Osvaldo Maria Grasselli

Background

Osvaldo Maria Grasselli was born in Rome, Italy, in 1942. He began his professional and academic formation in the Roman school of automatic control associated with the Istituto di Automatica and Professor Antonio Ruberti. His early research addressed the analysis and design of linear time-invariant and bilinear control systems, work that established the principal themes of his later career.

Education

Grasselli graduated in electrical engineering from the University of Rome in 1968; the institution is now known as Sapienza University of Rome. His academic development combined engineering training with research in systems theory and automatic control. He later extended this work through academic appointments and research collaborations at the University of Ancona and the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Career

Grasselli began his research career after graduating in 1968 at the Istituto di Automatica of the University of Rome, working under Antonio Ruberti on control-system analysis and design. In 1971 he was appointed a researcher at the Ugo Bordoni Foundation, and in 1972 he moved to the National Research Council while continuing his research activity at the Istituto di Automatica. In 1973 he became a visiting scholar at the Control Systems Centre of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, following an invitation from H. H. Rosenbrock. Later in 1973 he joined the University of Ancona as a professore incaricato, where he initiated teaching in systems theory and subsequently became director of studies for the electrical-engineering degree. He was appointed full professor of systems theory at the University of Ancona in 1981. In 1984 he moved to the University of Rome Tor Vergata as full professor of control theory and served as director of studies for the electrical-engineering degree from 1985 to 1987. At Tor Vergata he taught dynamic systems, multivariable control systems, and robust control, while developing research on linear periodic systems, discrete-time control, robust regulation, tracking, and bilinear processes.

Achievements

• Developed influential research on the analysis and design of linear periodic systems, including methods for robust regulation, tracking, and control under structured uncertainties.

• Contributed to the development of Italian university teaching in systems theory and control engineering and educated generations of control engineers and doctoral students.

Works

• book chapter

  • Robust Linear Multivariable Regulators under Perturbations of Physical Parameters

    (Contribution co-authored with Sauro Longhi on robust line...)

• journal article

  • Robust output regulation and tracking for linear periodic systems under structured uncertainties

    (Journal article co-authored with Sauro Longhi, Antonio To...)

    1996

• University textbook

  • Sistemi di controllo a più ingressi e più uscite. Vol. 1: Strumenti preliminari

    (Co-authored with Sergio Galeani; the first volume introdu...)

    2014
  • Sistemi di controllo a più ingressi e più uscite. Vol. 3: Stabilizzazione ottima

    (Co-authored with Sergio Galeani; the third volume address...)

    2014
  • Sistemi di controllo a più ingressi e più uscite. Vol. 2: Analisi e sintesi

    (Co-authored with Sergio Galeani as part of a three-volume...)

    2014
  • Sistemi dinamici: introduzione all'analisi e primi strumenti di controllo

    (Co-authored with Laura Menini and Sergio Galeani. The tex...)

    2007

Connections

Grasselli's research was closely associated with long-term collaborations with Sauro Longhi and with scholarly and teaching collaborations involving Antonio Tornambè, Paolo Valigi, Laura Menini, and Sergio Galeani. His work also contributed to the education of generations of control engineers and doctoral students in Italy.

Collegue :

Sauro Longhi

Long-term research collaborator on linear periodic systems and control.

Collegue :

Antonio Tornambè

Research collaborator in control theory and systems.

Collegue :

Paolo Valigi

Co-author on research concerning robust output regulation and tracking.

Collegue :

Laura Menini

Co-author and teaching collaborator in systems and control engineering.

Collegue :

Sergio Galeani

Co-author and academic collaborator on multivariable control and dynamic systems.

References

• Special issue on periodic systems and robust control dedicated to Osvaldo Maria Grasselli Biographical and scholarly account of Grasselli's education, academic appointments, research career, and contributions to periodic systems and robust control.
  2013
• Sistemi dinamici: introduzione all'analisi e primi strumenti di controllo Publisher's author biography and bibliographic record for Grasselli's co-authored textbook.
  2007
• Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana, 1 August 2003 Official record identifying Osvaldo Maria Grasselli as full professor in the engineering faculty and a member of a university evaluation committee.
  2003