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Luca Schenato

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Full Professor

 

Department of Information Engineering

University of Padova

Via Gradenigo 6/B

35131 Padova Italy

 

Tel.: +39 049.827.7925

Fax:  +39 049.827.7799

 

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CV (last update 2017)

Webpage:  http://automatica.dei.unipd.it/people/schenato.html

Skype: l_schenato

NEWS: Luca Ballotta awarded Best Young Author at IFAC 2020

   EDUCATION AND APPOINTMENTS

 

2021-current Full Professor, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy
2007-2021 Associate Professor, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy
2018-2019 Visiting Scientist, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
2013-2014 Visiting Professor, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
2004-2007 Adjunct Professor, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy
2003 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
1999 Laurea Degree, Electrical Engineering, University of Padova, Italy

 

   AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

 

2017 Fellow, IEEE Society (15th youngest awardee from Ph.D year to year of awarding out of 299 awardees)
2014 EUCA European Control Award for outstanding contribution to Networked Control Systems and Multi-agent Systems (currently first and only Italian to be awarded)
2006 Eliah Jury Award for outstanding achievement in the area of Systems, Communications, Control, or Signal Processing, U.C. Berkeley (co-shared with Bruno Sinopoli)
2004 "Rientro dei Cervelli" (Brain Gain) Professorship, Ministry of Italian Education, University and Research (MIUR) (only 80 awardees in Italy in all discipline in 2004)
2004 International Reintegration Grant, Marie Curie Actions, European Union

 

   PROJECTS

 

Period Acronym Funding Role Title
2019-2021 PRIN-5G Italian PI Real-time Control of 5G Wireless Networks: taming the complexity of future transmission and computatiion chellenges
2019-2021 HiPer Italian PI High-Performance cooperative UAV Robotic manipulation over Wi-Fi (joint project with MIT, USA)
2017-2019 MAgIC Italian PI Multi-Agent Intelligent Control for time-critical Cyber-Physical Systems
2017-2020 Proactive-cell Italian co-PI From single cell to multi cell information system analysis
2015-2016 DISCO Italian PI Designing cost-effective DIstributed Dtrategies for the Control and Optimization of smart micro-grids
2010-2013 HYCON2 European Member Highly-complex and Networked Control Systems 
2010-2012 SIMEA Industrial Member Distributed Systems Design for Energy and Environment Monitoring
2008-2011 FeedNetBack European Member Feedback design for wireless networked systems
2007-2011 WISE-WAI Italian Member Wireless Sensor Networks for city-Wide Ambient Intelligence
2010-2010 SENSE-a-LOT Industrial Member RF localization and tracking using wireless sensor networks
2004-2006 SENSNET European PI Analysis and design of large scale sensor networks for distributed control applications

 

   EDITORIAL AND ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES

 

2022 Program Chair for NECSYS'22
2019-on Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
2019-on Associate Editor for Automatica
2018-on vice-Chair IFAC Technical Commitee 1.5 on Networked Systems
2021 IPC Technical Associate Editor for MED'21
2019 co-organizer of EECI Ph.D. course on "Multi-Agent Distributed Optimization and Learning over Wireless Networks", Paris-Saclay, 3-7/6/19 (program PDF)
2019 Conference Editorial Board NECSYS'19
2018 co-organizer Control Days Workshop, Padova, Italy
2016-2019 Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
2017,2018 Klaus Fischer Award committee, Padova, italy
2018 Conference Editorial Board MTNS
2017 Conference Editorial Board for IEEE Multi-robots and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS)
2016 Program co-Chair, SIDRA Ph.D. Summer School on Distributed Control and its applications
2015 Technical Program Committee IFAC Conference Necsys
2013 Technical Program Committee IFAC Conference Necsys
2009-2013 Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
2012 Technical Program Committee SmartGridComm
2012 Best Student Paper Committee, IFAC Workshop Necsys'12, Santa Barbara, USA
2010 Conference Editorial Board for DARS
2010 Conference Editorial Board for HSCC
2010 Advisory Committee, IFAC Workshop Necsys'10, Annecy, France
2010 Best Student Paper Committee, IFAC Workshop Necsys'10, Annecy, France
2008-2011 IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board
2007-2009 IEEE RAS Conference Editorial Board
2009 vice-General Chair for IFAC Workshop Necsys'09, Venice, Italy
2009 co-organizer of tutorial "Networked Control Systems subject to packet loss and random delay", IFAC Workshop Necsys'09, Venice, Italy
2009 Techical Program Chair for Robocomm'09, Odence, Danmark
2007 vice-General Chair for Robocomm'07, Athens, Greece
2006-2018 member of IFAC Technical Commiteee TC 1.5 on "Networked Systems"

 

   PH.D. EXAMINER

 

2017 Simone Nardi Univ. of Pisa, Italy
2017 Jingbo Wu Univ. of Stuttgard, Germany
2015 Burak Demirel KTH, Sweden
2015 Grazia Barchi University of Trento, Italy
2013 Burak Demirel (Licenciate Degree)
 KTH, Sweden
2013 Yiming (Alex) Ji Australian National University, Australia
2013 Domenica Borra Polytechnic of Turin, Italy
2013 Luis Orihuela University of Seville, Spain
2012 Nicolas Cardoso De Castro INRIA Grenoble, France
2010 Nicola Varanese Polit. Milan & New Jersey Insititute of Technology, USA
2009 Osvaldo Simeone Polit. Milan & New Jersey Insititute of Technology, USA (winner of ERC Consolidator 2016)
2009 Maja Karasalo
 KTH, Sweden

 

   INVITED LECTURES

 

Control over wireless: a unfinished journey
 -Online Seminars on Control and Information, March 2021

Automatic Control over Wi-Fi: a cross-layer Approach
- Workshop on Automotive: Cyber-Physical-Systems, Univ. of Modena, June 2018

Smart Multi-agent Control Systems over Wireless: Challenges and Perspectives
- Control Theory Seminars, DII, Univ. of Trento, January 2018

Multi-agent map-building: Kalman Filtering meets Machine Learning
- IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys'16), Tokyo, Japan, September 2016,
- Control Seminar Series, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2016
- Control Seminar Series, Univ. of Stuttgard, Germany, April 2017

Bayesian linear state estimation using smart meteres and PMU Measurements in Distribution Grids
- IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm'14), October 2014

Getting multi-agent systems to cooperate (Video Time Sych) (VIdeo Map Building)
- European Control Award Plenary Talk, European Control Conference (ECC14), June  2014

Control over finite capacity channels: the role of data losses, delays and SNR limitations
- Control Theory Seminars, EECS, UC Berkeley, February 2014

Newton-Raphson Consensus for Distributed Convex Optimization
- HYCON2 Workshop on Distributed Optimization in Large Networks and its Applications, Zurich, Swizerland, July 2013.

- also presented at UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, UCLA, MIT, UC Santa Barbara, Stanford in 2014

The Consensus Algorithm in Distributed Multi-Agent Systems
Symposium on New Directions of Automatic Control, Seoul, Korea, October 2011.

Localizzazione in Reti di Sensori Wireless: Tecnologia ed Applicazioni (in Italian)
WISE-WAI project, Final Review Meeting, Padova, May 2011.

Estimation and Control Applications of Linear Consensus Algorithms,
Workshop on Multi-Agent Estimation and Control, Lund, Sweden, January 2010.

Networked Control Systems subject to random delay and packet loss: state-of-the-art, main results and future directions,
Minicourse at IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys'09), Venice, Italy, September 2009

Distributed Estimation and Consensus,
3rd WIDE Ph.D. School on Networked Control Systems, Siena, Italy, July 2009 

Application of Consensus Algorithms to Wireless Sensor Networks
Seminars on Control Systems, Mechanical Engineering Department, UC Berkeley, October 2008

Some Results on Optimal Estimation and Control for Lossy Networked Control Systems,
Seminars in Optimization and System Theory, KTH, Stockolm, Sweden, September 2007

Distributed Consensus Protocols for Clock Synchronization in Sensor Networks
Ph.D. Summer School in Automatic Control, Bertinoro, Italy, July 2007

Analysis and Control of Flapping Flight: from Biological to Robotic Insects
Invited talk, Mechanical Enginering Department, Columbia University, NY, USA, 2004


Recent publications     [ all BibTeX ]
20XX
N. Bastianello, L. Schenato, R. Carli. A novel bound on the convergence rate of distributed optimization ADMM-based algorithms. Automatica [submitted], 20XX   [BibTeX]  
S. Chevalier, L. Schenato, L. Daniel. Accelerated Probabilistic Power Flow via Model Order Reduction and Neumann Series Expansion. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems [submitted], 20XX    [url] [BibTeX]  
S. Chevalier, L. Schenato, L. Daniel. Accelerated Probabilistic State Estimation in Distribution Grids via Model Order Reduction. 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) [submitted], 20XX    [url] [BibTeX]  
L. Ballotta, M. Jovanovic, L. Schenato. Can Decentralized Control Outperform Centralized? The Role of Communication Latency. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (submitted), 20XX   [BibTeX]  
E. Rossi, M. Tognon, R. Carli, A. Franchi, L. Schenato. Control of over-redundant cooperative manipulation via sampled communication. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control [to be submitted], 20XX   [BibTeX]  
E. Rossi, M. Tognon, R. Carli, J. Cortes, A. Franchi, L. Schenato. Cooperative Trajectory Tracking over Sampled Communication. Automatica [to be submitted], 20XX   [BibTeX]  
I. Zorzan, S. Del Favero, B. Di Camillo, L. Schenato. Mathematical modelling of SigE regulatory network reveals new insights into bistability of mycobacterial stress response. BMC Bioinformatics [submitted], 20XX   [BibTeX]  
N. Dal Fabbro, M. Rossi, G. Pillonetto, L. Schenato, G. Piro. Model-free radio map estimation in massive MIMO systems via semi-parametric Gaussian regression. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (submitted), 20XX   [BibTeX]  
M. Pezzutto, L. Schenato, S. Dey. Transmission Power Allocation for Remote Estimation with Multi-packet Reception Capabilities. Automatica [submitted], 20XX   [BibTeX]  
2022
M. Pezzutto, R. Carli, M. Farina, L. Schenato. Remote MPC for Tracking over Lossy Networks. IEEE Control Systems Letters, (6), pp. 1040-1045, 2022    [url] [BibTeX]  
2021
M. Hosseinzadeh, E. Garone, L. Schenato. A Decentralized Approach for Optimal Power Management in Microgrids With Plug&Play Capabilities. Advanced Control for Applications, vol. 3(1), 2021    [url] [BibTeX]  
N. Bastianello, R. Carli, L. Schenato, M. Todescato. Asynchronous Distributed Optimization over Lossy Networks via Relaxed ADMM: Stability and Linear Convergence. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2021    [ abstract ] [url] [BibTeX]  
M. Pezzutto, E. Garone, L. Schenato. Constrained Control with Communication Blackouts: Theory and Experimental Validation over Wi-Fi. Proceedings of IEEE Mediterranean Conference (MED'21), 2021   [BibTeX]  
F. Branz, R. Antonello, M. Pezzutto, F. Tramarin, S. Vitturi, L. Schenato. Drive–by–Wi-Fi: Model–Based Control over Wireless at 1-kHz. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2021    [url] [BibTeX]  
M. Barbiero, A. Rossi, L. Schenato. LQR Temperature Control in smart building via real-time weather forecasting. Proceedings of IEEE Mediterranean Conference (MED'21), 2021   [BibTeX]  
N. Rossello, M. Pezzutto, L. Schenato, I. Castagliuolo, E. Garone. On the effect of the number of tests and their time of application in tracing policies against COVID-19. Proceeding of 11th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems (BMS'21), 2021   [BibTeX]  
L. Ballotta, M. Jovanovic, L. Schenato. Optimal Network Topology of Multi-Agent Systems subject to Computation and Communication Latency. Proceedings of IEEE Mediterranean Conference (MED'21), 2021   [BibTeX]  
M. Pezzutto, N. Rossello, L. Schenato, E. Garone. Smart Testing and Selective Quarantine for the Control of Epidemics. Annual Reviews in Control, 2021    [url] [BibTeX]  
2020
F. Branz, R. Antonello, M. Pezzutto, F. Tramarin, L. Schenato. 1 kHz Remote Control of a Balancing Robot with Wi-Fi–in–the–Loop. IFAC World Congress, 2020   [BibTeX]  
M. Pezzutto, F. Tramarin, S. Dey, L. Schenato. Adaptive Transmission Rate for LQG Control over Wi-Fi: a Cross-Layer Approach. Automatica, vol. 119pp. 1-12, 2020    [url] [BibTeX]  
L. Ballotta, L. Schenato, L. Carlone. Computation-Communication Trade-offs and Sensor Selection in Real-time Estimation for Processing Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 7(4), pp. 2952-2965, 2020    [url] [BibTeX]  
E. Rossi, M. Tognon, R. Carli, L. Schenato, J. Cortes, A. Franchi. Cooperative Aerial Load Transportation via Sampled Communication. IEEE Control Systems Letters and CDC 19, vol. 4(2), pp. 277 - 282, 2020    [url] [BibTeX]  
M. Todescato, A. Carron, R. Carli, G. Pillonetto, L. Schenato. Efficient Spatio-Temporal Gaussian Regression via Kalman Filtering. Automatica, vol. 118pp. 1-14, 2020    [url] [BibTeX]  
L. Ballotta, L. Schenato, L. Carlone. From Sensor to Processing Networks: Optimal Estimation with Computation and Communication Latency [YOUNG AUTHOR AWARD]. IFAC 2020 World Congress, 2020   [BibTeX]  
M. Todescato, N. Bof, G. Cavraro, R. Carli, L. Schenato. Partition-based multi-agent optimization in the presence of lossy and asynchronous communication. Automatica, vol. 111pp. 1-11, 2020    [url] [BibTeX]  
M. Pezzutto, E. Garone, L. Schenato. Reference Governor for Constrained Control over Lossy Channels. IEEE Control Systems Letters and CDC 19, vol. 4(2), pp. 271 - 276, 2020    [url] [BibTeX]  
M. Todescato, R. Carli, L. Schenato, G. Barchi. Smart Grid State Estimation with PMUs Time Synchronization Errors. Energies, vol. 13(5148), 2020    [url] [BibTeX]  
F. Branz, R. Antonello, F. Tramarin, S. Vitturi, L. Schenato. Time-Critical Wireless Networked Embedded Systems: Feasibility and Experimental Assessment. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16(12), pp. 7732-7742, 2020    [url] [BibTeX]  
M. Pezzutto, L. Schenato, S. Dey. Transmission Scheduling for Remote Estimation with Multi-packet Reception under Multi-Sensor Interference. IFAC World Congress 2020, 2020   [pdf] [BibTeX]  
2019
M. Hosseinzadeh, E. Garone, L. Schenato. A Distributed Method for Linear Programming Problems With Box Constraints and Time-Varying Inequalities. IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 3(2), pp. 404-409, 2019    [url] [BibTeX]  
I. Zorzan, S. Del Favero, B. Di Camillo, L. Schenato. Analysis of a Minimal Gene Regulatory Network for Cell Differentiation. IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 3(2), pp. 302-307, 2019    [url] [BibTeX]  
G. Violatto, A. Pandharipande, S. Li, L. Schenato. Classification of occupancy sensor anomalies in connected indoor lighting systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6(4), pp. 7175-7182, 2019    [url] [BibTeX]  
D. Varagnolo, G. Pillonetto, L. Schenato. Distributed multi-agent Gaussian regression via finite-dimensional approximations. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 41(9), pp. 2098-2111, 2019    [url] [pdf] [BibTeX]  
F. Branz, M. Pezzutto, R. Antonello, F. Tramarin, L. Schenato. Drive–by–Wi-Fi: taming 1 kHz control applications over wireless. European Control Conference (ECC'19), 2019   [BibTeX]  
F. Branz, R. Antonello, F. Tramarin, T. Fedullo, S. Vitturi, L. Schenato. Embedded systems for time–critical applications over Wi-Fi: design and experimental assessment. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN'19), 2019   [BibTeX]  
M. Pezzutto, S. Dey, L. Schenato. Heavy-tails in Kalman filtering with packet losses. European Journal of Control, (50), pp. 62-71, 2019    [url] [BibTeX]  
N. Bof, R. Carli, G. Notarstefano, L. Schenato, D. Varagnolo. Multiagent Newton-Raphson Optimizaton over lossy networks. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. 64(7), pp. 2983 - 2990, 2019    [url] [BibTeX]  
L. Brinon-Arranz, A. Renzaglia, L. Schenato. Multirobot Symmetric Formations for Gradient and Hessian Estimation With Application to Source Seeking. IEEE Trans. on Robotics, vol. 3(35), pp. 782 - 789, 2019    [url] [BibTeX]  
K. Yildirim, R. Carli, L. Schenato. Safe Distributed Control of Wireless Power Transfer Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6(1), pp. 1267-1275, 2019    [url] [BibTeX]