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)
PRESENTER: Davide Previtali
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
A Robotic Manipulation System for Gentle Fruit Picking (abstract)
11:00
Human-Inspired Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulators Targeting Collaborative Robotics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marco Baracca
11:15
Bridging Robotic Programming by Demonstration and Grip-Force Regulation: a Hierarchical Probabilistic Human-in-the-Loop Framework (abstract)
11:30
Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Task Scheduling in Human-Robot Collaborative Logistics (abstract)
11:45
A Micro-Macro Manipulation Framework for Human-Mobile Robot Co-Manipulation Tasks (abstract)
12:00
Integration of generative artificial intelligence in social robots: technical and social assessment of next-gen human-robot interaction (abstract)
12:15
A Free-Final-Time Receding Horizon Framework for Autonomous Human-Drone Rendezvous (abstract)
12:30
Efficient computation of momentum-based residual for robot collision detection and isolation (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.C: Autonomous Robots: Planning and Navigation
16:30
Differentiable Reactive Navigation: A Continuous Optimization Framework in Unknown Environments (abstract)
16:45
Quadrupedal Locomotion with Passive Ventral Wheels: A Real-to-Sim Data-Driven Approach to Energy Efficiency Analysis (abstract)
17:00
Reference Tracking of Clothoid-Spline Trajectories via Internal Model Control in Aerial Robots (abstract)
17:15
Geometric Cascade Control for Thrust Vectoring Multirotors (abstract)
17:30
Heuristic-based Control Input Allocation of Tilting Hexarotor UAVs (abstract)
17:45
Super-Twisting Sliding Mode Control for Swing Reduction in UAV-Payload Systems (abstract)
18:00
LMI-based Formation Control with Collision Avoidance for Air-Ground Fleet (abstract)
18:15
LiDAR-Based Reactive Navigation Strategies for Autonomous Rovers in Orchard Rows (abstract)
16:30-18:45 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
18:30
Model Predictive Control of Anesthesia: Experimental Results and Perspectives on Adaptive Personalization (abstract)
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)
PRESENTER: Lorenzo Zino
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
Online sparse observers for cyber-physical systems under sensor bias (abstract)
18:15
Mesoscopic digital control for String Stability of vehicular platoons under quantization and disturbances (abstract)
18:30
MRoPE: A Multi-Robot Safe Cooperative Strategy via combined Predictive Safety Filters and Ellipse-based Constraint Compression (abstract)
Thursday, September 3rd

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08:30-10:30 Session 5.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)
Development of Autonomous Exploration Algorithms for the Spot Robot with Applications to Forest Mapping (abstract)
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)
PRESENTER: Simona Casini
09:15
Reinforced Iterative Learning Control for Nonlinear Systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yuri De Santis
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.C: IEEE CSS Italy Chapter – Best Master’s Thesis Session
11:00
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with Discrete Control Barrier Functions for Mobile Manipulator Navigation in Narrow Environments
11:08
Optimizing the trade-off between observability and accuracy of the Single Particle Model
11:16
Safety-Constrained Autonomous Relative Navigation via Multi-Sensor Perception for the Floating Satellite Simulator REACSA
11:24
One-Shot Imitation Learning for Aerial Physical Interaction Tasks via Sensitivity-Guided Data Augmentation
11:32
Learning-based multiscale shepherding control for multi-agent complex systems
11:40
Deep learning for model identification and control design: A case study on an aerial soaring robot
11:48
Development and HIL Validation of a MPC algorithm in Automation System with Deadlock Prevention
11:56
Nonlinear geometric control of partially-coupled underactuated floating vehicles
12:04
Distributed Control for Multi-Agent Shepherding in the Presence of Obstacles
12:12
Nonlinear predictive control of the continuum and hybrid dynamics of a suspended deformable cable for aerial pick and place
11:00-12:30 Session 6.F: SMC Day – AI-enhanced Control for Cyber-Physical-Human Systems
11:00
Human Attention-Aware Motion Planning for Social Robot Navigation (abstract)
11:15
Offline Opacity Enforcement and Online Mitigation Mechanism for Actuator-Enablement Attacks in Discrete Event Systems (abstract)
11:30
A Layered Cognitive-Control Architecture for Local VLM-Driven Assistive Robotics with Spatial Semantic Memory (abstract)
11:45
Who Controls Whom? An Eco-Evolutionary Perspective on Adaptive Biological Systems (abstract)
12:00
From Predictive Path Planning to Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding for Internal Logistics (abstract)
12:15
Cyber-physical-human systems, from individual behavior to collective equilibria (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
Safe Control of Feedback-Interconnected Systems via Singular Perturbations (abstract)
11:45
Robust Data-Driven Safe Policy Update with Lyapunov Stability Guarantees (abstract)
12:00
Safe Learning Predictive Control for Ego–World Robotic Systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Davide Valenti
Friday, September 4th

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