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Franco Blanchini

Franco Blanchini

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
42
Citations
14402
World Ranking
4000
National Ranking
130

Overview

Franco Blanchini is affiliated with the University of Udine in Italy. Their research spans predominantly within Engineering, with a specialized focus on Control and Systems Engineering. Subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, and Modeling and Simulation.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems
  • Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems

Frequent coauthors in Franco Blanchini's publications are:

  • Giulia Giordano
  • Patrizio Colaneri
  • Paolo Bolzern
  • Giuseppe De Nicolao
  • Daniele Casagrande

Preferred venues for publication include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Control Systems Letters
  • Automatica
  • PLoS ONE
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Franco Blanchini include:

  • Structural analysis in biology: A control-theoretic approach, 2021, Automatica
  • Modelling the COVID-19 epidemic and implementation of population-wide interventions in Italy, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • A SIDARTHE Model of COVID-19 Epidemic in Italy, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Modeling vaccination rollouts, SARS-CoV-2 variants and the requirement for non-pharmaceutical interventions in Italy, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Stabilization of negative capacitance in ferroelectric capacitors with and without a metal interlayer, 2020, Nanoscale

The researcher's work in epidemiological modeling, specifically concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, includes studies on the dynamics of the epidemic in Italy and the impact of interventions such as vaccination rollouts and non-pharmaceutical strategies. Other scientific contributions examine control-theoretic methods applied to biological systems and engineering challenges.

Best Publications

  • Survey paper: Set invariance in control

    F. Blanchini

  • Set-theoretic methods in control

    Franco Blanchini;Stefano Miani

  • Ultimate boundedness control for uncertain discrete-time systems via set-induced Lyapunov functions

    F. Blanchini

  • Nonquadratic Lyapunov functions for robust control

    Franco Blanchini

  • Discrete‐time control for switched positive systems with application to mitigating viral escape

    Esteban Hernandez-Vargas;Patrizio Colaneri;Richard Middleton;Franco Blanchini

  • Feedback control for linear time-invariant systems with state and control bounds in the presence of disturbances

    F. Blanchini

  • Stabilizability of switched linear systems does not imply the existence of convex Lyapunov functions

    Franco Blanchini;Carlo Savorgnan

  • Co-Positive Lyapunov Functions for the Stabilization of Positive Switched Systems

    F. Blanchini;P. Colaneri;M. E. Valcher

  • A separation principle for linear switching systems and parametrization of all stabilizing controllers

    F. Blanchini;S. Miani;F. Mesquine

  • A new class of universal Lyapunov functions for the control of uncertain linear systems

    F. Blanchini;S. Miani

  • Stabilization of LPV systems: state feedback, state estimation and duality

    F. Blanchini;S. Miani

  • Persistent disturbance rejection via static-state feedback

    F. Blanchini;M. Sznaier

  • The gain scheduling and the robust state feedback stabilization problems

    F. Blanchini

  • Any domain of attraction for a linear constrained system is a tracking domain of attraction

    F. Blanchini;S. Miani

  • Brief paper: Stability results for linear parameter varying and switching systems

    Franco Blanchini;Stefano Miani;Carlo Savorgnan

  • Constrained control for uncertain linear systems

    F. Blanchini

  • Piecewise-linear Lyapunov functions for structural stability of biochemical networks

    Franco Blanchini;Giulia Giordano

  • Structurally robust biological networks

    Franco Blanchini;Elisa Franco

  • Brief paper: Non-conservative matrix inequality conditions for stability/stabilizability of linear differential inclusions

    Tingshu Hu;Franco Blanchini

  • Least inventory control of multistorage systems with non-stochastic unknown inputs

    F. Blanchini;F. Rinaldi;W. Ukovich

  • Switched Positive Linear Systems

    Franco Blanchini;Patrizio Colaneri;Maria Elena Valcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrizio Colaneri
Patrizio Colaneri Polytechnic University of Milan
Richard H. Middleton
Richard H. Middleton University of Newcastle Australia
Silviu-Iulian Niculescu
Silviu-Iulian Niculescu CentraleSupélec
Mauro Zigliotto
Mauro Zigliotto University of Padua
David Esseni
David Esseni University of Udine
Thomas Parisini
Thomas Parisini University of Trieste
Manfred Morari
Manfred Morari University of Pennsylvania
Murat Arcak
Murat Arcak University of California, Berkeley
Tingshu Hu
Tingshu Hu University of Massachusetts Lowell

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