Seminar: "Krasovskii passivity based control and output consensus" - Michele CUCUZZELLA (Università di Pavia)
Seminar organized within the project DISMA Excellence Project 2018-2022.
"Krasovskii passivity based control and output consensus"
Michele Cucuzzella - Università di Pavia
Tuesday October 4th, 2022 at 4:30PM
Aula Buzano - Department of Mathematical Sciences
Politecnico di Torino
Also hosted on zoom.
Abstract: Dynamical flow networks are vital in modeling many networks, such as transportation networks, distribution networks, and queuing networks. While the flow dynamics in such networks follow the conservation of mass on the links, the outflow from each link is often non-linear due to the actual flow dynamics, flow capacity constraints, and simultaneous service constraints. Such non-linear constraints imply a limit on the magnitude of exogenous inflows that a dynamical flow network can handle. If the exogenous inflows are too large, the state trajectory will diverge. On the contrary, if the inflows are small enough, it is reasonable to expect that the state trajectory is bounded. This talk will present how the Strong integral Input-to-State Stability (Strong iISS) property allows for quantifying the effects of the exogenous inflow on the flow dynamics. Several examples of how the Strong iISS property complements previous stability analysis of classes of dynamical flow networks will be given, such as multi-commodity flow networks, networks with cycles, and networks with non-monotone flow dynamics.
Biography: Michele Cucuzzella received the M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Control from the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Since 2021 he is Assistant Professor of automatic control at the University of Pavia. From 2017 until 2020, he was a Postdoc at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. From April to June 2016, and from February to March 2017 he was with the Bernoulli Institute of the University of Groningen. His research activities are mainly in the area of nonlinear control with application to the energy domain and smart systems. He has co-authored the book Advanced and Optimization Based Sliding Mode Control: Theory and Applications, SIAM, 2019. He serves as Associate Editor for the European Control Conference since 2018 and received the Certificate of Outstanding Service as Reviewer of the IEEE Control Systems Letters 2019. He also received the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award, the IEEE Italy Section Award for the best Ph.D. thesis on new technological challenges in energy and industry, and the SIDRA Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of systems and control engineering. He was also finalist for the EECI Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in Europe in the field of control for complex and heterogeneous systems, and for the IEEE-CSS Italy Best Young Paper Award.
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