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Ricardo Sanfelice is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona. He is also an Affiliate Member at the Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona. He received the Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2001. He joined the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002, where he received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 2004 and 2007, respectively. Before joining the University of Arizona in 2009, he held a postdoctoral position at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one year and visited the Centre Automatique et Systemes Mines ParisTech (Ecole des Mines de Paris) for four months. His research interests are in modeling, stability, robust control, and simulation of nonlinear, hybrid, and embedded systems with applications to power systems, aerospace, and biology.

WHAT'S NEW

25-December-11: Our book "Hybrid Dynamical Systems: Modeling, Stability, and Robustness" is now published. See here for more details.

10-December-11: A workshop on robust hybrid control systems was offered at the 50th CDC/ECC. Material for workshop participants is available here

17-October-11: Our article "Convergence of Nonlinear Observers on Euclidean Space with a Riemannian Metric (Part I)" will appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

14-July-11: Our articles "Passivity-based Controllers for a Class of Hybrid Systems with Applications to Mechanical Systems Interacting with their Environment" and "Control Lyapunov Functions and Stabilizability of Compact Sets for Hybrid Systems" will appear in the upcoming 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, FL, USA.

1-June-11: Five students from Palo Verde High Magnet School joined the HDC lab for a two week internship. More details here.

21-April-11: Our article "Interconnections of Hybrid Systems: Some Challenges and Recent Results" will appear in the Journal of Nonlinear Systems and Applications. Published version ONLINE (preprint here)

10-February-11: Our article "On the Performance of High-gain Observers with Gain Adaptation under Measurement Noise" will appear in Automatica. Published version ONLINE (preprint here).

28-January-11: Our article "Tracking Control for Hybrid Systems via Embedding of Known Reference Trajectories" will appear in the upcoming American Control Conference, San Francisco, California, USA.

18-January-11: Our article "Quaternion-Based Hybrid Control for Robust Global Attitude Tracking" will appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

16-Dec-10: Our article IEEE Control Systems article Hybrid Dynamics and Control received the IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award at the Conference on Decision and Control. The article is available online here.

30-October-10: The first Southwest Workshop on Theory and Applications of Cyber-Physical Systems will take place in Tucson, Arizona on March 10-11, 2011. See more details here.

25-July-10: Our article "Results on Input-to-Output and Input-Output-to-State Stability for Hybrid Systems and their Interconnections" will appear in the upcoming 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, USA.

11-July-10: Our article "Dynamical Properties of Hybrid Systems Simulators" available here, published on February 2010, is listed 2nd in the Top 25 Hottest Articles in Automatica in the January-March 2010 report here.

31-March-10: Our article "A Technical Result for the Study of High-gain Observers with Sign-indefinite Gain Adaptation" will appear in the upcoming 8th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems.

18-Jan-10: Our articles "Uniting Two Output-Feedback Hybrid Controllers" and "Robust Global Asymptotic Attitude Synchronization by Hybrid Control" will appear in the upcoming American Control Conference in Baltimore.

04-Jan-10: Our article "Dynamical Properties of Hybrid Systems Simulators" appears online in Automatica. Available online here.

29-Sep-09: A short interview at our lab by the University of Arizona Foundation. Video and magazine issue from UAF website.

23-Jun-09: Our article Asymptotic stability in hybrid systems via nested Matrosov functions appears in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Available online here.

27-Mar-09: Our article "Hybrid Dynamics and Control" appears in IEEE Control Systems Magazine as the feature article of the April 09 issue. Available online here.

7-Jul-08: Our paper on invariance principles for switching systems appeared in Systems and Controls Letters.

1-Jun-08: Workshop entitled "Robust hybrid control systems" given at the American Control Conference in Seattle on June 10, 2008.

4-Feb-08: Our paper on generalized solutions for hybrid systems appeared
in ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations.

10-Dec-07: Our paper on invariance principles and stability for hybrid systems appeared in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Issue #12, December 2007.

27-Nov-07: Invited speaker at the World Congress of Nonlinear Analysists 2008 to be held in Orlando, Florida on July 2nd-9th, 2008.

17-Aug-07: Recent video clips on robust steering of autonomous vehicles and global stabilization of the pendubot.

14-Dec-06: Workshop Robust hybrid systems: theory and applications at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, 2006.

09-Nov-06: Article "UCSB researchers put the car in the driver's seat" Pacific Coast Business Times by Bill Lascher (posted with permission from Bill Lascher, Pacific Coast Business Times''.

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