Academic and general information

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, 1996

• Laurea degree (equivalent to M.Sc. degree), Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, 1992/12/22, full marks with honours (110/110 magna cum laude)

Position

Associate Professor

Tenure track in Automatic Control

Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI)

Politecnico di Bari

Academic experience

• Politecnico di Bari, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Bari, Italy: Associate Professor, 2019/05/02 – today, full time

• Politecnico di Bari, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (formerly Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Bari, Italy: Assistant Professor, 2011/12/01 – 2019/05/01, full time

• Politecnico di Bari, II School of Engineering, Taranto, Italy: Assistant Professor, 2002/12/31 – 2011/11/30, full time

  • Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2003)

  • Department of Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development (2004 – 2011/11/30)

• University of Salento (formerly Università degli Studi di Lecce), School of Engineering, Lecce, Italy: Assistant Professor, 1996/09/16 – 2002/12/30, full time

  • Department of Innovation Engineering (1999/09/16 – 2002/12/30)

  • Department of Material Science (1996/09/16 – 1999/09/15)

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Department, Troy (NY), USA: Visiting Scholar, study and research period with Prof. Frank DiCesare and Prof. Alan A. Desrochers, 1997/08/22 – 1997/12/08

• Politecnico di Bari, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bari, Italy: Ph.D. student, 1994 – 1996, full time

Non-academic experience

• Certifications and professional registrations: licensed professional engineer in the Province of Bari, 1997 – today

• Qualification as licensed engineer for the engineering profession in Italy: 1993/06

• Complementary Officer of the Navy Coast Guard, Bari, Italy: 1993/07/14 – 1994/07/13, full time

• Training Course in Complementary Officers' Corps of the Italian Navy at Accademia Navale, Livorno, Italy: 1993/04/14 – 1993/07/13

Current membership in professional and scientific organizations

• IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.:

  • Senior Member, 2016 – today

  • Member, 1997 – 2016

  • Student member, 1996

• IEEE Control Systems Society: Member, 1996 – today

• IEEE Computer Society: Member, 1996 – 1997

• IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control: affiliate

• IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Technical Committee on Factory Automation

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Marine Robotics: Member

• IEEE Computer Society: Member, 1996 – 1997

• SIDRA (“Società Italiana dei Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica”), new Italian Society of Professors, Lecturers, Researchers, Ph.D. Students with interests in Control Systems Engineering: 2007 – today

• CIRA (“Consorzio Interuniversitario dei Ricercatori in Automatica”), Italian Group of Professors, Lecturers, Researchers, Ph.D. Students with interests in Control Systems Engineering: 1993 – 2006

• COMES (COntrol and Models of Event Systems) Italian group: 1993 – today

Scientific Rewards

• 2019: among the top 100k world scientists in the new ranking, for year 2017, by Ioannidis JPA, Baas J, Klavans R, Boyack KW (2019) A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field. PLoS Biol 17(8): e3000384. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000384 – cfr. https://imechanica.org/node/23533

• 2018: Outstanding Reviewer. Applied Mathematical Modelling

• 2018: Outstanding Reviewer. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals - The Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, and Nonequilibrium and Complex Phenomena

• 2017: Outstanding Reviewer. ISA Transactions

• 2017: Outstanding Reviewer. AEÜ International Journal of Electronics and Communications

• 2016: Outstanding Reviewer. Electrochimica Acta

• 2015: Outstanding Reviewer. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals - The Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, and Nonequilibrium and Complex Phenomena

• 2017/08: the book chapter “Discrete-Event Dynamic Systems Modelling Distributed Multi-Agent Control of Intermodal Container Terminals”, in Robotics, Automation and Control, InTech Book Chapter, Vienna, Austria, March 2008, reached more than 7000 accesses and downloads

• 2016/09: IEEE Senior member

• 2016: Triennial research quality evaluation (VQR - Valutazione triennale della Qualità della Ricerca) for years 2011-2014: the following two papers were evaluated of excellent level:

  • Maione G (2011). High-Speed Digital Realizations of Fractional Operators in the Delta Domain. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 56 (3), p. 697-702, ISSN: 0018-9286, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2101134

  • Maione G (2013). On the Laguerre Rational Approximation to Fractional Discrete Derivative and Integral Operators. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 58 (6), p. 1579-1585, ISSN: 0018-9286, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2013.2244273

• 2014/12/15: Invited chapter “Pressure Control of CNG Engines by Noninteger Order Controllers: A New Trend in Application of Fractional Calculus to Automotive Systems”, co-author Paolo Lino, in Fractional Calculus: Applications, R. Daou, X. Moreau (Eds.), Series: Mathematics Research Developments, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge (NY), USA, ISBN 978-1-63463-221-8, chap. 3, pp. 37-64

• 2014/07: the book chapter “Discrete-Event Dynamic Systems Modelling Distributed Multi-Agent Control of Intermodal Container Terminals”, in Robotics, Automation and Control, InTech Book Chapter, Vienna, Austria, March 2008 had more than 6000 accesses and downloads

• 2013: Triennial research quality evaluation (VQR) for years 2004-2010: the following three papers were evaluated of excellent level:

  • Maione G (2006). A Rational Discrete Approximation to the Operator s^0.5. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 13 (3), p. 141-144, ISSN: 1070-9908, doi: 10.1109/LSP.2005.862615

  • Maione G (2008). Continued Fractions Approximation of the Impulse Response of Fractional Order Dynamic Systems. IET Control Theory & Applications, vol. 2 (7), p. 564-572, ISSN: 1751-8644, doi: 10.1049/iet-cta:20070205

  • Maione G, Lino P (2007). New Tuning Rules for Fractional PI^alfa Controllers. Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 49 (1-2), p. 251-257, ISSN: 0924-090X, doi: 10.1007/s11071-006-9125-x

• 2011: first funding of an Italian research project on fractional order systems and controllers, Research Project PRIN 2009 (Italian national project of relevant interest) “High-performance robust fractional controllers for applications in industry and mechatronics”

• 2008/10: Invited chapter “Discrete-Event Dynamic Systems Modelling Distributed Multi-Agent Control of Intermodal Container Terminals” in P. Pecherková, M. Flídr, J. Duník (Eds.), Robotics, Automation and Control, I-Tech Education and Publishing KG, Vienna, Austria, DOI: 10.5772/70, ISBN 978-953-7619-18-3, pp. 39-58

• “A Genetic Approach for Adaptive Multi-Agent Control in Heterachical Manufacturing Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part A: Special Issue on Collective Intelligence in Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 33, no. 5, Sept. 2003, pp. 573-588, ISSN 1083-4427: paper selected between the excellence-level scientific products of Politecnico di Bari, CIVR (“Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca”) triennial research evaluation for years 2001-2003

• “A Soft Computing Approach for Task Contracting in Multi-Agent Manufacturing Control”, Computers in Industry, vol. 52, no. 3, Dec. 2003, pp. 199-219, ISSN 0166-3615: paper selected between the good-level scientific products of Politecnico di Bari, CIVR (“Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca”) triennial research evaluation for years 2001-2003

• “Digraph-based Techniques for Deadlock Resolution in Automated Manufacturing Systems”: invited chapter in Deadlock Resolution in Computer-Integrated Systems, Eds. M.-C. Zhou and M.P. Fanti, Marcel Dekker/CRC Press, New York, 2005, chap. 5, pp. 131-154

• “A Soft Computing Approach for Task Contracting in Multi-Agent Manufacturing Control”, Computers in Industry, vol. 52, no. 3, Dec. 2003, pp. 199-219, ISSN 0166-3615: paper selected between the good-level scientific products of Politecnico di Bari, CIVR (“Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca”) triennial research evaluation for years 2001-2003

• “Modeling Adaptive Multi-Agent Manufacturing Control with Discrete-Event System Formalism”: paper selected for the official SME Emerging Technologies Monitor, Electronic Newsletter, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, winter 2005

• Best Paper in Icinco 2004, “Using A Discrete-Event System Formalism for the Multi-Agent Control of Manufacturing Systems”, paper selected as Best Paper from the 1st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO’04), Setubal, Portugal, 25-28 Aug. 2004

Service activities

Politecnico di Bari, Bari:

• Project leader and responsible for Erasmus+ exchanges with Russian Federation, Key Action 1, KA107 International Credit Mobility, 2016 - today

• Project leader and responsible for Erasmus+ exchanges with Serbia, Key Action 1, KA107 International Credit Mobility, 2015 - today

• Member of the Educational Board for the PhD Doctoral Program in Electrical and Information Engineering, 2010 – today

• Member of the Educational Board for the PhD Doctoral Program in Information Engineering, 2006 – 2013

• Member of the DEI (transl. as Dept. of Electrical and Information Engineering) Council, 2003 and 2011 – today

• Member of the Examination Board for the engineering professional qualification, 2005 – 2006 and 2012 – 2013

• Institution, start-up and ad-interim presidency of the IEEE Student Branch, 1996 – 1997

Politecnico di Bari, II School of Engineering, Taranto:

• Member of the Board for the PhD Doctoral Program in Environmental and Regional Planning Engineering, 2005 – 2013

• Member of the Faculty Council, 2003 – 2012

• Member of the DIASS (transl. as Dept. of Environmental and Sustainable Development Engineering) Council, 2004 – 2011

• Member of the Board for Evaluation of the Educational System, 2003 – 2006 and 2007 – 2008

• Member of the Class Council for the 1st and 2nd level Programs in Electronic and Information Engineering, 2003 – 2012

• Secretary of the Class Council for the 1st and 2nd level Programs in Electronic and Information Engineering, 2003 – 2008

• Member of the Board for the academic development of the II School of Engineering, 2003 – 2006

• Member of the Committee for the institution of the 2nd level Program in Electronic and Information Engineering, 2003 – 2006

• Start-up and management of the teaching laboratory of Automatic Control, 2004 – 2013

University of Lecce, School of Engineering:

• Member of the Educational Board for the PhD Doctoral Program in Information Engineering, 1999 – 2003

• Member of the Executive Board of the Dept. of Innovation Engineering, 2002

• Member of the Council of the Dept. of Innovation Engineering, 1999 – 2002

• Member of the Council of the Dept. of Material Science, 1996 –1999

• Member of the Faculty Council, 1996 – 2002

• Secretary of the Faculty Council, 2000

• Member of the Class Council for the 1st (Bachelor) and 2nd (M.Sc.) level Programs and for the old 5-years M.Sc. Program in Information Engineering, 1996 – 2002

• Secretary of the Class Council for the old 5-years M.Sc. program in Information Engineering, 1998 – 1999

• Member of the education committee for the old 5-years M.Sc. program in Information Engineering, 1997 – 1998

• Cooperation to management of the teaching laboratory of Automatic Control, 1999 – 2000

• Design, start-up and management of the teaching laboratory of Automatic Control, 1996 – 1998

External:

• Expert evaluator in the MIUR-Cineca database (MIUR stands for Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research)

• Reviewer of PRIN (Italian projects of significant national interest) research projects

• Member of the Examination Board, open competitive exam for a tenure track assistant professor position in Automatic Control, University of Catania, 2005

• Member of the Examination Board, open competitive exam for a tenure track assistant professor position in Automatic Control, University of Naples "Federico II", 2002

• Member of the Examination Board, open competitive exam for scholarships in the PhD Program in Electronic and Automation Engineering, University of Catania, 2002

• Member of the Examination Board, open competitive exam for a tenure track assistant professor position in Electromagnetic Fields, University of Lecce, 2001

• Member of the Examination Board, open competitive exam for a tenure track assistant professor position in Automatic Control, University of Bologna, 2000

Important publications in the past years

1. R. R. Nigmatullin, P. Lino, G. Maione, New Digital Signal Processing Methods: Applications to Measurement and Diagnostics, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2020, Print ISBN 978-3-030-45358-9, Online ISBN 978-3-030-45359-6, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45359-6

2. P. Lino, G. Maione, R. Garrappa, S. Holme, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 115, Oct. 2021, 104890, DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2021.104890 (Pub. Date: 2021-07-23). Free access until September 11, 2021.

3. B. Jakovljević, P. Lino, G. Maione, Control of Double-loop Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives by Optimized Fractional and Distributed-Order PID Controllers, European Journal of Control, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcon.2020.06.005 (Pub. Date: 2020-07-08)

4. G. Maione, “Design of Cascaded and Shifted Fractional-Order Lead Compensators for Plants with Monotonically Increasing Lags”, Fractal and Fractional 2020, 4 (3), 37; doi:10.3390/fractalfract4030037, 27 July 2020

5. R. R. Nigmatullin, P. Lino, G. Maione, “"Fuzzy" calculus: The link between quantum mechanics and discrete fractional operators”, Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis, Volume 23, Issue 3, pp. 764–786, 25 June 2020, eISSN 1314-2224, ISSN 1311-0454, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fca-2020-0038 (Pub. date 2020-07-11)

6. R. R. Nigmatullin, A. S. Vorobev, A. R. Nasybullin, A. D’Orazio, G. Maione, P. Lino, and M. Grande, “Advanced and sensitive method by discrete geometrical invariants for detection of differences between complex fluids”, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, vol. 73, pp. 265-274, Feb. 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2019.02.012 (19 Feb. 2019)

7. P. Lino, G. Maione, S. Stasi, F. Padula, A. Visioli, “Synthesis of fractional-order PI controllers and fractional-order filters for industrial electrical drives”, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 58–69, Jan. 2017, DOI: 10.1109/JAS.2017.7510325

8. R. Garrappa, F. Mainardi, G. Maione, “Models of dielectric relaxation based on completely monotone functions”, Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis, vol. 19, no. 5 (2016), pp. 1105-1160, DOI: 10.1515/fca-2016-0060, 1 Oct. 2016

9. R. Caponetto, G. Maione, J. Sabatier, Editorial, “Fractional-order control: A new approach for industrial applications”, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 56, 2016, pp. 157-158, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2016.09.008

10. G. Maione, A. M. Mangini, M. Ottomanelli, “A Generalized Stochastic Petri Net Approach for Modelling Activities of Human Operators in Intermodal Container Terminals”, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 4, Oct. 2016, pp. 1504-1516, DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2016.2553439 (10 May 2016)

11. P. Lino, G. Maione, F. Saponaro, K. Li, “Evolutionary Optimization of Model Parameters for Electro-injectors in Common Rail Diesel Engines”, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 138, Issue 4, 2016, Paper No: DS-15-1250, DOI: 10.1115/1.4032481 (online Feb. 03, 2016), http://dynamicsystems.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleid=2482745

12. R. Caponetto, V. Tomasello, P. Lino, G. Maione, “Design and Efficient Implementation of Digital Non-integer Order Controllers for Electro-mechanical Systems”, Journal of Vibration and Control, Special Issue: Challenges in Fractional Dynamics and Control Theory, vol. 22, no. 9, May 2016, pp. 2196-2210, DOI: 10.1177/1077546315614120 (online Nov. 1, 2015)

13. R.R. Nigmatullin, V.A. Toboev, P. Lino, G. Maione, “Reduced Fractal Model for Quantitative Analysis of Averaged Micromotions in Mesoscale: Characterization of Blow-Like Signals”, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Vol. 76, 2015, pp. 166-181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2015.03.022

14. R.R. Nigmatullin, C. Ceglie, G. Maione, D. Striccoli, “Reduced Fractional Modeling of 3D Video Streams: the FERMA Approach”, Nonlinear Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s11071-014-1792-4, 12 Nov. 2014

15. G. Maione, “Correction to “Closed-Form Rational Approximations of Fractional, Analog and Digital Differentiators/Integrators””, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol. 3, no. 4, p. 654, DOI: 10.1109/JETCAS.2013.2293911, Dec. 2013

16. R. Caponetto, G. Dongola, G. Maione, A. Pisano, “Integrated technology fractional order proportional-integral-derivative design”, Journal of Vibration and Control, vol. 20, no. 7, May 2014, pp. 1066-1075, DOI:10.1177/1077546313487939 (online July 8, 2013)

17. G. Maione, “Closed-form rational approximations of fractional, analog and digital differentiators/integrators”, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, special issue on Fractional-Order Circuits and Systems (Eds. A. Elwakil, B. Maundy, L. Fortuna, G. Chen), vol. 3, no. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 322-329, DOI: 10.1109/JETCAS.2013.2268949 (online June 26, 2013)

18. G. Maione, R. Caponetto, A. Pisano, “Optimization of zero-pole interlacing for indirect discrete approximations of noninteger order operators”, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Special Issue on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications (Eds. D. Baleanu, J.A. Tenreiro Machado, W. Chen), vol. 66, no. 5, Sept. 2013, pp. 746-754, DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2013.01.007 (online Feb. 4, 2013)

19. R. Caponetto, G. Maione, A. Pisano, M. R. Rapaić, E. Usai, “Analysis and shaping of the self-sustained oscillations in relay controlled fractional-order systems”, Fractional Calculus & Applied Analysis, Special Issue: “Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications 2012”, vol. 16, no. 1, 2013, pp. 93-108, DOI: 10.2478/s13540-013-0007-x

20. G. Maione, A. Punzi, “Combining Differential Evolution and Particle Swarm Optimization to Tune and Realize Fractional Order Controllers”, Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems, vol. 19, no. 3, 2013, pp. 277-299, DOI:10.1080/13873954.2012.745006 (online 19 Nov. 2012), ISSN 1387-3954 (Print), 1744-5051 (Online)

21. G. Maione, “On the Laguerre Rational Approximation to Fractional Discrete Derivative and Integral Operators”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 58, no. 6, June 2013, pp. 1579-1585, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2013.2244273 (online 2012), ISSN 0018-9286

22. P. Lino, G. Maione, “Loop-Shaping and Easy Tuning of Fractional-Order Proportional Integral Controllers for Position Servo Systems”, Asian Journal of Control, Special Issue on “Advances in Fractional Order Control and Estimation”, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1-10, May 2013, DOI: 10.1002/asjc.556 (Date of Publication: 25 June 2012), ISSN: 1561-8625 (Online ISSN: 1934-6093),

23. G. Maione, D. Striccoli, “Transmission control of Variable-Bit-Rate video streaming in UMTS networks”, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 20, no. 12, Dec. 2012, pp. 1366-1373, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2012.08.003 (online 11 Oct. 2012), ISSN 0967-0661

24. G. Maione, “Thiele’s continued fractions in digital implementation of noninteger differintegrators”, Signal, Image and Video Processing, Special Issue: Fractional signals and systems (Eds.: C. M. Ionescu, J. Sabatier, J. A. Tenreiro Machado), vol. 6, no. 3, Sept. 2012, pp. 401-410, DOI: 10.1007/s11760-012-0319-z (Date of Publication: 8 May 2012)

25. G. Maione, “High-Speed Digital Realizations of Fractional Operators in the Delta Domain”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 56, no. 3, March 2011, pp. 697-702, ISSN 0018-9286, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2101134 (Date of Publication: 20 Dec. 2010)

26. G. Maione, “Continued fractions approximation of the impulse response of fractional order dynamic systems”, IET Control Theory and Applications, vol. 2, no. 7, July 2008, pp. 564-572, DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta:20070205

27. G. Maione, P. Lino, “New tuning rules for fractional PI^a controllers”, Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 49, no. 1-2, July 2007, pp. 251-257, DOI: 10.1007/s11071-006-9125-x (July 1, 2007)

Some professional activities

• Panel member for a public tender: "eI.S.LOG.", PIT6, Provincia di Taranto, 2007 – 2008

• Panel member for a public tender: "Gara per l'appalto dei lavori e forniture per la realizzazione di una rete di rilevamento e dei sistemi di analisi e monitoraggio dei livelli di inquinamento urbano", Francavilla Fontana (Brindisi), Italy, 2005