Simone Formentin

Position

Visiting Professor

Email

simone.formentin@polimi.it

Simone Formentin was born in Legnano (MI), Italy, in 1984. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree summa cum laude in Automatic Control Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2006 and 2008, respectively.

From 2009 to 2011, he was a Ph.D. student in Information Technology within a joint program between Politecnico di Milano and Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria). From December 2011 to August 2012, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

He served as a post-doctoral fellow at Università degli studi di Bergamo (Italy) in 2013.

Currently, he is Tenure Track Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Milano. He is also Visiting Professor at the Università degli studi di Bergamo (Italy), teaching Model Identification.

His research interests include data-driven controller tuning approaches and automotive control.

Publications

2022
Data-driven mixed-sensitivity control with automated weighting functions selection
Valceschini N., Mazzoleni M., Formentin S., Previdi F.
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
Kernel-based system identification with manifold regularization: A Bayesian perspective
Mazzoleni, M., Chiuso, A., Scandella, M., Formentin, S., Previdi, F.
Automatica, 2022, Vol. 142, Article num. 110419
ISSN: 00051098
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2022.110419
2021
Kernel-based identification of asymptotically stable continuous-time linear dynamical systems
M. Scandella, M. Mazzoleni, S. Formentin, F. Previdi

International Journal of Control
DOI: 10.1080/00207179.2020.1868580

2020
Black-box continuous-time transfer function estimation with stability guarantees: a kernel-based approach
M. Mazzoleni, M. Scandella, S. Formentin, F. Previdi

2nd Learning for Dynamic and Control (L4DC) conference, June 10-11th, 2020, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

Enhanced kernels for nonparametric identification of a class of nonlinear systems
M. Mazzoleni, M. Scandella, S. Formentin, F. Previdi

18th EUCA European Control Conference (ECC)
DOI: 
10.23919/ECC51009.2020.9143785
ISBN: 978-1-7281-8813-3

A note on the numerical solutions of kernel-based learning problems
M. Scandella, M. Mazzoleni, S. Formentin, F. Previdi

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020
Print ISSN: 0018-9286
Online ISSN: 1558-2523
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2020.2989769

2019
A robust design strategy for stock trading via feedback control
Maroni, G., S. Formentin; F. Previdi

2019 18th European Control Conference, ECC 2019, pp. 477-482
DOI: 10.23919/ECC.2019.8795812

Nonlinear system identification via data augmentation
S. Formentin, M. Mazzoleni, M. Scandella, F. Previdi

Systems & Control Letters, Vol. 128 (2019) pp. 56–63.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysconle.2019.04.004
ISSN: 0167-6911

2018
Classification of light charged particles via learning-based system identification
M. Mazzoleni, M. Scandella, S. Formentin, F. Previdi

57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Miami Beach (FL), USA, 2018.
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2018.8618946
ISBN: 978-1-5386-1395-5.

Identification of nonlinear dynamical system with synthetic data: a preliminary investigation
M. Mazzoleni, M. Scandella, S. Formentin, F. Previdi

Proceedings of the 18th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID), Stockholm (SE)
DOI:  10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.09.227 
ISSN: 2405-8963

Stock trading via feedback control an extremum seeking approach
Simone Formentin, Fabio Previdi, Gabriele Maroni and Claudio Cantaro

Proceedings of the 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Zadar (HR)
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2018.8442799
ISSN: 2473-3504

Semi-supervised learning of dynamical systems: a preliminary study
M. Mazzoleni, S. Formentin, M. Scandella, F. Previdi

Proceedings of the 17th IEEE European Control Conference (ECC), Lymassol (CY)
DOI: 10.23919/ECC.2018.8550550
ISBN: 978-3-9524-2698-2

2017
Control-oriented modeling of SKU-level demand in retail food market
Mazzoleni M., S. Formentin, F. Previdi, S. M. Savaresi

Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse (FRA), 2017, IFAC PapersOnLine 50-1, pp. 13003–13008.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1951
ISSN: 2405-8963

Fault detection in airliner electro-mechanical actuators via hybrid particle filtering
Mazzoleni M., G. Maroni, Y. Maccarana, S. Formentin, F. Previdi

Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse (FRA), 2017, IFAC PapersOnLine 50-1, pp. 2860-2865.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.640.
ISSN: 2405-8963

Anti-sway fixed-order control of bridge cranes with varying rope length
A.L. Cologni, M. Ermidoro, S. Formentin, F. Previdi

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics, 2017, Gippsland (AUS), pp. 56-61
DOI: 10.1109/ICMECH.2017.7921080
ISBN:978-1-5090-4537-2

2016
Fixed-order gain-scheduling control of overhead bridge cranes
M. Ermidoro, A.L. Cologni, S. Formentin, F. Previdi

Mechatronics, Vol 39, pp. 237-247
DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2016.06.007
ISSN:0957-4158

2014
On time-optimal anti-sway controller design for bridge cranes
Formentin S., M. Ermidoro, F. Previdi, S.M. Savaresi

Proceedings of the 2014 American Control Conference, Portland (USA), pp. 2809-2814,
ISBN: 978-1-4799-3271-9.

On batch process control using feature extraction with application to a gravimetric blender
Formentin S., A. Cologni, F. Previdi, S.M. Savaresi

Proceedings of the 2014 American Control Conference, Portland (USA), pp. 1138-1143,
ISBN: 978-1-4799-3271-9.

A data-driven approach to control of batch processes with an application to a gravimetric blender
Formentin S., A. Cologni, F. Previdi, S.M. Savaresi

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 61, n. 11, pp. 6383-6390,
DOI:10.1109/TIE.2014.2308158,
ISSN: 0278-0046.

Fault detection via modified Principal Direction Divisive Partitioning and application to aerospace electro-mechanical actuators
Mazzoleni M., S. Formentin, F. Previdi, S.M. Savaresi

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles (USA), pp. 5770-5775,
ISBN: 978-1-4673-6088-3.

2013
Polymer flow control in continuous gravimetric blenders
Cologni A.L., S. Formentin, F. Previdi, S.M. Savaresi

Proceedings of the ASME 2013 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference DSCC2013, Palo Alto (USA),Paper No. DSCC2013-3721, pp. V002T25A002-8 pages,
DOI:10.1115/DSCC2013-3721,
ISBN:978-0-7918-5613-0

2011
Fast tuning of cascade control systems
Formentin S., D. Belloli, A. Cologni, F. Previdi, S.M. Savaresi

Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress 2011, Milano (ITA), pp. 10243-10248,
DOI: 10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.02761,
ISBN: 978-3-902661-93-7.