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Stefano MianiCurriculum VitaeContentsPersonal Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Teaching activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Institutional activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Research Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Main contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Other research activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Research Funding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Journal Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Patents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Book chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Conference proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Invited presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Phd Thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

STEFANO MIANICURRICULUM VITAENovember 2008Personal dataStefano Miani was born in Parma, Italy, on 03/27/1967. His family moved toCremona, Italy, when he was one year old and finally to Udine, Italy, when hewas nine. Concerning his education, starting from high school, he graduatedat Liceo Scientifico N.Copernico of Udine, Italy (marks 56/60) in 1986, he gotthe Electrical Engineering Laurea at the University of of Padova, Italy, in1993 (marks 110/110 cum laude), and got a PhD in System Engineering, atthe consortium of the Universities of Bologna, Firenze and Padova.Dr. Miani is an Italian citizen, currently living in Udine, Via Paolo Sarpi20, C.A.P. 33100, tel. 0432 501604. He has been married to Christina since03/22/1997 and has three children aged 9, 5, and 2. His main hobby is hisfamily with whom he spends most of his time when at home.His main interests are architecture, music, computer and travel. As far asthe sport activities are concerned, he started with basketball, soccer, skiing andtennis and more recently to mountain biking and hiking, given the proximityof his place to the prealps and the possibility of practicing them with his wifeand, soon, with his kids.Positions• 12/22/1997–10/31/1998: tenure track for assistant professor in Theoryof Dynamical Systems at the Dept. of Electronics and computer Science,University of Padova, Italy;• 1/11/1998–31/10/2002: assistant professor (tenured from 12/22/00)in Theory of Dynamical Systems at the Dept. of Electrical, Managementand Mechanical Engineering, University of Udine, Italy;• 11/1/2002–today: associate professor (tenured from 10/31/06) inTheory of Dynamical Systems at the Dept. of Electrical, Managementand Mechanical Engineering, University of Udine, Italy;Teaching activityDr. Stefano Miani has been teaching university classes in different subjects inthe information area since 1996. He is currently teaching Modeling and Controlof Dynamical Systems and Automation classes. He has also been involved inthe organization and teaching of training classes for automation companies.Institutional activities• 1998/1999, 1999/2000: Drew the Report on the Dept. of Electrical, Managementand Mechanical Engineering, University of Udine, Italy;1

• 1999-2005: department delegate for the University Scientific LibraryCouncil at the university of Udine, Italy• 2000-03: assistant professors delegate in the School of Engineeringcouncil and in the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Udine,Italy• 2000-2005: member of the committees of the School of Engineering:“International Relations” and “Job placement”;• February 2002-October 2004: Vice director for the University ScientificLibrary Council (resigned in 2006 for other concurrent duties);• February 2002-February 2006: School of Engineering delegate forSocrates ProgramAs such he was involved in– promoting exchange initiatives aimed at increasing the number ofSocrates/Erasmus exchanges (the number of exchanges rose from 37in 2001/02 to more than 100 in 2005/06);– drawing score criteria and planning on-line software tools for theautomatization of selection criteria for applicants to European exchanges.Such tools were first developed for the school of engineeringand subsequently used by the whole University.– developing web pages with past Socrates/Erasmus exchanges and adatabase with historical Socrates/Erasmus exchanges data to facilitatethe student exchange selection;– taking care of the E(uropean)C(redit)T(ransfer)S(system) score translationfrom old scoring system to ECTS system for the School ofEngineering;• 2002-today: Socrates/Erasmus coordinator for exchanges with thefollowing countries: Finland, Belgium, Spain (until 2006/2007), Portugaland The Netherlands;• May 2004-February 2006: School of Engineering Dean Delegate todraw a plan for training and job placement agreements for foreign studentsjointly with the company “Danieli e C. Officine Meccaniche spa”.As such he autonomously took care of all the economic and organizationalaspects of the whole plan. Such plan, which produced a net income of100Kefor the University of Udine, resulted in the drawing of agreementsbetween the University of Udine and leader Institutions in– China: University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing– Russia: (a) Bauman Moscow State Technical University and (b)Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, Moscow, Russian Federation– Ukraine: National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, Technical UniversityDnipropetrovsk– India: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur2

Research ActivityDr. Miani’s research, whose main contributions have been collected in thecoauthored book [B1], has dealt with1. dynamical systems with state and input constrains and suboptima controllaws [J1, J3, J5, J7, C7, J9, BC2, C8, C9, J10, J12, J14, J16, C24];2. analysis and controller synthesis for uncertain systems via Lyapunov techniques[C1, C2, J2, BC1, C3, J4, C5, J6, C14];3. l 1 disturbance rejection synthesis [C4, J8, C6];4. dynamical networks optimization [C10, C11, J11, C22, J13, J17];5. gain scheduling and switching systems control laws [C19, J15, C26, C27,W2, C31, J24];6. industrial applications control laws synthesis [C12, C17, C20, J18, C28,C32, J23];7. H ∞ performance PID synthesis [C23, J19, J20, C25, C30];8. modeling and control of flexible systems [C13, C15].9. autonomous robot navigation [P1]Main contributionThe above research research results led to the main contribution [J24]. Insuch paper the authors give a complete answer on the relevant problem (actuallyleft as an open problem by Prof. Morse at Yale University) of designingswitching control laws for switching systems. In simpler words, the contributionimportance can be given by means of an example.Assume the designers have designed the airplane’s flaps position regulatorsaccording to the availability of different sensor measurements (sensors are normallyredundant to cope with failures): regulator 1 works when the first twosensor measurements are available, regulator 2 when the second two sensor measurementsare available and so on. Everything is designed to work fine wheneither of the couple of sensor measurements is working and a supervisor (typicallya computer) chooses the right one. If the supervisor senses that somethingis going wrong with the current active measurements, it switches the active regulatorto the other one (it basically changes its configuration to adapt it to thenew setting). Now, if after a while the measurements used for the previousconfiguration turn back to normal working conditions, the supervisor switchesback to the previous configuration.In such conditions, up to now, there was no guarantee that such switchingbehaviour would result in an error-free (i.e., accident-free) system. Thecontribution is exactly that of providing a way to systematically guaranteethat the correct functioning of the system under switching ispreserved.3

Other research activitiesDr. Miani has been serving as a reviewer for many international Journals,in 1998 and 2001 he has been member of the organizing committee ofthe international conference “Advanced Manufacturing and System Technology.From 2000 to 2002 he was member of the Editorial Board of the“Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory” Journal. From 2003- to date hehas been the Scientific coordinator of a joint Italy-Maroc cooperation on“Industrial process constrained control design”.He is currently member of the Program Committee for the 2009 IEEE Conferenceon Decision and Control.Research Funding• September–December 2000: research agreement with SIMAC Spa to develop“Design of an Automatic Control System for a Rotating Channelused in steel making plants”;• May 2002–December 2003: research agreement with SIMAC Spa to developan “Automated system for exact counting of metal bars on a conveyor”;• 2004–2008: research agreements with “Danieli and C. S.p.a” and “PMPPromec S.p.a.” for “Study and job placement programs for foreign students”.ReferencesBOOKS[B1] F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Set theoretic methods in control, Springer-Verlag, 2008.JOURNAL PAPERS[J1][J2][J3][J4]F. Blanchini, F. Mesquine, e S. Miani. Constrained stabilization withan assigned initial condition set. Int. J. Control, 62(3):601–617, 1995.F. Blanchini e S. Miani. On the Transient Estimate for Linear Systemswith Time-Varying Uncertain Parameters. IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst.,Part I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, 3(7):592–596, 1996.F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Constrained stabilization of continuous-timelinear systems. Systems & Control Letters, 28(2):95–102, 1996.F. Blanchini, S. Miani, e M. Sznaier. Robust Performance with Fixed andWorst-case Signals for Uncertain Time-varying Systems. Automatica,33(12):2183–2189, 1997.4

[J5][J6][J7]F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Constrained stabilization via smooth Lyapunovfunctions. Systems & Control Letters, 35:155–163, 1998.F. Blanchini e S. Miani. A New Class of Universal Lyapunov Functionsfor the Control of Uncertain Linear Systems. IEEE Trans. Automat.Contr., 44(3):641–647, 1999.F. Blanchini, S. Cotterli, G. Koruza, S. Miani, R. Siagri, e L. Tubaro.Constrained stabilization of a dynamic system: a case study. Kybernetika,35(1):93–104, 1999.[J8] M. Sznaier, R. Suárez, S. Miani, e J. Alvarez-Ramírez. Optimal l ∞Disturbance Rejection and Global Stabilization of Linear Systems withBounded Control. Int. J. Rob. Nonlin. Control, 9(10):659-675, 1999.[J9] F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Discussion: (A, B)–invariance conditions ofpolyhedral domains for continuous–time systems by C.E.T. Dorea andJ.C. Hennet. Eur. J. Control, 5(1), 1999 (invited paper).[J10][J11]F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Any domain of attraction for a linear constrainedsystem is a tracking domain of attraction. SIAM J. Contr. Optim, 38(3),pp. 971–994, 2000.F. Blanchini, S. Miani, e W. Ukovich. Control of production-distributionsystems with unknown inputs and system failures. IEEE Trans. Automat.Contr., 45(6), pp. 1072–1081, 2000.[J12] F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Set based constant reference tracking forcontinuous-time constrained systems. Nonlinear Dynamics and SystemsTheory, 1(2), pp. 121–132, 2001.[J13][J14][J15]F. Blanchini, S. Miani, R. Pesenti, and F. Rinaldi. Stabilization of multiinventorysystems with uncertain demand and setups. IEEE Trans.Robotics and Automation, 19(1):103–116, 2003.F. Blanchini and S. Miani. Book review: Actuator saturation control,by V. Kapila and K.M. Grigoriadis. Automatica, 39(4):762–765, 2003.F. Blanchini and S. Miani. Stabilization of LPV systems: state feedback,state estimation and duality. SIAM J. Contr. Optim., 42(1):76–97, 2003.[J16] F. Blanchini, S. Miani, and F. Pellegrino. Suboptimal receding horizoncontrol for continuous-time systems. IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr.,48(6):1081–1086, 2003.[J17] F. Blanchini, S. Miani, and F. Rinaldi. Guaranteed cost controlfor multi–inventory systems with uncertain demand. Automatica,40(2):213–223, February 2004.[J18]A. Gasparetto and S. Miani. Dynamic model of a rotating channel usedin the steel industry and controller implementation. Journal of Vibrationand Control, 10(3):423–445, March 2004.5

[J19] F. Blanchini, A. Lepschy, S. Miani, and U. Viaro. Characterizationof PID and lead/lag compensators satisfying given H ∞ specifications.IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., 49(5):736–740, May 2004.[J20][J21][J22][J23][J24]W. Krajewski, A. Lepschy, S. Miani, and U. Viaro. Frequency-domainapproach to robust PI control. Journal of the Franklin Institute, 342:674–687, September 2005.F. Blanchini, S. Miani, M. Tomasini, L. Tubiana, U. Viaro, andM. Zigliotto. A minimum-time control strategy for torque tracking inpermanent magnet ac motor drives. Automatica, 2007.F. Blanchini, S. Miani, and C. Savorgnan. Stability results for linearparameter varying and switching systems. Automatica, 2007.F. Blanchini, S. Miani, F .A. Pellegrino, and B. Van Arkel. Enhancingcontroller performance for robot positioning in a constrained environment,IEEE Trans. Contr. Syst. Tech., 16(5):1066–1074, 2008.F. Blanchini, S. Miani, and F. Mesquine, A separation principle for linearswitching systems and parametrization of all stabilizing controllers, toappear in IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., 2009.PATENTS[P1]S. Miani and A.C. Morassutti, “Apparatus for laying tiles and/or decorativeelements on supports and localization”, Patent number UD 2008A 000189.BOOK CHAPTERS[BC1] F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Piecewise-linear functions in robust control. InF. Garofalo and L. Glielmo, editors, Robust Control via Variable Structureand Lyapunov Techniques, Lecture Notes in Control and InformationScience, pp.213–243. Springer-Verlag, London, 1996.[BC2] F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Nonlinear controllers for the constrained stabilizationof uncertain dynamic systems. In S. Tarbouriech and G. Garcia,editors, Control of uncertain systems with bounded inputs, LectureNotes in Control and Information Science, pp.97–117. Springer-Verlag,London, 1997.[BC3] F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Dynamic programming for robust control: oldideas and recent developments. In A. Garulli, A. Tesi and A. Vicino, editors,Robustness in Identification and Control, Lecture Notes in Controland Information Science, pp. 391–404, Springer-Verlag, London, 1999.[BC4] F. Blanchini, S. Miani, R. Pesenti, F. Rinaldi, e W. Ukovich. Robust controlof production-distribution systems. In S. O. R. Moheimani, Editor,Perspectives in Robust Control, Lecture Notes in Control and InformationScience, pp. 13–28, Springer-Verlag, London, 2001.6

[BC5] F. Blanchini, S. Miani, and C. Savorgnan. Set based control synthesis forstate and velocity constrained systems. In S. Tarbouriech, G. Garcia,and A.H. Glattfelder, editors, Advanced Strategies in Control Systemswith Input and Output Constraints, volume 346 of Lecture Notes in Controland Information Science, pages 341–368,. Springer-Verlag, London,2007.CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS[C1][C2]F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Polyhedral Lyapunov functions and variablestructure controllers for uncertain linear systems. In Proc. Robust Controlvia Variable Structure and Lyapunov Techniquesi conf., pp.19–26,Benevento, Italy, 1994.F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Best transient estimate for linear discrete-timeuncertain systems. In Proc. of the 3 rd European Control ConferenceECC 95, pp.1010–1015, Roma, Italy, 1995.[C3] F. Blanchini, S. Miani, e M. Sznaier. Step response bounds for timevarying uncertain systems with bounded disturbances. In Proc. 34 thControl Decision Conference CDC 1995, pp.3188–3193, New Orleans,Louisiana, USA, 1995.[C4] M. Sznaier, R. Suárez, S. Miani, e J. Alvarez-Ramírez. Optimal l ∞disturbance rejection and global stabilization of linear systems with saturatingcontrol. In International Federation of Automatic Control ConferenceIFAC 96, pp.155–160, San Francisco, USA, 1996.[C5][C6][C7]F. Blanchini e S. Miani. A new class of universal Lyapunov functions forthe control of dynamic systems. In Proc. 35 th Contr. Dec. ConferenceCDC96, pp. 1027–1032, Kobe, Japan, 1996.F. Blanchini, M. Sznaier, e S. Miani. Worst case l ∞ to l ∞ gain minimization:dynamic versus static state feedback. In Proc. 35 th Contr.Dec. Conference CDC96, pp.2395–2400, Kobe, Japan, 1996.F. Blanchini, S. Cotterli, G. Koruza, S. Miani, R. Siagri, and L.Tubaro.Constrained stabilization of a dynamic system: a case study. In Proc.5 th IEEE Mediterranean Control Conference, CDROM, Cipro, 1997.[C8] F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Constant signal tracking for state constraineddynamic systems. In Proc. 36 th Contr. Dec. Conference CDC97,pp.2870–2875, San Diego (CA), USA, 1997.[C9]F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Constrained stabilization via smooth Lyapunovfunctions. In A. Tornambè, G. Conte, and A.M. Perdon, editors, Proc.6 th IEEE Mediterranean Control Conference, pp.284–289, Alghero, Italy,1998. World Scientific.7

[C10] F. Blanchini, S. Miani, e W. Ukovich. Decentralized control ofcontinuous-time production-distribution systems with unknown inputs.In Proc. IEEE Int. Conference Control Applications CCA98, pp.1312–1316, Trieste, Italy, September 1998.[C11]F. Blanchini, S. Miani, e W. Ukovich. Control of production-distributionsystems with unknown inputs and system failures. In Proc. 37 th Contr.Dec. Conference CDC98, pp.2710–2715, St. Louis, USA, 1998.[C12] F. Blanchini, F. Miani, S. Miani, e U. Viaro. Robust PID controllertuning for continuous casting mold level control. In Proc. AMST Conference,pp.635–642, Springer, Wien, 1999.[C13][C14][C15][C16][C17][C18][C19][C20]A. Gasparetto e S. Miani. Application of classical PD regulator to thecontrol of a flexible planar closed chain linkage. In Proc. 7 th IEEEMediterranean Control Conference, pp.773–781, Haifa, Israel, 1999.F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Numerical computation of polyhedral Lyapunovfunctions for robust control synthesis. In Proc. 1999 IFAC Conference,pp.497–502, Pechino, China, 1999.A. Gasparetto, M. Giovagnoni e S. Miani. A linearized dynamic modelof a flexible-link planar mechanism In Proc. Asian Pacific VibrationConf., pp. 818–823, Singapore, Singapore, 1999.F. Blanchini e S. Miani. On the tracking problem for constrained linearsystems. In Proc. MTNS2000 Conf., Perpignan, France, CD-ROM, 2000.F. Blanchini, V. Francesconi, S. Miani e U. Viaro. Molten steel levelcontrol. In Proc. MTNS2000 Conf., Perpignan, France, CD-ROM-2000.F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Any domain of attraction for a linear constrainedsystem is a tracking domain of attraction (SIAM invited paper). In Proc.39 th Contr. Dec. Conference CDC00, Sydney, Australia, pp.5065–5070,2000.F. Blanchini e S. Miani. Dual results for LPV systems. In Proc. 5 thEuropean Control Conference ECC01, Porto, Portugal, pp. 3068–3073,2001.A. Gasparetto e S. Miani. Modeling and control of a flexible rotatingchannel. In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Control Applications CCA01,Mexico City, Mexico, pp. 559–563, 2001.[C21] F. Blanchini, S. Miani, R. Pesenti, e F. Rinaldi. Control policies formulti-inventory systems with uncertain demand and setups. In Proc.40 th Contr. Dec. Conference CDC01, Orlando-FL, USA, pp., 2001.[C22]F. Blanchini, S. Miani, e F. Rinaldi. Guaranteed cost control for multi–inventory systems with uncertain demand. Proc. 2002 IFAC Conference,Barcelona, Spain, luglio 2002.8

[C23][C24]W. Krajewski, A. Lepschy, S. Miani, and U. Viaro. Robustness analysisof a frequency-domain PI controller design procedure. In Proc. AdvancedManufacturing Systems and Technology Conference, pages 585–592, Udine, Italy, 2002.F. Blanchini, S. Miani, and F. Pellegrino. Suboptimal receding horizoncontrol for continuous–time systems. In Proc. 41 st Contr. Dec. ConferenceCDC02, pages 1558–1563, Las Vegas-NV, USA, 2002.[C25] F. Blanchini, S. Miani, U. Viaro, and A. Lepschy. Characterizationof standard controllers satisfying given H ∞ specifications. In Proc. 42 ndContr. Dec. Conference CDC03, pages 6474–6479, Maui, HI, USA, 2003.[C26][C27][C28][C29]F. Blanchini and S. Miani. Stabilization of LPV systems: state feedback,state estimation and duality. In Proc. 42 nd Contr. Dec. ConferenceCDC03, pages 1492–1497, Maui, HI, USA, 2003.F. Blanchini, S. Miani, and C. Savorgnan. Polyhedral lyapunov functionscomputation for robust and gain scheduled design. In Proc. 2004NOLCOS Symposium, Stuttgart, Germany, pages 1109–1114, 2004.F. Blanchini, S. Miani, F.A. Pellegrino, and B. van Arkel. Enhancingcontroller performance for robot positioning in a constrained environment.In Decision and Control, 2004. CDC. 43rd IEEE Conference on,volume 5, pages 5222–5227, 14–17 December 2004.A. Ferrante, W. Krajewski, A. Lepschy ans S. Miani, and U. Viaro.Simultaneous stabilization of multiple equilibrium points. In Decisionand Control, 2004. CDC. 43rd IEEE Conference on, volume 3, pages2533–2536, 14–17 December 2004.[C30] F. Blanchini, A. Lepschy, S. Miani, and U. Viaro. Constrained H ∞design of PID controllers. In AMST ’05, 7th Int. Conf. on AdvancedManufacturing Systems and Technology, CISM Courses and lecture no.486, pages 297–305. Springer, June 2005.[C31][C32][C33]F. Blanchini, S. Miani, and C. Savorgnan. Stability results for continuousand discrete time linear parameter varying systems. In Proc. 16th IFACWorld congress, Prague, July 2005.F. Blanchini, S. Miani, M. Tomasini, L. Tubiana, U. Viaro, andM. Zigliotto. A minimum-time control strategy for torque tracking inpermanent magnet AC motor drives. In Proc. 16th IFAC World congress,Prague, July 2005.S. Miani and C. Savorgnan. MAXIS-G: a software package for computingpolyhedral invariant sets for constrained LPV systems. In Decision andControl, 2005. CDC. 44th IEEE Conference on, pages 7609–7614, 12–15December 2005.9

[C34][C35][C36][C37]S. Miani and C. Savorgnan. Complex polytopic control lyapunov functions.In Decision and Control, 2006. CDC. 45th IEEE Conference on,pages 3198–3203, 13–15 December 2006.F. Blanchini, S. Miani, and C. Savorgnan. Dynamic Augmentation andComplexity Reduction of Set-Based Constrained Control. In Proc. 17thIFAC World Congress, Seoul, 2008.W. Krajewskii, S. Miani, A. C. Morassutti, and U. Viaro. Multicontrollerdesign for continuous casting mold level control. In Proc. AdvancedManufacturing Systems and Technology Conference, Udine, Italy, pages653–663, June 2008.. Blanchini, S. Miani, and F. Mesquine. A separation principle for linearswitching systems and parametrization of all stabilizing controllers. InDecision and Control, 2008. CDC. 46th IEEE Conference on, to appear,December 2008, Cancun, Mexico.INVITED PRESENTATIONS[W1] F. Blanchini and S. Miani. On robust and gain scheduled design forlinear parameter varying systems. International Workshop “Uncertainsystems”, Cascais, July 2002.[W2]S. Miani. Dynamic system stabilization via multicontrollers: some recentresults. International Workshop “Nonlinear dynamics and complexityin information and communication technology”, Bologna, Italy, 6-8September 2004.PhD THESIS[PhD] S. Miani. Classi universali di funzioni di Lyapunov per il controllo robustodi sistemi dinamici, tesi di Dottorato, Università degli Studi diPadova, 199710