- Feedforward/feedback systems for high-performance control: Linear and nonlinear control of systems subject to physical limits by means of optimal and inversion-based techniques. Robust and high-performance strategies.
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- Mechatronics and industrial robotics: Development of control techniques and trajectory planners for robotic applications. Efficiency oriented strategies. Real-Time handling of dynamic environments.
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- Automatic vehicles: Motion control of wheeled mobile robots, AGVs, cars, trucks, trailers… Path planning for complex parking maneuvers. Control of vehicles’ formations and platooning.
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- Operations research – Global optimization: Theory, algorithmic approaches, and practical applications in the field of molecular conformation, packing and spacecraft trajectory planning problems.
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- Baking by visual inspection (COOKIES) : EU sponsored project for the automatic control of continuous band ovens. The control system makes it possible to achieve a perfect baking of cookies through a FUZZY logic control of the oven burners.
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- Bottle filling systems: Automatic systems able to precisely refill bottles with the prescribed amount of liquid in minimum time.
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- Platform stabilization: Nonlinear adaptive control for the automatic stabilization of aerial platforms.
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- Time-optimal liquid container transfer in an industrial packaging line: Using a newly devised global convergent algorithm a minimum-time motion is achieved satisfying constraints on maximum elevation of the liquid surface oscillations and on container velocity, acceleration and jerk.
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