siri, Antonella Ferrara

09:30-09:45 FrA1.3: Optimization-Based Coordination of Mixed Traffic at Unsignalized Intersections Based on Platooning Strategy

Muhammad Faris, Paolo Falcone, Jonas Sjöberg

09:45-10:00 FrA1.4: A distributed optimization based architecture for management of interconnected energy hubs

Giulio Ferro, Michela Robba, Rabab Haider, Anuradha Annaswamy

10:00-10:15 FrA1.5: A discrete event approach for EVs’ charging optimal scheduling

Luca Parodi, Michela Robba, Giulio Ferro, Riccardo Minciardi

10:15-10:30 FrA1.6: Traffic-light control in urban environment exploiting drivers’ reaction to the expected red lights duration

Matteo Scandella, Arnob Ghosh, Michelangelo Bin, Thomas Parisini

10:30-10:45 FrA1.7: MARTe2 porting for the ARM Architectures Design and challenges: towards novel generations of magnetic fusion plants

Giuseppe Avon, Arturo Buscarino, Andrè Neto, Filippo Sartori, Fabio Zanon, Eliana De Marchi

10:45-11:00 FrA1.8: Energy-aware black box MIMO model identification of wood chips refining process operating in closed loop

Roberto Boffadossi, Marco Leonesio and Lorenzo Fagiano

Room: Rossa FrB1: Multi-agent systems and Networks I

Chairs: Chairs: Prof. Diego Deplano, Prof. Agostino M. Mangini

09:00-09:15 FrB1.1: A new connection protocol for multi-consensus of discrete-time and sampled-data systems

Mattia Mattioni, Salvatore Monaco, Dorothee Normand-Cyrot

09:15-09:30 FrB1.2: Can Competition Outperform Collaboration? The Role of Malicious Agents

Luca Ballotta, Giacomo Como, Jeff S. Shamma, Luca Schenato

09:30-09:45 FrB1.3: Decision Modeling in Markovian Multi-Agent Systems

Carl-Johan Heiker, Paolo Falcone

09:45-10:00 FrB1.4: Type-K Monotone Systems and Consensus in Multi-Agent Networks

Diego Deplano, Mauro Franceschelli, Alessandro Giua

10:00-10:15 FrB1.5: A Consensus Protocol for Connecting Automated Vehicles at Signal-Free Intersection

Gianvito Difilippo, Maria Pia Fanti, Agostino Marcello Mangini

10:15-10:30 FrB1.6: Distributed Estimation of All Distinct Eigenvalues of the Laplacian Matrix via Data-Driven Consensus Optimization

Claudia Congiu, Diego Deplano, Alessandro Giua, Mauro Franceschelli

10:30-10:45 FrB1.7: Bearing Rigidity Theory Applied to Robotic Formations

Giulia Michieletto, Angelo Cenedese

10:45-11:00 FrB1.8: Distributed Constrained Connectivity Keeping Supervision Scheme in the Presence of Static Obstacles

Alessandro Casavola, Vincenzo D’Angelo, Ayman El Qemmah, Francesco Tedesco, Franco Angelo Torchiaro

Parallel regular sessions: FrA2 and FrB2 @ 11:30-13:00 CEST
Room: Verde FrA2: Control Applications III

Chairs: Prof. Pasquale Palumbo, Prof. Silvia Maria Zanoli

11:30-11:45 FrA2.1: A coarse-grain model for cellular growth accounting for ribosome synthesis

Massimiliano d’Angelo, Pasquale Palumbo, Stefano Busti, Marco Vanoni

11:45-12:00 FrA2.2: Model Predictive Control System for Slug Flow in Microfluidics

Samuele Moscato, Giovanna Stella, Maide Bucolo

12:00-12:15 FrA2.3: Symbolic Control Design of an Artificial Pancreas for Type-2 Diabetes

Alessandro Borri, Giordano Pola, Pierdomenico Pepe, Maria Domenica Di Benedetto, Pasquale Palumbo

12:15-12:30 FrA2.4: Water resources systems control and optimization: real case studies

Silvia Maria Zanoli, Crescenzo Pepe

12:30-12:45 FrA2.5: Potential evaluation of Model Predictive Control applied to Variable Speed Variable Displacement Pump systems

Leonardo Cecchin, Stefan Gering, Maximilian Manderla, Adrian TrachteMoritz Diehl

12:45-13:00 FrA2.6: Mechanical Fault Detection of CNC Milling Machines

Marino Pavone, Nicola Epicoco, Giordano Pola, Elena De Santis, Maria Domenica Di Benedetto

Room: Rossa FrB2: Optimization

Chairs: Prof. Raffaele Carli, Prof. Mauro Franceschelli

11:30-11:45 FrB2.1: A surrogate-based scheme for black-box and preference-based optimization with a controller calibration application

Davide Previtali, Mirko Mazzoleni, Antonio Ferramosca, Fabio Previdi

11:45-12:00 FrB2.2: Clarke’s Local Generalized Nash Equilibria with Nonconvex Coupling Constraints

Paolo Scarabaggio, Raffaele Carli, Sergio Grammatico and Mariagrazia Dotoli

12:00-12:15 FrB2.3: Resilient Constrained Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems

Mojtaba Kaheni, Elio Usai and Mauro Franceschelli

12:15-12:30 FrB2.4: Internal Model-Based Online Optimization

Nicola Bastianello, Ruggero Carli and Sandro Zampieri

12:30-12:45 FrB2.5: Tracking-based Distributed Aggregative Optimization for Cooperative Robotics

Andrea Camisa, Guido Carnevale and Giuseppe Notarstefano

12:45-13:00 FrB2.6: Job Shop Sequencing in Manufacturing Plants by Timed Coloured Petri Nets and Particle Swarm Optimization

Gaetano Volpe, Agostino Marcello Mangini and Maria Pia Fanti

Parallel regular sessions: FrA3 and FrB3 @ 14:30-16:00 CEST
Room: Verde FrA3: Control Applications IV

Chairs: Prof. Stefano Panzieri, Prof. Enrico Zero

14:30-14:45 FrA3.1: Avalanche victim search via robust observers

Nicola Mimmo, Pauline Bernard and Lorenzo Marconi

14:45-15:00 FrA3.2: Modeling and Control of Multilevel Flying-Capacitor Converters

Davide Tebaldi and Roberto Zanasi

15:00-15:15 FrA3.3: Distributed robust control in a quadruple tank system

Alessandro Bozzi, Simone Graffione, Simona Sacone, Roberto Sacile and Enrico Zero

15:15-15:30 FrA3.4: Advanced Intrusion Detection System for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Valeria Bonagura, Chiara Foglietta, Stefano Panzieri and Federica Pascucci

15:30-15:45 FrA3.5: MPC-Based Process Control of Deep Drawing: An Industry 4.0 Case Study in Automotive

Graziana Cavone, Augusto Bozza, Raffaele Carli and Mariagrazia Dotoli

15:45-16:00 FrA3.6: AI-powered Distributed Stochastic MILP for Microgrid Control

Andrea Camisa, Giuseppe Notarstefano

16:00-16:15 FrA3.7: Generalized Simulink Model of PMSMs

Davide Tebaldi

16:15-16:30 FrA3.8: Towards autonomous soft grasping of deformable objects using flexible thin-film electro-adhesive gripper and online capacitance measure

Salvatore D’Avella, Ion-Dan Sîrbu, Marco Fontana, Rocco Vertechy, Paolo Tripicchio

Room: Rossa FrB3: Multi-agent systems & Networks II

Chairs: Prof. Alessandro Colombo, Prof. Giulia Fracastoro

14:30-14:45 FrB3.1: Distributed Optimal Control of Discrete-Time Linear Systems over Sensor Networks

Massimiliano d’Angelo, Stefano Battilotti and Filippo Cacace

14:45-15:00 FrB3.2: Control of Dynamic Financial Networks

Giuseppe Calafiore, Giulia Fracastoro and Anton Proskurnikov

15:00-15:15 FrB3.3: Stability analysis of wireless control networks via Markov jump systems theory

Anastasia Impicciatore, Yuriy Zacchia Lun, Alessandro D’Innocenzo and Pierdomenico Pepe

15:15-15:30 FrB3.4: Robust Control Invariance for Networked Control Systems with Output Feedback

Masoud Bahraini, Mario Zanon, Alessandro Colombo and Paolo Falcone

15:30-15:45 FrB3.5: A Multi-Agent Trust and Reputation Mechanisms for the Management of Smart Urban Lighting Systems

Alessandro Casavola, Giuseppe Franzè, Gianfranco Gagliardi and Francesco Tedesco

15:45-16:00 FrB3.6: Handling complexity in large scale complex systems through distributed computation

Lucrezia Manieri, Alessandro Falsone and Maria Prandini

16:00-16:15 FrB3.7: Distributed Mode Computation in Open Multi-Agent Systems

Zoreh Al Zahra Sanai Dashti, Gabriele Oliva, Carla Seatzu, Andrea Gasparri and Mauro Franceschelli

16:15-16:30 FrB3.8: Distributed Game-theoretical Control for EV-integrated Energy Communities

Nicola Mignoni, Raffaele Carli and Mariagrazia Dotoli

Room: Verde Single track: Round Table @ 17:00-18:30 CEST
17:00-18:30 Round table: “Energia: Scenari Attuali e Futuri e Transizione Ecologica: il ruolo dell’Automatica

Remark:

  • The Round Table is made accessible via Zoom [meeting link]
  • The Round Table will also be streamed on YOUTUBE [link]

Chair: Prof. Elio Usai (Università degli Studi di Cagliari)

Interventi dei relatori:

– Il Sistema Elettrico nella Transizione Energetica
Prof. Domenico Villacci
Prof. di Sistemi Elettrici per l’Energia@UniSANNIO, Pres. Consorzio Ensiel

– La flessibilità nella pianificazione e nella gestione del sistema di distribuzione
Prof. Fabrizio Pilo
Prof. di Sistemi Elettrici per l’Energia@UniCA , Pro-Rett. per il territorio e l’innovazione

– Il ruolo dell’automazione nella gestione del sistema elettrico
Ing. Chiara Vergine
Dispacciamento e Conduzione, Real Time Operation @ TERNA S.P.A

– L’automazione come strumento per la flessibilità energetica
Ing. Marco Barbagelata
Business Area Manager@STAM SRL

 
September 3rd, Saturday (Venue: Aula Magna – Facoltà di Ingegneria)
Room: Aula Magna – Facoltà di Ingegneria

Single track: Award ceremonies and SIDRA Meeting @ 09:30-12:30 CEST 

09:30-10:30 Award ceremonies 2022
Chair: Prof.ssa Carla Seatzu (Università degli Studi di Cagliari)– Two best congress’ contributions
– RAS and CSS IEEE Italian Chapters Young Author’s awards
– Two best PhD dissertations on Automation-related topics
– Presentation of the two awarded PhD theses
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-13:00 Annual SIDRA meeting

Remark:

  • The Annual SIDRA meeting is accessible remotely via Zoom [meeting link]
  • The Annual SIDRA meeting  will also be streamed on YOUTUBE [link]