Research Area

  • Title:
    Robotics, Electromechanical and Electrical System Control

  • Keywords:

    Mechatronic, Robust control, Sensorless control, Embedded real-time control

  • Description:

    The interests of this research group focus mainly on analysis, modeling, identification and control of nonlinear systems with special emphasis on the following applications:

    • Electric machines
    • Electric power converters
    • Wind energy conversion systems
    • Industrial robots
    A model-based robust control design is considered to take account of nonlinearities and parameter variations in robotics, electromechanical and electrical power conversion systems. In the framework of robust control techniques, a particular interest is addressed to sliding-mode methods, robust and simpler to be implemented with respect to different control approaches.

    Though extra costs added by transducers are rather limited, control performance may be affected by sensors inaccuracies and/or faults. In most applications, these sensors present several disadvantages, such as reduced reliability, susceptibility to noise, additional cost and weight and increased complexity of the system. For these reasons, the so-called sensorless control attract the industrial interest, and induce an intensive research activity in our research group.

    The research interests include also modelling, estimation and system identification of physical system dynamics to develop model-based and data-driven methods for fault diagnosis and control of mechatronic systems.

    The development of algorithms and simulation tools and their application to embedded real-time control solutions are also within our research topics. The implementation of prototypes based on
    embedded industrial platform is very useful for our research activities and technology transfer capabilities

  • Laboratory:
    Mechatronic and Robotic Systems

  • Contact Person:
    Gianluca Ippoliti
    Giuseppe Orlando

  • Collaborations:

    Università di Camerino, Università di Perugia, Whirlpool.

  • Projects:
    • Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN): “Smart Optimized Fault Tolerant WIND turbines” (SOFTWIND)
    • MIUR-DAAD Joint Mobility Program: “Nanorobotic-assisted Scanning Microwave Microscopy to analyze and manipulate 2D- and- Biomaterials” (NaSam2dB)
    • Project “R3-COP-Robust & Safe Mobile Co-operative Autonomous Systems” (ARTEMIS JU 100233, “ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking”): “Localization Systems for Co-operative Robotic Systems