I am currently a Reader in Control Engineering and Cyber-Physical systems at London Metropolitan University. Before joining London Metropolitan, I was working in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Federal University of São João del-Rei - UFSJ, Brazil (2016-2023). I held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Campinas, and the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department at, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. I was awarded my Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC) at UNICAMP in 2014.

My main research interests include constrained control, LPV systems, and cyber-physical systems. The main focus of my research is the development of conditions for analysis and robust control design for systems under constraints. Nowadays, I am particularly interested in the study of cyber-physical systems (CPS) in the presence of attacks in communication channels. It is important to highlight that CPS encloses several areas of interest, such as human-in-the-loop, real-time control, the Internet of Things, and machine-to-machine communication, among others.

Recent News

• April 2024 - 22/04: I was a member of the Ph.D. committee as an external evaluator of the Thesis: EXPLOITING THE CHAOTIC DYNAMICS: NOVEL APPROACHES FOR CRYPTOSYSTEMS, DIGITAL SYSTEMS, AND LYAPUNOV EXPONENT ESTIMATION. Ph.D. candidate: Lucas Giovani Nardo, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

• April 2024 - From 10-12 April, I attended the 14th International Conference on Control organised by the United Kingdom Automatic Control Council and by the University of Southampton. I was the chair of the Linear Control session where we presented two papers.

• March 2024 - One paper accepted on ACNDC 2024 - 7th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos.

  1) State-Feedback Control Design for Discrete-Time Systems via Second-Order Runge-Kutta Discretization.

• February 2024 - Paper accepted in the Journal of the Franklin Institute! “H-infinity gain-scheduled dynamic output feedback control with transient performance applied to electrical microgrid.”

• January 2024 - Congratulations to Roberto for his approval in the M.Sc defense. Methodology for controller synthesis based on robust control for classic energy converter system: Validation for DC boost converter and 3-ph grid-supporting. I am glad to have co-supervised Roberto with Prof. Jonathan Palma from the University of Talca.

• January 2024 - One paper accepted on ISCAS 2024 - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

  1) LQR and Genetic Algorithms: an Effective Duo for Assessing Control Expenditure and Performance in Dynamic Systems.

• January 2024 - Two papers accepted in the 14th United Kingdom Automatic Control Council (UKACC) International Conference on Control

  1) Event-based control for discrete-time linear parameter-varying systems: an emulation-based design.

  2) State-feedback control for discrete-time uncertain positive linear systems under denial of service attacks.

• December 2023 - Congratulations to Felipe Augusto Silva for finishing his degree in Electrical Engineering. Felipe will start his M.Sc. course at UFSJ under my supervision!

• December 2023 - Participating as an internal evaluator of the M.Sc. defense of the student Marcelo Ferreira Goudinho, entitled: “Controller and event transmission mechanism design in Networked Control Systems”. Postgraduate Program in Electrical Engineering, UFSJ-CEFET-MG.

• November 2023 - Josefredo Gadelha da Silva, a Ph.D. student whom I co-supervise, from Maynooth University, Centre for Ocean Energy Research (COER) will be visiting UFSJ on the week of November 27. He will give a lecture on the topic: A Brief Introduction to Hybrid Wind/Wave Energy Floating Offshore Platforms, 27th November 2023, 16h30, Office 3.16 EL, DEPEL Building.

• November 2023 - Our paper Distributed Event-Triggered Fuzzy Control for Nonlinear Interconnected Systems was accepted for publication in the Journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. Congratulations to the Ph.D. student Paulo Pessim. I am very proud to co-supervise Paulo.

• November 2023 - Our paper Finite-Time State Feedback Control for Discrete-Time Cyber-Physical Systems under DoS Attacks was accepted for publication in IEEE Chilecon 2023, the Chilean Conference on Electrical Electronic Engineering, Informatics and Communications Technology. Congratulations to Felipe Augusto Silva, an undergraduate student from UFSJ who worked on this exciting topic.