Publications

Journal Paper

[1]  M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, Robustification of Sample-and-Hold Stabilizers for Control-Affine Time-Delay Systems, Automatica, Vol. 83, N. 9, 2017, pp. 141-154.

[2]  M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, Sampled-Data Emulation of Dynamic Output Feedback Controllers for Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems, Automatica, Vol. 99, 2019, pp. 120-131.

[3]  M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, P. Palumbo, S. Panunzi, A. De Gaetano, Semi-Global  Sampled-Data Dynamic Output Feedback Controller for the Glucose-Insulin System, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Special Issue on System Identification and Control in Biomedical Applications, Vol. 28, 2020, pp. 16-32.

[4] M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, E. Fridman, Exponential input-to-state stability of globally Lipschitz time-delay systems under sampled-data noisy output feedback and actuation disturbances, International Journal of Control, Vol. 94, 2021, pp. 1682-1692.

[5] M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, A. Borri, On Practical Stability Preservation Under Fast Sampling and Accurate Quantization of Feedbacks for Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 66, 2021, pp. 314-321.

[6] M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, S. Di Gennaro, A Converse Lyapunov–Krasovskii Theorem for the Global Asymptotic Local Exponential Stability of Nonlinear Time–Delay Systems, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 5, 2021 pp. 7-12. Accepted also for presentation in 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

[7] A. Borri, P. Pepe, I. Di Loreto, M. Di Ferdinando, Finite-dimensional periodic event-triggered control of nonlinear time-delay systems with an application to the Artificial Pancreas, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 5, 2021, pp. 31-36. Accepted also for presentation in 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

[8] M.Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, S. Di Gennaro, A new approach to the design of sampled-data dynamic output feedback stabilizers, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 67, 2022, pp. 1038-1045.

[9] M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, S. Di Gennaro, A. Borri, P. Palumbo, Quantized Sampled-Data Static Output Feedback Control of the Glucose-Insulin System, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 112, 2021.

[10] M. Di Ferdinando, B. Castillo-Toledo, S. D. Gennaro, P. Pepe, Robust Quantized Sampled–Data Stabilization for a Class of Lipschitz Nonlinear Systems With Time–Varying Uncertainties, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 6, 2022, pp. 1256-1261. Accepted also for presentation in 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

[11] M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, S. Di Gennaro, On Semi--Global Exponential Stability Under Sampling for Locally Lipschitz Time--Delay Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Early Access, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2022.3152726.

[12] M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe and S. Di Gennaro, On Robustification of Sampled-Data Dynamic Output-Feedback Stabilizers for Control-Affine Nonlinear Systems, IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 3277-3282, 2022, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3184466.

[13] A. Borri, M. D. Ferdinando, D. Bianchi, P. Pepe and S. Di Gennaro, Quantized Sampled-Data Attitude Control of Ground Vehicles: An Event-Based Approach, IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 3194-3199, 2022, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3184273.

Conference Paper

[1]  M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, Robust Sample-and-Hold Stabilization for Nonlinear Retarded Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 49, Issue 10, 2016, pp. 53-58.

[2]  M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, On emulation of observer-based stabilizers for nonlinear systems, IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, Australia, 2017, Pages 6738-6743.

[3]  M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, P. Palumbo, S. Panunzi, A. De Gaetano, Robust Global Nonlinear Sampled-Data Regulator for the Glucose-Insulin System, IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, Australia, 2017, Pages 4686 - 4691.

[4] R. Carli, G. Cavone, N. Epicoco, M. Di Ferdinando, P. Scarabaggio, M. Dotoli, Consensus-Based Algorithms for Controlling Swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, In: Grieco L.A., Boggia G., Piro G., Jararweh Y., Campolo C. (eds) Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks. ADHOC-NOW 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 12338. Springer, Cham.

[5]  M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, S. Di Gennaro, P Palumbo, Sampled-Data Static Output Feedback Control of the Glucose-Insulin System, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 53, Issue 2, 2020, pp. 3626-3631.

[6] M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, S. Di Gennaro, Robust Sampled-Data Consensus-Based Cooperative Control of Multi UAVs, 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Bari, Italy, 22-25 June 2021, pp. 167-172.

[7] P. Pepe, A. Borri, M. Di Ferdinando, On Lyapunov-Krasovskii Methods for Event-Based Control of Retarded Systems with Sampled-Data Measures, non-Smooth Feedback, and non-uniform sampling, SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications, CT21, Spokane, Washington, USA, 2021.

[8] M. Di Ferdinando, D. Bianchi, S. Di Gennaro, P. Pepe, On the Robust Quantized Sampled–Data Leaderless Consensus Tracking of Nonlinear Multi–Agent Systems, 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2021, pp. 3263-3268.

[9] M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, S. Di Gennaro, On Stabilization of Nonlinear Time–Delay Systems via Quantized Sampled–Data Dynamic Output Feedback Controllers, 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2021, pp. 4749-4754.

[10]  M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, S. Di Gennaro, On Sampled–Data Leaderless Consensus Tracking of Nonlinear Multi–Agent Time–Delay Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 54, Issue 18, 2021, pp. 192-197.

Book chapter

[1]  M. Di Ferdinando, P. Pepe, E. Fridman, Practical stability preservation under sampling, actuation disturbance and measurement noise, for globally Lipschitz time-delay systems, in G. Valmorbida, W. Michiels, P. Pepe, Incorporating constraints on the Analysis of Delay and Distributed Parameter Systems, Series Advances in Delays and Dynamics, Vol. 12, 2022, Springer.