Research

Research Interests

Robotic Systems

    • Optimal motion planning with state and input constraints

    • Fault-tolerant control of mobile robots

    • Control allocation for input redundant systems

    • Control of flexible robotic systems

    • Multi-agent systems

Distributed parameter systems

    • Stability and stabilization of PDEs

    • Observer design for PDEs and coupled systems of PDEs-ODEs

    • Optimal control of PDEs

Hybrid systems

    • Observer design for hybrid systems with state-driven jumps

    • Optimal control for hybrid systems with state-driven jumps

    • Hybrid controllers for linear systems with input constraints

A list of recent publications

2020

Cristofaro, A., Sassano, M., Disturbance decoupling and design of unknown input observers for hybrid systems with state-driven jumps (2020) Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 35,

DOI: 10.1016/j.nahs.2019.100820 (in press)

2019

Rotondo, D., Cristofaro, A., Johansen, T.A., Nejjari, F., Puig, V., Robust fault and icing diagnosis in unmanned aerial vehicles using LPV interval observers (2019) International Journal of Robust and

Nonlinear Control, 29 (16), pp. 5456-5480, DOI: 10.1002/rnc.4381

Cristofaro, A., Robust distributed control of quasilinear reaction–diffusion equations via infinite-dimensional sliding modes (2019) Automatica, 104, pp. 165-172,

DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2019.02.039

Corona, D., Cristofaro, A., Optimally controlled steady-states for multi-input underactuated linear systems (2019) 2019 18th European Control Conference, ECC 2019, pp. 3734-3739,

DOI: 10.23919/ECC.2019.8795796

Aquilanti, L., Cristofaro, A., Distributed optimal control of degenerate reaction-diffusion equations (2019) 2019 18th European Control Conference, ECC 2019, pp. 1938-1943,

DOI: 10.23919/ECC.2019.8796084

Ferrante, F., Cristofaro, A., Boundary observer design for coupled ODEs-hyperbolic PDEs systems (2019) 2019 18th European Control Conference, ECC 2019, pp. 2418-2423,

DOI: 10.23919/ECC.2019.8795767

Corona, D., Cristofaro, A., Rotondo, D., Reachability and stabilization of scheduled steady-states for LPV single-input systems (2019) Journal of the Franklin Institute, 356 (8), pp. 4478-4495,

DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2019.04.007

Cristofaro, A., Galeani, S., Onori, S., Zaccarian, L., A switched and scheduled design for model recovery anti-windup of linear plants (2019) European Journal of Control, 46, pp. 23-35,

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2018.04.002

Cristofaro, A., Giambò, R., Giannoni, F., Stability and distributed control of degenerate diffusion equations (2019) European Journal of Control,

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2019.02.005