Ph.D. Dissertation

• Analysis and Control of Flapping Flight: from Biological to Robotic Insects
  Thesis and dissertation talk slides
  December 2003

1. To zero or to hold control inputs with lossy links?
   Luca Schenato
   Submitted for publication

2. Distributed Kalman filtering based on consensus strategies
   Ruggero Carli, Alessandro Chiuso, Luca Schenato, Sandro Zampieri
   Submitted for publication

3. Optimal estimation in networked control systems subject to random delay and packet drop
   Luca Schenato
   To appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

4. On optimal rendezvous control with randomly switching communication graphs
   Luca Schenato, Sandro Zampieri
   To appear in Networks and Heterogeneous Media, An Applied Mathematics Journal (AIMS)
5. Optimal Linear LQG Control Over Lossy Networks Without Packet Acknowledgment
   B. Sinopoli, L. Schenato, M. Franceschetti, K. Poolla, and S. Sastry
   To appear in Asian Journal of Control

6. Implementation and Performance Evaluation of an Application Layer Protocol for Real-Time Wireless Industrial Communications
   Jacopo Carreras, Daniele Miorandi, Luca Schenato, Alessandro Sona, Stefano Vitturi
   IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, December 2007

7. Foundations of Control and Estimation over Lossy Networks
   Luca Schenato, Bruno Sinopoli, Massimo Franceschetti, Kameshwar Poolla,  Shankar S. Sastry
   Proceedings of IEEE, January 2007

8. Tracking and coordination of multiple agents using sensor networks: system design, algorithms and experiments
   Songhwai Oh, Luca Schenato, Phoebus Chen, Shankar S. Sastry
   To appear in Proceedings of IEEE, January 2007

9. Flapping Flight for Biomimetic Robotic Insects: Part I-System Modeling
   Xinyan Deng, Luca Schenato, Wei Chung Wu, Shankar S. Sastry
   IEEE Transactions on Robotics, August 2006

10. Flapping Flight for Biomimetic Robotic Insects: Part II-Flight Control Design
    Xinyan Deng, Luca Schenato, Shankar S. Sastry
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, August 2006

11. Kalman Filtering with Intermittent Observations
    Bruno Sinopoli, Luca Schenato, Massimo Franceschetti, Kameshwar Poolla, Michael I. Jordan, Shankar S. Sastry
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, September 2004

12. Attitude Control for a Micromechanical Flying Insect via Sensor Output Feedback
    Luca Schenato, Wei Chung Wu, Shankar Sastry
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, February 2004

13. Distributed Control Applications within Sensor Networks
    Bruno Sinopoli, Courtney Sharp, Luca Schenato, Shawn Shaffert, Shankar S. Sastry
    Proceedings of the IEEE, August 2003

1. Thermodynamic Identification of Buildings using Wireless Sensor Networks
   E. Toffoli, G. Baldan, G. Albertin, L. Schenato, A. Chiuso, A. Beghi
   submitted to World Congress of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC'08), Seoul, Korea, July 2008
2. A PI Consensus Controller for Networked Clocks Synchronization
   Ruggero Carli, Alessandro Chiuso, Luca Schenato, Sandro Zampieri
   submitted to World Congress of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC'08), Seoul, Korea, July 2008
3. Multimodal Sensor Fusion for Attitude Estimation of Micromechanical Flying Insects: a Geometric Approach
   Domenico Campolo, Luca Schenato, Xinyan Deng, Eugenio Guglielmelli
   submitted to IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'08), Pasadena, CA, USA
4. Consensus algorithm design for distributed estimation
   Ruggero Carli, Alessandro Chiuso, Luca Schenato, Sandro Zampieri
   Workshop on Networked Control Systems Tolerant to Foults (NeCST'07), Nancy, France, June 2007
5. Distributed Kalman filtering using consensus strategies
   Ruggero Carli, Alessandro Chiuso, Luca Schenato, Sandro Zampieri
   IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 07), New Orleans, USA, December 2007
6. Optimal sensor fusion for distributed sensors subject to random delay and packet loss
   Luca Schenato
   IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 07), New Orleans, USA, December 2007
7. A distributed consensus protocol for clock synchronization in wireless sensor network
   Luca Schenato, Giovanni Gamba
   IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 07), New Orleans, USA, December 2007
8. To zero or to hold control inputs in lossy networked control systems?
   Luca Schenato
   European Control Conference (ECC'07), Kos, Greece, July 2007
9. Optimal rendezvous control for randomized communication topologies
   Luca Schenato, Sandro Zampieri
   IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 06), San Diego, CA, USA, December 2006
10. Optimal estimation in networked control systems subject to random delay and packet loss
    Luca Schenato
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 06), San Diego, CA, USA, December 2006
11. Optimal linear LQG control over lossy networks without packet acknowledgment
    Bruno Sinopoli, Luca Schenato, Massimo Franceschetti, Kameshwar Poolla,  Shankar S. Sastry
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 06), San Diego, CA, USA, December 2006
12. Kalman Filtering for networked control systems with random delay and packet loss
    Luca Schenato
    17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS'06), Kyoto, Japan, July 2006
13. On the performance of randomized communication topologies for rendezvous control of multiple vehicles
    Luca Schenato, Sandro Zampieri
    17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS'06), Kyoto, Japan, July 2006

14. An LQG Optimal Linear Controller for Control Systems with Packet Losses,
    Bruno Sinopoli, Luca Schenato, Massimo Franceschetti, Kameshwar Poolla, Shankar S. Sastry
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC05), Seville, Spain, December 2005

15. Optimal Control with Unreliable Communication: the TCP Case
    Bruno Sinopoli, Luca Schenato, Massimo Franceschetti, Kameshwar Poolla, Shankar S. Sastry
    American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 2005

16. A Lyapunov-based approach for the control of biomimetic robotic systems with periodic forcing inputs
    Domenico Campolo, Luca Schenato, Eugenio Guglielmelli, Shankar S. Sastry
    IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005

17. LQG Control with Missing Observation and Control Packets
    Bruno Sinopoli, Luca Schenato, Massimo Franceschetti, Kameshwar Poolla, Shankar S. Sastry
    IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005

18. Swarm Coordination for Pursuit Evasion Games using Sensor Networks
    Luca Schenato, Songhwai Oh, Shankar Sastry, Prasanta Bose
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005

19. A Hierarchical Multiple-Target Tracking Algorithm for Sensor Networks
    Songhwai Oh, Luca Schenato, Shankar Sastry
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005

20. Time Varying Optimal Control with Packet Losses
    Bruno Sinopoli, Luca Schenato, Massimo Franceschetti, Kameshwar Poolla, Shankar Sastry
    IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 2004

21. Kalman Filtering with Intermittent Observations
    Finalist Best Student Paper
    Bruno Sinopoli, Luca Schenato, Massimo Franceschetti, Michael Jordan, Kameshwar Poolla, Shankar Sastry
    IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 2003

22. Controllability issues in flapping flight for biomimetic Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs)
    Luca Schenato, Domenico Campolo, Shankar Sastry
    IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 2003

23. Attitude control for a Micromechanical Flying Insect including Thorax and Sensor Models
    Finalist Best Student Paper
    Xinyan Deng, Luca Schenato, Shankar Sastry
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2003

24. Biomimetic Sensor Suite for Flight Control of a Micromechanical Flying Insect: Design and Experimental Results
    Wei Chung Wu, Luca Schenato, Robert J. Wood, Ronald Fearing
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2003

25. Attitude Control for a Micromechanical Flying Insect via Sensor Output Feedback
    Luca Schenato, Wei Chung Wu, Shankar Sastry
    7th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics and Vision ICARCV2002, Singapore, Singapore, Dicember 2002

26. Model Identification and Attitude Control Scheme for a Micromechanical Flying Insect
    Xinyan Deng, Luca Schenato, Shankar Sastry
    7th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics and Vision ICARCV2002, Singapore, Singapore, Dicember 2002

27. Hovering Flight for a Micromechanical Flying Insect: Modeling and Robust Control Synthesis
    Luca Schenato, Xinyan Deng, Shankar Sastry
    15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, Barcelona, Spain, July 2002

28. Hovering Flight Control of a Micromechanical Flying Insect
    Xinyan Deng, Luca Schenato, Shankar Sastry
    IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., December 2001

29. Virtual Insect Flight Simulator (VIFS): A Software Testbed for Insect Flight
    Luca Schenato, Xinyan Deng, Wei Chung Wu, Shankar Sastry
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seoul, Korea, May 2001

30. Flight Control System for a Micromechanical Flying Insect: Architecture and Implementation
    Luca Schenato, Xinyan Deng, Shankar Sastry
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seoul, Korea, May 2001

31. Process Variation Analysis for MEMS design
    Luca Schenato, Wei Chung Wu, Laurent El Ghaoui, Kris Pister
    SPIE Symposium on Smart Materials and MEMS, Melbourne, Australia, December 2000

32. 3D MEMS Simulation Modeling Using Modified Nodal Analysis
    J. V. Clark, N. Zhou, D. Bindel, L. Schenato, W. Wu, J. Demmel, K. S. J. Pister
    Proceedings of the Microscale Systems: Mechanics and Measurements Symposium. Orlando, FL, June 8, 2000