Augusto Ferrante

  1. •Lucia Falconi, Augusto Ferrante, and Mattia Zorzi, Distributionally robust LQG control under distributed uncertainty. Automatica. Vol. 174, paper n. 112128, 2025.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109825000196

  2. •L. Falconi, and A. Ferrante. Robustness of Strictly Positive Real Matrix Transfer Functions Under Small Perturbations. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol.70(2):1344-1349, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2024.3463510, 2025.                                    https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:272738103

  3. •L. Falconi, A. Ferrante, and M. Zorzi. A Robust Approach to ARMA Factor Modeling. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. 69(2):828–841, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2023.3274710, 2024.  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10122141

  4. •D. Alpago, M. Zorzi and A. Ferrante. Data-Driven Link Prediction Over Graphical Models. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. 68(4):2215–2228, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2021.3137157, 2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9658205

  5. •G. Picci, L. Falconi, A. Ferrante, and M. Zorzi. Hidden Factor Estimation in Dynamic Generalized Factor Analysis Models. Automatica. Vol. 149:110834,  DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2022.110834, 2023.                                                           https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109822007002.

  6. •D. Alpago, M. Zorzi and A. Ferrante. A Scalable Strategy for the Identification of Latent- Variable Graphical Models. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC-67(7):3349–3362, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2021.3097558, 2022.                               https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9488188.

  7. •B. Zhu, A. Ferrante, J. Karlsson, and M. Zorzi. M2 Spectral Estimation: A Flexible Approach Ensuring Rational Solutions. SIAM J. Contr. and Opt.. Vol. 59(4):2977–2996, 20021. https://doi.org/10.1137/20M1335315

  8. •B. Zhu, A. Ferrante, J. Karlsson, and M. Zorzi. M2-spectral estimation: A relative entropy approach. Automatica. Vol. 125:109404, DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2020.109404, 2021.                                                                                      https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109820306063.

  9. •F. Padula, A. Ferrante, and L. Ntogramatzidis. Eigenstructure assignment in linear geometric control. Automatica. Vol. 124:109363, DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2020.109363, 2021.                                                                                      http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109820305653.

  10. •V. Ciccone, A. Ferrante. Space and spectral domain relative entropy for homogeneous random fields. Automatica. Vol. 122:109226, DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2020.109226, 2020.                                                                    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109820304246.

  11. •V. Ciccone, A. Ferrante and M. Zorzi. Learning Latent Variable Dynamic Graphical Models by Confidence Sets Selection. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. 65(12):5130–5143, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2020.2970409, 2020.                     https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8976281.

  12. •A. Ferrante, A. Lanzon and L. Ntogramatzidis. Foundations of Not Necessarily Rational Negative Imaginary Systems Theory: Relations Between Classes of Negative Imaginary and Positive Real Systems. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC-61(10):3052-3057, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2015.2497461, 2016.[online: www].

  13. •A. Ferrante and L. Ntogramatzidis. Continuous-time singular linear-quadratic control: Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of regular solutions. Systems & Control Letters. Vol. 93:30-34. DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2016.02.018, 2016.[online: www].

  14. •L. Ntogramatzidis, J.-F. Tregouet, R. Schmid and A. Ferrante. Globally Monotonic Tracking Control of Multivariable Systems. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC-61(9):2559-2564, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2015.2495582, 2016.[online: www].

  15. •G. Baggio, and A. Ferrante. On Minimal Spectral Factors with Zeroes and Poles lying on Prescribed Regions. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC-61(8):2251-2255, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2015.2484330, 2016.[online: www].

  16. •G. Baggio, and A. Ferrante. On the Factorization of Rational Discrete-Time Spectral Densities. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC-61(4):969–981, DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2015.2446851, 2016. [online: www].

  17. •A. Ferrante, and L. Ntogramatzidis. A Note on Finite-Horizon LQ Problems with Indefinite Cost. Automatica. Vol. 52(2):290–293. DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2014.12.008, 2015. [online: www].

  18. •A. Ferrante, N. Laurenti, C. Masiero, M. Pavon, and S. Tomasin. On the Error Region for Channel Estimation-Based Physical Layer Authentication Over Rayleigh Fading. IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security. Vol. 10(5):941–952. DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2015.2392565, 2015. [online: www].

  19. •L. Ntogramatzidis, and A. Ferrante. The discrete-time generalized algebraic Riccati equation: Order reduction and solutions’ structure. Systems & Control Letters. Vol. 75:84–93. DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2014.11.001, 2015. [online: www].

  20. •A. Ferrante, and L. Ntogramatzidis. A reduction technique for discrete generalized algebraic and difference Riccati equations. Linear and Multilinear Algebra. Vol. 62(11):1460–1474. DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2014.02.014, 2014. [online: www].

  21. •A. Ferrante, and L. Ntogramatzidis. The generalized continuous algebraic Riccati equation and impulse-free continuous-time LQ optimal control. Automatica. Vol. 50(4):1176–1180. DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2014.02.014, 2014. [online: www]. [preprint: pdf].

  22. •M. Zorzi, F. Ticozzi, and A. Ferrante. Minimal Resources Identifiability and Estima- tion of Quantum Channels. Quantum Information Processing. Vol. 13:683–707, DOI: 10.1007/s11128-013-0682-x, 2014. [online: www]. [preprint: pdf].

  23. •M. Zorzi, F. Ticozzi, and A. Ferrante. Minimum Relative Entropy for Quantum Estimation: Feasibility and General Solution. IEEE Trans. Information Theory. Vol. 60(1):357–367, DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2013.2286087, 2014. [online: www]. [preprint: pdf].

  24. •A. Ferrante, and L. Ntogramatzidis. Some new results in the theory of negative imaginary systems with symmetric transfer matrix function. Automatica. Vol. 49(7):2138–2144. DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2013.03.008, 2013. [online: www].

  25. •A. Ferrante, and H. K. Wimmer. Pairs of k-step reachability and m-step observability matrices. Special Matrices. Vol. 1:25–27. DOI: 10.2478/spma-2013-0005, 2013. [online: www].

  26. •M. Pavon, and A. Ferrante. On the Geometry of Maximum Entropy Problems. SIAM Review. Vol. 55(3):415–439, DOI: 10.1137/120862843, 2013. [online: www]. [preprint: pdf].

  27. •F. Carli, A. Ferrante, M. Pavon, and G. Picci, An Efficient Algorithm for Maximum-Entropy Extension of Block-Circulant Covariance Matrices, Linear Algebra and its Applications. Vol. 439(8):2309-2329, DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2013.06.014, 2013. [online: www]. [preprint: pdf].

  28. •A. Ferrante, and H. K. Wimmer. Roth’s Similarity Theorem and Rank Minimization in the Presence of Nonderogatory or Semisimple Eigenvalues. Linear and Multilinear Algebra. Vol. 61(2):217–231, DOI: 10.1080/03081087.2012.672570, 2013. [online: www].

  29. •A. Ferrante, C. Masiero, and M. Pavon. Time and Spectral Domain Relative Entropy: A New Approach to Multivariate Spectral Estimation. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC-57(10):2561–2575, 2012. [online: www]. [preprint: pdf].

  30. •M. Zorzi, and A. Ferrante. On the estimation of structured covariance matrices. Automatica. Vol. 48:2145–2151, 2012. [online: www].

  31. •A. Ferrante, M. Pavon, and M. Zorzi. A Maximum Entropy Enhancement for a Family of High-Resolution Spectral Estimators. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC-57(2):318–329, 2012. [online: www].

  32. •A. Ferrante, L. Ntogramatzidis. Comments on “Structural Invariant Subspaces of Singular Hamiltonian Systems and Nonrecursive Solutions of Finite-Horizon Optimal Control Problems”. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. 57(1):270-272, 2012. [online: www].

  33. •F. Carli, A. Ferrante, M. Pavon, and G. Picci. A Maximum Entropy Solution of the Covariance Extension Problem for Reciprocal Processes. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC-56(9):1999–2012, 2011. [online: www]. [preprint: pdf].

  34. •A. Ferrante and M. Pavon. Matrix Completion à la Dempster by the Principle of Parsimony. IEEE Trans. Information Theory. Vol. 57(6):3925–3931, 2011. [online: www]. [preprint: pdf].

  35. •A. Ferrante, and F. Ramponi, and F. Ticozzi, On the convergence of an efficient algorithm for Kullback-Leibler approximation of spectral densities, IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC-56(3):506–515, 2011. [online: www].

  36. •L. Ntogramatzidis, and A. Ferrante, Exact tuning of PID controllers in control feedback design, IET Control Theory & Applications. Vol. 5(4):565–578, 2011. [online: www].

  37. •F. Ramponi, A. Ferrante, and M. Pavon. On the well-posedness of multivariate spectrum approximation and convergence of high-resolution spectral estimators. Systems & Control Letters. Vol. 59(3-4):167–172, 2010. [online: www]. [preprint: pdf].

  38. •A. Ferrante, and H. K. Wimmer. Reachability matrices and cyclic matrices. Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra. Vol. 20:95–102, 2010. [online: www].

  39. •L. Ntogramatzidis, and A. Ferrante. On the solution of the Riccati differential equation arising from the LQ optimal control problem. Systems & Control Letters. Vol. 59(2):114–121, 2010. [online: www].

  40. •F. Ramponi, A. Ferrante, and M. Pavon. A Globally Convergent Matricial Algorithm for Multivariate Spectral Estimation. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC- 54(10):2376–2388, 2009. [online: www]. [preprint: pdf].

  41. •A. Ferrante, M. Pavon, and F. Ramponi. Hellinger vs. Kullback-Leibler Multivariable Spectrum Approximation. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC-53(4):954–967, 2008. [online: www]. [preprint: pdf].

  42. •A. Ferrante, and L. Ntogramatzidis. A Unified Approach to the Finite-Horizon Linear Quadratic Optimal Control Problem. European J. of Control. Vol. 13(5):473–488, 2007.

  43. •A. Ferrante, and L. Ntogramatzidis. A Unified Approach to Finite-Horizon Generalized LQ Optimal Control Problems for Discrete-Time Systems. Linear Algebra and its Applications (Special Issue in honor of Paul Fuhrmann). Vol. 425:242–260, 2007. [online: www].

  44. •G. Bilardi, and A. Ferrante. The Role of Terminal Cost/Reward in Finite-Horizon Discrete-Time LQ Optimal Control. Linear Algebra and its Applications (Special Issue in honor of Paul Fuhrmann). Vol. 425:323–344, 2007. [online: www].

  45. •A. Ferrante, and H. K. Wimmer. Order Reduction of Discrete-Time Algebraic Riccati Equations with Singular Closed Loop Matrix. Operators and Matrices. Vol. 1(1):61– 70, 2007. [online: www].

  46. •F. Ticozzi, and A. Ferrante. Dynamical Decoupling in Quantum Control: A System Theoretic Approach. Systems & Control Letters. Vol. 55(7):578–584, 2006. [online: www].

  47. •M. Pavon, and A. Ferrante. On the Georgiou–Lindquist Approach to Constrained Kullback–Leibler Approximation of Spectral Densities. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC-51(4):639–644, 2006. [online: www]. [preprint: pdf].

  48. •P. Colaneri and A. Ferrante. Algebraic Riccati Equation and J-Spectral Factorization for H∞ Filtering and Deconvolution. SIAM J. Contr. and Opt.. Vol. 45(1):123–145, 2006. [online: www].

  49. •A. Ferrante, G. Marro, and L. Ntogramatzidis. A Parametrization of the Solutions of the Finite-Horizon LQ Problem with General Cost and Boundary Conditions. Automatica. Vol. 41:1359–1366, 2005. [online: www].

  50. •A. Ferrante. Positive Real Lemma: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Existence of Solutions under Virtually no Assumptions. IEEE Trans. Automatic Control. Vol. AC-50(5):720–724, 2005. [online: www].

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