Control@UniTS
Description of the research group
The Control@UniTS group has a long-established tradition of education, research and innovative solutions in the areas of Automation, Modelling and Simulation. The staff includes a full professor (Thomas Parisini), an associate professor (Felice Andrea Pellegrino), an assistant professor (Gianfranco Fenu) and an assistant professor non-tenure track (Erica Salvato). Their expertise covers the following areas: Industrial Automation, Model Identification, Fault-Diagnosis, Distributed Optimization and Learning, and Data-driven Control.
Application fields include Robotics and vision for smart manufacturing, Water and transportation networks, and Particle accelerators.
The professors of the staff have been members of the Editorial Boards of the leading control journals. Over the years, the group has participated in several projects funded by EU Research Programme and by the Italian Research Ministry. The lab carried out also several industrial research projects funded by: Danieli & C. S.p.A., ELECTROLUX S.P.A.
Keyword 1: data-driven model predictive and model free control
Keyword 2: robotics and vision for smart manufacturing
Keyword 3: resilient multi-agent systems
Keyword 4: fault-diagnosis
Keyword 5: cybersecurity of large-scale distributed systems
Head of the research group
List of members in the research group
Thomas Parisini – PO – ING-INF/04
Felice Andrea Pellegrino – PA – ING-INF/04
Gianfranco Fenu – RU – ING-INF/04
Erica Salvato – RTD-A – ING-INF/04
Research projects
• PNRR iNEST Project, Interconnected North-East Innovation Ecosystem (Spoke 9)
o Participants: Parisini, Salvato
• A holistic monitoring and diagnostic tool for photovoltaic generators (HOTSPOT) 2020 Program for Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN), Grant n°. 2020LB9TBC_002
o Participants: Fenu, Pellegrino
• Monitoring and Control Underpinning the Energy-Aware Factory of the Future: Novel Methodologies and Industrial Validation: 2017 Program for Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN), Grant n°. 2017YKXYXJ
o Principal Investigator: Thomas Parisini
o Participants: Fenu, Pellegrino, Salvato
Name of the laboratories
Industrial Automation Lab – two PLCs Siemens S7-1500 connected to a workstation (for industrial plant digital-twin implementation & testing), PCs for simulation, development and testing of control and learning tasks;
IAAERI Lab – Automatic Control Section – an ABB robotic manipulator, complete with an industrial robot controller and a PC, for programming the robot; a cable robot, as testbed for model-free control strategies;
DroneLab – a motion-capture system, three mini-drones and two PCs, for developing embedded, distributed and/or centralized control strategies for the drones.
