Available thesis topics:

• 1- Distributed control of multi-robot systems in adversarial environments; 
• 2- System identification and state observation for the Carasau bread industrial production: a case study;
• 3- Formal methods for the control of virtual power plants: Large scale control of networks of energy storage devices and systems.
• 4- Cyber-physical attacks on the smart grid via compromised virtual power plant: control theoretic point of view.
• 5- Data-driven identification of nonlinear dynamical systems 
• 6- Distributed control and optimization algorithms for electric demand-side management programs.
• 7- Dynamic consensus algorithms for multi-agent systems.
• 8- Learning and control: Machine learning applied to automation and control systems theory and practice
• 9- Resilient optimization for coordination and federeted learning
• 10- Multi-vehicle routing, task assignment  and scheduling for largescale workforce management
• 11- Other topics chosen/proposed by the student.

Depending on the choosen thesis the work includes theoretical development, numerical analisys with Matlab and (in particular cases)  experimental validation.

Research scholarships are available for motivated students (send manifestation of interest by email).

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