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).

JOURNAL ARTICLES

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

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]