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Overview

Silvio Simani is affiliated with the University of Ferrara in Italy and has a significant number of contributions in the field of Engineering. Their work primarily focuses on Control and Systems Engineering, with additional involvement in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The main research topics addressed by Simani include:

  • Fault Detection and Control Systems
  • Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques
  • Wind Turbine Control Systems
  • Wind Energy Research and Development
  • Microgrid Control and Optimization
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems

Simani has published extensively across several well-known venues. Notable frequent publication venues are:

  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • Energies
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • Preprints.org

Selected recent papers illustrate the range of topics and applications studied:

  • "Decoupling Adaptive Sliding Mode Observer Design for Wind Turbines Subject to Simultaneous Faults in Sensors and Actuators" (2021) - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
  • "Development of a personalized thermal comfort driven controller for HVAC systems" (2021) - Energy
  • "Meta-Learning With Distributional Similarity Preference for Few-Shot Fault Diagnosis Under Varying Working Conditions" (2023) - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • "A Review on Optimal Control for the Smart Grid Electrical Substation Enhancing Transition Stability" (2021) - Energies
  • "Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control of Wind Turbines: An Overview" (2022) - Energies

Collaboration is an important aspect of Simani's research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Paolo Castaldi
  • Saverio Farsoni
  • Bin Jiang
  • Ningyun Lu
  • Edy Ayala

Best Publications

  • Model-Based Fault Diagnosis Techniques

    Silvio Simani;Cesare Fantuzzi;Ronald Jon Patton

  • Model-based fault diagnosis in dynamic systems using identification techniques

    Silvio Simani;Ron Patton;Cesare Fantuzzi

  • Reliability improvement of wind turbine power generation using model-based fault detection and fault tolerant control: A review

    Hamed Habibi;Ian Howard;Silvio Simani

  • Robust FDI applied to thruster faults of a satellite system

    Ron J. Patton;Faisal J. Uppal;Silvio Simani;Bernard Polle

  • Diagnosis techniques for sensor faults of industrial processes

    S. Simani;C. Fantuzzi;S. Beghelli

  • Fault diagnosis in power plant using neural networks

    S. Simani;C. Fantuzzi

  • Fault diagnosis of an industrial gas turbine prototype using a system identification approach

    Silvio Simani;R. J. Patton

  • Fault Diagnosis of a Wind Turbine Benchmark via Identified Fuzzy Models

    Silvio Simani;Saverio Farsoni;Paolo Castaldi

  • Robust FDI applied to thruster faults of a satellite system

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  • Active actuator fault-tolerant control of a wind turbine benchmark model

    S. Simani;P. Castaldi

  • Data-driven fault diagnosis of a wind farm benchmark model

    Silvio Simani;Paolo Castaldi;Saverio Farsoni

  • Dynamic system identification and model-based fault diagnosis of an industrial gas turbine prototype

    Silvio Simani;Cesare Fantuzzi

  • Identification and fault diagnosis of a simulated model of an industrial gas turbine

    S. Simani

  • Differential geometry based active fault tolerant control for aircraft

    Paolo Castaldi;Nicola Mimmo;S. Simani

  • Identification of piecewise affine models in noisy environment

    Cesare Fantuzzi;S. Simani;S. Beghelli;R. Rovatti

  • Model-based robust fault detection and isolation of an industrial gas turbine prototype using soft computing techniques

    Hasan Abbasi Nozari;Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli;Silvio Simani;Hamed Dehghan Banadaki

  • Design of residual generators and adaptive filters for the FDI of aircraft model sensors

    P. Castaldi;W. Geri;M. Bonfè;S. Simani

  • Data—Driven Approach for Wind Turbine Actuator and Sensor Fault Detection and Isolation

    Silvio Simani;Paolo Castaldi;Andrea Tilli

  • High-speed DSP-based implementation of piecewise-affine and piecewise-quadratic fuzzy systems

    R. Rovatti;C. Fantuzzi;S. Simani

  • Parameter identification for piecewise-affine fuzzy models in noisy environment

    Silvio Simani;Cesare Fantuzzi;Riccardo Rovatti;Sergio Beghelli

  • Adaptive square-root unscented Kalman filter: An experimental study of hydraulic actuator state estimation

    Reza Mohammadi Asl;Yashar Shabbouei Hagh;Silvio Simani;Heikki Handroos

  • Fault detection and isolation for on-board sensors of a general aviation aircraft

    M. Bonfè;P. Castaldi;W. Geri;S. Simani

Frequent Co-Authors

Cesare Fantuzzi
Cesare Fantuzzi University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Ron J. Patton
Ron J. Patton University of Hull
Riccardo Rovatti
Riccardo Rovatti University of Bologna
Mogens Blanke
Mogens Blanke Technical University of Denmark
John V. Ringwood
John V. Ringwood National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Cristian Secchi
Cristian Secchi University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Christopher Edwards
Christopher Edwards University of Exeter
Afef Fekih
Afef Fekih University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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