Francesco Ferrante Assistant Professor Control Systems Department Grenoble Image Parole Signal Automatique Lab 11 Rue des Mathématiques Saint Martin d Hères, France 38402 Email: francesco.ferrante@gipsa-lab.fr Phone: +33 4 76 82 64 04 URL: http://www.fferrante.net Short Bio: Francesco Ferrante received in 2010 a Laurea degree (BS) in Control Engineering from Sapienza University, Rome, Italy and in 2012 a Laurea Magistrale degree cum laude (MS) in Control Engineering from University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. During 2014, he held a visiting scholar position at the Department of Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz. In 2015, he received a PhD degree in Control Theory from Institut Suprieur de l Aéronautique et de l Espace (SUPAERO) Toulouse, France. From 2015 to 2017, he held postdoctoral positions at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University and at the Department of Computer Engineering at University of California Santa Cruz. In September 2017, he joined the University of Grenoble Alpes and the Grenoble Image Parole Signale Automatique Laboratory, where he is currently an assistant professor. He is the recipient of the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award 2017 from the Research Cluster on Modeling, Analysis and Management of Dynamical Systems (GDR-MACS) of the French National Council of Scientific Research (CNRS). His research interests are in the general area of systems and control with a special focus on hybrid systems, observer design, and application of convex optimization in systems and control. Research Interests: Hybrid systems, observer design, application of convex optimization in systems and control. 1 Education: Ph.D., Control Theory Université de Toulouse, Toulouse. Fall 2015. Dissertation Title: On Quantization and Sporadic Measurements in Control Systems: Stability, Stabilization, and Observer Design. CV-1
M.S., Control Engineering (summa cum laude) Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma. Fall 2012. Thesis Title: On Stability and Stabilization of Saturated Linear Systems subject to Quantization. B.S., Control Engineering Università di Roma La Sapienza, Roma. Winter 2010. Thesis Title: Development and Experimentation of Reactive Motion Strategy for the Mobile Robot Khepera III. 2 Professional Experience: Assistant Professor Université Grenoble Alpes with a joint appointment at the Grenoble Parole Image Signal Automatique Lab Control Systems Department. September 2017 present. Postdoctoral Scholar University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Computer Engineering, Santa Cruz, California. September 2016 August 2017. Postdoctoral Fellow Clemson University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Clemson, California. November 2016 August 2016. Graduate Student Laboratoire d Architecture et Analyse des Systèmes, Toulouse, France. March 2012 October 2015. Undergraduate Student Robotics Lab. Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome. August 2009 December 2009. 3 Honors: Top PhD thesis award, Research Cluster on Modeling, Analysis and Management of Dynamical Systems (GDR-MACS) of the French National Council of Scientific Research (CNRS), 2017 Visiting student fellowship, Université de Toulouse, 2014 CV-2
Doctoral fellowship, French Government, 2012 Erasmus Placement fellowship, European Commission, 2012 Outstanding student award, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, 2011 & 2012 4 Teaching Experience: Lecturer. Undergraduate Course: Feedback Control. Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Control Engineering, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France. Winter 2018. Lecturer. Graduate Course: Analysis and Control of PDEs. Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Control Engineering, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France. Fall 2017. Lecturer. Graduate Course: Programmable Logic Controllers. Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Control Engineering, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France. Fall 2017. Lecturer. Workshop: Feedback Control of Hybrid Systems. 55th Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, USA. December 2016. Invited lecturer. Graduate Course: Hybrid Dynamical Systems: An introduction. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA. Spring 2016. Teaching assistant Undergraduate Course: Automatic control., Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. Winter 2012, 2013, 2014. Teaching assistant Graduate Course: Nonlinear systems, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. Winter 2014. Teaching assistant Graduate Course: Performance and robustness of feedback control systems, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. Fall 2013, 2014. Teaching assistant Graduate Course: State space methods for linear control, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. Winter 2013. 5 Professional Memberships: CV-3
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). 6 Publications: 6.1 Journal Articles: [1] F. Ferrante and Y. Wang, Robust almost global splay state stabilization of pulse coupled oscillators, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 3083 3090, 2017. [2] G. Rizzello, F. Ferrante, D. Naso, and S. Seelecke, Robust interaction control of a dielectric elastomer actuator with variable stiffness, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 1705 1716, 2017. [3] F. Ferrante, F. Gouaisbaut, R. G. Sanfelice, and S. Tarbouriech, State estimation of linear systems in the presence of sporadic measurements, Automatica, vol. 73, pp. 101 109, 2016. [4] F. Ferrante, F. Gouaisbaut, and S. Tarbouriech, Stabilization of continuoustime linear systems subject to input quantization, Automatica, vol. 58, pp. 167 172, 2015. 6.2 Peer-reviewed Conference Articles in Proceedings: [5] F. Ferrante and R. Sanfelice, On the value of the cost of optimal control problems for constrained difference inclusions, in To appear in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2018. [6] F. Ferrante and R. Sanfelice, Hybrid robust minimum-time control for a class of non-exponentially unstable planar systems, in To appear in Proceedings of the 56th Conference on Control and Decision Conference, 2017. [7] G. Rizzello, F. Ferrante, D. Naso, and S. Seelecke, Interaction control of a dielectric elastomer membrane with variable stiffness, in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2017, pp. 210 215. [8] F. Ferrante and Y. Wang, A hybrid systems approach to splay state stabilization of pulse coupled oscillators, in Proceedings of the 55th Conference on Decision and Control, 2016, pp. 1763 1768. [9] F. Ferrante, F. Gouaisbaut, R. G. Sanfelice, and S. Tarbouriech, A hybrid observer with a continuous intersample injection in the presence of sporadic measurements, in Proceedings of the 54th Conference on Decision and Control, 2015, pp. 5654 5659. CV-4
[10] F. Ferrante, F. Gouaisbaut, and S. Tarbouriech, Dynamic output-feedback controller design for continuous-time linear systems with actuator and sensor quantization, in Proceedings of the 2015 European Control Conference, 2015, pp. 1663 1668. [11] F. Ferrante, F. Gouaisbaut, R. G. Sanfelice, and S. Tarbouriech, Observerbased control design for linear systems in the presence of limited measurement streams and intermittent input access, in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2015, pp. 4689 4694. [12] F. Ferrante, F. Gouaisbaut, and S. Tarbouriech, Observer-based control for linear systems with quantized output, in Proceedings of the 2014 European Control Conference, 2014, pp. 964 969. [13] F. Ferrante, F. Gouaisbaut, R. G. Sanfelice, and S. Tarbouriech, An observer with measurement-triggered jumps for linear systems with known input, in Proceedings of the IFAC Proceedings Volumes, vol. 47, 2014, pp. 140 145. 6.3 Book Chapters: [14] F. Ferrante, F. Gouaisbaut, and S. Tarbouriech, Stabilization by quantized delayed state feedback, in Delays and Networked Control Systems, Springer, 2016, pp. 135 149. 6.4 Thesis and Dissertations: [15] F. Ferrante, On quantization and sporadic measurements in control systems: Stability, stabilization, and observer design, Ph.D.Thesis, Institut Supérieur de l Aéronautique et de l Espace, 2015. [16] F. Ferrante, On quantization in control systems: Stabilization of saturated systems subject to quantization, Master Thesis, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, 2012. CV-5