no code implementations • 21 Mar 2024 • Riccardo Busetto, Valentina Breschi, Federica Baracchi, Simone Formentin
Data-driven control offers a viable option for control scenarios where constructing a system model is expensive or time-consuming.
no code implementations • 7 Mar 2024 • Raffaele Giuseppe Cestari, Simone Formentin
Predicting financial returns accurately poses a significant challenge due to the inherent uncertainty in financial time series data.
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2024 • Raffaele Giuseppe Cestari, Stefano Longari, Stefano Zanero, Simone Formentin
In recent years, SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems have increasingly become the target of cyber attacks.
no code implementations • 30 Jan 2024 • Jessica Leoni, Valentina Breschi, Simone Formentin, Mara Tanelli
Efforts to combine these models often often stumble upon difficulties in finding a balance between accuracy and complexity.
no code implementations • 18 Jan 2024 • Giacomo Delcaro, Federico Dettù, Simone Formentin, Sergio Matteo Savaresi
Due to this reason, Bayesian Optimization will be used to solve a data-driven optimization problem to tune the filter.
no code implementations • 22 Dec 2023 • Alessandro Chiuso, Marco Fabris, Valentina Breschi, Simone Formentin
Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful method for complex system regulation, but its reliance on an accurate model poses many limitations in real-world applications.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2023 • Raffaele Giuseppe Cestari, Filippo Barchi, Riccardo Busetto, Daniele Marazzina, Simone Formentin
Accurately forecasting the direction of financial returns poses a formidable challenge, given the inherent unpredictability of financial time series.
no code implementations • 7 Dec 2023 • Riccardo Busetto, Valentina Breschi, Marco Forgione, Dario Piga, Simone Formentin
State estimation has a pivotal role in several applications, including but not limited to advanced control design.
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2023 • Braghadeesh Lakshminarayanan, Federico Dettù, Cristian R. Rojas, Simone Formentin
In this paper, we present a sim2real, direct data-driven controller tuning approach, where the digital twin is used to generate input-output data and suitable controllers for several perturbations in its parameters.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2023 • Raffaele Giuseppe Cestari, Gabriele Maroni, Loris Cannelli, Dario Piga, Simone Formentin
The calibration and training of a neural network is a complex and time-consuming procedure that requires significant computational resources to achieve satisfactory results.
no code implementations • 5 Sep 2023 • Federico Dettù, Simone Formentin, Stefano Varisco, Sergio Matteo Savaresi
As the digital twin is assumed to be the best replica available of the real plant, the key issue in TiL-C becomes the tuning of the compensator, which must be performed relying on data only.
no code implementations • 4 Sep 2023 • Federico Dettù, Simone Formentin, Sergio Matteo Savaresi
Vehicular control systems are required to be both extremely reliable and robust to different environmental conditions, e. g. load or tire-road friction.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2023 • Raffaele Giuseppe Cestari, Andrea Castelletti, Simone Formentin
The optimal operation of water reservoir systems is a challenging task involving multiple conflicting objectives.
no code implementations • 29 Aug 2023 • Riccardo Busetto, Valentina Breschi, Simone Formentin
Assuming that this supplementary information is available, we propose a novel, direct design approach that leverages the data from similar plants, the knowledge of controllers calibrated on them, and the corresponding closed-loop performance to enhance model-reference control design.
no code implementations • 15 Aug 2023 • Valentina Breschi, Simone Formentin, Alberto Leva
Model Predictive Control (MPC) has proven to be a powerful tool for the control of systems with constraints.
no code implementations • 30 Apr 2023 • Riccardo Busetto, Valentina Breschi, Simone Formentin
When solving global optimization problems in practice, one often ends up repeatedly solving problems that are similar to each others.
no code implementations • 1 Apr 2023 • Valentina Breschi, Alessandro Chiuso, Marco Fabris, Simone Formentin
Model predictive control (MPC) is a control strategy widely used in industrial applications.
no code implementations • 27 Feb 2023 • Le Anh Dao, Loris Roveda, Marco Maccarini, Matteo Lavit Nicora, Marta Mondellini, Matteo Meregalli Falerni, Palaniappan Veerappan, Lorenzo Mantovani, Dario Piga, Simone Formentin, Matteo Malosio
Black-box optimization refers to the optimization problem whose objective function and/or constraint sets are either unknown, inaccessible, or non-existent.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2022 • Valentina Breschi, Marco Fabris, Simone Formentin, Alessandro Chiuso
Data-Driven Predictive Control (DDPC) has been recently proposed as an effective alternative to traditional Model Predictive Control (MPC), in that the same constrained optimization problem can be addressed without the need to explicitly identify a full model of the plant.
no code implementations • 15 Sep 2022 • Raffaele G. Cestari, Andrea Castelletti, Simone Formentin
The optimal operation of regulated lakes is a challenging task involving conflicting objectives, ranging from controlling lake levels to avoid floods and low levels to water supply downstream.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2022 • Federico Dettù, Simone Formentin, Sergio Matteo Savaresi
In vehicle dynamics control, engineering a suitable regulator is a long and costly process.
no code implementations • 4 Jul 2022 • Valentina Breschi, Andrea Sassella, Simone Formentin
In this paper, we propose a data-driven approach to derive explicit predictive control laws, without requiring any intermediate identification step.
no code implementations • 13 Apr 2022 • Giorgio Riva, Simone Formentin, Matteo Corno, Sergio M. Savaresi
In vehicle dynamics control, many variables of interest cannot be directly measured, as sensors might be costly, fragile, or even not available.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2022 • Valentina Breschi, Alessandro Chiuso, Simone Formentin
Data-driven predictive control (DDPC) has been recently proposed as an effective alternative to traditional model-predictive control (MPC) for its unique features of being time-efficient and unbiased with respect to the oracle solution.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2021 • Valentina Breschi, Andrea Sassella, Simone Formentin
The proposed explicit law is build upon a regularized implicit data-driven predictive control problem, so as to guarantee the uniqueness of the explicit predictive controller.
no code implementations • 18 Aug 2021 • Andrea Sassella, Valentina Breschi, Simone Formentin
In this paper, we deal with data-driven predictive control of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems.
no code implementations • 23 Mar 2021 • Valentina Breschi, Claudio De Persis, Simone Formentin, Pietro Tesi
In this work, we introduce a novel data-driven model-reference control design approach for unknown linear systems with fully measurable state.
no code implementations • 24 Dec 2020 • Pauline Kergus, Simone Formentin, Matteo Giuliani, Andrea Castelletti
The optimal control of a water reservoir systems represents a challenging problem, due to uncertain hydrologic inputs and the need to adapt to changing environment and varying control objectives.
no code implementations • L4DC 2020 • Valentina Breschi, Simone Formentin
In control applications where finding a model of the plant is the most costly and time consuming task, Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning (VRFT) represents a valid - purely data-driven - alternative for the design of model reference controllers.
no code implementations • L4DC 2020 • Valentina Breschi, Simone Formentin
Input saturation is an ubiquitous nonlinearity in control systems and arises from the fact that all actuators are subject to a maximum power, thereby resulting in a hard limitation on the allowable magnitude of the input effort.
no code implementations • L4DC 2020 • Mirko Mazzoleni, Matteo Scandella, Simone Formentin, Fabio Previdi
Continuous-time parametric models of dynamical systems are usually preferred given their physical interpretation.