C. (Claudio) De Persis, Prof
Professor
E-mail:
c.de.persis rug.nl
Research interests
My field is Automatic Control and its
applications.
I work on the automatic design of
controllers from data by integrating control theory and data
science. I introduced a methodology that reduces the design to
data-dependent convex programs.
Previously, I worked on networked and
cyber-physical control systems, with applications to energy
systems, for which I designed distributed controllers leveraging a
unifying passivity property that holds for electrical grids,
district heating networks and data centres. I hold two patents for
inventions related to these topics.
In the context of cyber-physical control
systems I studied the effect of information quantisation and
asynchronous information transmission including
their resilience to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks for
which I proposed a now widely accepted
model.
For my doctoral dissertation, I worked
on the problem of detecting faults in nonlinear dynamical systems,
solving the so-called Fundamental Problem of Residual Generation
for nonlinear systems, based on the newly introduced
differential-geometric concept of observability
codistributions.