Giuseppe FRANZE'
Professori Ordinari
Automatica (IINF-04/A)
Contacts
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Energetica e Gestionale
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Energetica e Gestionale
- franze@dimes.unical.it
- giuseppe.franze@unical.it
- 0984/494728
Reception Hours
Every Wednesday 10-12 am at the professor office.
Giuseppe Franze' received the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering in 1999 from the University of Calabria, Italy. Since 2022 he is a Full Professor at the University of Calabria with the DIMEG department. He authored or co-authored of more than 200 research papers in archival journals, book chapters and international conference proceedings. His current research interests include constrained predictive control, nonlinear systems, networked control systems, control under constraints and control reconfiguration for fault tolerant systems, resilient control for cyber-physical systems.
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Giuseppe Franzè is a Professor with the DIMEG-University of Calabria starting from January 2022. He is the author of more than 200 papers published on peer-reviewed journals and conferences proceedings.
He was involved in several research theoretical and applicative projects under MIUR/MUR, international research institutes and European Union.
His current research interests are centralized and distributed predictive control, control reconfiguration for fault tolerant systems, networked control systems, obstacle avoidance problems for autonomous vehicles, cyber-physical systems, resilient control under cyber-attacks, machine learning-based model predictive control, data-driven predictive control.
He is IEEE Senior Member starting from 2019, Associate Editor for IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS) from 2019 and Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Resilient Control in Large-Scale Networked Cyber-Physical Systems - JAS, 2019.
Plenary Lecture - SAFEPROCESS 2006 , Beijing: R. J. Patton, C. Kambhampati, A. Casavola and G. Franzè. Fault-tolerance as a key requirement for the control of modern systems.
He is member of the IFAC technical committee ''TC 6.4 Fault Detection, Supervision&Safety of Technical Processes-SAFEPROCESS. Moreover, he is member of the Working Group - Safety and Security of Cyberphysical Systems.
He received awards in international conferences: Best Paper - CoDIT’19; Best reviewer - IEEE ICAS 2021, Montreal, Canada, 2021.
Relevant talks: A distributed constrained model predictive control scheme for networked leader-follower formations, 2016, Carnegie Mellon, USA; Distributed estimation via sensor networks: a trust-based interaction approach,2018, Concordia University, Canada
He organized the invited sessions: CoDIT'19, CoDIT'21; ETFA'19, IEEE CASE'22.
He was Visiting Professor at the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal (Canada), November 2019 - December 2019.
Giuseppe Franzè was born in 1968 in Italy. He received his Laurea degree in computer engineering from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1994 and the Ph.D degree in Systems engineering from the same University in 1999. From 1994 to 2002 he was with the DEIS Department of the University of Calabria, Italy as a Research Associate. From December 2002 to January 2015 he was an Assistant Professor with the same Department. From January 2015 to January 2022 he was an Associate Professor with the DIMES Department of the University of Calabria. From January 10 2022, he is a Professor with the DIMEG Department of the University of Calabria.
He is the author of more than 200 papers published on refereed international journals and conferences proceedings. He was involved in several research theoretical and applicative projects under Italian Ministry. His early research activity was in interpolation and approximation theory, robust control, robust pole placement. Actually, his main scientific interests include constrained predictive control, control under constraints and control reconfiguration for fault tolerant systems, networked control systems, supervision approaches for remote control of dynamic systems over communication data networks, Sum-of-Squares Programming, obstacle avoidance problems for autonomous vehicles in dynamic environments, distributed MPC paradigms, cyber-Physical Systems, resilient control under cyber-attacks, machine learning-based model predictive control, data-driven MPC.
He was involved in the following research programs:
1. MURST 40%: "Identification and Control of Dynamical
Systems", during the years 1995-1997;
2. MURST 40%: "Identification and Control of Industrial
Systems", during the years 1998-2000;
3. MIUR-PRIN '00 " Fault Detection and Diagnosis,Supervision and
Control Reconfiguration in Industrial Process Automation",
during the years 2000-2002;
4. MIUR-PRIN '02 "Fault Detection, Monitoring and Control
Reconfiguration in Industrial Process", during the years 2002-
2004;
5. ASI Project "Autonomous control for unmanned space missions
via supervisors based on fault detection, diagnosis and
control reconfiguration", during the years 2002-2003;
6. MIUR-PRIN '04 " Fault detection and diagnosis, supervision
and control and set-points reconfiguration", during the years
2004-2006;
7. 2009 - PIA- National Research Programme: ”Prevedo”, Partener: DEIS-Università della
Calabria and Infomobility.it S.p.A. (TE);
8. 2011 Operational Programme Research and Competitive (PON 01 01517) - ”Innovative
development methodologies for automotive powertrain”. Role: proponent.
9. 2018-2020 ”Smart Indoor Localization for Industry 4.0 applications” – SiLI4.0 (POR CALABRIA FESR 2014/2020)
10. 2018-2020 ”High Efficient Energy Store Systems for the energy time-shift - SisTEA (POR CALABRIA FESR 2014/2020)
11. 2018-2020 ”New pipes setting via smart technologies for industry 4.0 applications - (POR CALABRIA FESR 2014/2020)
12. 2018-2019 ”Marine ecosystem monitoring” – MONEMA (POR CALABRIA FESR 2014/2020)
13. 2018-2019 ”Smart Cities Adaptive Lighting System” – SCALS (POR CALABRIA FESR 2014/2020)
14. 2019- ”Formation of unmanned aerial vehicles in presence of obstacles” – GLOBAL LINK RESEARCH AWARD for
research in Canada
15. 2022- ”Set-point attacks in cyber-physical systems:experimental validation using unmanned vehicles” – GLOBAL
LINK RESEARCH AWARD for research in Canada
16. 2023- ”Encrypted control for Cyber-Physical Systems” – Mitacs- GLOBAL LINK RESEARCH AWARD for research
in Canada
17. 2023- ”Autonomous driving via a set-theoretic model predictive control approach” – Mitacs- GLOBAL LINK RESEARCH
AWARD for research in Canada
18. 2023- ”BIOPURE” – , HORIZON EIC- 2021 Transition Open, UE
19. 2023- ”PNRR-PE7 Progetto SERICS” – , PNRR, Italy
20. 2023- ‘’Resilient and secure networked multi-vehicle systems in adversary environments”, PRIN, 2023-2025
He currently serves as a reviewer for IFAC, IEEE, IEE and SIAM international journal and conferences.
He is s Senior Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society starting from 2019.
He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE/CCA Journal of Automatica Sinica starting from 2019.
Plenary Lecture - SAFEPROCESS 2006 , 6th IFAC Symposium, Beijing, PR China, 2006 : R. J. Patton, C. Kambhampati, A. Casavola, and G. Franzè. “Fault-tolerance as a key requirement for the control of modern systems ”
He was involved in the organization of several international scientific conferences (NeCST, CoDIT, SysTol, IEEE-ICAS)
He is member of several IPC of international conferences (IEEE and IFAC).
He served as session chair in several international IEEE and IFAC conferences.
Since September 2022, he is a member of the IFAC Technical committee TC 6.4. Fault Detection, Supervision & Safety of Techn. Processes-SAFEPROCESS. Moreover, he is a member of the working group ‘‘Safety and Security of Cyberphysical Systems’’ of the IFAC Technical committee TC 6.4.
He is the Guest Editor of the Special Issue ‘‘Resilient Control in Large-Scale Networked Cyber–Physical Systems’’ IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS), 2020.
He was the chairman of the PhD defense committee on Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer Vision: Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), July 26 2021.
He is member of the IEEE CSS Italy Best paper award committee, 2023.
At IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium 2023 (IEEE IV 20223), June 4-7 2023, Anchorage, USA, he was the co-organized and speaker of the following tutorial: Constrained Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems for Smart Cities and Industry 4.0: from Model Predictive Control to Reinforcement Learning.
He has organized the following International conferences invited sessions:
1) 6th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT’19) - Invited
Session: Resilient Control in Large-Scale Networked Cyber-Physical Systems
2) 24th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2019) - Special Session:
Recent advances on coordination and control of multi-agent systems
 
3) 7th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT’22) - Special
Session: Intelligent transportation networks: traffic routing decisions for autonomous vehicle formations
 
4) 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) - Special
Session: Traffic-based routing decisions for autonomous vehicles operating in intelligent network environments
He held the following invited talks:
1. A distributed constrained model predictive control scheme for networked leader-follower formations, July 1
2016, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 
2. Distributed estimation via sensor networks: a trust-based interaction approach, July 3 2018, Concordia University,
Montreal, Canada
 
3. The integrated Maintenance in Industry 4.0 - Fault tolerant strategies: a model predictive control approach,
September 29 2018, Federico II University, Naples, Italy
He is involved in scientific and project partnerships with the following research institutes:
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec, CANADA), Northeastern
University (Boston, MA, USA), University of Hull (UK), Universitè Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Second
University of Naples (Italy), University of Reggio Calabria (Italy), University of Florence (Italy), University of Ferrara
(Italy), Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA), Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
From January 2018 to march 2022, he was the professors committee chairman of the Degree Course Council of the Master Degree in Automation Engineering and Robotics and Automation Engineering at the DIMES department - University of Calabria.
Institutional activities
 
2022 - today: Research Committee member at the DIMEG Department, University of Calabria
 
2022 - today: Deputy Chair of the Degree Course Council of the Master Degree in Automation Engineering at
the DIMES Department, University of Calabria
 
2108 - 2022: Chair of the Degree Course Council of the Master Degree in Automation Engineering at the
DIMES Department, University of Calabria
 
2015-today: Admission Committee member, Master Degree in Automation Engineering at the DIMES Department,
University of Calabria
 
2015-2018: Department Board member at the DIMES Department, University of Calabria
 
2013- today: Scientific Board member of the PhD Program Information and Communication Technologies
 
2010-today: Member of the Foreign Students Admission Committee, Master Degree in Automation Engineering
at the DIMES Department, University of Calabria
 
2007- 2013: Scientific Board member of the PhD Program System Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics
and Operational Research
 
2007-2010: Education Organization Committee, Master Degree in Automation Engineering at the DIMES
Department, University of Calabria
2007-2010: Stage Committee Person in Charge, Master Degree in Automation Engineering at the DIMES
Department, University of Calabria
 
2007-2010: Admission Committee member, Master Degree in Automation Engineering at the DIMES Department,
University of Calabria
 
2006-2009: Department Board member at the DIMES Department, University of Calabria
 
2003-2013: Scientific Board member of the PhD Program System and Computer Science Engineering, University
of Calabria
Teaching activity
Undergraduate courses
  1997-1999: Teaching Assistant in ” Automatic Control”, University of Calabria, Engineering School;
  1999-2001: Teaching Assistant in ” Automatic Control”, University of Crotone, a branch of University of
Calabria, Engineering School;
  1999-2000: Teaching Assistant in ” Digital Control”, University of Calabria, Engineering School;
  2001-2002: Teaching Assistant in ” Systems Theory”, University of Calabria, Engineering School;
  2001-2002: ” Process Control”, University of Calabria, Engineering School;
  2002-2009: ” Digital Control”, University of Calabria, Engineering School;
  2002-2004: ” Automatic Control”, University of Calabria, Engineering School;
  2003-2005: ” Automatic Control”, University of Crotone, a branch of University of Calabria, Engineering
School;
  2004-2012: ” Process Control”, University of Calabria, Master Laurea Degree Automation Engineering;
  2006-2011: ”Modelling and identification”, University of Calabria, Engineering School;
  2006-2011: ”Elements of Automatic Control”, University of Calabria, Master Laurea Degree Mechanical and
Energy Engineering, Engineering School;
  2010-2014: ” Digital Control”, University of Reggio Calabria, Master Laurea Degree Electronics Engineering;
  2010-: ” Automatic Control”, University of Calabria, Master Laurea Degree Mechanical and Energy Engineering;
  2010-: ” Control Techniques - II”, University of Calabria, Master Laurea Degree Automation Engineering;
  2019-: ” Feedback Control”, University of Calabria, Bachelor Degree Food Process Engineering, University of Calabria;
2021/2022: ”Autonomous multi-agent control systems”, University of Calabria, Master Laurea
Degree Automation Engineering;
  2022-: ”Autonomous multi-agent control systems”, University of Calabria, Master Laurea Degree Robotics and
Automation Engineering;
2023-: ”Feedback Control and Robotics”, Bachelor Degree Computer Science Engineering; University of Calabria;
Graduate courses
2012: ” Automatic Control”, Training Plan of the Dynamic Precision Geometry S.R.L. company for the project
entitled: “Formazione specialistica professionale di ricercatori e di tecnici annessa al progetto di ricerca “GS7”
MIUR Project n. 1574/04, University of Calabria, Italy;
 
2013: ” Automatic Control”, Training Plan of the project PONa3 00308 -GelminCAL, University of Reggio
Calabria, Italy;
 
2013: ” Automatic Control”, Training Plan of the project PON01 01517, University of Federico II Naples,
Italy;
 
2016: PhD Course: ”Coordination and reconfiguration of agents subject to constraints and network latency,
PhD in ICT, DIMES, University of Calabria, Italy;
2023: PhD Course: ”A primer on resilient control methodologies for cyber-physical systems,
PhD in ICT, DIMES, University of Calabria, Italy.
He was the scientific advisor of two fixed-term assistant professors, four postdoc researchers, four PhD students, seven research associates and about thirty master thesis students.
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Contacts
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Energetica e Gestionale
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Energetica e Gestionale
- franze@dimes.unical.it
- giuseppe.franze@unical.it
- 0984/494728
Reception Hours
Every Wednesday 10-12 am at the professor office.