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This is the front matter of the Proceedings of the 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and
               Automation (MED '21), which have been published in IEEE Xplore® Digital Library:
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                29th Mediterranean Conference
                  on Control and Automation
                                  June 22nd – 25th, 2021

                           The Nicolaus Hotel, Bari, Italy

Sponsor                       Mediterranean Control Association

Technical co-sponsor          IEEE Control Systems Society
                              IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
                              IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
                              IEEE Women in Engineering Italy Section WIE Affinity Group

Supported by                 Polytechnic of Bari
                             Italian Society of Professors and Researchers in Automation
29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
Table of contents
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................ 2
Preface – Welcome to MED 2021 ....................................................................................................... 3
Organizing Committee ........................................................................................................................ 6
   General Chair .................................................................................................................................. 6
   General Co-Chair ............................................................................................................................ 6
   Program Chairs ............................................................................................................................... 6
   Local Arrangements Chair ............................................................................................................... 7
   Invited Session Chairs ..................................................................................................................... 7
   Tutorial/Workshop Chairs ................................................................................................................ 7
   Publication and Publicity Chairs ...................................................................................................... 8
   Registration and Finance Chairs ..................................................................................................... 8
International Program Committee ....................................................................................................... 9
Message from the President of the Mediterranean Control Association (MCA) ................................. 10
About Bari ......................................................................................................................................... 12
Plenary Talks .................................................................................................................................... 13
   FAST with Electric Vehicles........................................................................................................... 14
   Towards Deep Decarbonization and Autonomous Power Grids .................................................... 15
   Distributed optimal control in complex multi-robot and energy networks ........................................ 16
Program at a Glance......................................................................................................................... 17
   MED 2021 Technical Program Tuesday June 22nd, 2021 .............................................................. 18
   MED 2021 Technical Program Wednesday June 23rd, 2021 ......................................................... 18
   MED 2021 Technical Program Thursday June 24th, 2021.............................................................. 19
   MED 2021 Technical Program Friday June 25th, 2021 .................................................................. 19

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Preface – Welcome to MED 2021
                              On behalf of the Organizing Committee and International
                              Program Committee of the 29th Mediterranean Conference on
                              Control and Automation, MED 2021, we are pleased to welcome
                              all the participants to the conference. This edition stands out,
                              because it was first organized as a regular conference to be held
                              in a nice resort on the Adriatic sea, then, due to the COVID-19
                              pandemic’s restrictions we decided to have an hybrid
                              conference, both virtual and in presence and for this reason the
                              venue was relocated to the Hotel Nicolaus in Bari, Italy, where
                              the technical facilities for the online part were present, and,
                              finally, due to the continuing pandemic situation, and because of
                              the restrictions of the Italian government that forbids
                              conferences till July 2021, we had to resort to a fully on-line
                              virtual conference, like, unfortunately, many other conferences.
                              It is a great disappointment to have been forced to make this
                              decision. We would have been happy to be able to welcome our
                              community to the beautiful Southern Italy. A virtual event cannot
                              fully replace the informal human contacts, which are so rich and
                              constitute the essence of such a scientific gathering. The
                              editions taking place in Italy have been always a success for
                              many reasons and it is a pity that this year the MED attendees
                              will not be able to enjoy the culture, food and the sea in our
                              country.

                               The main topic of the conference is smart cities and smart
                               systems. MED2021 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE
                               Control Systems Society, IEEE Robotics and Automation
                               Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics, and IEEE Women
                               in Engineering Italy Section WIE Affinity Group. It is also
                               supported by the Polytechnic of Bari and the Italian Society of
                               Professors and Researchers in Automation (SIDRA). The
conference will start with a workshops and tutorial day on June 22nd, including six workshops
and one tutorial, followed by three days of invited and oral sessions. We are pleased to include
in the program three excellent plenary talks. Prof. Anna Stefanopoulou (University of
Michigan, USA), will give her talk titled “FAST with Electric Vehicles” on June 23 rd. On June
24th Prof. Anuradha Annaswamy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) will give her
talk titled “Towards Deep Decarbonization and Autonomous Power Grids”. Finally, the plenary
talk “Distributed optimal control in complex multi-robot and energy networks” will be given by
Prof. Giuseppe Notarstefano (University of Bologna, Italy). We hope that those talks will give
the participants the opportunity to share knowledge and experience of world-renowned
scientists and experts in exciting topics. Despite the pandemic situation, we hope that you will
find your participation in MED 2021 stimulating and rewarding. Unfortunately, you will not be

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able to discover Bari, and its surroundings; we hope it is only a postponement!

We would like to express our gratitude to the authors of the 295 papers submitted to
MED2021. We would like to thank all members of the International Program Committee (IPC)
for their excellent work in ensuring a high quality of the conference program. Among the
submitted papers, the IPC accepted 200 regular papers and 24 presentation only papers
for presentation at the conference after a careful review process where each regular paper
received, on average, three reviews. The contributions of invited speakers and regular and
presentation only accepted papers are included in this master of proceedings volume.
Accepted and presented regular and invited session papers will be published in the conference
proceedings and submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore.

The corresponding authors of the 224 accepted papers come from 48 countries. Some of the
accepted papers have been submitted as a part of 14 invited sessions. We deeply thank the
organizers of these sessions, who have put much effort in proposing interesting and emerging
research topics related to smart cities and smart systems. Organizers and sessions’ titles are:
   1. Alessandra Parisio and Luca Schenato who have organized the invited session on
       “Intelligent Building Energy Management for Next-Generation Energy Grids”;
   2. Raffaele Carli, Giulio Ferro, Sergio Grammatico, Alessandra Parisio, Michela Robba
       who have organized the invited session on “Control and Optimization of Transportation
       and Energy Systems”;
   3. Constantin-Florin Caruntu and Cosmin Copot who have organized the invited session
       on “Advanced Control Techniques Based on Industry 4.0 Smart Concepts”;
   4. Graziana Cavone, Giuseppe Piro, Luca Schenato, Cristian Mahulea who have
       organized the invited session on “Innovative Control and Communication Approaches
       for Smart City and Industry 4.0”;
   5. Maide Bucolo, Lucien Baldas, Gian Luca Morini who have organized the invited session
       on “Systems and Control in Microfluidics for Chemical and Biological Applications”;
   6. Matteo Barberis, Irene Zorzan who have organized the invited session on “Control
       Theory Approaches for Systems Biology”;
   7. Nicola Epicoco who has organized the invited session on “Data Mining and Control
       Tools Applications for Complex Systems”;
   8. Jing Bi, Haitao Yuan, and Meng Chu Zhou who have organized the invited session on
       “Intelligent and Energy-Efficient Edge Computing Systems”;
   9. Lorenzo Zino who has organized the invited session on “Systems and Control Insight
       into Modeling, Predicting, and Controlling COVID-19”;
   10. Graziana Cavone, Cecilia Pasquale, and Bart De Schutter who have organized the
       invited session on “Smart Transportation and Logistics Systems”;
   11. Giacomo Innocenti and Paolo Paoletti who have organized the invited session on
       “Beyond Theory: Challenges in Modern Sensing and Control Applications”;
   12. Umberto Berardi, Raffaele Carli, and Ooka Ryozo who have organized the invited
       session on “Smart Control Strategies of Energy Storage Systems”;
   13. Michel Reniers and Kai Cai who have organized the invited session on “Applications of
       Discrete-Event Systems in Smart Systems”;
   14. Loretta Ichim and Grigore Stamatescu who have organized the invited session on
       “Intelligent Data Processing from Sensors in Control and Decision Support Systems”.
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The conference will also include a round-table session open to all participants on the theme
“Women and STEM: Opt Out or Lean In?” that will be held on June 24th.

Special thanks go to members of the Organizing Committee that for the first time in the history
of MED was an only female Committee. We thank all for their work that made it possible to
organize this international scientific event.

We wish all participants to enjoy the 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and
Automation!

Bari, Italy June 2021
Mariagrazia Dotoli (General Chair)
Laura Giarré (General Co-Chair and Program Chair)
Elisa Franco (Program Chair)

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Organizing Committee
                               General Chair
                                         Mariagrazia Dotoli
                                         Polytechnic of Bari
                                         mariagrazia.dotoli@poliba.it

                            General Co-Chair
                                         Laura Giarré
                                         University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
                                         laura.giarre@unimore.it

                             Program Chairs

Laura Giarré                                     Elisa Franco
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia           University of California at Los Angeles
laura.giarre@unimore.it                          efranco@seas.ucla.edu

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Local Arrangements Chair
                                  Graziana Cavone
                                  Polytechnic of Bari
                                  graziana.cavone@poliba.it

                          Invited Session Chairs

Ying (Gina) Tang                         Mara Tanelli
Rowan University                         Polytechnic of Milano
tang@rowan.edu                           mara.tanelli@polimi.it

                         Tutorial/Workshop Chairs

Carla Seatzu                             Federica Pascucci
University of Cagliari                   University of Roma Tre
seatzu@diee.unica.it                     federica.pascucci@uniroma3.it
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Publication and Publicity Chairs

Laura Menini                         Alessandra Parisio
University of Rome Tor Vergata       University of Manchester
laura.menini@uniroma2.it             alessandra.parisio@manchester.ac.uk

                  Registration and Finance Chairs

Lucia Pallottino                     Simona Sacone
University of Pisa                   University of Genova
lucia.pallottino@unipi.it            Simona.Sacone@unige.it

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International Program Committee
AITOUCHE Abdel           HERAUD Nicolas                  SCHENATO Luca
France                   France                          Italy
ALBERTOS Pedro           IGNATYEV Dmitry                 SCHULTE Horst
Spain                    UK                              Germany
AZZOPARDI Marc Anthony   IMSLAND Lars                    SENAME Olivier
Malta                    Norway                          France
BELIKOV Juri             KOUMBOULIS Fotios               SHAN Jinjun
Estonia                  Greece                          Canada
BERENGUEL Manuel         KUGI Andreas                    STEFANOVIC Margareta
Spain                    Austria                         USA
BIAGIOTTI Luigi          KYRIAKOPOULOS Kostas J.         STOICAN Florin
Italy                    Greece                          Romania
BOGDAN Stjepan           LEMOS Joao M.                   STYLIOS Chrysostomos
Croatia                  Portugal                        Greece
BOKOR Jozsef             MAQUIN Didier                   TANG Xun
Hungary                  France                          USA
BOLZERN Paolo            MARZAT Julien                   THEILLIOL Didier
Italy                    France                          France
CARLI Raffaele           MESQUINE Fouad                  TELMOUDI Achraf J.
Italy                    Morocco                         Tunisia
CASAVOLA Alessandro      MOULIANITIS Vassilis            TONG Yin
Italy                    Greece                          China
CHADLI Mohammed          NIKOLAKOPOULOS George           TORRES Fernando
France                   Sweden                          Spain
CONTE Giuseppe           ORJUELA Rodolfo                 TORRES Lizeth
Italy                    France                          Mexico
DE IULIIS Vittorio       PALMOR Zalman J.                TZAFESTAS Costas
Italy                    Israel                          Greece
DELIPARASCHOS Kyriakos   PASCOAL Antonio Manuel          VARDULAKIS Antonis
Cyprus                   Portugal                        Greece
EPICOCO Nicola           PICÓ Jesús                      VUKIC Zoran
Italy                    Spain                           Croatia
EREN Tolga               PONSART Jean-Christophe         WANG Zhenhua
Turkey                   France                          China
FABRI Simon G.           PRANDINI Maria                  WEISS Martin
Malta                    Italy                           Israel
FERRANTE Augusto         QUEVEDO Joseba                  WEITZENFELD Alfredo
Italy                    Spain                           USA
FERREIRA Antoine         REPPA Vasso                     WITCZAK Marcin
France                   Greece                          Poland
FORTINO Giancarlo        ROSZKOWSKA Elzbieta             YU Xiang
Italy                    Poland                          China
GALEANI Sergio           ROTSTEIN Hector P.              ZATTONI Elena
Italy                    Israel                          Italy
GEORGES Jean-Philippe    SALA Antonio                    ZHANG Youmin
France                   Spain                           Canada
GONCALVES Jorge M.       SÁNCHEZ-SALMERÓN Antonio-José   ZORZAN Irene
Luxemburg                Spain                           UK
HASAN Agus               SCARABAGGIO Paolo
Denmark                  Italy

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Message from the President of the
          Mediterranean Control Association
                       (MCA)
                        On behalf of the Mediterranean Control Association (MCA), the parent
                        organization of the MED conferences, I would like to welcome you all
                        to the 2021 MED, the 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and
                        Automation, in Bari, Italy.

                       I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Mariagrazia Dotoli, Laura
                       Giarré and their team for their excellent work and dedication in
                       organizing MED’21, overcoming uncertainties and keeping things
                       under control. Yes, COVID-19 has been hard on everyone and it takes
                       twice the energy to organize a conference under the circumstances. I
was looking forward, as I am sure you were, to visiting Puglia in Italy, meeting new colleagues
and renewing friendships. Unfortunately, this was not to happen in 2021 since in the Summer
of 2021 the dangers of the pandemic, although diminished because of vaccinations, are still
present, and countries have imposed strict restrictions on travel.

The MED conferences have always been about bringing together researchers in the area of
Control Systems and Automation from the Mediterranean countries, who share much more
than technical interests, among other things, culture and history. In 2021 this is accomplished
remotely. Since the beginning, the MED conferences have been technically co-sponsored by
the IEEE Control Systems Society and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and they
have consistently kept high quality standards both in the technical program and the conference
organization. This is primarily due to the authors, who submit technically sound papers, and
also to the tremendous effort of all the volunteers involved in the technical evaluation of these
papers and in the organization of the conferences. I would like to take this opportunity to thank
them all for their time, effort and wonderful work. Thank you!

The Mediterranean Control Association (MCA) is the sponsoring, parent organization of all the
MED conferences. MCA selects the organizers and venues, and oversees all the conferences.
MCA was founded in 1998 and is registered in Cyprus as a non-profit organization (see the
MCA website at www.med-control.org ). The very first MED took place in 1993 in Chania,
Greece and over the next quarter century the MED went to in Cyprus, Malta, Italy, France,
Croatia, Turkey, Israel, Portugal, Morocco, Spain and several times in Greece (for a complete
list of the MED conferences, see www.med-control.org where you may also find Book of
Abstracts and conference reports of previous MED that have appeared in the IEEE Control
Systems Magazine).

As a reminder, the MED Conference Proceedings may be found on line at
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. The Proceedings of early MED Conferences may be downloaded
from www.med-control.org.

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Looking ahead, MED’22 goes to Athens, Greece (June 28 – July 1, 2022) and am looking
forward to seeing you all there!

Thank you for your participation and contributions to MED’21!

Be Well and Prosper!

Panos Antsaklis,
President Mediterranean Control Association
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About Bari
In recent years Puglia has gradually built a reputation as a bridge between West and East,
that mirrors an increasingly multi-cultural, open, tolerant and friendly community, connecting
people, individuals and businesses, from different countries and cultures.

The venue of the MED2021 Conference is Bari the capital city of Puglia. Bari is a modern
city that keeps strong ties with its own traditions. Bari has a maritime flavor and deserves a
glance for the panoramic seafront promenade.

Bari has two hearts: the old and the new
town. Bari Vecchia (the old town of Bari) is a
walled city built on a peninsula jutting into the
sea. While walking down the narrow
alleyways you will feel like being in
someone’s living room. The streets here are
places to socialise, and in the mornings
women sit at tables making orecchiette (little
ears), the typical Apulian pasta made by
rolling the dough into thin logs, cutting off a
                                                            Bari's seafront promenade
chunk and shaping it by hand at an
impressively rapid pace. Also the modern part and heart of the city, named Borgo Murattiano,
is a great place to spend time, with a major shopping district and gorgeous architectures
built in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

                                           The historical and cultural heritage in Bari is
                                           witnessed by many landmarks: St. Nicholas’
                                           Basilica, The Swabian Castle by Frederick II, The
                                           Margherita Theatre and the Petruzzelli Theatre
                                           (in the town of Bari) and the Castel del Monte
                                           octagonal castle by Frederick II, the Trulli stone
                                           huts in the Unesco World Heritage Site of
                                           Alberobello (in the province of Bari) and many
             St. Nicolas’ Basilica
                                           more.

Nature around Bari and its province is magnificent. The
city itself stretches on the sea with a magnificent
waterfront and is close to numerous beaches and
beautiful little towns like Polignano and Monopoli, in a
land where the sea meets long olive oil stretches and is
capable of forming grottoes like the famous Castellana
Caves.
                                                                     Castellana Caves

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Plenary Talks

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FAST with Electric Vehicles
 Speaker:      Anna Stefanopoulou
               Professor of Mechanical Engineering
               William Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing
               University of Michigan
               United States of America
 Plenary session WePL1 – Wednesday June 23rd, 14:30-15:30 CEST

                             Prof. Anna Stefanopoulou, is the William Clay Ford Professor of
                             Technology and the Director of the Energy Institute at the
                             University of Michigan. Stefanopoulou joined the Department of
                             Mechanical Engineering in 2000 after working at the University of
                             California, Santa Barbara and in the automotive industry, where
                             she developed algorithms and calibrations for highly efficient and
                             advanced powertrains. Stefanopoulou is currently working with a
                             multidisciplinary group to knit automotive and manufacturing
                             expertise with battery and grid experts with the goal to realize a
                             clean, fully integrated, electrified transportation. She is in the fellow
rank of three of the largest engineering societies (IEEE, SAE, ASME). Her innovation in
powertrain control technology has been recognized by multiple awards and has been
documented in a book, 21 US patents, 340 publications (8 of which have received awards) on
estimation and control of internal combustion engines and electrochemical processes such as
fuel cells and batteries. Stefanopoulou also has co-authored influential reports on the cost-
effectiveness of fuel-efficient technologies for light-duty vehicles, sponsored by the National
Academies, to help inform policymakers.

                                          Abstract:
The most promising pathway for reaching Flexible, Affordable, and Sustainable Transportation
(FAST) is through Electric Vehicles (EVs). By eliminating tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions as
well as conventional air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and particulate matter, EVs take
advantage of cleaner electric power generation while minimizing direct, street-level exposures
to unhealthy air. No other option has comparable emission reduction potential or as promising
a pathway to slow down the damage automobiles and other modes of transportation cause to
our planet. This plenary will highlight the critical estimation and optimization technologies
needed across the whole spectrum of scale from battery prognostics, to investment analysis,
and community-driven policies needed to accelerate the adoption of EVs.

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Towards Deep Decarbonization and
                Autonomous Power Grids
Speaker:       Anuradha Annaswamy
               Founder and Director of the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory in the
               Massachusetts Institute of Technology
               Department of Mechanical Engineering
               Massachusetts Institute of Technology
               United States of America
Plenary session ThPL1 – Thursday June 24th, 14:30-15:30 CEST

                          Prof. Anuradha Annaswamy is Founder and Director of the Active-
                          Adaptive Control Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical
                          Engineering at MIT. Her research interests span adaptive control
                          theory and its applications to aerospace, automotive, and
                          propulsion systems as well as cyber physical systems such as
                          Smart Grids, Smart Cities, and Smart Infrastructures. Her current
                          research team of 15 students and post-docs is supported at present
                          by the US Air-Force Research Laboratory, US Department of
                          Energy, Boeing, Ford-MIT Alliance, and NSF. She has received
                          best paper awards (Axelby; CSM), Distinguished Member and
Distinguished Lecturer awards from the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and a PYI award
from NSF. She is the author of a graduate textbook on adaptive control, co-editor of two vision
documents on smart grids as well as the two editions of the Impact of Control Technology
report, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee Study on modernizing
the US Electric System. She is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC. She is currently serving as the
President of CSS.

                                        Abstract:
Significant changes have occurred all over the world even over the past decade in the energy
landscape. Globally, there’s a big push towards a 100% incorporation of wind and solar power
for electricity production, with synergistic support from various technologies. For example, in
the US, natural gas prices have declined, costs of renewable energy technologies have come
down, and large-scale battery energy storage technologies have advanced rapidly. There are
however a host of challenges, most of which are due to the intermittency and unpredictability
of the renewable energy resources. This talk will focus on some of the solutions for the deep
integration of these renewable resources for electricity production that are control centric. A
distributed optimization approach that judiciously combines renewable generation with storage
and flexible loads has the possibility for ensuring power balances while preserving privacy and
ensuring security. A distributed control approach that enables a coordinated network of millions
of controllers, all integrated with solar and wind power generation nodes, storage sites, and
flexible consumption can lead to effective frequency regulation and voltage control in real‐time.
A wholistic and grid-wide integration of devices and systems including IoT devices, microgrids,
distribution systems, transmission systems, and markets can lead to a power grid that allows
deep decarbonization and ensures reliability and resilience. In this talk, some of these
challenges, highlights of the current research in distributed optimization and control, and
opportunities for future directions will be discussed. Examples of use cases that illustrate the
role of systems and control in renewable‐rich power grids will be presented.

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Distributed optimal control in complex
         multi-robot and energy networks
 Speaker:      Giuseppe Notarstefano
               Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering G. Marconi,
               Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna,
               Italy
 Plenary session FrPL1 – Friday June 25th, 14:30-15:30 CEST

                             Giuseppe Notarstefano is a Professor in the Department of
                             Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering G. Marconi at
                             Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. He was Associate
                             Professor (June ‘16 – June ‘18) and previously Assistant Professor,
                             Ricercatore, (from Feb ‘07) at the Università del Salento, Lecce,
                             Italy. He received the Laurea degree “summa cum laude” in
                             Electronics Engineering from the Università di Pisa in 2003 and the
                             Ph.D. degree in Automation and Operation Research from the
                             Università di Padova in 2007. He has been visiting scholar at the
                             University of Stuttgart, University of California Santa Barbara and
                             University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests include
distributed optimization, cooperative control in complex networks, applied nonlinear optimal
control, and trajectory optimization and maneuvering of aerial and car vehicles. He serves as
an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control
Systems Technology and IEEE Control Systems Letters. He has been part of the Conference
Editorial Board of IEEE Control Systems Society and EUCA. He is recipient of an ERC Starting
Grant 2014.

                                         Abstract:
Optimal control theory aims at designing action policies that drive a dynamical system while
optimizing a performance index. When dealing with large-scale, complex dynamical systems
this task becomes even more challenging and calls for methodological approaches that scale
with the number of subsystems. Moreover, the interconnected components of modern complex
systems are often spatially-distributed and equipped with embedded computing units. This
gives rise to novel computing architectures in which the optimal control problem can be solved
in a distributed way to gain in both scalability and privacy. Cooperative robotics and smart
energy systems are two domains offering a rich variety of challenging optimal control set-ups
that can benefit from scalable, distributed solvers. In this talk I will introduce some interesting
classes of optimal control problems arising from controls and robotics as, in particular, in multi-
robot and energy networks. I will identify the main challenges that need to be addressed in
solving these problems in a distributed context, and present novel distributed methods and
numerical tools with their application to the presented domains.

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Program at a Glance

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MED 2021 Technical Program Tuesday June 22nd, 2021
                                                  MED 2021 Technical Program Tuesday June 22, 2021
W1                                      W2                                 W3                                        TW4

09:00-13:20                                                                   09:00-13:20
ROOM Torre Guaceto                      11:00-13:20                           ROOM Gallipoli
Tutorial and Workshop Session           ROOM Ostuni                           Tutorial and Workshop Session
TuA01                                   Tutorial and Workshop Session         TuA03
                                        TuB02
Modelling, Control and                                                        Toward Industry 5.0: Sustainable
Optimization of Flexible Devices        A User’s Guide to Girls in Control    and Regenerative Economy with          13:00-17:20
for a Sustainable and Efficient         – Tutorial for Colleagues,            Focus on Smart Small Towns             ROOM Polignano
Future Power Grid                       Instructors and Teachers on How                                              Tutorial and Workshop Session
                                        to Prepare, Organize and Run a                                               TuC04
                                        GIC Workshop
                                                                                                                     Control, Robotics, Sensing and
                                                                                                                     Artificial Intelligence for Precision
                                                                                                                     Agriculture
14:00-18:20                             14:00-18:20                           14:00-18:20
ROOM Torre Guaceto                      ROOM Ostuni                           ROOM Gallipoli
Tutorial and Workshop Session           Tutorial and Workshop Session         Tutorial and Workshop Session
TuD01                                   TuD02                                 TuD03

Management and Socio-Economic           Research and Innovation               Modeling and Control Tools for
Impacts of Sustainable Mobility in      Development in the Gender             Sustainable and Connected
Smart Cities                            Equality Perspective                  Mobility in Smart Cities

MED 2021 Technical Program Wednesday June 23rd, 2021
                                                 MED 2021 Technical Program Wednesday June 23, 2021
Track 1                       Track 2                       Track 3                    Track 4                                Track 5

                                                                       08:45-09:00
                                                                    ROOM Polignano
                                                                  Social Program WeOO

                                                                     Opening Session

09:00-11:00                   09:00-11:00                      09:00-11:00                   09:00-11:00                      09:00-11:00
ROOM Vieste                   ROOM Otranto                     ROOM Torre Guaceto            ROOM Ostuni                      ROOM Ginosa
Invited Session WeA01         Invited Session WeA02            Invited Session WeA03         Regular Session WeA04            Invited Session WeA05

Intelligent Building Energy   Advanced Control                 Systems and Control in        Automotive and Aerial            Data Mining and Control
Management for Next-          Techniques Based on              Microfluidics for Chemical    Vehicles Control I               Tools Applications for
Generation Energy Grids       Industry 4.0 Smart               and Biological Applications                                    Complex Systems
                              Concepts I                       I

11:15-13:15                   11:15-13:15                      11:15-13:15                   11:15-13:15                      11:15-13:15
ROOM Vieste                   ROOM Otranto                     ROOM Torre Guaceto            ROOM Ostuni                      ROOM Ginosa
Invited Session WeB01         Invited Session WeB02            Invited Session WeB03         Regular Session WeB04            Regular Session WeB05

Control and Optimization      Innovative Control and           Systems and Control in        Automotive and Aerial            Artificial Intelligence
of Transportation and         Communication                    Microfluidics for Chemical    Vehicles Control II
Energy Systems                Approaches for Smart City        and Biological Applications
                              and Industry 4.0                 II

                                                                       14:30-15:30
                                                                    ROOM Polignano
                                                                 Plenary Session WePL1

                                                               FAST with Electric Vehicles

15:45-17:45                   15:45-17:45                      15:45-17:45                   15:45-17:45
ROOM Vieste                   ROOM Otranto                     ROOM Torre Guaceto            ROOM Ostuni
Regular Session WeC01         Invited Session WeC02            Invited Session WeC03         Regular Session WeC04

Smart Energy Systems          Advanced Control                 Control Theory                Complex and Mechatronic
                              Techniques Based on              Approaches for Systems        Systems
                              Industry 4.0 Smart               Biology
                              Concepts II

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MED 2021 Technical Program Thursday June 24th, 2021
                                               MED 2021 Technical Program Thursday June 24, 2021
Track 1                              Track 2                             Track 3                                  Track 4

09:00-11:00                          09:00-11:00                            09:00-11:00                           09:00-11:00
ROOM Gallipoli                       ROOM Vieste                            ROOM Otranto                          ROOM Ostuni
Invited Session ThA01                Regular Session ThA02                  Regular Session ThA03                 Regular Session ThA04

Intelligent and Energy-Efficient     Smart Transportation Systems           Robotics I                            Robust Control
Edge Computing Systems

11:15-13:15                          11:15-13:15                            11:15-13:15                           11:15-13:15
ROOM Gallipoli                       ROOM Vieste                            ROOM Otranto                          ROOM Ostuni
Invited Session ThB01                Invited Session ThB02                  Regular Session ThB03                 Regular Session ThB04

Wearables and Assistive              Smart Transportation and Logistics     Robotics II                           Systems Identification and Control
Technologies                         Systems

                                                                    14:30-15:30
                                                                  ROOM Polignano
                                                               Plenary Session ThPL1

                                        Towards Deep Decarbonization and Autonomous Power Grids

15:45-17:45                          15:45-17:45                   15:45-17:45            15:45-17:45
ROOM Gallipoli                       ROOM Vieste                   ROOM Otranto           ROOM Ostuni
Invited Session ThC01                Regular Session ThC02         Regular Session        Regular Session ThC04
                                                                   ThC03
Systems and Control Insight into     Optimisation and Linear                              Smart Networked Systems
Modeling, Predicting, and            Systems                       Predictive Control
Controlling COVID-19

                                                                    18:00-19:30
                                                                     Room T2
                                                             Round-Table Session ThTT1

                                                    Women and STEM: Opt Out or Lean In?

MED 2021 Technical Program Friday June 25th, 2021
                                                MED 2021 Technical Program Friday June 25, 2021
Track 1                              Track 2                             Track 3                                  Track 4

09:00-11:00                          09:00-11:00                            09:00-11:00                           09:00-11:00
ROOM Gallipoli                       ROOM Vieste                            ROOM Otranto                          ROOM Ostuni
Invited Session FrA01                Invited Session FrA02                  Regular Session FrA03                 Invited Session FrA04

Beyond Theory: Challenges in         Smart Control Strategies of Energy     Nonlinear Systems and Nonlinear       Applications of Discrete-Event
Modern Sensing and Control           Storage Systems                        Control I                             Systems in Smart Systems
Applications I

11:15-13:15                          11:15-13:15                            11:15-13:15                           11:15-13:15
ROOM Gallipoli                       ROOM Vieste                            ROOM Otranto                          ROOM Ostuni
Regular Session FrB01                Regular Session FrB02                  Regular Session FrB03                 Invited Session FrB04

Fault Diagnosis                      Multi Agent Systems I                  Nonlinear Systems and Nonlinear       Intelligent Data Processing from
                                                                            Control II                            Sensors in Control and Decision
                                                                                                                  Support Systems

                                                                    14:30-15:30
                                                                  ROOM Polignano
                                                               Plenary Session FrPL1

                                   Distributed Optimal Control in Complex Multi-Robot and Energy Networks

                                                                          19
15:45-17:45                    15:45-17:45                         15:45-17:45                       15:45-17:45
ROOM Gallipoli                 ROOM Vieste                         ROOM Otranto                      ROOM Ostuni
Invited Session FrC01          Regular Session FrC02               Regular Session FrC03             Regular Session FrC04

Beyond Theory: Challenges in   Multi Agent Systems II              Nonlinear Systems and Nonlinear   Switching and Discrete Event
Modern Sensing and Control                                         Control III                       Systems
Applications II

                                                            18:00-19:00
                                                              Room T1
                                                        Social Program FrOO

                                                          Closing Session

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