04b Atto di convegno in volume

The minimum-time crashing problem for the Dubins' car
A globally convergent steering algorithm for regular nonholonomic systems
The SRT method: Randomized strategies for exploration
Probabilistic strategies for sensor-based exploration
From nominal to robust planning: The plate-ball manipulation system
The REAL Lab: Remote experiments for active learning
An Optimal Truthful Mechanism for the Online Weighted bipartite Matching Problem
Sequential processing and performance optimization in nonlinear state estimation

We propose a framework for designing observers for noisy nonlinear systems with global convergence properties and performing robustness and noise sensitivity. Our state observer is the result of the combination of a state norm estimator with a bank of Kalman-type lters, parametrized by the state...
Sampled-data output feedback controllers for nonlinear systems with time-varying measurement and control delays

In this paper, we propose sampled-data output feedback controllers for nonlinear systems with time-varying measurement and input delays. A state prediction is generated by chains of saturated high-gain observers with switching error-correction terms and the state prediction is used to stabilize the...
Asymptotically Optimal Distributed Filtering of Continuous-Time Linear Systems

In this paper we prove the following new and unexpected result: it is possible to design a continuous-time distributed filter for linear systems that asymptotically tends at each node to the optimal centralized filter. The result concerns distributed estimation over a connected undirected graph and...