Dr. Domenico Famularo

This seminar addresses the resilient control problem for constrained cyber–physical systems subject to false data injections (FDI). The core of the proposed approach involves defining an ad-hoc versatile framework, which is capable of adapting to various attack cathegories. This adaptability is achieved through the receding horizon control (RHC) philosophy exploited here for detection, countermeasures, and control purposes. Specifically, set-theoretic model predictive arguments are combined with perturbation analysis and sequential quadratic programming to mitigate as best as possibile the frequency of refresh procedures on the communication network when resilient command actions are no longer viable. The framework is tailored for covert attacks by detailing actuation and detection phases, and by proving feasibility and closed-loop stability properties.

Biography:

Dr. Domenico Famularo received the laurea degree in computer engineering from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1991 and the Ph.D in computational mechanics from the University of Rome, Italy, in 1996. From 1991 to 2000 he was a Research Associate at the University of Calabria. In 1997 he was a visiting Scholar Research at the University of New Mexico (USA) and in 1999 he covered the same position at the University of Southern California (USA). He was a Researcher at ICAR-CNR and since 2005 he is an Associate Professor at the University of Calabria. His current research interests include control under constraints, control reconfiguration for fault tolerant systems and networked control systems.

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