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Dr. Ing. Sergio Grammatico
ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Department of Information Technology
and Electrical Engineering
Automatic Control Laboratory
ETL K13.2, Physikstrasse 3,
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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0041 44 632 3469
0041 44 632 1211
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http://control.ee.ethz.ch/~gsergio
Personal
• Born in 1987. Italian citizenship.
• Languages: Italian (mother tongue), English (advanced), French (basic), German (basic).
Appointments
• Research Fellow, Automatic Control and Optimization, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
(March 2013 –).
Education
• Ph.D. Automation and Robotics, University of Pisa, Italy
(Jan 2010 – March 2013).
• M.S. Engineering Science,
“Sant’Anna” School of Advanced Studies (110/110 cum laude, Honours), Pisa, Italy
(October 2008 – September 2010).
• M.S. Automation Engineering (110/110 cum laude, Honours), University of Pisa, Italy
(March 2008 – October 2009).
• B.S. Computer Engineering (110/110 cum laude), University of Pisa, Italy
(October 2005 – February 2008).
Awards
• “TAC 2014 Outstanding Reviewer”,
Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Society.
• “TAC 2013 Outstanding Reviewer”,
Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Society.
Research visits
• University of California Santa Barbara, Dep. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(January–July 2012). Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Teel.
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• University of Udine, Dep. of Mathematics and Computer Science
(February 2011). Supervisor: Prof. Franco Blanchini.
• University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Dep. of Mathematics
(February–April 2010, November–December 2011). Supervisor: Prof. Monique Chyba.
Research projects
• Dynamic Management of Physically Coupled Systems of Systems (October 2013 –) [www.dymasos.eu].
Principal investigator: Prof. John Lygeros.
• Autonomous Model Sailboat (October 2013 –) [http://control.ee.ethz.ch/~autsail].
Principal investigator: Dr. Sergio Grammatico.
• Underwater Wave Glider (January 2011 – December 2012).
Principal investigator: Prof. Andrea Caiti.
Review activity
Selected Journals
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, Systems & Control Letters, Journal
of Process Control, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
Teaching
Teaching assistant, ETH Zurich
• Linear System Theory (graduate course), 2013/‘14, 2014/‘15.
• Building Control and Automation (graduate course), 2014/‘15.
Teaching assistant, University of Pisa
• Automatic Control (undergraduate course), 2010/‘11, 2011/‘12, 2012/‘13.
• Automatic Control II, Digital and Process Control (graduate courses), 2010/‘11.
• Identification and Control of Uncertain Systems (graduate course), 2011/‘12, 2012/‘13.
Other
• “International Mathematical Game Championship” (national finalist), 2007, 2009.
• Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, (passed to the class of Physics), 2006.
• High-Mathematics National Institute “F. Severi” (scholarship awarded), 2005.
• Italian Physics Olimpiads (national finalist), 2005.
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Publications
Journal papers
[1] S. Grammatico, X. Zhang, K. Margellos, P. Goulart and J. Lygeros, A scenario approach for non-convex
control design,
IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control (in press), 2015.
[2] S. Grammatico, F. Blanchini and A. Caiti, Control-sharing and merging control Lyapunov functions,
IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 59, n. 1, pag. 107–119, 2014.
[3] S. Grammatico, A. Subbaraman and A.R. Teel, Discrete-time stochastic control systems: a continuous Lyapunov function implies robustness to strictly causal perturbations,
Automatica, vol. 49, n. 10, pag. 2939–2952, 2013.
[4] A. Caiti, V. Calabrò, S. Geluardi, S. Grammatico, A. Munafò, Switching control of an underwater glider with
independently controllable wings,
Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment, 2013.
[5] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti and S. Grammatico, A new class of Lyapunov functions for the constrained stabilization of linear systems,
Automatica, vol. 48, n. 11, pag. 2951–2955, 2012.
[6] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti and S. Grammatico, Multivariable constrained process control via Lyapunov Rfunctions,
Journal of Process Control, vol. 22, n. 9, pag. 1762–1772, 2012.
[7] A. Caiti, V. Calabrò, S. Grammatico, A. Munafò and M. Stifani, Lagrangian modelling of an underwater
wave glider,
Ship Technology Research, vol. 59, n. 1, 2012.
Proceedings
[8] F. Parise, S. Grammatico, M. Colombino and J. Lygeros, On constrained mean field control for large populations of heterogeneous agents: decentralized convergence to Nash equilibria,
IEEE European Control Conference, Linz, Austria, 2015.
[9] S. Grammatico, B. Gentile, F. Parise and J. Lygeros, A mean field control approach for demand side management of large populations of thermostatically controlled loads,
IEEE European Control Conference, Linz, Austria, 2015.
[10] M. Tranzatto, S. Grammatico, A. Liniger and A. Landi, The debut of Aeolus, the autonomous model sailboat
of ETH Zurich,
IEEE Oceans Conference, Genoa, Italy, 2015.
[11] B. Gentile, S. Grammatico and J. Lygeros, Mean field modeling of large-scale energy systems,
IFAC Conference on Mathematical Modeling, Wien, Austria, 2015.
[12] F. Parise, M. Colombino, S. Grammatico and J. Lygeros, Mean field constrained charging policy for large
populations of plug-in electric vehicles,
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2014.
[13] X. Zhang, S. Grammatico, G. Schildbach, P. Goulart and J. Lygeros, Randomized nonlinear MPC for uncertain control-affine systems with bounded closed-loop constraint violations,
IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014.
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[14] X. Zhang, S. Grammatico, G. Schildbach, P. Goulart and J. Lygeros, On the sample size of randomized MPC
for chance-constrained systems with application to building climate control,
IEEE European Control Conference, Strasbourg, France, 2014.
[15] S. Grammatico, X. Zhang, K. Margellos, P. Goulart and J. Lygeros, A scenario approach to non-convex
control design: preliminary probabilistic guarantees,
IEEE American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2014.
[16] S. Grammatico, A. Subbaraman and A. Teel, Discrete-time stochastic control systems: examples of robustness
to strictly causal perturbations,
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, 2013.
[17] S. Grammatico, A. Subbaraman and A. Teel, Stability robustness in stochastic model predictive control that
generates discontinuous feedbacks,
SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications, San Diego, California, USA, 2013.
[18] S. Grammatico, F. Blanchini and A. Caiti, A universal class of non-homogeneous control Lyapunov functions
for linear differential inclusions,
IEEE European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 2013.
[19] S. Grammatico and G. Pannocchia, Achieving a large domain of attraction with short-horizon linear MPC
via polyhedral Lyapunov functions,
IEEE European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 2013.
[20] S. Grammatico, F. Blanchini and A. Caiti, Further results on merging control Lyapunov functions for linear
differential inclusions,
IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Chania, Crete, Greece, 2013.
[21] M. Chyba, S. Grammatico, V.T. Huynh, J. Marriott, B. Piccoli and R. Smith, Reducing Actuator Switchings
for Motion Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,
IEEE American Control Conference, Washington, D.C., USA, 2013.
[22] A. Caiti, V. Calabrò, S. Geluardi, S. Grammatico and A. Munafò, Switching control of an underwater glider
with independently controllable wings,
IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft, Arenzano, Italy, 2012.
[23] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti and S. Grammatico, Constrained stabilization of a continuous stirred tank reactor via
smooth control Lyapunov R-functions,
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2011.
[24] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti and S. Grammatico, Stabilizability of constrained uncertain linear systems via smooth
control Lyapunov R-functions,
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2011.
[25] A. Balestrino, E. Crisostomi, S. Grammatico and A. Caiti, Stabilizability of constrained linear systems via
smoothed truncated ellipsoids,
IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, 2011.
[26] A. Balestrino, E. Crisostomi, S. Grammatico and A. Caiti, A Bregman nonlinear proximal point algorithm
for adaptive control,
IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, 2011.
[27] A. Caiti, V. Calabrò, S. Grammatico, A. Munafò and M. Stifani, Lagrangian modeling of the Underwater
Wave Glider,
IEEE Oceans Conference, Santander, Spain, 2011.
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[28] A. Caiti, V. Calabrò, S. Grammatico, A. Munafò and M. Stifani, Control-oriented modeling of an Underwater
Wave Glider,
International Conference on Computer Applications and Information Technology in the
Maritime Industries, Berlin, Germany, 2011.
[29] M. Andonian, D. Cazzaro, L. Invernizzi, M. Chyba and S. Grammatico, Geometric control for autonomous
underwater vehicles: overcoming a thruster failure,
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2010.
[30] M. Andonian, M. Chyba, S. Grammatico and A. Caiti, Using geometric control to design trajectories for an
AUV to map and sample the summit of the Loihi submarine volcano,
IEEE Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Conference, Monterey, California, USA, 2010.
[31] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti, E. Crisostomi and S. Grammatico, R-composition of quadratic Lyapunov functions
for stabilizability of linear differential inclusions,
IFAC Symposium on System, Structure and Control, Ancona, Italy, 2010.
[32] S. Grammatico, A. Balluchi and E. Cosoli, A series-parallel hybrid electric powertrain for industrial vehicles,
IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion Conference, Lille, France, 2010.
[33] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti, E. Crisostomi and S. Grammatico, Stabilizability of linear differential inclusions via
R-functions,
IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Bologna, Italy, 2010.
[34] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti, E. Crisostomi and S. Grammatico, Stability analysis of dynamical systems via Rfunctions,
IEEE European Control Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 2009.
[35] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti, E. Crisostomi and S. Grammatico, R-composition of Lyapunov functions,
IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009.
Last updated: May 25, 2015