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About
Damiano Rotondo is a control systems researcher whose work sits at the intersection of fault-tolerant control, linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems, and autonomous robotics. He has made significant contributions to the development of advanced control and estimation frameworks that maintain system stability and performance even in the presence of faults, uncertainties, and unknown inputs. His most influential work, a 2014 paper with over 109 citations, introduced a fault-hiding approach for switching quasi-LPV fault-tolerant control applied to four-wheeled omnidirectional mobile robots — a elegant synthesis of polytopic techniques and reference model design that became a touchstone in the field. Rotondo has consistently advanced both passive and active fault-tolerant strategies, explored virtual actuator approaches for switching LPV systems, and developed interval observers capable of decoupling unknown inputs in uncertain continuous-time LPV frameworks. His research on Takagi-Sugeno models and adaptive observers further demonstrates the breadth of his technical expertise. More recently, he has addressed computational efficiency in polytopic controller design through recursive LMI-based algorithms. With a body of work spanning robotics, observer design, and robust control theory, Rotondo has established himself as a productive and versatile contributor to modern control engineering.
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- 4Adaptive Observer for Switching Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) Systems15 citations · 2014
- 5Passive and active FTC comparison for polytopic LPV systems15 citations · 2013
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