AUTOMATICA.IT 2026: AUTOMATICA.IT 2026
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.F: SMC Day – AI-enhanced Control for Cyber-Physical-Human Systems
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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