Riccardo M.G. Ferrari

Associate Professor in Fault Tolerant Control in the Delft Center for Systems and Control, at Delft University of Technology

r dot ferrari at tudelft dot nl

+31 (0)15 27 83519

Mekelweg 2

2628 CD, Delft

The Netherlands

Hi, my name is Riccardo, and I investigate how to make dynamical systems safe and resilient against faults, malicious cyber-attacks and degradation phenomena, fighting uncertainty while doing so. My research is applied to problems in wind energy, in the aerospace and in the automotive sectors, in particular for electric and for cooperative automous vehicles.

I took an unusual career path: after a PhD in Information Engineering from the University of Trieste, under the guidance of Prof. Thomas Parisini (Imperial College London and Univ. of Trieste) and of Prof. Marios Polycarpou (Univ. of Cyprus) , I spent 7 years in industrial R&D at Danieli Automation. There I specialized in instrumentation and automation solutions for process control in the steelmaking sector, at researcher and executive manager level. After that I joined DCSC as a Postdoc in the group of Prof. Robert Babuska, and later as an Asst. Prof. in the group of Prof. Jan-Willem van Wingerden.

I acknowledge funding from the EU via the H2020 and Horizon Europe programs; from AB Volvo; from NWO (TKI-HTSM); from The Research Council of Norway and from TU Delft (Cohesie program).

news

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 :champagne: Three paper accepted to ECC 2024 in Stokholm :sweden:! 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

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  • My CV
  • My researcher page at TUD
  • Teaching and thesis opportunity
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  • I received a BA in Classical Piano from the Conservatory of Trieste (Italy), the city where I was born in 1979
  • In my free time, I enjoy(ed) bike touring around Europe, skating, jazz music and Aikido