PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, September 2nd Thursday, September 3rd Friday, September 4th
Wednesday, September 2nd
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10:30-12:45 Session 2.C: Analysis and Control of Dynamical Systems
Location: Aula dei Cavalieri
| 10:30 | Asymptotic Stability of LTV Systems: A new operator-based perspective (abstract) |
| 10:45 | The Construction of Asymptotic Bode Plots: A New Direct Method (abstract) |
| 11:00 | A Notion of Frequency Response for Nonlinear Systems (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Integral action for bilinear systems with application to counter current heat exchanger (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Pattern preservation in optimal control for dissipative systems (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Chaos-Free Networks are Stable Recurrent Neural Networks (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Phase-Locking of a Pair of Diffusively Coupled LIF Neurons (abstract) |
| 12:15 | A Minimal Dynamical Model for Incubation–Outbreak Transitions in Social Norm Diffusion (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Efficient and Robust Modeling of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems (abstract) |
10:30-12:45 Session 2.F: Robot Manipulation and Human–Robot Collaboration
Location: Aula dei Filosofi
| 10:30 | Control Barrier Functions for Obstacle and Singularity Avoidance of Collaborative Robotic Arms (abstract) |
| 10:45 | Efficient computation of momentum-based residual for robot collision detection and isolation (abstract) |
| 11:00 | A Robotic Manipulation System for Gentle Fruit Picking (abstract) |
| 11:15 | A Micro-Macro Manipulation Framework for Human-Mobile Robot Co-Manipulation Tasks (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Human-Inspired Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulators Targeting Collaborative Robotics (abstract) PRESENTER: Marco Baracca |
| 11:45 | Bridging Robotic Programming by Demonstration and Grip-Force Regulation: a Hierarchical Probabilistic Human-in-the-Loop Framework (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Task Scheduling in Human-Robot Collaborative Logistics (abstract) |
| 12:15 | Integration of generative artificial intelligence in social robots: technical and social assessment of next-gen human-robot interaction (abstract) |
| 12:30 | A Free-Final-Time Receding Horizon Framework for Autonomous Human-Drone Rendezvous (abstract) |
10:30-12:45 Session 2.M: ITSS Day - Intelligent Transportation Systems from a control perspective
Location: Aula Magna
| 10:30 | Grid-Aware Discrete-Event Allocation and Scheduling of Electric Buses Charging (abstract) |
| 10:45 | A Dynamic Sequencing and Routing Framework for Autonomous Vehicle Carpooling Using Lagrangian-Relaxed Deep Reinforcement Learning (abstract) |
| 11:00 | A Distributed Approach for Electric Vehicle Smart Charging Scheduling using Blockchain (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Proactive Quality of Service Mapping in 6G Vehicular Networks: a Data-Driven Spatial Approach using Random Forest Algorithm (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Forecast-Driven Routing for Connected Cold-Chain Logistics: Closed-Loop Optimization under Traffic and Weather Dynamics (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Accessibility-Aware Optimal Planning of Intermodal Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems (abstract) |
| 12:00 | An event-triggered algorithm for energy-aware planning of last-mile delivery with autonomous mobile robots (abstract) |
| 12:15 | Experimental validation of GoA4-based Autonomous Driving Function for HST over ETCS on railway tracks: the San Donato test circuit case (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Enabling CACC with limited measurements and sensors data distortion via delayed distributed state estimation (abstract) |
14:00-16:00 Session 3.A: Dausy Poster Session
Location: Atrio delle Colonne
A Safety Aware Weight Adaptation Rule For Robotic Control in HRC (abstract) |
Lazy Priority-Based Search for Continuous-Time AGV Fleet Coordination (abstract) |
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous via Quantum Optimization (abstract) |
Hysteresis and Metastability in Time Series: A Recurrence Analysis Approach (abstract) |
Model-reference data-driven control of switched linear systems: a preliminary study (abstract) |
Obstacle Avoidance and Landing Site Selection in Indoor UAV Navigation via Semantic Plane Segmentation (abstract) |
14:00-16:00 Session 3.C: Control for Energy and Sustainable Systems
Location: Aula dei Cavalieri
| 14:00 | Frequency-Adaptive Repetitive Control with Internal Model Compensation for Grid-Following Inverters (abstract) |
| 14:15 | Class-Based Smart Charging Control for Electric Vehicles (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Bayesian Particle-Based Identification of a Battery Open-Circuit Voltage Characteristic (abstract) |
| 14:45 | An Optimization Model for the Management of Citizen Energy Communities in the Energy Market (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Distributed Energy Management for Buildings with High Order Thermal Dynamics (abstract) |
| 15:15 | Power Smoothing Control for Circular Flight Fly-Gen Airborne Wind Energy Systems (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Energy-Aware Multi-Agent Adaptation of Edge ML Models under Operational Drift (abstract) |
| 15:45 | Public Acceptance of Climate Policies in Italy: The Role of Inequality, Social Influence, and Political Feedback (abstract) PRESENTER: Vittoria Socci |
14:00-16:00 Session 3.F: Optimization, Planning, and Advanced Control
Location: Aula dei Filosofi
| 14:00 | Feedback control of Lagrange multipliers for nonsmooth constrained optimization (abstract) |
| 14:15 | Observability-Oriented Optimization of Discretization Schemes for the Single Particle Model (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Distributed Bellman Iterations via Max-Consensus for Large-Scale Knapsack Problems (abstract) |
| 14:45 | Minimum-time anti-sloshing motion planning for an open axisymmetric container transported by a 3-DOF planar motor (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Trajectory Optimization for Anti-Sloshing Motion Control in Filling Machines (abstract) |
| 15:15 | Nonlinear Model-Based Activation of an Electronic Stability Program (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Time Varying Artificial Potential Fields for Unified Decision-Making and Trajectory Planning in Automated Driving (abstract) |
| 15:45 | A Digital Twin Approach for Last-Mile Delivery (abstract) |
14:00-16:00 Session 3.M: Model Predictive Control
Location: Aula Magna
| 14:00 | Closed-loop stability of system of systems using consensus ADMM and MPC for a generic consensus horizon (abstract) |
| 14:15 | Suboptimal and Reduced-Order MPC via Timescale Separation (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Blending Economic and Artificial Reference MPC with Guaranteed Stability and Feasibility (abstract) |
| 14:45 | An Artificial Reference Nonlinear MPC Formulation for Manifolds Tracking (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Integrated Longitudinal/Lateral LPV MPC for Autonomous Vehicle Trajectory Tracking (abstract) |
| 15:15 | Accelerated Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers via Reinforcement Learning Meta-Optimization for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Gradient-based Policy Learning for Context-Aware Differentiable Weights-Varying Nonlinear MPC (abstract) |
| 15:45 | Computation-Aware Hybrid MPC-Deep RL for Smart Charging of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (abstract) |
16:30-18:30 Session 4.A: Master's Thesis Poster Session
Location: Atrio delle Colonne
Dynamic Power Scaling Modeling and Analysis of a System on Chip (abstract) |
Intervention design for influence maximization in the Linear Threshold Model on networks (abstract) |
Analysis of a network SIRS epidemic model (abstract) |
Development of Autonomous Exploration Algorithms for the Spot Robot with Applications to Forest Mapping (abstract) |
16:30-18:30 Session 4.C: Autonomous Robots: Planning and Navigation
Location: Aula dei Cavalieri
| 16:30 | LiDAR-Based Reactive Navigation Strategies for Autonomous Rovers in Orchard Rows (abstract) |
| 16:45 | Differentiable Reactive Navigation: A Continuous Optimization Framework in Unknown Environments (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Quadrupedal Locomotion with Passive Ventral Wheels: A Real-to-Sim Data-Driven Approach to Energy Efficiency Analysis (abstract) |
| 17:15 | Reference Tracking of Clothoid-Spline Trajectories via Internal Model Control in Aerial Robots (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Geometric Cascade Control for Thrust Vectoring Multirotors (abstract) |
| 17:45 | Heuristic-based Control Input Allocation of Tilting Hexarotor UAVs (abstract) |
| 18:00 | Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control for Swing Reduction in UAV-Payload Systems (abstract) |
| 18:15 | LMI-based Formation Control with Collision Avoidance for Air-Ground Fleet (abstract) |
16:30-18:30 Session 4.F: Learning, Identification and Data-Driven Control
Location: Aula dei Filosofi
| 16:30 | An interpolation-based method for exact nonlinear regression for the identification of PK/PD models (abstract) |
| 16:45 | A kernel embedding framework for physics-informed nonlinear system identification (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Classical versus Ensemble SINDy for Model Discovery of Dynamical Systems (abstract) |
| 17:15 | Stability-Aware Parameter Estimation for Generalized Lotka-Volterra (gLV) Models (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Data-Driven Stabilization of Continuous-Time LTI Systems from Noisy Input–Output Data (abstract) |
| 17:45 | Data-driven dynamic optimal allocation for uncertain over-actuated linear systems (abstract) |
| 18:00 | Finite-sample guarantees for data-driven forward-backward operator methods (abstract) |
| 18:15 | Toward Explainable Learning-Based Task Manager for Decentralised Multi-Agent Robotics (abstract) PRESENTER: Simona Casini |
16:30-18:30 Session 4.M: Distributed Control and Multi-Agent Systems
Location: Aula Magna
| 16:30 | Constraint-coupled distributed optimization based on ADMM and passivity (abstract) |
| 16:45 | Equilibria Existence in Games: A Perspective from the Lefschetz-Nielsen Theory (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Characterization and Computation of Feedback Nash Equilibria in Scalar Discounted N-Player Linear Quadratic Games (abstract) PRESENTER: Chiara Cavalagli |
| 17:15 | On Controlling a Network with Coevolving Actions and Opinions (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Dynamic Programming based Local Search approaches for Multi-Agent Path Finding problems on Directed Graphs (abstract) |
| 17:45 | Incremental Replanning for Volume-Aware Multi-Agent Path Finding in Industrial Environments (abstract) |
| 18:00 | MRoPE: A Multi-Robot Safe Cooperative Strategy via combined Predictive Safety Filters and Ellipse-based Constraint Compression (abstract) |
| 18:15 | Mesoscopic digital control for String Stability of vehicular platoons under quantization and disturbances (abstract) |
Thursday, September 3rd
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08:30-10:30 Session 5.C: Learning-Based Control and Decision Making
Location: Aula dei Cavalieri
| 08:30 | CALM-RL: Context-Aware Latent Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Physical Systems (abstract) |
| 08:45 | Computationally Efficient Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Robot Control via Gaussian Process Approximations (abstract) |
| 09:00 | Recharge Only When Necessary: Adapting Battery Threshold to Graph Map Topology for Task-Servicing via Deep Reinforcement Learning (abstract) |
| 09:15 | Reinforced Iterative Learning Control for Nonlinear Systems (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Model reference data-driven control of switched linear systems: a preliminary study (abstract) |
| 09:45 | Personalized and Resilient Distributed Learning Through Opinion Dynamics (abstract) |
| 10:00 | A Unified Framework for Potential-Based Coordination: From Neural-Based Perception to Discrete-Time Multi-Agent Systems (abstract) |
| 10:15 | Complexity, Risk and Average Number of Failures in Sequential Scenario Decision-Making (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 5.F: Modeling and Control in Biomedical and Biological Systems
Location: Aula dei Filosofi
| 08:30 | Characterization of Temporal Trajectories of Autoimmune Atrophic Gastritis Using a Graph Representation Learning Pipeline (abstract) |
| 08:45 | Glucose Prediction and Early Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia Alarm Generation via LSTM and XGBoost - an in-silico Study (abstract) |
| 09:00 | Modeling and identification of fatigue dynamics in endurance sport (abstract) |
| 09:15 | System Realizations by Mammillary Models with an Application to Propofol Pharmacokinetics (abstract) |
| 09:30 | HMPC-Based Closed-Loop Identification for pH Control in Raceway Bioreactors (abstract) |
| 09:45 | Composition control in bioreactors (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Modeling Approaches for Bacterial-Cellulose-Based Smart Organic Devices (abstract) |
| 10:15 | Dwell-Time Constrained Switching for Therapy Rotation in Multi-Strain Viral Infections (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 5.M: Industrial Session
Location: Aula Magna
| 08:30 | Una bussola per la manifattura che cambia. Il ruolo del Comitato Scientifico SPS e il valore del Position Paper 2026. (abstract) |
| 08:50 | XPlanar | Beckhoff Planar Motor System (abstract) |
| 09:10 | Beckhoff Xplanar: Technology Investigation (abstract) |
| 09:30 | CoboREEL: A Collaborative Robotic Solution for Automated Reel Handling in Labelling Applications (abstract) |
| 09:50 | Three Decades of Autonomous Driving: From Pioneering Innovation to Scalable Solutions (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 6.C: IEEE CSS Italy Chapter – Best Master’s Thesis Session
Location: Aula dei Cavalieri
11:00-12:30 Session 6.F: SMC Day – AI-enhanced Control for Cyber-Physical-Human Systems
Location: Aula dei Filosofi
| 11:00 | From Predictive Path Planning to Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding for Internal Logistics (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Cyber-physical-human systems, from individual behavior to collective equilibria (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Human Attention-Aware Motion Planning for Social Robot Navigation (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Offline Opacity Enforcement and Online Mitigation Mechanism for Actuator-Enablement Attacks in Discrete Event Systems (abstract) |
| 12:00 | A Layered Cognitive-Control Architecture for Local VLM-Driven Assistive Robotics with Spatial Semantic Memory (abstract) |
| 12:15 | Who Controls Whom? An Eco-Evolutionary Perspective on Adaptive Biological Systems (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 6.M: Safe, Secure, and Resilient Control Systems
Location: Aula Magna
| 11:00 | Homomorphically encrypted control (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Edge-Wise Lie-Group Masking for Secure and Opaque Consensus (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Online sparse observers for cyber-physical systems under sensor bias (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Safe Control of Feedback-Interconnected Systems via Singular Perturbations (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Robust Data-Driven Safe Policy Update with Lyapunov Stability Guarantees (abstract) |
| 12:15 | Safe Learning Predictive Control for Ego–World Robotic Systems (abstract) |
Friday, September 4th
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