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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Saudi Arabia
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
69
Citations
20704
World Ranking
955
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2014 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

Overview

Alessandro Astolfi is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and works primarily within the field of Engineering. Their research spans various subfields, including Control and Systems Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Aerospace Engineering, and Numerical Analysis. The scientist's work concentrates on topics related to control theory and dynamical systems.

Key research topics Alessandro Astolfi has contributed to include:

  • Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems
  • Model Reduction and Neural Networks
  • Control Systems and Identification
  • Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems
  • Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations

The scientist has authored numerous papers, with frequent publications in well-recognized venues. The most common publication venues include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • Automatica
  • IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

Recent papers by Alessandro Astolfi demonstrate a focus on adaptive control, stabilization, and energy management systems. These include:

  • Adaptive Control for Systems With Time-Varying Parameters (2020), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Nonlinear Energy-Maximizing Optimal Control of Wave Energy Systems: A Moment-Based Approach (2021), IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
  • Adaptive Formation Tracking Control for First-Order Agents With a Time-Varying Flow Parameter (2021), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Stabilization of a Class of Underactuated Nonlinear Systems via Underactuated Back-Stepping (2020), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Energy Management and Control of Photovoltaic and Storage Systems in Active Distribution Grids (2021), IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Collaboration is a notable component of Alessandro Astolfi's research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Thomas Parisini
  • Fabio Pasqualetti
  • Eric C. Kerrigan
  • Mario Sassano
  • Magnus Egerstedt

The scientist has also contributed to the academic literature through book publications, including a title published by Springer Science+Business Media:

  • Trends in Nonlinear and Adaptive Control (2021)

Awards and recognitions in their career include being named a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2014 and membership of Academia Europaea since 2016.

Best Publications

  • Disturbance attenuation and H/sub infinity /-control via measurement feedback in nonlinear systems

    A. Isidori;A. Astolfi

  • Discontinuous control of nonholonomic systems

    A. Astolfi

  • Nonlinear and adaptive control with applications

    Alessandro Astolfi;Dimitrios Karagiannis;Romeo Ortega

  • Homogeneous Approximation, Recursive Observer Design, and Output Feedback

    Vincent Andrieu;Laurent Praly;Alessandro Astolfi

  • Immersion and invariance: a new tool for stabilization and adaptive control of nonlinear systems

    A. Astolfi;R. Ortega

  • Conditions for stability of droop-controlled inverter-based microgrids

    Johannes Schiffer;Romeo Ortega;Alessandro Astolfi;Alessandro Astolfi;Jörg Raisch;Jörg Raisch

  • Interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control of mechanical systems with underactuation degree one

    J.A. Acosta;R. Ortega;A. Astolfi;A.D. Mahindrakar

  • Control by Interconnection and Standard Passivity-Based Control of Port-Hamiltonian Systems

    R. Ortega;A. van der Schaft;F. Castanos;A. Astolfi

  • Model Reduction by Moment Matching for Linear and Nonlinear Systems

    A Astolfi

  • Sensorless Control of Surface-Mount Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motors Based on a Nonlinear Observer

    Junggi Lee;Jinseok Hong;Kwanghee Nam;R. Ortega

  • Spacecraft attitude control using magnetic actuators

    M. Lovera;A. Astolfi

  • Interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control of mechanical systems with underactuation degree one

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  • Exponential Stabilization of a Wheeled Mobile Robot Via Discontinuous Control

    A. Astolfi

  • Brief paper: High gain observers with updated gain and homogeneous correction terms

    V. Andrieu;L. Praly;A. Astolfi

  • Transient stabilization of multimachine power systems with nontrivial transfer conductances

    R. Ortega;M. Galaz;A. Astolfi;Yuanzhang Sun

  • Brief paper: On global extremum seeking in the presence of local extrema

    Y. Tan;D. Nešić;I. M. Y. Mareels;A. Astolfi

  • Estimation of Rotor Position and Speed of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors With Guaranteed Stability

    R Ortega;L Praly;A Astolfi;Junggi Lee

  • A Differential Game Approach to Multi-agent Collision Avoidance

    Thulasi Mylvaganam;Mario Sassano;Alessandro Astolfi

  • Nonlinear control of feedforward systems with bounded signals

    G. Kaliora;A. Astolfi

  • Brief paper: A globally exponentially convergent immersion and invariance speed observer for mechanical systems with non-holonomic constraints

    A. Astolfi;R. Ortega;A. Venkatraman

  • Path-tracking of a tractor-trailer vehicle along rectilinear and circular paths: a Lyapunov-based approach

    A. Astolfi;P. Bolzern;A. Locatelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Romeo Ortega
Romeo Ortega Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Laurent Praly
Laurent Praly Mines ParisTech
Thomas Parisini
Thomas Parisini University of Trieste
Patrizio Colaneri
Patrizio Colaneri Polytechnic University of Milan
Marco Lovera
Marco Lovera Polytechnic University of Milan
Zhong-Ping Jiang
Zhong-Ping Jiang New York University
Sergio M. Savaresi
Sergio M. Savaresi Polytechnic University of Milan
Dragan Nesic
Dragan Nesic University of Melbourne
Liu Hsu
Liu Hsu Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Panos J. Antsaklis
Panos J. Antsaklis University of Notre Dame

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