Advanced and Optimization Based Sliding Mode Control

A. Ferrara is full professor of automatic control in the department of electrical, computer, and biomedical engineering (ECBE) at the University of Pavia. She has authored or co-authored more than 380 scientific papers and three scientific books, and she has contributed invited chapters to 23 edited volumes. She is associate editor of IEEE Control Systems Magazine, subject editor of International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and associate editor of Automatica. She is chair of the European Control Association (EUCA) Conference Editorial Board. Her research activities focus on sliding mode control and nonlinear control with applications to the automotive industry, robotics, power networks, process control, and vehicular traffic systems. G. P. Incremona is assistant professor of automatic control at the Politecnico di Milano. He is a recipient of the 2018 Best Young Author Paper Award from the Italian chapter of the IEEE Control Systems Society and a member of the conference editorial boards of the IEEE Control Systems Society and the European Control Association. His research focuses on variable structure control, optimal control, and networked control with applications to robotics, power systems, and glycemia control in diabetic subjects. M. Cucuzzella is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Groningen. He received his PhD in electronics, computer science, and electrical engineering from the University of Pavia under the supervision of Professor Ferrara. He received the IEEE Italy Section Award for the best PhD thesis on new technological challenges in energy and industry and the SIDRA Award for the best PhD thesis in the field of systems and control engineering. He is an associate editor for the European Control Conference. His research focuses on nonlinear control with applications to power networks.