Alberto Bemporad


Professor of Control Systems
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Piazza San Francesco 19, 55100 Lucca, Italy [map]
Tel: +39 0583 4326600, Fax: +39 02 700 543345
Email: alberto.bemporad@imtlucca.it

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Funded projects

European Commission

European Space and Defence Agencies

  • “Model Predictive Control for Adaptable Space Applications”, ESA Networking Partnering Agreement, Contract no. 4000106153 (2012-2015, 90 k€)
  • NICE - Nonlinear innovative control designs and evaluation, European Defence Agency (2010-2012, 155 k€)
  • “QP Solver for the Enhancement of the MPCSofT Tool”, ESA Contract no. 4000104425 (2011, 10 k€)
  • ROBMPC - Robust model predictive control of space constrained systems, European Space Agency (2010-2012, 132 k€)
  • ORCSAT - On-line Reconfiguration Control System and Avionics Technologies, European Space Agency (2009-2011, 80 k€)

National and local funding

  • "Advanced drums and intelligent systems for sustainable innovation in the tanning sector" (FESR Tuscan Region project) (2021-2022, 250 k€)
  • "Data-driven learning of constrained control systems" (PRIN'17 project) (2019-2022, 149 k€). National project coordinator (total project budget: 421k euro)
  • National Research Council project within the FIRB project "Public debt management for the application of advanced mathematical models, MPC, and stochastic optimization" (2007, 10 k€)
  • "Optimization-based decision-making algorithms for heterogeneous networked cooperative systems", University of Siena (2005-2006, 23 k€)
  • "MACSI - Advanced control methodologies for hybrid dynamical systems", National funding (PRIN project) (2005-2006, 37 k€)
  • "Models for optimization, control and coordination of distributed manufacturing systems", National funding (PRIN project)(2003-2004, 50 k€)
  • "Optimization methods for hybrid systems", University of Siena (2003, 14 k€)

Industrial funding

  • Global optimization for safety-aware automotive control, Denso Automotive Deutschland GmbH (2021-2023, 90 k€)
  • Project HighTissue "High efficiency paper tissue transformation line", Milltech Srl (project funded by "Bando Unico R&S 2012" of Region Tuscany) (2012-2015, 165 k€)
  • Model predictive control for pricing and dynamic hedging of financial options, MPS Capital Services (2009, 20 k€)
  • Wireless electronic systems for monitoring environmental parameters in kennels and other animal shelters, "Amici di Lara & 33" Association (2009, 4 k€)
  • Research project Robust MPC for satellite attitude control, Thales Alenia Space (France) (2008, 10 k€)