Marcio J. Lacerda

Marcio J. Lacerda

Reader in Control Engineering and Cyber-Physical Systems, PhD in Electrical Engineering. Main interests: Robust control, LPV systems, hybrid systems, and cyber-physical systems under attacks.

People

Postdoctoral Supervision

  1. Priscila Fernanda da Silva Guedes

    • Start date: 10/2023
    • Control and filter design for systems under cyber attacks, including denial of service attacks and replay attacks.
    • Institution: Federal University of São João del-Rei

Current Ph.D. students

  1. Paulo Sérgio Pereira Pessim
    • Start date: 07/2021
    • Topic: Distributed event-based control for large-scale linear systems with time-varying parameters subject to cyberattacks.
    • Institution: Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
    • Co-supervisor with Prof. Reinaldo M. Palhares and Pedro Coutinho.
  2. Josefredo Gadelha da Silva
    • Start date: 03/2023
    • Topic: Control strategy for simultaneous stabilization and wave energy harvesting for a floating offshore wind/wave platform.
    • Institution: Maynooth University, Ireland.
    • Co-supervisor with Prof. Erivelton G. Nepomuceno
  3. Roberto M. Fuentes
    • Start date: 07/2023
    • Topic: Control and filter design for cyber-physical systems under attacks.
    • Institution: Universidad de Talca, Chile
    • Co-supervisor with Prof. Jonathan M. Palma

Current M.Sc. students

  1. Felipe A. Silva
    • Start date: 03/2024
    • Topic: Safety in cyber-physical systems.
    • Institution: Federal University of Sao Joao del-Rei, Brazil.

Master’s students - Alumni

Roberto Fuentes Albornoz (2024) - Methodology for controller synthesis based on robust control for classic energy converter system: validation for dc boost converter and 3-ph grid-supporting. Co-supervisor with Prof. Jonathan Palma.

José Fabiano Vellozo D’alterio Moreira (2023) - Event-based control for discrete-time linear systems: design by emulation.

Pedro Moreira de Oliveira (2023) - State-feedback control and Filter Design for Cyber-Physical uncertain Systems under DoS attacks and unreliable Markovian network

Paulo Sérgio Pereira Pessim (2021) - Control design for cyber-physical LPV systems under DoS attacks: a packet-based approach.

Pedro Augusto da Silva Braga (2021) - System Identification with PWARX model based on dynamic prediction error. Co-supervisor with Prof. Samir M. A. Martins.

Gabriel Oliveira Ferreira (2020) - State-feedback control for linear and state polynomial continuous-time LPV systems under constraints. Co-supervisor with Prof. Valter Leite.

Larissa Soares Figueiredo (2020) - Control of discrete-time LPV systems under saturated actuators. Co-supervisor with Prof. Valter Leite.

Natalia Augusto Keles (2019) - Robust analysis and observer based control for uncertain periodic discrete-time systems.

Thales da Silveira Gomide (2019) - Stability analysis and control of discrete-time switched systems by means of structured Lyapunov functions.

Denise Fonseca Resende (2018) - Sensitivity analysis of the integration step in compartmental and individual based models. Co-supervisor with Prof. Erivelton Nepomuceno