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Reducing real-time complexity via sub-control Lyapunov functions: from theory to experiments
Huu-Thinh Do, Franco Blanchini, Stefano Miani +1
The techniques to design control Lyapunov functions (CLF), along with a proper stabilizing feedback, possibly in the presence of constraints, often provide control laws that are to…
Enhancements on a saturated control for stabilizing a quadcopter: adaptive and robustness analysis in the flat output space
Huu-Thinh Do, Franco Blanchini, Ionela Prodan
This paper extends our previous study on an explicit saturated control for a quadcopter, which ensures both constraint satisfaction and stability thanks to the linear representatio…
Cascading Failures in the Global Financial System: A Dynamical Model
Leonardo Stella, Dario Bauso, Franco Blanchini +1
In this paper, we propose a dynamical model to capture cascading failures among interconnected organizations in the global financial system. Failures can take the form of bankruptc…
An agent-based decentralized threshold policy finding the constrained shortest paths
Francesca Rosset, Raffaele Pesenti, Franco Blanchini
We consider a problem where autonomous agents enter a dynamic and unknown environment described by a network of weighted arcs. These agents move within the network from node to nod…
A flatness-based saturated controller design for a quadcopter with experimental validation
Huu-Thinh Do, Franco Blanchini, Ionela Prodan
Using the properties of differential flatness, a controllable system, such as a quadcoper model, may be transformed into a linear equivalent system via a coordinate change and an i…
Structural polyhedral stability of a biochemical network is equivalent to finiteness of the associated generalised Petri net
Franco Blanchini, Carlos Andrés Devia, Giulia Giordano
We consider biochemical systems associated with a generalised class of Petri nets with possibly negative token numbers. We show that the existence of a structural polyhedral Lyapun…
Preemptive periodic epidemic control reduces life and healthcare system costs without aggravation of social and economic losses
Giuseppe De Nicolao, Marta Colaneri, Alessandro Di Filippo +5
Many countries are managing COVID-19 epidemic by switching between lighter and heavier restrictions. While an open-close and a close-open cycle have comparable socio-economic costs…
Vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 variants: how much containment is still needed? A quantitative assessment
Giulia Giordano, Marta Colaneri, Alessandro Di Filippo +6
Despite the progress in medical care, combined population-wide interventions (such as physical distancing, testing and contact tracing) are still crucial to manage the SARS-CoV-2 p…
Lightning optimizes: a threshold mechanism ensures minimum-path flow
Franco Blanchini, Daniele Casagrande, Filippo Fabiani +3
A well-known property of linear resistive electrical networks is that the current distribution minimizes the total dissipated energy. When the circuit includes resistors with nonli…
A SIDARTHE Model of COVID-19 Epidemic in Italy
Giulia Giordano, Franco Blanchini, Raffaele Bruno +5
In late December 2019, a novel strand of Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) causing a severe, potentially fatal respiratory syndrome (COVID-19) was identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China…
Convergence in uncertain linear systems
Filippo Fabiani, Giuseppe Belgioioso, Franco Blanchini +2
State convergence is essential in several scientific areas, e.g. multi-agent consensus/disagreement, distributed optimization, monotone game theory, multi-agent learning over time-…
On the convergence of discrete-time linear systems: A linear time-varying Mann iteration converges iff the operator is strictly pseudocontractive
Giuseppe Belgioioso, Filippo Fabiani, Franco Blanchini +1
We adopt an operator-theoretic perspective to study convergence of linear fixed-point iterations and discrete- time linear systems. We mainly focus on the so-called Krasnoselskij-M…