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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http://control.ee.ethz.ch/~gsergio
Personal
• Born in 1987. Italian citizenship.
• Languages: Italian (mother tongue), English (advanced), French (basic), German (basic).
Education
• Research Fellow, Automatic Control and Optimization, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2013–.
• Ph.D. Automation and Robotics, University of Pisa, Italy, 2010–2013.
• M.S. Automation Engineering,
“Sant’Anna” School of Advanced Studies (110/110 cum laude, Honours), Pisa, Italy, 2008–2010.
• M.S. Automation Engineering (110/110 cum laude, Honours), University of Pisa, Italy, 2008–2009.
• B.S. Computer Engineering (110/110 cum laude), University of Pisa, Italy, 2005–2008.
Awards
• “TAC 2013 Outstanding Reviewer”,
Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Society.
• “TAC 2014 Outstanding Reviewer”,
Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Society.
Visiting
• University of California Santa Barbara, Dep. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(January–July 2012).
Supervisor: prof. Andrew Teel.
• 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.
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Research projects
• Dynamic Management of Physically Coupled Systems of Systems (2013–) [http://www.dymasos.eu].
Principal investigator: Prof. John Lygeros.
• Autonomous Model Sail Boat (2013–) [http://control.ee.ethz.ch/~autsail].
Principal investigator: Dr. Sergio Grammatico.
• Underwater Wave Glider (2011–2012).
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
Head teaching assistant, University of Pisa
• Automatic Control (undergraduate course), 2010/‘11, 2011/‘12, 2012/‘13.
• Automatic Control II (graduate course), 2010/‘11.
• Digital and Process Control (graduate course), 2010/‘11.
• Identification and Control of Uncertain Systems (graduate course), 2011/‘12, 2012/‘13.
Head teaching assistant, ETH Zurich
• Linear System Theory (graduate course), 2013/‘14, 2014/‘15.
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, 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.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
[6] 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
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] 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.
[11] 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.
[12] 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.
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[13] 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.
[14] 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.
[15] 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.
[16] 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.
[17] 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.
[18] 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.
[19] 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.
[20] A. Balestrino, E. Crisostomi, S. Grammatico and A. Caiti, Stabilizability of constrained linear systems
via smoothed truncated ellipsoids,
IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, 2011.
[21] A. Balestrino, E. Crisostomi, S. Grammatico and A. Caiti, A Bregman nonlinear proximal point algorithm for adaptive control,
IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, 2011.
[22] A. Caiti, V. Calabrò, S. Grammatico, A. Munafò and M. Stifani, Lagrangian modeling of the Underwater
Wave Glider,
IEEE Oceans Conference, Santander, Spain, 2011.
[23] 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.
[24] 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.
[25] 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.
[26] 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.
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[27] 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.
[28] 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.
[29] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti, E. Crisostomi and S. Grammatico, Stability analysis of dynamical systems via
R-functions,
IEEE European Control Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 2009.
[30] 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: January 8, 2015