PhD Thesis

D. Deplano, "Coordination of multi-agent systems: stability via nonlinear perron-frobenius theory and consensus for desynchronization and dynamic estimation", Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy, March 2021.

Material links: Manuscript - Extended Abstract

Winner of "Best Ph.D. Thesis" defended in the area of Systems and Control Engineering at an Italian University in 2021, awarded by Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica (SIDRA).

ARXIV PREPRINTS

NON-EUCLIDEAN ENRICHED CONTRACTION THEORY FOR MONOTONE OPERATORS AND MONOTONE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

D. Deplano, S. Grammatico, M. Franceschelli
Under review at IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1st round), 2025
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[A03]

OPTIMIZATION AND LEARNING IN OPEN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

D. Deplano, N. Bastianello, M. Franceschelli, K.H. Johansson
Under review at IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2nd round), 2025
Material links: Manuscript - Poster

[A02]

ALGEBRAIC CONNECTIVITY CONTROL AND MAINTENANCE WITH APPLICATION TO OPEN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

W. Zhao, D. Deplano, Z. Li, A. Giua, M. Franceschelli
Under review at IFAC Automatica (2nd round), 2024
Material links: Manuscript

[A01]

JOURNAL ARTICLES

DISTRIBUTED TRACKING OF NETWORK SIZE, DIAMETER, RADIUS, AND NODE ECCENTRICITIES IN OPEN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A. Giua
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025
Material links: Manuscript

[J10]

ROBUST ONLINE LEARNING OVER NETWORKS

N. Bastianello, D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, Karl H. Johansson
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2025 .
Material links: Manuscript

[J09]

STABILITY OF NONEXPANSIVE MONOTONE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATION TO RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A. Giua
IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2024
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[J08]

NOVEL STABILITY CONDITIONS FOR NONLINEAR MONOTONE SYSTEMS AND CONSENSUS IN MULTI-AGENT NETWORKS

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A. Giua
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2023
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[J07]

DYNAMIC MIN AND MAX CONSENSUS AND SIZE ESTIMATION OF ANONYMOUS MULTI-AGENT NETWORKS

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A. Giua
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[J06]

A SLIDING MODE OBSERVER DESIGN FOR THE AVERAGE STATE ESTIMATION IN LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMS

A. Pilloni, D. Deplano, A. Giua, E. Usai
IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2021
Material links: Manuscript - Slides - Video

[J05]

A NONLINEAR PERRON-FROBENIUS APPROACH FOR STABILITY AND CONSENSUS OF DISCRETE-TIME MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A. Giua
IFAC Automatica, 2020
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[J04]

A DISCRETE EVENT FORMULATION FOR MULTI-ROBOT COLLISION AVOIDANCE ON PRE-PLANNED TRAJECTORIES

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, S. Ware, S. Rong, A. Giua
IEEE Access, 2020
Material links: Manuscript

[J03]

DISTRIBUTED FIEDLER VECTOR ESTIMATION WITH APPLICATION TO DESYNCHRONIZATION OF HARMONIC OSCILLATOR NETWORKS

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A. Giua, L. Scardovi
IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2020
Material links: Manuscript - Slides - Video

[J02]

SCALE-FREE ESTIMATION OF THE AVERAGE STATE IN LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMS

M.U.B. Niazi, D. Deplano, C. Canudas-de-Wit, A.Y. Kibangou
IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2019
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[J01]

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

ON THE CONVERGENCE OF THE KRASNOSELSKIJ ITERATION FOR STRICTLY PSEUDOCONTRACTIVE OPERATORS

D. Deplano, S. Grammatico, M. Franceschelli
23rd European Control Conference (ECC), 2025
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C21]

A GOSSIP-BASED APPROACH FOR MEASUREMENT TASK ALLOCATION AND ROUTING IN MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS WITH HETEROGENEOUS SENSING

H. Chakraa, D. Deplano, C. Seatzu, D. Lefebvre, M. Franceschelli
21st International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2025
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C20]

DISTRIBUTED VARIANCE CONSENSUS WITH APPLICATION TO PERSONALIZED LEARNING

D. Deplano, N. Bastianello, M. Franceschelli, K.H. Johansson
10th IFAC Conference on Networked Systems (NecSys), 2025
Material links: Manuscript - Poster

[C19]

STABILITY OF NONEXPANSIVE MONOTONE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATION TO RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A. Giua
63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2024
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C18]

STABILITY OF PARACONTRACTIVE OPEN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A. Giua
63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2024
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C17]

A Distributed Online Heuristic for a Large-scale Workforce Task Assignment and Multi-vehicle Routing Problem

D. Deplano, C. Seatzu, M. Franceschelli
20th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2024
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C16]

Resilient Networks for Multi-Agent Systems based on Graph Self-Organization into Random Approximate Regular Graphs

W. Zhao, D. Deplano, Z. Li, A. Giua, M. Franceschelli
20th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2024
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C15]

Online coordination of bess and thermostatically control loads for shared energy optimization in energy communities

J.J. Moré, D. Deplano, A. Pilloni, A. Pisano, M. Franceschelli
20th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2024
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C14]

Distributed optimization for networks of battery energy storage systems in energy communities with shared energy incentives

M.A.M. Messilem, D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, E. Usai, R. Carli
20th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2024
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C13]

Experimental Comparison of Models of the Drying-Cooling Process of Flatbreads for Optimized Automated Production: The Case Study of Carasau Bread

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, C. Seatzu
9th IEEE Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), 2023
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C12]

A unified approach to solve the dynamic consensus on the average, maximum, median values with linear convergence

D. Deplano, N. Bastianello, M. Franceschelli, K.H. Johansson
62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2023
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C11]

Distributed estimation of the Laplacian spectrum via wave equation and distributed optimization

D. Deplano, C. Congiu, A. Giua, M. Franceschelli
22nd World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2023
Material links: Manuscript - Slides - Video

[C10]

Dynamic max-consensus with local self-tuning

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A.Giua
9th IFAC Conference on Networked Systems (NecSys), 2022
Material links: Manuscript - Slides - Video

[C09]

Resilient self-organizing networks in multi-agent systems via approximate random k-regular graphs

Z.A.Z. Sanai Dashti, D. Deplano, C. Seatzu, M. Franceschelli
61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2022
Material links: Manuscript - Slides - Video

[C08]

A sliding mode observer design for the average state estimation in large-scale systems

A. Pilloni, D. Deplano, A. Giua, E. Usai
60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2021
Material links: Manuscript - Slides - Video

[C07]

Distributed tracking of graph parameters in anonymous networks with time-varying topology

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A. Giua
60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2021
Material links: Manuscript - Slides - Video

[C06]

Distributed Fiedler vector estimation with application to desynchronization of harmonic oscillator networks

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A. Giua, L. Scardovi
59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2020
Material links: Manuscript - Slides - Video

[C05]

Discrete-time dynamic consensus on the max value

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A. Giua
15th European Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis (ACD), 2019.
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C04]

Scale-free estimation of the average state in large-scale systems

M.U.B. Niazi, D. Deplano, C. Canudas-de-Wit, A.Y. Kibangou
58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2019
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C03]

Lyapunov-free analysis for consensus of nonlinear discrete-time multi-agent systems

D. Deplano, M. Franceschelli, A. Giua
57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2018
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C02]

A heuristic algorithm to optimize execution time of multi-robot path

D. Deplano, S. Ware, S. Rong, A. Giua
13th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), 2018
Material links: Manuscript - Slides

[C01]

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