Welcome

In 1989, a workshop was organized in Como to celebrate two and a half centuries of Count Riccati’s equation. Almost three decades later, Sergio Bittanti returns to the shores of Lake Como, inviting his colleagues, friends and students to join him in a celebration of his lifetime achievements.

It will be an occasion to reflect on the evolution of system identification and control, learning from the past and looking towards the future. Distinguished speakers will share their views on various topics (technical, philosophical, historical) in the research areas close to Sergio’s interests.

The workshop will be held on 17-18 July 2017 in the pleasant setting of Villa del Grumello, an 18th -century building looking out onto the blue water of Lake Como.

Confirmed speakers and lecture titles

Pedro Albertos (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
Disturbance rejection: the relevance of modeling

Frank Allgöwer (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Bittanti, IFAC and the economization of predictive control

Tamer Basar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Robust control and the Riccati equation

Marco C. Campi (Università di Brescia, Italy)
From adaptive control to decision theory

Ian K. Craig (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
On the role of modelling and system identification for control in the 21st century: A mineral process industry perspective

Giuseppe De Nicolao (Università di Pavia, Italy)
Big Brother is manipulating you: a stochastic model of opinion control in social networks

Michel Gevers (Louvain University, Belgium)
Identifiability of dynamical networks: a palette of recent results

Graham Goodwin (University of Newcastle, Australia)
New ideas in relay autotuning with application to Type 1 diabetes treatment

Roberto Guidorzi (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Some geometrical aspects in EIV identification

Tohru Katayama (Kyoto University, Japan)
Identification of LNL systems and nonsymmetric algebraic Riccati equation

Vladimir Kučera (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Decoupling, an open problem 80 years old

Jason Speyer (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
A characteristic function approach to estimation of linear systems with additive symmetric alpha-stable processes

Tibor Vámos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
The spirit of systems

Karl Johan Åström (Lund University, Sweden)
Harry Nyquist – A great Swedish control engineer