10 papers
Invariance is Compositional for Continuous-time Systems: From Sleekness to Lebesgue Density
Othman Cherkaoui Dekkaki, Sadek Belamfedel Alaoui, Olayo Reynaud +3
This work establishes the first bidirectional compositional invariance result: robust forward invariance of a global Cartesian product set is shown to be equivalent to robust forwa…
Safety by Invariance, Liveness through Refinement: Heterogeneous Contract Framework for Co-Design of Layered Control
Yoshinari Takayama, Alessio Iovine, Bart Besselink +2
Real-world control systems must achieve long-horizon objectives (liveness) while respecting continuous-time safety constraints, a combination that motivates hierarchical layered co…
Network-Realised Model Predictive Control Part II: Distributed Constraint Management
Andrei Sperilă, Alessio Iovine, Sorin Olaru +1
A two-layer control architecture is proposed, which promotes scalable implementations for model predictive controllers. The top layer acts as both a reference governor for the bott…
Network-Realised Model Predictive Control Part I: NRF-Enabled Closed-loop Decomposition
Andrei Sperilă, Alessio Iovine, Sorin Olaru +1
A two-layer control architecture is proposed to enable scalable implementations for constraint-based decision strategies, such as model predictive controllers. The bottom layer is…
String Stability of a Vehicular Platoon with the use of Macroscopic Information
Marco Mirabilio, Alessio Iovine, Elena De Santis +2
We investigate the possibility to use macroscopic information to improve control performance of a vehicular platoon composed of autonomous vehicles. A general mesoscopic traffic mo…
On the utilization of Macroscopic Information for String Stability of a Vehicular Platoon
Marco Mirabilio, Alessio Iovine, Elena De Santis +2
The use of macroscopic information for the control of a vehicular platoon composed of autonomous vehicles is investigated. A mesoscopic control law is provided, and String Stabilit…
Safe Human-Inspired Mesoscopic Hybrid Automaton for Autonomous Vehicles
Alessio Iovine, Francesco Valentini, Elena De Santis +2
In this paper a mesoscopic hybrid model, i.e. a microscopic hybrid model that takes into account macroscopic parameters, is introduced for designing a human-inspired Adaptive Cruis…
Nonlinear Control of a DC MicroGrid for the Integration of Photovoltaic Panels
Alessio Iovine, Sabah Benamane Siad, Gilney Damm +2
New connection constraints for the power network (Grid Codes) require more flexible and reliable systems, with robust solutions to cope with uncertainties and intermittence from re…
Nonlinear Control of an AC-connected DC MicroGrid
Alessio Iovine, Sabah Benamane Siad, Gilney Damm +2
New connection constraints for the power network (Grid Codes) require more flexible and reliable systems, with robust solutions to cope with uncertainties and intermittence from re…
Safe Human-Inspired Mesoscopic Hybrid Automaton for Longitudinal Vehicle Control
Alessio Iovine, Francesco Valentini, Elena De Santis +2
In this paper a mesoscopic hybrid automaton is introduced in order to obtain a human-inspired based adaptive cruise control.