Sergio Grammatico: Curriculum Vitae

Sergio Grammatico
ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Automatic Control Laboratory
ETL K11, Physikstrasse 3,
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Personal
• Born on January 27th, 1987. Italian citizenship.
Phone: +41 44 632 3469
Fax: +41 44 632 1211
Email: grammatico@control.ee.ethz.ch
Homepage: http://control.ee.ethz.ch/ gsergio
• Languages: Italian (mother tongue), English (advanced), French (intermediate), German (basic).
Education
• B.S. Computer Engineering, University of Pisa, 2005–2008.
• M.S. Automation Engineering, University of Pisa, 2008–2009.
• M.S. Automation Engineering,
“Sant’Anna” School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, (honours program), 2008–2010.
• Ph.D. Automation and Robotics, University of Pisa, 2010–2013.
Visiting
• University of California Santa Barbara, Dep. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(January–July 2012).
Supervisor: prof. Andrew Robert Teel.
• University of Udine, Dep. of Mathematics and Informatics (February 2011).
Supervisor: prof. Franco Blanchini.
• University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Dep. of Mathematics
(February–April 2010, November–December 2011).
Supervisor: prof. Monique Chyba.
Research Projects
• Underwater Wave Glider (2011–2013).
Partner: Italian Navy, Naval Experimentation and Support Center (La Spezia, Italy)
Supervisor: prof. Andrea Caiti.
• Thesaurus: Archeologic Underwater Exploration (2010–2013).
Partners: Italian National Research Center (Pisa, Italy), University of Florence (Florence, Italy),
Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy).
Supervisor: prof. Andrea Caiti.
• Hybrid Propulsion Systems for Industrial Vehicles (2009).
Industrial partners: Pure Power Control (“Polo Tecnologico”, Navacchio, Italy), Dana (Arco, Italy).
Supervisor: prof. Andrea Balluchi.

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Review Activity
Selected Journals
• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
• Systems & Control Letters.
Teaching
Assistant Lecturer, University of Pisa
• Automatic Control (undergraduate course in Management Engineering), 2010/‘11, 2011/‘12, 2012/‘13.
• Automatic Control II (graduate course in Electrical Engineering), 2010/‘11.
• Digital and Process Control (graduate course in Automation Engineering), 2010/‘11.
• Identification and Control of Uncertain Systems (graduate course in Automation Engineering), 2011/‘12,
2012/‘13.
Other
• “International Mathematical Game Championship” (national finalist), 2007, 2009.
• Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, (passed to the class of Physics), 2006.
• High-Mathematics National Institute “F. Severi” (scholarship awarded), 2005.
• Italian Physics Olimpiads (national finalist), 2005.
Publications
Journal Papers
[1] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti and S. Grammatico, A new class of Lyapunov functions for the constrained
stabilization of linear systems, Automatica, vol. 48, n. 11, pag. 2951–2955, 2012.
[2] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti and S. Grammatico, Multivariable constrained process control via Lyapunov
R-functions, Journal of Process Control, vol. 22, n. 9, pag. 1762–1772, 2012.
[3] A. Caiti, V. Calabrò, S. Grammatico, A. Munafò and M. Stifani, Lagrangian modelling of an underwater
wave glider, Ship Technology Research, vol. 59, n. 1, 2012.
Proceedings
[4] S. Grammatico, A. Subbaraman and A. Teel, Stability robustness in stochastic model predictive control
that generates discontinuous feedbacks, SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications,
San Diego, California, USA, 2013.
[5] S. Grammatico, F. Blanchini and A. Caiti, A universal class of non-homogeneous control Lyapunov functions
for linear differential inclusions, IEEE European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland,
2013.

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[6] S. Grammatico and G. Pannocchia, Achieving a large domain of attraction with short-horizon linear
MPC via polyhedral Lyapunov functions, IEEE European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland,
2013.
[7] A. Caiti, V. Calabrò, S. Geluardi, S. Grammatico and A. Munafò, Switching control of an underwater
glider with independently controllable wings, IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control
of Marine Craft, Arenzano, Italy, 2012.
[8] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti and S. Grammatico, Constrained stabilization of a continuous stirred tank reactor
via smooth control Lyapunov R-functions, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando,
Florida, USA, 2011.
[9] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti and S. Grammatico, Stabilizability of constrained uncertain linear systems via
smooth control Lyapunov R-functions, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando,
Florida, USA, 2011.
[10] A. Balestrino, E. Crisostomi, S. Grammatico and A. Caiti, Stabilizability of constrained linear systems
via smoothed truncated ellipsoids, IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, 2011.
[11] A. Balestrino, E. Crisostomi, S. Grammatico and A. Caiti, A Bregman nonlinear proximal point algorithm
for adaptive control, IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, 2011.
[12] A. Caiti, V. Calabrò, S. Grammatico, A. Munafò and M. Stifani, Lagrangian modeling of the Underwater
Wave Glider, IEEE Oceans Conference, Santander, Spain, 2011.
[13] A. Caiti, V. Calabrò, S. Grammatico, A. Munafò and M. Stifani, Control-oriented modeling of an Underwater
Wave Glider, International Conference on Computer Applications and Information
Technology in the Maritime Industries, Berlin, Germany, 2011.
[14] M. Andonian, D. Cazzaro, L. Invernizzi, M. Chyba and S. Grammatico, Geometric control for autonomous
underwater vehicles: overcoming a thruster failure, IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2010.
[15] M. Andonian, M. Chyba, S. Grammatico and A. Caiti, Using geometric control to design trajectories
for an AUV to map and sample the summit of the Loihi submarine volcano, IEEE Autonomous
Underwater Vehicle Conference, Monterey, California, USA, 2010.
[16] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti, E. Crisostomi and S. Grammatico, R-composition of quadratic Lyapunov functions
for stabilizability of linear differential inclusions, IFAC Symposium on System, Structure
and Control, Ancona, Italy, 2010.
[17] S. Grammatico, A. Balluchi and E. Cosoli, A series-parallel hybrid electric powertrain for industrial
vehicles, IEEE Vehicular Power and Propulsion Conference, Lille, France, 2010.
[18] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti, E. Crisostomi and S. Grammatico, Stabilizability of linear differential inclusions
via R-functions, IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Bologna, Italy, 2010.
[19] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti, E. Crisostomi and S. Grammatico, Stability analysis of dynamical systems via
R-functions, IEEE European Control Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 2009.
[20] A. Balestrino, A. Caiti, E. Crisostomi and S. Grammatico, R-composition of Lyapunov functions, IEEE
Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009.
Last updated: April 8, 2013