Personal Info

Matteo Rubagotti

Matteo Rubagotti, PhD

I was born in Voghera (PV), Italy, in 1982. I received the B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Computer Engineering, and the Ph.D. in Electronics, Computer Science and Electric Engineering (curriculum in Automatic Control) from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 2004, 2006, and 2010, respectively.
During my Ph.D. I held visiting positions at the Center for Automotive Research of the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (7 months), and at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2 months).
From January 2010 to August 2012 I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering of the University of Trento, Italy, and then in the DYSCO research unit at IMT Lucca. From August 2012 I moved to Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, as Assistant Professor.

My main research interests are on digital embedded control systems, model predictive control and sliding mode control of nonlinear systems, hybrid dynamical systems, and mobile robotics.

Publications

Journal Publications

M. Rubagotti, M. Carminati, R. Grassetti, G. Clemente and A. Ferrara, Modeling and Control of an Airbrake Electro-Hydraulic Smart Actuator, Asian Journal of Control, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1159-1170, 2012.
T. Poggi, M. Rubagotti, A. Bemporad and M. Storace, High-Speed Piecewise Affine Virtual Sensors, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 1228-1237, 2012.
M. Rubagotti, A. Estrada, F. Castanos, A. Ferrara, L. Fridman, Integral Sliding Mode Control for Nonlinear Systems with Matched and Unmatched Perturbations, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 2699-2704, 2011.
M. Rubagotti, M.L. Della Vedova and A. Ferrara, Time-Optimal Sliding Mode Control of a Mobile Robot in a Dynamic Environment, IET Control Theory and Applications, vol. 5, no. 16, pp. 1916-1924, 2011.
M. Rubagotti, D.M. Raimondo, A. Ferrara and L. Magni, Robust Model Predictive Control with Integral Sliding Mode in Continuous-Time Sampled-Data Nonlinear Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 556-570, 2011.
A. Ferrara and M. Rubagotti, A Sub-Optimal Second Order Sliding Mode Controller for Systems with Saturating Actuators, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1082-1087, 2009.
A. Ferrara and M. Rubagotti, Second Order Sliding Mode Control of a Mobile Robot Based on a Harmonic Potential Field, IET Control Theory and Applications, vol. 2, no. 9, pp. 807-818, 2008.

Refereed Proceedings

M. Rubagotti, L. Zaccarian, and A. Bemporad. Stability Analysis of Discrete-Time Piecewise-Affine Systems Over Non-Invariant Domains, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, 10-13 December 2012.
M. Rubagotti, T. Poggi, A. Bemporad, and M. Storace. Piecewise-Affine Direct Virtual Sensors with Reduced Complexity, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, 10-13 December 2012.
M. Rubagotti, D. Barcelli, A. Bemporad. Approximate Explicit MPC on Simplicial Partitions with Guaranteed Stability for Constrained Linear Systems, IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear MPC, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, 23-27 August, 2012.
A. Oliveri, D. Barcelli, A. Bemporad, B.A.G. Genuit, W.P.M.H. Heemels, T. Poggi, M. Rubagotti, M. Storace. MOBY-DIC: A Matlab Toolbox for the Circuit Design of Explicit MPC, IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear MPC, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, 23-27 August, 2012.
M.L. Della Vedova, M. Rubagotti, T. Facchinetti, A. Ferrara. Platooning Control of Autonomous Nonholonomic Mobile Robots in a Human-Robot Coexisting Environment, American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 27-29 June 2012, to appear.
S. Trimboli, M. Rubagotti, A. Bemporad. Stability and Invariance Analysis of Uncertain PWA Systems Based on Linear Programming, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2011, Orlando, FL, 12-15 December 2011.
M. Rubagotti, S. Trimboli, D. Bernardini, and A. Bemporad, Stability and invariance analysis of approximate explicit MPC based on PWA Lyapunov functions, IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, 2011.
D. Bullo, A. Ferrara and M. Rubagotti. Sliding Mode Observers for Sensorless Control of Current Fed Induction Motors, American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, 29 June - 1 July 2011.
M. Carminati, M. Rubagotti, R. Grassetti, G. Ferrari and M. Sampietro. A Smart Embedded Control Unit for Electro-Hydraulic Aircraft Actuators, Int. Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion, Bologna, Italy, 19-21 October 2010.
M. Rubagotti, D.M. Raimondo, C.N. Jones, L. Magni, A. Ferrara and M. Morari. A Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Scheme with Multirate Integral Sliding Mode, IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Bologna, Italy, 1-3 September 2010.
M. Rubagotti and A. Ferrara. Second Order Sliding Mode Control of a Perturbed Double Integrator with State Constraints, American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 30 June - 2 July 2010.
M. Rubagotti, A. Estrada, F. Castanos, A. Ferrara and L. Fridman. Optimal Disturbance Rejection via Integral Sliding Mode Control for Uncertain Systems in Regular Form, Int. Workshop on Variable Structure Systems, Mexico City, Mexico, 26-28 June 2010.
M. Rubagotti, S. Onori and G. Rizzoni. Automotive Battery Prognostics Using Dual Extended Kalman Filter , ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Hollywood, California, 12-14 October 2009.
M. Rubagotti, D.M. Raimondo, A. Ferrara and L. Magni. Robust Model Predictive Control of Continuous-Time Sampled-Data Nonlinear Systems with Integral Sliding Mode, European Control Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 23-26 August 2009.
A. Ferrara and M. Rubagotti. A Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance Strategy for a Mobile Robot Based on Sliding Mode Control, Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, St. Petersburg, Russia, 8-10 July 2009.
G. Rizzoni, S. Onori and M. Rubagotti. Diagnosis and Prognosis of Automotive Systems: Motivations, History and Some Results, IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes, Barcelona, Spain, 30 June - 3 July 2009.
A. Ferrara and M. Rubagotti. A Sub-Optimal Sliding Mode Controller for Current Fed Induction Motors, American Control Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 10-12 June 2009.
M. Rubagotti, D.M. Raimondo, A. Ferrara and L. Magni. Robust nonlinear MPC with integral sliding mode for systems with matched disturbances. (extended abstract for poster session), Workshop on Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Pavia, Italy, 5-9 September 2008.
A. Ferrara and M. Rubagotti. A Sub-Optimal Second Order Sliding Mode Controller for Systems with Saturating Actuators, American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington, 11-13 June 2008.
A. Ferrara and M. Rubagotti. Gradient Tracking Based Second Order Sliding Mode Control of a Wheeled Vehicle, European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, 2-5 July 2007.
A. Ferrara and M. Rubagotti. Sliding Mode Control of a Mobile Robot for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance Based on a Time-Varying Harmonic Potential Field, Workshop on planning, perception and navigation for intelligent vehicles, at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Roma, Italy, 10-14 April 2007.

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