Luigi Piroddi

Informazioni essenziali (CIRA)

Generalità

Attuale posizione

Posizioni precedentemente ricoperte

Formazione

Attività svolta

Elenco e presentazione dei 15 articoli più significativi

Pubblicazioni


Generalità

Luigi Piroddi, nato a Londra (Regno Unito) il 26 novembre 1966, cittadinanza italiana, celibe.
Residente a Milano in Piazza del Carmine n.1.
E-mail: piroddi@elet.polimi.it


Attuale posizione

In servizio da maggio 2005 come professore associato (confermato da maggio 2008), raggruppamento ING-INF/04 (Automatica), presso il Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione del Politecnico di Milano.


Posizioni precedentemente ricoperte

Dopo aver conseguito la laurea (dicembre 1990) e aver assolto gli obblighi militari (servizio civile, marzo 1990 - marzo 1991), dal 1991 al 1995 è al Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione del Politecnico di Milano, come allievo del VII ciclo del corso di Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica.

Dal 1995 al 1999 è docente di Fondamenti di Automatica presso l'Università degli Studi di Bergamo in qualità di professore a contratto. Nel medesimo periodo svolge attività di libero professionista nei settori dell'informatica e dell'automatica.

Dal 1999 al 2005 è ricercatore presso il Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione del Politecnico di Milano, nel raggruppamento ING-INF/04 (Automatica).


Formazione

Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica (Indirizzo Automatica) presso il Politecnico di Milano, 20 dicembre 1990.
Titolo della tesi: "Metodi di Identificazione per Modelli ARMA a Coefficienti Periodici".
Relatore: Prof. Sergio Bittanti. Correlatori: Prof. Paolo Bolzern e Ing. Giuseppe De Nicolao.

Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica, presso il Politecnico di Milano, esame finale sostenuto nell'ottobre 1995.
Titolo della tesi: "Reti neurali per il controllo predittivo non lineare".
Relatore: Prof. Sergio Bittanti.

Durante il Dottorato di Ricerca ha frequentato i seguenti corsi:


Attività svolta

Attività scientifica

Attività didattica istituzionale

Altre attività didattiche

Collaborazioni scientifiche con enti e industrie

Servizi prestati negli atenei e negli enti di ricerca italiani e stranieri

Attività in progetti di ricerca nazionali ed internazionali

Organizzazione di eventi scientifici in sede nazionale e internazionale


Elenco e presentazione dei 15 articoli più significativi


Pubblicazioni

Libri

  1. L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, Esercizi di Controllo Logico con Reti di Petri, Pitagora Editrice, Bologna, 2002.

Articoli su riviste internazionali

  1. M. Yu, F. Bianchi, L. Piroddi, "A distributed randomized method for the identification of switched ARX systems", International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 2024 (available online, https://doi.org/10.1002/acs.3767).

  2. S. D'Amicis, M. Pagani, M. Matteucci, L. Piroddi, A. Spelta, F. Zausa, "Stuck pipe prediction from rare events in oil drilling operations", Upstream Oil and Gas Technology, 2023 (accepted for publication).

  3. M. Yu, F. Bianchi, L. Piroddi, "A randomized method for the identification of switched NARX systems", Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, 2023 (accepted for publication).

  4. F. Bianchi, A. Falsone, L. Piroddi, M. Prandini, "A constrained clustering approach to bounded-error identification of switched and piecewise affine systems", Automatica, 2022 (available online, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2022.110589).

  5. F. Bianchi, L. Piroddi, A. Bemporad, Geza Halasz, M. Villani, D. Piga, "Active preference-based optimization for human-in-the-loop feature selection", European Journal of Control, 2022 (available online, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcon.2022.100647).

  6. F. Basile, R. Cordone, L. Piroddi, "Supervisory Control of Timed Discrete Event Systems with Logical and Timed Specifications", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 67, pp. 2800-2815, June 2022.

  7. A. Brankovic, M. Matteucci, M. Restelli, L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, A. Spelta, F. Zausa, "Data-driven indicators for the detection and prediction of stuck-pipe events in oil&gas drilling operations", Upstream Oil and Gas Technology, 2021 (available online, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.upstre.2021.100043).

  8. F. Bianchi, V. Breschi, D. Piga, L. Piroddi, "Model structure selection for switched NARX system identification: a randomized approach", Automatica, Vol. 125, 2021 (available online, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2020.109415).

  9. A. Casalino, A. M. Zanchettin, L. Piroddi, P. Rocco, "Optimal scheduling of human-robot collaborative assembly operations with time Petri nets", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 18, n. 1, pp. 70-84, January 2021.

  10. A. Brumana, L. Piroddi, "A multi-tone central divided difference frequency tracker with adaptive process noise covariance tuning", International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 34, n. 7, pp. 877-900, July 2020.

  11. F. Bianchi, M. Prandini, L. Piroddi, "A randomized two-stage iterative method for switched nonlinear systems identification", Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, Vol. 35, pp. 1-23, February 2020.

  12. F. Bianchi, S. Formentin, L. Piroddi, "Process noise covariance estimation via stochastic approximation", International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 34, n. 1, pp. 63-76, January 2020.

  13. A. Brankovic, M. Hosseini, and L. Piroddi, "A distributed feature selection algorithm based on distance correlation with an application to microarrays", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol. 16, n.6, pp. 1802-1815, Nov./Dec. 2019.

  14. A. Brankovic and L. Piroddi, "A distributed feature selection scheme with partial information sharing", Machine Learning, Vol. 108, n. 11, pp. 2009-2034, November 2019.

  15. A. M. Zanchettin, A. Casalino, L. Piroddi, P. Rocco, "Prediction of human activity patterns for human-robot collaborative assembly tasks", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 15, n. 7, pp. 3934-3942, July 2019.

  16. A. Brankovic, A. Falsone, M. Prandini, L. Piroddi, "A Feature Selection and Classification algorithm based on randomized extraction of model populations", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 48, n. 4, pp. 1151-1162, April 2018.

  17. M. Avellina, A. Brankovic, and L. Piroddi, "Distributed randomized model structure selection for NARX models," International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 31, n. 12, pp. 1853-1870, December 2017.

  18. R. Delegà, G. Bernasconi, L. Piroddi, "A novel cost-effective parallel narrowband ANC system with local secondary-path estimation", Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 401, pp. 311-325, 4 August 2017.

  19. R. Vignali, F. Borghesan, L. Piroddi, M. Strelec, M. Prandini, "Energy management of a building cooling system with thermal storage: an approximate dynamic programming solution" IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 14, n. 2, pp. 619-633, April 2017.

  20. F. Bianchi, A. Falsone, M. Prandini, L. Piroddi, "A randomised approach for NARX model identification based on a multivariate Bernoulli distribution", International Journal of Systems Science, Vol. 48, n. 6, pp. 1203-1216, 2017.

  21. G. Manganini, M. Pirotta, M. Restelli, L. Piroddi, M. Prandini, "Policy search for the optimal control of Markov decision processes: a novel particle-based iterative scheme", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 46, n. 11, pp. 2643-2655, Nov. 2016.

  22. A. Pniov, A. Zhirnov, D. Shelestov, K. Stepanov, E. Nesterov, V. Karasik, P. Laporta, G. Galzerano, S. Taccheo, L. Piroddi, M. Norgia, A. Pesatori, C. Svelto, "Yb,Er:glass Microlaser at 1.5 μm for optical fibre sensing: Development, characterization and noise reduction", Acta IMEKO, vol. 5, n. 4, pp. 24-28, 2016.

  23. A. Falsone, L. Piroddi, M. Prandini, "A randomized algorithm for nonlinear model structure selection", Automatica, Vol. 60, pp. 227-238, 2015.

  24. M. Farina, E. Osto, A. Perizzato, L. Piroddi, R. Scattolini, "Fault Detection and Isolation of Bearings in a Drive Reducer of a Hot Steel Rolling Mill", Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 39, pp. 35-44, June 2015.

  25. F. Basile, L. Piroddi, R. Cordone, "A branch and bound approach for the design of decentralized supervisors in Petri net models", Automatica, Vol. 52, pp. 322-333, Feb. 2015.

  26. D. Delvecchio, L. Piroddi, "A Dual Filtering Scheme for Nonlinear Active Noise Control", International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 28, pp.1422-1439, 2014.

  27. E. Spiriti, S. Morici, L. Piroddi, "A gradient-free adaptation method for nonlinear active noise control", Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 333, n. 1, pp. 13-30, Jan. 2014.

  28. F. Basile, R. Cordone, L. Piroddi, "Integrated design of optimal supervisors for the enforcement of static and behavioral specifications in Petri net models", Automatica, Vol. 49, n. 11, pp. 3432-3439, Nov. 2013.

  29. R. Cordone, A. Nazeem, L. Piroddi, S. Reveliotis, "Designing optimal deadlock avoidance policies for sequential resource allocation systems through classification theory: existence results and customized algorithms", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 58, n. 11, pp. 2772-2787, 2013.

  30. R. Cordone, L. Piroddi, "Parsimonious Monitor Control of Petri Net models of FMS", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, Vol. 43, n. 1, pp. 215-221, Jan. 2013.

  31. L. Piroddi, M. Farina, M. Lovera, "Black box model identification of nonlinear input-output models: a Wiener-Hammerstein benchmark", Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 20, pp. 1109-1118, 2012.

  32. L. Piroddi, "Hybrid neural control systems: some stability properties", Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 349, n. 3, 2012, pp. 826-844, April 2012.

  33. M. Farina, L. Piroddi, "Identification of Polynomial Input-Output Recursive Models with Simulation Error Minimization Methods", International Journal of Systems Science, Vol. 43, n. 2, pp. 319-333, February 2012.

  34. M. Bergamasco, F. Della Rossa, L. Piroddi, "Active noise control with on-line estimation of non-Gaussian noise characteristics", Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 331, n. 1, pp. 27-40, 2012.

  35. M. Prandini, L. Piroddi, S. Puechmorel, S.L. Brázdilová, "Towards air traffic complexity assessment in new generation air traffic management systems", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 12, n. 3, pp. 809-818, 2011.

  36. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "FPGA-based implementation of high-speed active noise and vibration controllers", Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 19, n. 8, pp. 798-808, 2011.

  37. M. Farina, L. Piroddi, "Simulation error minimization identification based on multi-stage prediction", International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 25, n. 5, pp. 389-406, 2011.

  38. C. Cantelmo, L. Piroddi, "Adaptive model selection for polynomial NARX models", IET Control Theory & Applications, Vol. 4, n. 12, pp. 2693-2706, 2010.

  39. M. Bonin, V. Seghezza, L. Piroddi, "NARX model selection based on simulation error minimization and LASSO", IET Control Theory & Applications, Vol. 4, n. 7, pp. 1157-1168, July 2010.

  40. M. Farina, L. Piroddi, "An iterative algorithm for simulation error based identification of polynomial input-output models using multi-step prediction", International Journal of Control, Vol. 83, n. 7, pp. 1442-1456, July 2010.

  41. R. Napoli, L. Piroddi, "Nonlinear active noise control with NARX models", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing , Vol. 18, n. 2, pp. 286-295, Feb. 2010.

  42. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, M. Di Felice, A. Boer, R. Paganini, "Adaptive relay-based control of household refrigerators/freezers with on-off actuators", Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 18, n. 1, pp. 94-102, Jan. 2010.

  43. M. Tanelli, L. Piroddi, S.M. Savaresi, "Real-time identification of tire-road friction conditions", IET Control Theory & Applications, Vol. 3, n. 7, pp. 891-906, 2009.

  44. E. Pisoni, M. Farina, C. Carnevale, L. Piroddi, "Forecasting peak air pollution levels using NARX models", Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 22, pp. 593-602, 2009.

  45. L. Piroddi, R. Cordone, I. Fumagalli, "Combined Siphon and Marking Generation for Deadlock Prevention in Petri Nets", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, Vol. 39, n. 3, pp. 650-661, May 2009.

  46. L. Piroddi, M. Cossalter, L. Ferrarini, "A Resource Decoupling Approach for Deadlock Prevention in FMS", Int. Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 40, n. 1, pp. 157-170, 2009.

  47. E.C. Carcano, P. Bartolini, M. Muselli, L. Piroddi, "Jordan Recurrent Neural Network versus Ihacres in modelling daily streamflows", Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 362, n. 3-4, pp. 291-307, 2008.

  48. L. Piroddi, R. Cordone, I. Fumagalli, "Selective Siphon Control for Deadlock Prevention in Petri Nets", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, Vol. 38, n. 6, pp. 1337-1348, 2008.

  49. L. Piroddi, "Simulation error minimization methods for NARX model identification", International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, Vol. 3, n. 4, pp. 392-403, 2008.

  50. L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "Modeling and control of fluid transportation operations in production plants with Petri nets", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 16, n. 5, pp. 1090-1098, 2008.

  51. A. Castelnuovo, L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "An Incremental Petri Net-Based Approach to the Modeling of Production Sequences in Manufacturing Systems", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 4, n. 3, pp. 424-434, July 2007.

  52. L. Piroddi, A. Leva, "Step response classification for model-based autotuning via polygonal curve approximation", Journal of Process Control, Vol. 17, n. 8, pp. 641-652, September 2007.

  53. R. Cordone, L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "Enumeration Algorithms for Minimal Siphons in Petri Nets Based on Place Constraints", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, Vol. 35, n. 6, pp. 844-854, 2005.

  54. W. Spinelli, L. Piroddi, M. Lovera, "On the role of pre-filtering in nonlinear system identification", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 50, n. 10, pp. 1597-1602, 2005.

  55. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "Model classification applied to industrial PID autotuning", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol. 43, n. 21, pp. 6787-6796, 2004.

  56. L. Piroddi, W. Spinelli, "An identification algorithm for polynomial NARX models based on simulation error minimization", International Journal of Control, Vol. 76, n. 17, pp. 1767-1781, 2003.

  57. L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "Modular design and implementation of a logic control system for a batch process", Computers and Chemical Engineering, Vol. 27, n. 7, pp. 983-996, 2003.

  58. L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "Front-tracking centralized motor control in a paper-making process", Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 10, pp. 1111-1125, October 2002.

  59. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "NARX-based technique for the modeling of magneto-rheological damping devices", Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 11, pp. 79-88, February 2002.

  60. G. Ferretti, L. Piroddi, "Estimation of NOx emissions in thermal power plants using neural networks", ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, Vol. 123, pp. 465-471, April 2001.

  61. F. Casella, C. Maffezzoni, L. Piroddi, F. Pretolani, "Minimising production costs in generation and cogeneration plants", Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 9, n. 3, pp. 283-295, 2001.

  62. P. Palumbo, L. Piroddi, "Seismic behaviour of buttress dams: nonlinear modeling of a damaged buttress based on ARX/NARX models", Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 239, No. 3, pp. 405-422, 2001.

  63. P. Palumbo and L. Piroddi, "Harmonic analysis of nonlinear structures by means of Generalized Frequency Response Functions coupled with NARX models", Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 243-265, March 2000.

  64. S. Bittanti, L. Piroddi, "Steady-state off-set error rejection in neural network-based control systems", Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 147-158, February 2000.

  65. L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi and S. Allegri, "A comparative performance analysis of FMS with deadlocks", Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 569-585, 1999.

  66. S. Bittanti, L. Piroddi, "Neural implementation of GMV control schemes based on affine input-output models", IEE Proceedings, Control Theory and Applications, Vol. 144, No. 6, pp. 521-530, November 1997.

  67. S. Bittanti, L. Piroddi, "Nonlinear identification and control of a heat exchanger: a neural network approach", Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 334, No. 1, pp. 135-153, 1997.

  68. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "Model-specific autotuning of classical regulators: a neural approach to structural identification", Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 4, No. 10, pp. 1381-1391, 1996.

  69. S. Bittanti, L. Piroddi, "GMV Technique for Nonlinear Control with Neural Networks", IEE Proceedings, Control Theory and Applications, Vol. 141, No. 2, pp. 57-69, March 1994.

Capitoli di libri internazionali

  1. L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "The Effect of Modeling and Control Techniques on the Management of Deadlocks in FMS", in Deadlock Resolution in Computer-Integrated Systems, eds. Mengchu Zhou and M.P. Fanti, CRC Press, 2004.

  2. S. Bittanti, P. Bolzern, G. De Nicolao, L. Piroddi, "Representation, Prediction and Identification of Cyclostationary processes - A State Space Approach", in Cyclostationarity in Communications and Signal Processing, pp. 267-294, ed. W.A. Gardner, IEEE Press, Piscataway NJ, 1994.

Comunicazioni a congressi, simposi, workshops internazionali

  1. M. Yu, F. Bianchi, L. Piroddi, "Identification of switched nonlinear ARX systems using a randomized algorithm", 61st Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 6693-6698, Cancun, Mexico, December 6-9, 2022.

  2. M. Yu, F. Bianchi, L. Piroddi, "A switched nonlinear system identification method with switching location refinement", 60th Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 858-863, Austin, USA, December 13-17, 2021.

  3. A. Brankovic, M. Matteucci, M. Restelli, L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, A. Spelta, F. Zausa, "A Data-based Approach for the Prediction of Stuck-pipe Events in Oil Drilling Operations" Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, November 9-12, 2020 (available online at https://onepetro.org/SPEADIP/proceedings-abstract/20ADIP/4-20ADIP/D041S111R003/452446).

  4. F. Bianchi, A. Falsone, L. Piroddi, M. Prandini, "An alternating optimization method for switched linear systems identification", IFAC World Congress, Germany, July 12-17, 2020 (available on IFAC PapersOnLine, Vol. 53, n.2, pp. 1071–1076, 2020).

  5. F. Bianchi, S. Formentin, L. Piroddi, "Structure Selection of Noise Covariance Matrices for Linear Kalman Filter Design", European Control Conference, pp. 552-557, Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 12-15, 2020.

  6. F. Bianchi, A. Falsone, M. Prandini, L. Piroddi, "Nonlinear system identification with model structure selection via distributed computation", 58th Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 6461-6466, Nice, France, Dec. 11-13, 2019.

  7. F. Bianchi, M. Prandini, L. Piroddi, "A randomized approach to switched nonlinear systems identification", 18th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, July 9-11, 2018.

  8. A. Casalino, F. Cividini, A. M. Zanchettin, L. Piroddi, P. Rocco, "Human-robot collaborative assembly: a use-case application", 16th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 2018), Bergamo, Italy, June 11-13, 2018.

  9. L. A. Dao, L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "MPC-Based Management of Energy Resources in Smart Microgrids", 14th Int. Conf. on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2017), Vol. 1, pp. 246-253, Madrid, Spain, July 26-28, 2017.

  10. D. Falabretti, L. Dao, L. Piroddi, L. Ferrarini, and M. Delfanti, "Smart City Vizze Project: Development and Field Test of an Architecture for the Local Dispatching of Distribution Networks," AEIT Int. Annual Conference, Cagliari, Italy, Sept. 20-22, 2017.

  11. L. Dao, L. Piroddi, and L. Ferrarini, "Ensemble methods for PV production prediction from meteo services," 6th Int. Conference on Clean Electrical Power, pp. 188-193, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, 27-29 June, 2017.

  12. A. Belloni, L. Piroddi, M. Prandini, "A stochastic optimal control solution to the energy management of a microgrid with storage and renewables" American Control Conference, pp. 2340-2345, Boston, MA (USA), July 6-8, 2016.

  13. P. Dimitrov, L. Piroddi, M. Prandini, "Distributed allocation of a shared energy storage system in a microgrid", American Control Conference, pp. 3551-3556, Boston, MA (USA), July 6-8, 2016.

  14. G. Manganini, L. Piroddi, M. Prandini, "A classification-based approach to the optimal control of affine switched systems", 54th Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2963-2968, Osaka, Japan, Dec. 15-18, 2015.

  15. R. Quintana, L. Piroddi, D. Patino, "Virtual sensing at low computational cost for active noise control", 44th Inter-Noise Congress & Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, San Francisco (CA), USA, August 9-12, 2015.

  16. L. A. Dao, L. Piroddi, L. Ferrarini, "Impact of Wind Power Prediction Quality on the Optimal Control of Microgrids", International Conference on Clean Electrical Power, pp. 287-293, Taormina, Italy, June 16-18, 2015.

  17. D. H. Duc, R. Mura, L. Piroddi, M. Lovera, G. L. Ghiringhelli, "Robust harmonic control: an application to structural vibration reduction in helicopters", IFAC Workshop on Advanced Control and Navigation for Autonomous Aerospace Vehicles, pp. 263-268, Seville, Spain, June 10-12, 2015.

  18. M. Lovera, L. Piroddi, F. Boi, G. L. Ghiringhelli, "Black-box MIMO model identification for structural vibration reduction in helicopters", IFAC Workshop on Advanced Control and Navigation for Autonomous Aerospace Vehicles, pp. 269-274, Seville, Spain, June 10-12, 2015.

  19. A. Falsone, L. Piroddi, M. Prandini, "A novel randomized approach to nonlinear system identification", 53rd Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 6516-6521, Los Angeles (CA), USA, December 15-17, 2014.

  20. A. Perizzato, M. Farina, L. Piroddi, R. Scattolini, E. Osto, "Fault Detection of Bearings in a Drive Reducer of a Hot Steel Rolling Mill", IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, pp. 77-82, Antibes, France, October 8-10, 2014.

  21. M. Pirotta, G. Manganini, L. Piroddi, M. Prandini, M. Restelli, "A particle-based policy for the optimal control of Markov decision processes", 19th IFAC World Congress, pp. 10518-10523, Cape Town (South Africa), August 24-29, 2014.

  22. F. Basile, L. Piroddi, R. Cordone, "Decentralized monitors design for Petri net models", 12th IFAC - IEEE International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, Vol. 12, pp. 73-79, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France), May 14-16, 2014.

  23. F. Basile, R. Cordone, L. Piroddi, "Compact and decentralized supervisors for general constraint enforcement in Petri net models", 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 7279-7284, Firenze (Italy), December 10-13, 2013.

  24. F. Borghesan, R. Vignali, L. Piroddi, M. Strelec, M. Prandini, "Micro-grid energy management: a computational approach based on simulation and approximate discrete abstraction", 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 7125-7130, Firenze (Italy), December 10-13, 2013.

  25. F. Borghesan, R. Vignali, L. Piroddi, M. Prandini, M. Strelec, "Approximate dynamic programming-based control of a building cooling system with thermal storage", 4th European Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, Copenhagen (Denmark), October 6-9, 2013.

  26. N. M. Ceriani, R. Vignali, L. Piroddi, M. Prandini, "An approximate dynamic programming approach to the energy management of a small-scale micro-grid", European Control Conference, pp. 2026-2031, Zurich (Switzerland), July 17-19, 2013.

  27. F. Basile, R. Cordone, L. Piroddi, "Compact supervisors for general constraint enforcement in Petri net models with uncontrollable transitions", European Control Conference, pp. 143-148, Zurich (Switzerland), July 17-19, 2013.

  28. S. Morici, E. Spiriti, L. Piroddi, "An indirect model selection algorithm for nonlinear active noise control", European Control Conference, pp. 2910-2915, Zurich (Switzerland), July 17-19, 2013.

  29. S. Morici, E. Spiriti, L. Piroddi, "An empirical weight update approach for nonlinear active noise control", American Control Conference, pp. 4177-4182, Washington, DC (USA), June 17-19, 2013.

  30. F. Basile, R. Cordone, L. Piroddi, "Parsimonious deadlock-free Petri net models of flexible manufacturing systems", American Control Conference, pp. 119-124, Washington, DC (USA), June 17-19, 2013.

  31. M. Bergamasco, F. Della Rossa, L. Piroddi, "Active noise control of impulsive noise with selective outlier elimination", American Control Conference, pp. 4171-4176, Washington, DC (USA), June 17-19, 2013.

  32. R. Cordone, A. Nazeem, L. Piroddi, S. Reveliotis, "Maximally permissive deadlock avoidance for sequential resource allocation systems using disjunctions of linear classifiers", 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 7244-7251, Maui, Hawaii (USA), December 10-13, 2012.

  33. M. Prandini, L. Piroddi, "A self-recovery approach to the probabilistic invariance problem for stochastic hybrid systems", 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2096-2102, Maui, Hawaii (USA), December 10-13, 2012.

  34. G. Accetta, L. Piroddi, L. Ferrarini, "Energy production estimation of a photovoltaic system with temperature-dependent coefficients", 3rd IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, pp. 189-195, Kathmandu, Nepal, September 24-27, 2012.

  35. D. Delvecchio, L. Piroddi, "A nonlinear active noise control scheme with on-line model structure selection", 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 8014-8019, Orlando (FL), USA, December 12-15, 2011.

  36. E. Pisoni, M. Farina, G.Pagani, L. Piroddi, "Environmental Over-Threshold Event Forecasting using NARX Models", 18th IFAC World Congress, pp. 10559-10564, Milan (Italy), August 28 - September 2, 2011.

  37. M. Bergamasco, F. Della Rossa, L. Piroddi, "Active control of impulsive noise with on-line outlier detection", 18th IFAC World Congress, pp. 7909-7914, Milan (Italy), August 28 - September 2, 2011.

  38. R. Cordone, L. Piroddi, "Monitor Optimization in Petri Net Control", 7th Annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, pp. 413-418, Trieste (Italy), August 24-27, 2011.

  39. M. Bergamasco, L. Piroddi, "Active noise control of impulsive noise using online estimation of an alpha-stable model", 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 36-41, Atlanta (GA), USA, December 15-17, 2010.

  40. M. Farina, L. Piroddi, "Convergence properties of an iterative prediction approach to nonlinear SEM parameter estimation", 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 7226-7231, Atlanta (GA), USA, December 15-17, 2010.

  41. L. Piroddi, M. Prandini, "A geometric approach to air traffic complexity evaluation for strategic trajectory management", 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2075-2080, Atlanta (GA), USA, December 15-17, 2010.

  42. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "A pseudo-multirate implementation of digital systems for improved performance", 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 7582-7587, Atlanta (GA), USA, December 15-17, 2010.

  43. I. Fumagalli, L. Piroddi, R. Cordone, "A reachability graph partitioning technique for the analysis of deadlock prevention methods in bounded Petri nets", American Control Conference, pp. 3365-3370, Baltimore (MD), USA, June 30 - July 2, 2010.

  44. M. Bonin, V. Seghezza, L. Piroddi, "LASSO-enhanced simulation error minimization method for NARX model selection", American Control Conference, pp. 4522-4527, Baltimore (MD), USA, June 30 - July 2, 2010.

  45. M. Farina, L. Piroddi, "Approximate SEM identification of polynomial input-output models", American Control Conference, pp. 7040-7045, Baltimore (MD), USA, June 30 - July 2, 2010.

  46. M. Prandini, L. Piroddi, J. Lygeros, "A two-step approach to aircraft conflict resolution combining optimal deterministic design with Monte Carlo stochastic optimization", European Control Conference, pp. 1824-1829, Budapest (Hungary), August 23-26, 2009.

  47. M. Farina, L. Piroddi, "Simulation Error Minimization-Based Identification of Polynomial Input-Output Recursive Models", 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, pp. 1393-1398, Saint-Malo (France), July 6-8, 2009.

  48. L. Piroddi, M. Farina, M. Lovera, "Polynomial NARX Model Identification: a Wiener-Hammerstein Benchmark", 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, pp. 1074-1079, Saint-Malo (France), July 6-8, 2009.

  49. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "A multirate autotuning PI with improved static performance", American Control Conference, pp. 4687-4692, St. Louis, Missouri (USA), June 10-12, 2009.

  50. R. Napoli, L. Piroddi, "Nonlinear active noise control using NARX model structure selection", American Control Conference, pp. 5616-5621, St. Louis, Missouri (USA), June 10-12, 2009.

  51. M. Di Felice, L. Piroddi, A. Leva, A. Boer, "Adaptive Temperature Control of a Household Refrigerator", American Control Conference, pp. 889-894, St. Louis, Missouri (USA), June 10-12, 2009.

  52. L. Piroddi, R. Cordone, I. Fumagalli, "Efficient deadlock prevention in Petri nets through the generation of selected siphons", American Control Conference, pp. 5006-5011, St. Louis, Missouri (USA), June 10-12, 2009.

  53. M. Farina, L. Piroddi, "Some Convergence Properties of Multi-Step Prediction Error Identification Criteria", 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 756-761, Cancun (Mexico), December 9-11, 2008.

  54. M. Tanelli, L. Piroddi, M. Piuri, S.M. Savaresi, "Real-time identification of tire-road friction conditions", 17th IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, pp. 25-30, San Antonio, Texas (USA), September 3-5, 2008.

  55. M. Maggio, A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "Closed-versus open-loop active vibration control in the presence of finite precision arithmetic", IEEE Int. Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design, pp. 201-206, San Antonio, Texas (USA), September 3-5, 2008.

  56. L. Piroddi, M. Lovera, "NARX model identification with error filtering", 17th IFAC World Congress, pp. 2726-2731, Seoul (Korea), July 6-11, 2008.

  57. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "FPGA-based implementation of an active vibration controller", 17th IFAC World Congress, pp. 5077-5082, Seoul (Korea), July 6-11, 2008.

  58. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, A. Boer, "Adaptive temperature control in a freezer with on-off actuation", 17th IFAC World Congress, pp. 15439-15444, Seoul (Korea), July 6-11, 2008.

  59. L. Piroddi, R. Cordone, I. Fumagalli, "Non redundant siphon control in ordinary Petri nets", 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1904-1909, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA), December 12-14, 2007.

  60. M. Maggio, A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "Finite-precision implementation issues in narrowband active control", 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1076-1081, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA), December 12-14, 2007.

  61. T. Pulecchi, L. Piroddi, "A cluster selection approach to polynomial NARX identification", American Control Conference, pp. 852-857, New York City (USA), July 11-13, 2007.

  62. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "On the parameterisation of simple process models for the autotuning of industrial regulators", American Control Conference, pp. 3306-3311, New York City (USA), July 11-13, 2007.

  63. I. Fumagalli, L. Piroddi, R. Cordone, "Siphon Classification for Deadlock Prevention in Petri Nets", European Control Conference, pp. 4425-4431, Kos (Greece), July 2-5, 2007.

  64. L. Piroddi, A. Leva, F. Casaro, "Feedback and feedforward active vibration control schemes for a turbomolecular vacuum pump", European Control Conference, pp. 395-401, Kos (Greece), July 2-5, 2007.

  65. L. Piroddi, A. Leva, "Model structure selection based on polygonal curve approximation techniques", 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 805-810, San Diego, California (USA), December 13-15, 2006.

  66. L. Piroddi, A. Leva, F. Casaro, "Vibration control of a turbomolecular vacuum pump using piezoelectric actuators", 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 6555-6560, San Diego, California (USA), December 13-15, 2006.

  67. L. Piroddi, A. Leva, F. Casaro, "Modeling and Active Vibration Control of a Turbomolecular Vacuum Pump", IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, pp. 1103-1108, Munich (Germany), October 4-6, 2006.

  68. W. Spinelli, L. Piroddi, M. Lovera, "A Two-stage Algorithm for Structure Identification of Polynomial NARX models", American Control Conference, pp. 2387-2392, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), June 14-16, 2006.

  69. M. Lovera, L. Piroddi, W. Spinelli, "On sampling and prefiltering in nonlinear system identification", 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, pp. 1009-1014, Newcastle (Australia), March 29-31, 2006.

  70. L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "A Modular Approach for Deadlock Avoidance in FMS", 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control / European Control Conference, pp. 4646-4651, Seville (Spain), December 12-15, 2005.

  71. A. Castelnuovo, L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "An Incremental Petri Net Approach to Production Sequence Modeling", IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, pp. 333-338, Edmonton (Canada), August 1-2, 2005.

  72. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "Control-Oriented NARX Modeling of Magneto-Rheological Dampers", 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague (Czech Republic), July 4-8, 2005.

  73. W. Spinelli, L. Piroddi, M. Lovera, "On the role of pre-filtering in nonlinear system identification", 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague (Czech Republic), July 4-8, 2005.

  74. K. Li, J. Peng, G.W. Irwin, L. Piroddi, W. Spinelli, "Estimation of NOx Emissions in Thermal Power Plants Using Eng-Genes Neural Networks", 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague (Czech Republic), July 4-8, 2005.

  75. A. Benigno, R. Cordone, L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "A Recursive Method for Minimal Siphon Enumeration in Petri Nets", 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague (Czech Republic), July 4-8, 2005.

  76. W. Spinelli, L. Piroddi, K. Li, "Nonlinear modeling of NOx emission in a coal-fired power generation plant", 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3850-3855, Atlantis, Paradise Island (The Bahamas), December 14-17, 2004.

  77. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "Model-based PID autotuning enhanced by neural structural identification", American Control Conference, pp. 2427-2432, Boston, Massachusetts (USA), June 30 - July 2, 2004.

  78. L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "Automatic Synthesis of Multiple Place Resource Models with Petri Nets", American Control Conference, pp. 5096-5101, Boston, Massachusetts (USA), June 30 - July 2, 2004.

  79. L. Piroddi, W. Spinelli, "Long-range nonlinear prediction: a case study", 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3984-3989, Maui, Hawaii (USA), December 9-12, 2003.

  80. R. Cordone, L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "Some results on the computation of minimal siphons in Petri nets", 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3754-3759, Maui, Hawaii (USA), December 9-12, 2003.

  81. L. Piroddi, W. Spinelli, "Structure selection for polynomial NARX models based on simulation error minimization", 13th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, pp. 371-376, Rotterdam (The Netherlands), August 27-28, 2003.

  82. L. Piroddi, W. Spinelli, "A pruning method for the identification of polynomial NARMAX models", 13th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, pp. 1108-1113, Rotterdam (The Netherlands), August 27-28, 2003.

  83. R. Cordone, L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "Characterization of Minimal and Basis Siphons with Predicate Logic and Linear Programming", IEEE Conference on Computer Aided Control System Design, Glasgow (Scotland), September 18-20, 2002.

  84. P. Palumbo, L. Piroddi, S. Lancini, F. Lozza, "NARX Modelling of Radial Crest Displacements of the Schlegeis Arch Dam", 6th Benchmark Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams, Salzburg (Austria), October 17-19, 2001.

  85. L. Piroddi, A. Feriani, F. Lozza, "Black-box Modelling of a Seismic Isolator", 5th World Congress on Joints, Bearings and Seismic Systems for Concrete Structures, Rome (Italy), October 7-11, 2001.

  86. L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "Modeling and control of transporting systems in batch processes with multiple aggregated resources", IEEE Int. Symposium on Intelligent Control, pp. 258-263, Mexico City, Mexico, September 5-7, 2001.

  87. L. Ferrarini, L. Piroddi, "Design and implementation of a modular supervisory control system of a batch process", European Control Conference, pp. 1583-1588, Porto, Portugal, September 4-7, 2001.

  88. C. Maffezzoni, F. Casella, L. Piroddi, "Minimizing production costs in generation and cogeneration plants", IFAC Symposium on Power Plants & Power Systems Control 2000, pp. 41-50, Brussels, Belgium, April 26-29, 2000.

  89. G. Guariso, E. Tracanella, L. Piroddi, A.E. Rizzoli "A Web Accessible Environmental Model Base: a Tool for Natural Resources Management", Int. Congress on Modelling and Simulation, pp. 657-663, Hobart, Tasmania, December 8-11, 1997.

  90. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, "A Neural Network-Based Technique for Structural Identification of SISO Systems", IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, pp. 135-138, Hamamatsu, Japan, May 10-12, 1994.

  91. R. Bardelli, S. Bittanti, P. Bolzern, M. Campi, E. Carugati, A. De Marco, L. Piroddi, W. Prandoni, "Application of the Extended Kalman Filter to the Estimation of the Char Mass in a Fluidized Bed Combustor", 10th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, pp. 247-252, Copenhagen, July 4-6, 1994.

  92. S. Bittanti, L. Piroddi, "A Neural Network Approach to Generalized Minimum Variance Control of Nonlinear Systems", European Control Conference, pp. 466-470, Groningen (NL), June 28 - July 1, 1993.

  93. S. Bittanti, L. Piroddi, "Minimum Variance Control of a Class of Nonlinear Plants with Neural Networks", IEE 3rd Int. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks, pp. 168-171, Brighton (UK), May 25-27, 1993.

  94. S. Bittanti, P. Bolzern, G. De Nicolao, L. Piroddi, D. Purassanta, "A Minimum Prediction Error Algorithm for Estimation of Periodic ARMA Models", European Control Conference, pp. 1200-1203, Grenoble, France, July 2-5, 1991.

Articoli su riviste o libri a diffusione nazionale

  1. G. Ferretti, L. Piroddi, F. Pretolani, P. Scattino, "Gestione del combustibile in centrali termoelettriche", AEI - Automazione Energia Informazione, Vol. 87, No. 10, ottobre 2000.

  2. S. Bittanti, L. Piroddi, "Sintesi di un controllore predittivo di tipo neurale", in Simulazione Identificazione Controllo - Il caso di uno scambiatore di calore, a cura di S. Bittanti, Pitagora Editrice Bologna, 1996.

Tesi

  1. L. Piroddi, "Reti neurali per il controllo predittivo non lineare", Tesi di Dottorato di Ricerca in Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica, 7º ciclo, Politecnico di Milano, 1995.

  2. L. Piroddi, D. Purassanta, "Metodi di Identificazione per Modelli ARMA a Coefficienti Periodici", Tesi di Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica, Politecnico di Milano, 1990.

Brevetti

  1. A. Zanchettin, L. Piroddi, P. Rocco, and A. Casalino, "A predictive control method of a robot and related control system", 2019, International Patent WO2019234700A1 (applicants: Politecnico di Milano and Smart Robots srl).

  2. A. Zanchettin, A. Casalino, L. Piroddi, and P. Rocco, "Metodologia e dispositivo per la predizione dell'operatore nella collaborazione uomo-robot in ambito industriale", 2018, Italian Patent 102018000006156 (applicants: Politecnico di Milano and Smart Robots srl).

  3. A. Boer, R. Paganini, A. Leva, and L. Piroddi, "Method for self-tuning an on-off temperature control in domestic refrigerator and refrigerator using such method", 2009, European Patent EP2034260A1.

  4. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, and F. Casaro, "Vacuum pump provided with vibration damper", 2006, European Patent EP1533530B1.

  5. A. Leva, L. Piroddi, and F. Casaro, "Vakuumpumpe mit Schwingungsdämpfer", 2005, German Patent DE60304870T2.

  6. F. Casaro, A. Leva, and L. Piroddi, "Vacuum pump provided with vibration damper", 2005, Japan Patent JP2005147151A.

  7. F. Casaro, A. Leva, and L. Piroddi, "Vacuum pump provided with vibration damper", 2004, US Patent US2005106043A1.