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Andrea Lecchini-Visintini

Lecturer in Engineering

Department of Engineering

University of Leicester


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Contact information

Previous positions  

Degrees

Research

Publications



Contact Information

Department of Engineering,
University of Leicester,
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 116 252 3546
   Fax:  +44 (0) 116 252 2619


Previous positions

Research Associate (from 1/07/2003 to 30/6/2006)
Control Group - Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge 

Post doc researcher (from 1/03/2001 to 30/6/2003)
Centre for System Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Université Catholique de Louvain 

Visiting Fellow (November 2002, August 2005)
 The Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering 
The Australian National University - Canberra


Degrees

PhD Degree in Information Engineering (Automatic Contol) - 1/2/2001
Università di Brescia, Italy

Laurea (5-year degree) in Information Engineering - 18/7/1997
Università di Pavia, Italy


Research

Main research themes: Monte Carlo methods and their application to the control of complex systems, System identification and Control
I am currently subject editor (System Identification, Stochastic Optimization, Monte Carlo Methods) for the Int. J. of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing.

Research projects
A. Lecchini Visintini (PI)
Optimization with Monte Carlo methods for the control of complex systems
EPSRC ‘First Grant’ (1/03/2010 - 31/05/2011)

J. Maciejowski (PI), A. Lecchini Visintini (co-PI)
 iFly: “Safety, Complexity and Responsibility based design and validation of highly automated Air Traffic Management”
EU 6th Framework Programme “Aeronautics and Space: innovative Air Traffic Management research” (22/05/2007 to 21/08/2011)

J. Maciejowski (PI), A. Lecchini Visintini (Co-Investigator),
Stochastic model predictive control: theory and application to air-traffic control
EPSRC (1/6/2005 - 30/05/2009)
Postdoc

Dr Zhe (Anna) Yang (since 1/12/2008)


Publications

Journal papers

13) A. Lecchini-Visintini, J. Lygeros and J.  Maciejowski 
Stochastic optimization on continuous domains with finite-time guarantees by Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, preliminary accepted.
See: arXiv:0906.1055
12) N. Kantas, A. Lecchini-Visintini, J. Maciejowski
Simulation Based Optimal Design of Aircraft Trajectories for Air Traffic Management
Int. Journal on Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, preliminary accepted.
Special Issue: Air Traffic Management: Challenges and opportunities for advanced Control.

11) A. Dehghani, A. Lecchini-Visintini, A. Lanzon, B.D.O. Anderson
Validating controllers for internal stability utilizing closed-loop datadownload pdf
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 54(11):2719-2725, 2009.

10) E. Crisostomi, A. Lecchini-Visintini and J. Maciejowski
Combining Monte Carlo and worst-case methods for trajectory prediction in air traffic control: A case study download pdf
Automatic Control in Aerospace, 2(1), 2009.

9) A. Lecchini, W. Glover,  J. Lygeros and J.  Maciejowski
Monte Carlo Optimisation for Conflict Resolution in Air Traffic Control download pdf 
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 7(4):470-482,  2006.
8) A. Lecchini, A. Lanzon and B.D.O. Anderson
A model reference approach to safe controller changes in iterative identification and controldownload pdf 
Automatica, 42(2):193-203, 2006. 7) R. Hildebrand, A. Lecchini, G. Solari and M. Gevers
Optimal prefiltering in Iterative Feedback Tuningdownload pdf 
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 50(8):1196- 1200, 2005. 6) R. Hildebrand, A. Lecchini, G. Solari and M. Gevers
Asymptotic accuracy of Iterative Feedback Tuningdownload pdf 
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 50(8):1182- 1185, 2005. 5) R. Hildebrand, A. Lecchini, G. Solari and M. Gevers
Prefiltering in Iterative Feedback Tuning: optimization of the prefilter for accuracydownload pdf 
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 49(10):1801-1805, 2004. 4) A. Lecchini and M. Gevers
Explicit expression of the parameter bias in identification of Laguerre models from step-responses download pdf
Systems & Control Letters,  52(2):149-165, 2004.

3) M.C. Campi, A. Lecchini and S.M. Savaresi
An application of the Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning method to a benchmark problem
European Journal of Control, 9(1):66-76, 2003.
Special Issue: Design and optimization of restricted complexity controllers

2) A. Lecchini, M.C. Campi and S.M. Savaresi
Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning for two degrees of freedom controllers download pdf
 Int. Journal on Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 16(5):355-371, 2002.
 Special Issue: New ideas in recursive estimation and stochastic adaptive control

1) M.C. Campi, A. Lecchini and S.M. Savaresi
Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning: a direct method for the design of feedback controllersdownload pdf 
Automatica, 38(8):1337-1346, 2002.


Selected conference and workshop papers

N. Kantas, J.M. Maciejowski and A. Lecchini-Visintini
Sequential Monte Carlo for Model Predictive Controldownload pdf
Int. Workshop on Assessment and Future Directions of NMPC, Pavia, Italy,  2008

A. Lecchini-Visintini, J. Lygeros and J.  Maciejowski
Simulated Annealing: Rigorous finite-time guarantees for optimization on continuous domainsdownload pdf
In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20,
(Proceedings of NIPS 2007), MIT Press.

A. Dehghani, B.D.O. Anderson, A. Lanzon, and A. Lecchini-Visintini
Verifying stabilizing controllers via closed-loop noisy data: MIMO case download pdf
46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, USA, Dec 2007

Andrea Lecchini, Michel Gevers, Jan Maciejowski
An Iterative Feedback Tuning procedure for Loop Transfer Recovery download pdf
14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, Newcastle, Australia,  2006.

A. Lanzon, A. Lecchini, A. Dehghani, B.D.O. Anderson
Checking if controllers are stabilizing using closed-loop data download pdf
45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, 2006.
 
A. Lecchini and M. Gevers
On Iterative Feedback Tuning for non-minimum phase plants download pdf
41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, USA 2002.

G. De Nicolao, G. Ferrari Trecate and A. Lecchini
MaxEnt priors for stochastic filtering problems ps file
13th Int. Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Network and Systems, Padova, 1998.
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