Riccardo M.G. Ferrari

Nov 1, 2024	Kickoff for the projects PHYSIA! 🥳 PHYSIA will develop physics-inspired AI algorithms to detect cyber attacks in wind farms control systems!
Mar 8, 2024	Welcome to Bart to our lab! He will work on testing the resilience of wind farm control algorithms to fauts, extreme conditions and cyber attacks in the project TWAIN
Mar 1, 2024	Three paper accepted to ECC 2024 in Stokholm ! Congratulations to: Yang for “Concurrent Li-ion Battery Parameter Estimation and Open-Circuit Voltage Reconstruction via L1-Regularized Least Squares “, this is his first paper with prof. Verhaegen and myself; Wolfram for “Transient Solutions of the Fokker-Planck Equation using a Galerkin-Method with Weighted Test Functions”, first paper that we wrote on the problem of uncertainty propagation in nonlinear dynamical systems; Luca for “Control of reaction-diffusion processes under communication delays”, written before joining us with J. Arbelaiz, V. Gupta, L. Schenato, and M. R. Jovanovic.
Jan 15, 2024	Welcome to Ivo to our lab! He will work on developing a cyber-resilient control rooms of the future in the project SUDOCO
Dec 1, 2023	Kickoff meetings for the projects SUDOCO and TWAIN, which started in October and November 🥳
Oct 10, 2023	Making an #aircraft lighter is one way towards #sustainable #aviation. But what if faults cause extra loads mid-flight on such lighter structure? In this award winning paper by Twan, Japie Engelbrecht (Stellenbosch University), Philippe Goupil (Airbus) and myself we show how to detect them in as short as 0.1 seconds! The algorithm behind “A sliding mode observer approach to oscillatory fault detection in commercial aircraft” was awarded first prize in the Aerospace Industrial Benchmark contest organised by Airbus at IFAC 2020
Sep 15, 2023	I am HIRING 1 Postodoc and two PhD students on “Secure and Optimal Control of Renewable Energy Systems” for the TWAIN and SUDOCO project. Apply here for Phd and here for Postdoc. Deadline 6th October 2023
Apr 1, 2023	I am happy to announce I have been promoted to Associate Professor! Thanks to my wonderful team for allowing me to reach this goal, and to @tudelft3mE Faculty for believing in my work!
Mar 15, 2023	Congratulations to Atin for winning the prestigious O. Hugo Schuck Award 2023 with his paper “Periodic Load Estimation of a Wind Turbine Tower using a Model Demodulation Transformation,” by Pamososuryo, Atindriyo Kusumo and Mulders, Sebastiaan P. and Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. and van Wingerden, Jan-Willem. Click here for more pictures.
Mar 6, 2023	Three paper accepted to IFAC World Congress 2023 in Yokohama! Congratulations to: Tushar for “Real-time Battery State of Charge and parameters estimation through Multi-Rate Moving Horizon Estimator”, this is his first paper and we are really excited it is a collaboration with Federico Oliva and Daniele Carnevale ; Twan for “A Coalitional MPC Approach to Control of Collaborative Vehicle Platoons”, written with Paula Chanfreut (now Asst. Prof. at TU/e) and Pepe Maestre; Jean for “UKF-based Wind Estimation and Sub-optimal Turbine Control under Waked Conditions”, written with Yichao Liu (former Postdoc here).
Mar 1, 2023	Welcome to Wolfram to our lab! He will work as a Postdoc on modelling and simulation of stochastic systems, with application to probabilistic estimation and control!
Feb 13, 2023	Congratulations to Twan for successfully defending his PhD dissertation! Twan was the first student I have graduated here at TUD, and that was quite a day for both of us! Click here for more pictures.
Jan 10, 2023	Congratulations to Jean for his first journal paper! “Wind farm control for wake-loss compensation, thrust balancing and load-limiting of turbines”, available here
Jan 2, 2023	Welcome to Yang to our lab! He will be co-supervised by prof. Michel Verhaegen and work together with Tushar on the Sparsity project, focusing on system identification topics!
Sep 15, 2022	Congratulations to Twan for his first Automatica paper! “Threshold design for fault detection with first order sliding mode observers”, available here
Sep 2, 2022	I am HIRING a Postdoc researcher on “Safety of Dynamical Systems under Uncertainty”, please have a look here.
Aug 31, 2022	One paper accepted to IROS 2022 and Four papers accepted at CDC 2022 ! Congratulations to: Mohamed and Corrado for “Unbiased Active Inference for Classical Control”; Twan and Alex for “Hierarchical Cyber-Attack Detection in Large-Scale Interconnected Systems”; Jean for “Convex Model Predictive Control for Down-regulation Strategies in Wind Turbines”; Pieter and Twan for “A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme for Real-Time Safe Control”; Zhixin, Alex, Yichao and Atin for “An Economic Model Predictive Control Approach for Load Mitigation on Multiple Tower Locations of Wind Turbines”
May 20, 2022	I am HIRING a PhD student on “Data Driven Fault Diagnosis for Electric Vehicles” for the SPARSITY project.
May 20, 2022	This year I am co-organizing the DISC Summer PhD School on “Security and Resiliency for Cyber-Physical Systems - foundations and recent advances”, which will be held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, from June 27th to 30th. Registration is due by May 23rd, and can be done at this website, where also a complete program is available. Latest information can be also found on Linkedin and Twitter.
Apr 16, 2022	Presentation video about my upcoming course SC42130 “Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control” is online!
Apr 6, 2022	I am happy to announce I have been granted Tenure ! Thanks to my wonderful team for allowing me to reach some wonderful goals this year, and to @tudelft3mE Faculty for believing in my work!
Mar 31, 2022	The recording of my invited talk at the DUWIND Institute at TUD on Safety and Resiliency of Dynamical Systems: The Dual Role of Uncertainty is online. Thanks to Prof. Watson for inviting me!
Mar 22, 2022	Two papers accepted at SAFEPROCESS 2022, which will be held in charming Cyprus! Congratulations to: Alex for “Cryptographic switching functions for multiplicative watermarking in cyber-physical systems”; Mohamed and William for “Beta Residuals: Improving Fault-Tolerant Control for Sensory Faults via Bayesian Inference and Precision Learning”.
Mar 14, 2022	Two papers accepted at the wind conference TORQUE 2022, which will be held in Delft! Congratulations to: Atin, Yichao and Tobias for “Individual pitch control by convex economic model predictive control for wind turbine side-side tower load alleviation”; Jean and Bart for “Active power control of wind farms: an instantaneous approach on waked conditions”.
Feb 1, 2022	Three papers accepted at ACC 2022! Congratulations to: Atin and Sebastiaan for “Periodic Load Estimation of a Wind Turbine Tower using a Model Demodulation Transformation”; Jean, Daan and Sebastiaan for “A Switching Thrust Tracking Controller for Load Constrained Wind Turbines”; Yichao, Atin and Sebastiaan for The Proportional Integral Notch and Coleman Blade Effective Wind Speed Estimators and Their Similarities.
Jan 21, 2022	Congratulations to my MSc student Daan for geeting a paper at ICASSP 2022! The paper “Wave-Domain Approach For Cancelling Noise Entering Open Windows” is the outcome of an excellent thesis supervised by prof. Bastiaan Kleijn and co-supervised by me.
Dec 12, 2021	The recording of my invited talk at the “AI for E&S” Think Tank at TUD on Safety and Resiliency of Dynamical Systems: The Dual Role of Uncertainty is online. Thanks to Jochem for inviting me!
Nov 10, 2021	The recording of my invited talk at KTH on Safety and Resiliency of Dynamical Systems: The Dual Role of Uncertainty is online. Thanks to Henrik for inviting me!
Jul 21, 2021	Two papers accepted at the flagship CDC 2021! Congratulations to: Alex, Sri and André for Design of multiplicative watermarking against covert attacks; Yichao and Atin for The Immersion and Invariance Wind Speed Estimator Revisited and New Results, here as a CSS Letter.
Jul 5, 2021	The Springer book Safety, Security and Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems I edited and co-authored with André is out!
Jul 5, 2021	The new website is online! Let me know if you like it