Marcello Farina is Principal
Investigator of the project BUDD-e:
Blind assistive aUtonomous Droid Device, awarded the Polisocial
Award 2021 funding (starting date: 15/03/2022) and local Principal Investigator of the PRIN 2022 project Control of Assistive Robots in crowded
Environments (CARE), and is currently involved in the project 4D Drone Swarms (4DDS) funded by the
Italian Ministry of Enterprises.
Marcello Farina has been involved in industrial projects in
collaboration with Italian metrological primary Institute Istituto Nazionale Ricerche in Metrologia, RSE S.p.A. (former ERSE,
CESI Ricerca and CESI), Magneti-Marelli, Addfor s.r.l., SIEMENS, Yousave
s.r.l., Electrolux, and CERN.
He has been involved in the following Research Projects:
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MIUR (Italian Ministry for University and Research)
Project: Innovative methodologies for
identification and control of industrial systems, 2003-2004.
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MIUR (Italian Ministry for University and Research)
Project: Innovative methodologies for
identification and adaptive control of industrial systems, 2005-2006.
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MIUR (Italian Ministry for University and Research)
Project: Innovative methodologies and
applications of identification and adaptive control, 2007-2011.
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INFN
(Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare) Project: VBL-Rad, 2008-2009.
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European 7th framework STREP project: Hierarchical and Distributed Model
Predictive Control (HD-MPC), 2008-2011.
Research
interests
Current research
In collaboration with A. La Bella, R. Scattolini, D.
Ravasio (POLIMI), F. Bonassi (Uppsala University), and L. Zaccarian (LAAS-CNRS
and University of Trento).
Past research
In
collaboration with G. Ferrari Trecate (EPFL Lausanne), S. Streif (University of
Chemnitz, Germany), R. Carli (Università di Padova), T. Parisini (Imperial
College, London, UK), and R. Scattolini (POLIMI).
In
collaboration with Riccardo Scattolini (DEIB, Politecnico di Milano), Lalo
Magni (Università degli Studi di Pavia).
In
collaboration with Riccardo Scattolini (DEIB, Politecnico di Milano), Antonio
Guagliardi and Carlo Sandroni (RSE).
In collaboration with Riccardo Scattolini (DEIB, Politecnico
di Milano), Giulio Betti, and Antonio Guagliardi (RSE).
In
collaboration with Luigi Piroddi (DEIB, Politecnico di Milano).
In collaboration with Eric Bullinger (University of
Liege), Rolf Findeisen (University of Magdeburg), and Sergio Bittanti (DEIB,
Politecnico di Milano).
Hybrid models for gene regulatory
networks
In
collaboration with Maria Prandini (DEIB, Politecnico di Milano).
Molecular and computational analysis
of regulation of protein hSos1
In collaboration with Elena Sacco, Marco Vanoni, Lilia
Alberghina (Università di Milano-Bicocca), and Diego Liberati (IEIIT, CNR).
Virtual biophysics lab
In collaboration with Edoardo Milotti (Università di
Trieste), Roberto Chignola (Università di Verona), and Diego Liberati (IEIIT,
CNR).
In
collaboration with Patrizia Tavella (INRIM, Torino), Lorenzo Galleani (Politecnico
di Torino), and Sergio Bittanti (DEIB, Politecnico di Milano).
In
collaboration with Claudio Zagano (RSE) and Sergio Bittanti (DEIB, Politecnico
di Milano).
Other
Marcello
Farina is member of the EUCA (European Control Association): he has served as
Associate Editor and he has been member of the International Programming
Committee for the European Control Conference (years 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018,
2020, 2022). He is also member of the international program committee (IPC) and
area Chair (decentralised/hierarchical MPC) for the 6th IFAC International
Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control - NMPC 2018. Since 1/9/2016 he
is Editorial Board Member (Subject Editor) for International Journal of
Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. Since 2019 he is Associate Editor for
the IFAC journal Automatica.
He serves
as a reviewer for several international journals, among which Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, IET Transactions on Control
Theory and Applications, Journal of Process Control, IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, International Journal on Adaptive
Control and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and
Learning Systems and for many international
conferences, including IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control, American Control Conference, NOLCOS (Nonlinear Control Systems)
Conference, IFAC World Congress, FOSBE (Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering),
IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control.
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