Massimiliano Mattei
Full Professor of Automatic Control
Università degli Studi “Mediterranea” di Reggio Calabria
Dipartimento di Informatica, Matematica, Elettronica e Trasporti
Via Graziella (Località Feo di Vito) 89100, Reggio Calabria
massimiliano . mattei /at/ unirc . it
Tel. +39 0965 875268, Fax. +39 0965 875247
Biographical Notes1969 |
Born in Naples, Italy, February 7 |
1993 |
Laurea cum laude degree in Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Napoli “Federico II” |
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Consorzio Napoli Ricerche Prize for the Laurea thesis work |
1993-94 |
Scientific Consultant of CIRA (Italian Aerospace Research Center) |
1994-96 |
Participation to the European project Garteur FM-AG08 on “Robust Flight Control” |
1997 |
Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering at the University of Napoli “Federico II” Thesis on “Modeling and Control of a Plasma Wind Tunnel” |
1997-98 |
On contract Professor at the University of Naples Federico II. Research activity on “Modeling and control of space vehicles during rendez-vous e docking maneuvers” supported by ASI (Italian Space Agency) |
1997 |
Scientific consultant of CIRA for the dynamic modeling and control of the “Scirocco” Plasma Wind Tunnel |
1997-2001 |
Assistant Professor at the University of Reggio Calabria |
2001-2003 |
Participation to the Brite-Euram fifth Framework Research Project ADFCSII on Flight Control |
2001- |
EURATOM-ENEA-CREATE scientific consultant on thermonuclear controlled fusion topics. Visiting scientist at Max Planck Institute (Munich – D) and JET Laboratories (Oxford – UK) Responsible of the Control and Automation Laboratory of the University of Reggio Calabria |
2001-2005 |
Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Reggio Calabria |
2003-2006 |
Coordinator of the Ph.D. Course in Electrical and Control Engineering |
2004-2006 |
Coordinator of a scientific program on Fault Detection and Isolation on aeronautical and nuclear systems supported by the CARICAL foundation |
2005- |
Full Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Reggio Calabria |
2005-2006 |
Experiment scientific coordinator at the JET tokamak Responsible of a research contract on the Control of the ITER tokamak Responsible of a project on the realization of a rotor wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
2006- |
Head of the Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Electronic Engineering and Transportation Science DIMET |
2006- |
Senior Member IEEE Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology |
The research activities of Massimiliano Mattei (hereinafter M.M.) are mainly focused on the following topics:
- Flight control and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV),
- Theory and applications of robust and H¥ control,
- Development of control design oriented mathematical models of complex systems,
- Thermonuclear controlled fusion.
Follows a brief description of the main research activities carried out on these topics.
Flight Control and Unmanned Vehicles
Flight control is one of the main scientific interests of M.M. This originates from his Laurea degree in aeronautical engineering. He worked on the control of small unmanned aircrafts in parabolic flight for microgravity experimentation, robust flight control of high performance aircrafts, innovative flight control systems of small commercial aircrafts, and fault detection and isolation of aircraft sensors and actuators.
He is now working on UAVs’ flight control systems. In particular he is responsible for the realization of a small scale rotor wing UAV at the Laboratory of Automatic Control of the University of Reggio Calabria. He also joined a research program on a fixed wing UAV for environmental monitoring in collaboration with other italian universities.
Theory and Application of Robust and H¥ Control
M.M. worked on the stability and performance of linear systems depending on uncertain parameters. He formulated necessary and/or sufficient conditions for stability and performance in the case of parameters with a bound on their rate of variation both in the continuous and discrete time. He also coauthored new results on the synthesis of H¥ controllers for this class of systems.
In the H¥ control theory, LTV (Linear Time Varying) systems have been dealt with, in particular LTV uncertain systems subject to norm bounded uncertainties. Also the Singular H¥ problem has been solved for the class of LTV systems.
Results on fixed structure compensators have been given in terms of sufficient conditions involving LMIs.
Finally connections between differential games and H¥ control theory have been investigated. In particular the guaranteed cost differential games have been studied for the case of 2 and N-players.
Development of control design oriented mathematical models for complex systems
M.M. worked on modeling and control of many complex systems, including aircrafts, space vehicles, helicopters, tokamaks for thermonuclear fusion, wind tunnels, civil dynamic structures, electric power and air compressed systems. For these plants he was often responsible for formulating and implementing mathematical models, and finding possible simplifications in view of the control law design. Among the most important experiences in this field, M.M. worked on the Scirocco plant, which is a 70 MW arc heated plasma wind tunnel for testing space vehicle parts during the re-entry phase. He also worked on space vehicles modeling during the phase of rendez-vouz and docking; on electromagnetic modeling of plasmas for thermonuclear controlled fusion; on the modeling of electric power and air compressed supply systems; on civil structures oscillating under seismic and wind action. He is quite expert in the modeling of aircrafts and helicopters due to his aeronautical background. In this field his attention was recently directed to the modeling of small scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) both fixed and rotor wing.
Thermonuclear Fusion
In the field of thermonuclear fusion M.M. is active since 2001. He worked on the electromagnetic modeling of plasmas and the proposed modeling techniques were applied to the JET and ITER tokamaks. He also worked on the plasma scenario optimization, and on plasma shape and position control. Finally he was involved in several activities on the identification of the plasma shape and of the current profile inside the plasma.
Teaching and other Academic activities
M.M. was appointed Assistant Professor in 1997, Associate Professor in 2001, and Full Professor in 2005. He taught the following courses: System Theory I and II, Automatic Control, Optimal Control, Process Control, System Identification, Optimization, Industrial Automation I.
He supervised many Laurea and PhD thesis works. He has been the Coordinator of the Ph.D Course in Electrical and Control Engineering. He is responsible of the Laboratory on Control and Automation of the University of Reggio Calabria.
He is the Head of the Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Electronic Engineering and Transportation systems
Participation to research groups and projects
M.M. has been involved in many italian and international projects, working in many research groups in collaboration with both academic and industrial partners. The main experiences are listed below.
In the field of thermonuclear fusion he joined the Euratom-Enea group working on the main fusion tokamaks in the world. In particular he worked on the JET tokamak (Oxford, UK) which is the largest tokamak in the world, and he is involved in some research and design activities on the ITER tokamak which is under construction in Cadarache (FR). M.M. is collaborating with almost all the main institutions involved in nuclear fusion research spending many months at the Max Planck Institut fur Plasmaphysik, (Munich, D) and the JET Laboratories (Culham, Oxford, UK).
In flight control research, he joined an European Garteur Group (FMAG08) on robust flight control during 1994-96 in which the following industries and institutions where involved: Saab Military Aircrafts (S), Alenia (I), Aerospatiale (FR), Avro (UK), Fokker (NL), British Aerospace (UK), Daimler-Benz Aerospace (D), CIRA (I), DLR (D), DRA (UK), ONERA (FR), NLR (NL), LAAS (FR), INTA (E), Universities of Cambridge (UK), Leicester (UK), Madrid (E), Delft (NL), Linkoping (S), Napoli (I).
In 2003-2005 he joined a Brite-Euram research group (ADFCS-II project) working on innovative flight control systems for small commercial aircraft and collaborating with the following partners: British Aerospace (UK), Israel Aircraft Industries (IL), Alenia Aerospazio (I), Fairchild Dornier (D), National Aerospace Laboratory (NL), Delft University (NL), Israel Institute of Technology (IL), University of Patras (EL).
He was also working on a research project on flight control for commercial aircrafts supported by the Italian Research Ministry (MIUR) in collaboration with the Universities of Naples, Rome, the Italian Aerospace Research Center (CIRA) and the Vulcanair company.
In the Scirocco plasma wind tunnel project he worked in collaboration with CIRA (I), ANSALDO (I), Laben (I), Aerotherm (USA), ASE Engineering (USA), Naval Impianti (I).
Also on the side of methodological and theoretical aspects of modeling and control he collaborated with several italian and international universities.
Reviewing Activities and Editorial Work
M.M. has a wide reviewing experience collected for many conferences and journals including IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Neural Networks, Automatica, Control Engineering Practice, International Journal of Control, IEE Proceedings, European Journal of Control, ASME Journal on Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, Journal of Process Control, ISA Transactions; CDC, ACC, ECC, CCA and other IEEE and IFAC conferences and workshops.
He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
