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¨ Research ¨ Recent Work ¨ Publications ¨ Resume ¨ Teaching ¨ Travel ¨ Contact		Giordano Pola Assistant Professor at the Dept of Electrical and Information Engineering University of l'Aquila, Italy also affiliated with the Center of Excellence for Research DEWS


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Research

My research interests are on modeling, analysis and control of embedded networked and distributed systems. The main focus of the current research is on the integration of non-idealities of the process and of the controller in the control design of continuous and hybrid systems.

Coauthors :

¨ Alessandro Abate (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

¨ Andrea Balluchi (PARADES, Rome, Italy)

¨ Luca Benvenuti (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)

¨ Luca Berardi (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

¨ Alessandro Borri (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

¨ Manuela Bujorianu (University of Manchester, UK)

¨ Elena De Santis (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

¨ Maria Domenica Di Benedetto (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

¨ Stefano Di Gennaro (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

¨ Alessandro D'Innocenzo (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

¨ Antoine Girard (Université Joseph Fourier, France)

¨ Giovanni Girasole (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

¨ John Lygeros (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

¨ Pierdomenico Pepe (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

¨ Alessandro Petriccone (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

¨ Gianni Pola (Credit Agricole Asset Management SGR, Italy)

¨ Jan Willem Polderman (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

¨ Claudia Rinaldi (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

¨ Fortunato Santucci (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

¨ Shankar Sastry (University of California at Berkeley, USA)

¨ Paulo Tabuada (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)

¨ Arjan J. van der Schaft (University of Groninghen, The Netherlands)

¨ Majid Zamani (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)

¨ Oliver Watkins (University of Cambridge, UK)


Recent Work
		¨ Symbolic models for nonlinear control systems without stability assumptions Majid Zamani, Giordano Pola and Paulo Tabuada Accepted for publication at the IEEE ACC 2010 ¨ A Compositional Hybrid System Approach to the Analysis of Air Traffic Management Systems Elena De Santis, Maria D. Di Benedetto, Alessandro Petriccone and Giordano Pola 8-th Innovative Research Workshop & Exhibition, EUROCONTROL ¨ A symbolic model approach to the digital control of nonlinear time– delay systems Giordano Pola, Pierdomenico Pepe, Maria D. Di Benedetto and Paulo Tabuada IEEE CDC 2009 ¨ A stochastic reachability approach to portfolio construction in finance industry Giordano Pola and Gianni Pola Submitted for publication arXiv:0907.3301v1 ¨ Symbolic models for nonlinear time-delay systems using approximate bisimulation Giordano Pola, Pierdomenico Pepe, Maria D. Di Benedetto and Paulo Tabuada Submitted for publication arXiv:0903.0361v3

Publications

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Teaching_____________________________________________________________

		¨ Fondamenti di Automatica (I1L015, I2S004, I2P004) (Elements of Linear Systems Theory) co-teaching: ¨ Sistemi Embedded (Embedded Systems) also TA-ing: ¨ Analisi e Controllo dei Sistemi Ibridi (I2I017) (Analysis and Control of Hybrid Systems) ¨ Controlli Automatici II (I1I022) (Linear Systems Theory) ¨ Controlli Automatici VO (IY3300) (Linear Systems Theory)

_______________________________________________________________Travel

¨ December 1-3 2009
   INO Workshop 2009
   EUROCONTROL Experimental Center
   Brétigny-sur-Orge, France

¨ November 24-25 2009
EU Project iFly meeting
Isdefe, Madrid, Spain

¨ February 22 - April 25 2009
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, USA

¨ December 9-11 2008
47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Cancun, Mexico

Contacts_____________________________________________________________

		Giordano Pola Mail: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione Università dell’Aquila, Poggio di Roio, 67040, L’Aquila, Italy Phone: +390862434715 FAX: +390862434403 Email: giordano (dot) pola (at) univaq (dot) it

______________________________________________________________________________________________ Last update April 20th 2009