Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate
EPFL STI IGM SCI-STI-GFT
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Mission
See the webpage of the DECODE (Dependable Control and Decision) group.Publications
Infoscience publications
Recent publications
Frequency domain data-driven robust and optimal control
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-11123.
Stability: a search for structure
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10550.
A Coverage Control-Based Idle Vehicle Rebalancing Approach for Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems
Ieee Transactions On Control Systems Technology
2024-03-19
DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2024.3375765
Minimal regret state estimation of time-varying systems
2023-01-01. 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) , Yokohama, JAPAN , JUL 09-14, 2023. p. 2595-2600.DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1345.
Follow the Clairvoyant: an Imitation Learning Approach to Optimal Control
2023-01-01. 22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) , Yokohama, JAPAN , JUL 09-14, 2023. p. 2589-2594.DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1344.
Unconstrained Parametrization of Dissipative and Contracting Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
2023-01-01. 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , Singapore, SINGAPORE , DEC 13-15, 2023. p. 3043-3048.Safe Zeroth-Order Optimization Using Linear Programs
2023-01-01. 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , Singapore, SINGAPORE , DEC 13-15, 2023. p. 556-561.Homothetic Tube Model Predictive Control With Multi-Step Predictors
Ieee Control Systems Letters
2023-01-01
DOI : 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3336261
Physically Consistent Neural ODEs for Learning Multi-Physics Systems
2023. 22nd IFAC World Congress , Yokohama, Japan , July 9-14, 2023. p. 5855-5860.DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.079.
Distributionally Robust Infinite-horizon Control: from a pool of samples to the design of dependable controllers
2023-12-12
Data-Driven Control and Optimization under Noisy and Uncertain Conditions
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10304.
Universal Approximation Property of Hamiltonian Deep Neural Networks
Ieee Control Systems Letters
2023-01-01
DOI : 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3288350
Data-enabled Predictive Control for Empty Vehicle Rebalancing
2023-07-17. 21st European Control Conference (ECC 23) , Bucharest, Romania , 13-16 June, 2023.DOI : 10.23919/ECC57647.2023.10178140.
Near-Optimal Design of Safe Output-Feedback Controllers From Noisy Data
Ieee Transactions On Automatic Control
2023-05-01
DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2022.3180692
Safe Zeroth-Order Convex Optimization Using Quadratic Local Approximations
2023. 21st European Control Conference - ECC2023 , Bucharest, Romania , June 13-16, 2023.DOI : 10.23919/ECC57647.2023.10178374.
Maximum likelihood estimation of distribution grid topology and parameters from Smart Meter data
2023-01-01. IEEE PES Grid Edge Technologies Conference and Exposition (Grid Edge) , San Diego, CA , Apr 10-13, 2023.DOI : 10.1109/GridEdge54130.2023.10102720.
Data-driven Methods for Control: from Linear to Lifting
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9798.
Regularization for distributionally robust state estimation and prediction
2023
DOI : 10.48550/arxiv.2304.09921
Bayesian Error-in-Variables Models for the Identification of Distribution Grids
Ieee Transactions On Smart Grid
2023-03-01
DOI : 10.1109/TSG.2022.3211546
Machine Learning Methods for Robust Uncertainty Quantification and Controller Approximation
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9831.
Hamiltonian Deep Neural Networks Guaranteeing Non-Vanishing Gradients by Design
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
2023-01-24
DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2023.3239430
On the Optimality and Convergence Properties of the Iterative Learning Model Predictive Controller
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
2023-01-01
DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2022.3148227
Optimal control configuration in distribution network via an exact OPF relaxation method
2022-01-01. IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , Cancun, MEXICO , Dec 06-09, 2022. p. 5698-5704.DOI : 10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9993413.
Neural System Level Synthesis: Learning over All Stabilizing Policies for Nonlinear Systems
2022. 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , Cancún, Mexico , December 6-9, 2022.DOI : 10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992492.
Distributed neural network control with dependability guarantees: a compositional port-Hamiltonian approach
2022. 4th Annual Conference on Learning for Dynamics and Control , Stanford, California, USA , June 23-24, 2022. p. 571-583.Neural Energy Casimir Control for Port-Hamiltonian Systems
2022-12-06. 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , Cancun, Mexico , December 6-9, 2022.DOI : 10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992784.
Empty Vehicle Repositioning for Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand systems via Coverage Control
2022-06-01. the 10th symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART) , Leuven, Belgium , June 1-3 , 2022.Distributed coverage control for vehicle rebalancing in Mobility-on-Demand systems
2022-01-09. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 101st Annual Meeting , Washington, D.C. , Jan 9-13, 2022.Data-driven Power Electronic Converter Control Design in Power System Applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9150.
Idle-vehicle Rebalancing Coverage Control for Ride-sourcing systems
2022-01-01. European Control Conference (ECC) , London, ENGLAND , Jul 12-15, 2022. p. 1970-1975.DOI : 10.23919/ECC55457.2022.9838069.
Finite-sample-based Spectral Radius Estimation and Stabilizability Test for Networked Control Systems
2022-01-01. European Control Conference (ECC) , London, ENGLAND , Jul 12-15, 2022. p. 2087-2092.DOI : 10.23919/ECC55457.2022.9838044.
A Unified Passivity-Based Framework for Control of Modular Islanded AC Microgrids
Ieee Transactions On Control Systems Technology
2022-09-01
DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2021.3136489
Robust Classification Using Contractive Hamiltonian Neural ODEs
Ieee Control Systems Letters
2022-06-28
DOI : 10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3186959
Optimal Adaptive Droop Design via a Modified Relaxation of the OPF
Ieee Transactions On Control Systems Technology
2022-06-28
DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2022.3183164
Real-Time Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Fast Mechatronic Systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7699.
Data-driven and Safe Networked Control with Applications to Microgrids
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9185.
Identification of AC Distribution Networks With Recursive Least Squares and Optimal Design of Experiment
Ieee Transactions On Control Systems Technology
2022
DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2021.3116856
Consensus-Based Current Sharing and Voltage Balancing in DC Microgrids with Exponential Loads
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
2022
DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2021.3120321
Data-Driven Unknown-Input Observers and State Estimation
IEEE Control Systems Letters
2022
DOI : 10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3102821
A unified framework for Hamiltonian deep neural networks
2021. Learning for Dynamics and Control , Online , June 7-8, 2021. p. 275-286.Actuator Placement for Structural Controllability beyond Strong Connectivity and towards Robustness
2021-01-01. 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , ELECTR NETWORK , Dec 13-17, 2021. p. 5294-5299.DOI : 10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683002.
A Behavioral Input-Output Parametrization of Control Policies with Suboptimality Guarantees
2021-01-01. 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , ELECTR NETWORK , Dec 13-17, 2021. p. 2539-2544.DOI : 10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683647.
Bayesian Methods for the Identification of Distribution Networks
2021. 2021 IEEE 60th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , Austin, Texas, USA , December 13-17, 2021. p. 3646-3651.DOI : 10.1109/CDC45484.2021.9683503.
Learning Robustly Safe Output Feedback Controllers from Noisy Data with Performance Guarantees
2021-10-26
On Consensusability of Linear Interconnected Multi-Agent Systems and Simultaneous Stabilization
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
2021
DOI : 10.1109/TCNS.2021.3106446
Hierarchical Control of Islanded Microgrids with Flexible Structures
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8775.
Supervised model predictive control of large-scale electricity networks via clustering methods
Optimal Control Applications & Methods
2021-03-31
DOI : 10.1002/oca.2725
Optimization Methods for Control: From Embedded Programmable Hardware to Data-Driven Process Optimization
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10433.
Hierarchical Control in Islanded DC Microgrids With Flexible Structures
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
2020
DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2020.3038495
A Distributed Cyber-Attack Detection Scheme With Application to DC Microgrids
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
2020
DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2020.2982577
Suboptimal Distributed LQR Design for Physically Coupled Systems
2020-01-01. 21st IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control - Meeting Societal Challenges , ELECTR NETWORK , Jul 11-17, 2020. p. 11032-11037.DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.227.
Consensusability of linear interconnected multi-agent systems
2020-01-01. 21st IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control - Meeting Societal Challenges , ELECTR NETWORK , Jul 11-17, 2020. p. 2915-2920.DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.965.
On Existence of Equilibria, Voltage Balancing, and Current Sharing in Consensus-Based DC Microgrids
2020-05-15. European Control Conference (ECC 20) , Saint Petersburg, Russia , May 12‑15, 2020. p. 1216-1223.DOI : 10.23919/ECC51009.2020.9143766.
A scalable, line-independent control design algorithm for voltage and frequency stabilization in AC islanded microgrids
Automatica
2020-01-01
DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2019.108577
A Passivity-Based Approach to Voltage Stabilization in DC Microgrids with ZIP loads
Automatica
2020
DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2019.108770
Approximate Kron Reduction Methods for Electrical Networks With Applications to Plug-and-Play Control of AC Islanded Microgrids
IEEE Transactions On Control Systems Technology
2019-11-01
DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2018.2863645
A Supervisory Control Structure for Voltage-Controlled Islanded DC Microgrids
2019. 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Nice, France , December 11-13, 2019. p. 6566-6571.DOI : 10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029612.
Distributed attack detection scheme for islanded DC microgrids
Future Electric Power Systems and the Energy Transition, Champéry, Switzerland, February 3-8, 2019.Passivity-based Voltage and Frequency Stabilization in AC microgrids
2019-01-01. 18th European Control Conference (ECC) , Naples, Italy , June 25-28, 2019. p. 1890-1895.DOI : 10.23919/ECC.2019.8796119.
Distributed Fault Detection for Interconnected Large-Scale Systems: A Scalable Plug & Play Approach
Ieee Transactions On Control Of Network Systems
2019-06-01
DOI : 10.1109/TCNS.2018.2878500
Stability Analysis of Primary Plug-and-Play and Secondary Leader-Based Controllers for DC Microgrid Clusters
Ieee Transactions On Power Systems
2019-05-01
DOI : 10.1109/TPWRS.2018.2884876
Plug-and-Play Fault Detection and Isolation for Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems With Stochastic Uncertainties
IEEE Transactions On Automatic Control
2019-01-01
DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2018.2811469
A Passivity-Based Approach to Voltage Stabilization in DC Microgrids
2018. Annual American Control Conference (ACC 2018) , Milwaukee, WI, USA , June 27-29, 2018. p. 5374-5379.DOI : 10.23919/ACC.2018.8431522.
Distributed watermarking for secure control of microgrids under replay attacks
2018
Distributed watermarking for secure control of microgrids under replay attacks
2018. 7th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NECSYS) , Groningen, The Netherlands , August 27-28, 2018 . p. 182-187.DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.12.032.
Distributed Cyber-Attack Detection in the Secondary Control of DC Microgrids
2018-01-01. European Control Conference (ECC) , Limassol, CYPRUS , Jun 12-15, 2018. p. 351-356.DOI : 10.23919/ECC.2018.8550549.
Voltage Stabilization in MVDC Microgrids Using Passivity-Based Nonlinear Control
2018-01-01. 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , Miami Beach, FL , Dec 17-19, 2018. p. 7022-7027.DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2018.8618882.
Stable current sharing and voltage balancing in DC microgrids: A consensus-based secondary control layer
AUTOMATICA
2018
DOI : 10.1016/j.automatica.2018.04.017
Stabilizing plug-and-play regulators and secondary coordinated control for AC islanded microgrids with bus-connected topology
APPLIED ENERGY
2018
DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.08.110
Line-Independent Plug-and-Play Controllers for Voltage Stabilization in DC Microgrids
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
2018
DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2017.2695167
Frequency-Domain Control Design in Power Systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8746.
Coordinated Optimization and Control for Smart Grids
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8814.
Distributed Optimization and Control using Operator Splitting Methods
EPFL, 2018.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8623.
Distributed Cyber-Attack Detection in the Secondary Control of DC Microgrids
2018. European Control Conference 2018 , Limassol, Cyprus . p. 344-349.DOI : 10.23919/ECC.2018.8550549.
Plug-and-play design of current controllers for grid-feeding converters in DC microgrids
2017. 11th Asian Control Conference (ASCC 2017) , Gold Coast, QLD, Australia , December 17-20, 2017. p. 2182-2187.DOI : 10.1109/ASCC.2017.8287513.
A distributed attack detection method for multi-agent systems governed by consensus-based control
2017. 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2017) , Melbourne, Australia , December 12-15, 2017. p. 5961-5966.DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2017.8264562.
Decentralized and distributed robust control invariance for constrained linear systems
2017. 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2017) , Melbourne, Australia , December 12-15, 2017. p. 5978-5984.DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2017.8264564.
Predictive Control methods for Building Control and Demand Response
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7738.
Review on Control of DC Microgrids
IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics
2017
DOI : 10.1109/JESTPE.2017.2690219
Model predictive controllers for Reduction of Mechanical Fatigue in Wind Farms
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
2017
DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2016.2572170
What population reveals about individual cell identity: Single-cell parameter estimation of models of gene expression in yeast
PLoS Computational Biology
2016
DOI : 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004706
A decentralized scalable approach to voltage control of DC islanded microgrids
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
2016
DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2016.2525001
Plug-and-Play fault detection and control reconfiguration for a class of nonlinear large-scale constrained systems
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
2016
DOI : 10.1109/TAC.2016.2535724
Plug-and-play control of AC islanded microgrids with general topology
2016. 2016 European Control Conference (ECC) , Aalborg , June 29 - July 1, 2016. p. 1493-1500.DOI : 10.1109/ECC.2016.7810501.
Voltage stabilization in DC microgrids: an approach based on line-independent plug-and-play controllers
2016
Consensus algorithms and plug-and-play control for current sharing in DC microgrids
2016
Validation methods for population models of gene expression dynamics
2016
Validation methods for population models of gene expression dynamics
2016. 6th IFAC Conference on Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering (FOSBE) , Magdeburg , October 9-12, 2016. p. 114-119.DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.12.112.
Scalable Monitoring of Interconnected Stochastic Systems
2016. 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , Las Vegas, USA , December 12-14, 2016. p. 1285-1290.DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2016.7798443.
Voltage stabilization in DC microgrids through coupling-independent plug-and-play controllers
2016. p. 4944-4949.DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2016.7799025.
Fixed-structure Control of LTI Systems with Polytopic-type Uncertainty
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6799.
Plug-and-Play distributed model predictive control with coupling attenuation
Optim. Control Appl. Meth.
2015
DOI : 10.1002/oca.2142
Plug-and-Play Voltage and Frequency Control of Islanded Microgrids With Meshed Topology
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
2015
DOI : 10.1109/TSG.2014.2381093
A Plug-and-Play fault diagnosis approach for large-scale systems
2015. 9th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision andSafety for Technical Processes SAFEPROCESS 2015 , Paris, France, September 2-4, 2015 , 2–4 September 2015. p. 601-606.DOI : 10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.09.592.
Plug-and-play state estimation and application to distributed output-feedback model predictive control
European Journal of Control
2015
DOI : 10.1016/j.ejcon.2015.04.001
Distributed bounded-error state estimation based on practical robust positive invariance
International Journal of Control
2015
DOI : 10.1080/00207179.2015.1040844
Deterministic and stochastic MPC algorithms for minimizing mechanical stresses in wind farms
2015. p. 1340-1345.DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2015.7402397.
Voltage control of DC islanded microgrids: a decentralized scalable approach
2015. p. 3149-3154.DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2015.7402691.
Stochastic fault detection in a plug-and-play scenario
2015. p. 3137-3142.DOI : 10.1109/CDC.2015.7402689.
Kron reduction methods for plug-and-play control of AC islanded microgrids with arbitrary topology
2015
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