Available thesis topics:

1- System identification and state observation for the Carasau bread industrial production: a case study I.

2- System identification and state observation for the Carasau bread industrial production: a case study II.

3- Formal methods for the control of virtual power plants: Large scale contorl of networks of energy storage devices and TCLs.

4- Cyber-physical attacks on the smart grid via compromised virtual power plant: control theoretic point of view.

5- Deep learning for data-driven identification of nonlinear dynamical systems (in collaboration with prof.  B.Biggio).

6- LSTM networks for control and observation of dynamical systems in industrial plants (in collaboration with prof. B.Biggio).

7- Distributed control of multi-robot systems in adversarial environments.

8- Distributed control and optimization algorithms for demand-side management programs.

9- Dynamic consensus algorithms for multi-agent systems.

10- Other topics chosen/proposed by the student.

Depending on the choosen thesis the work includes theoretical development, numerical analisys with Matlab and (in only a few cases)  experimental validation depending on the topic.

Research scholarships are available for motivated students (starting on oct. 2020).

Contact: M. Franceschelli, mauro.franceschelli@unica.it