Academic Staff

Computer Vision, Nonlinear Systems, Optimization, Robotics, Robust Control, and Systems Biology.

Graziano Chesi received the Laurea in Information Engineering from the University of Florence (1997) and the Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Bologna (2001). He was with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Siena (2000-2006) and then joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (2006-present). He was a visiting scientist at the Department of Engineering of the University of Cambridge (1999-2000) and at the Department of Information Physics and Computing of the University of Tokyo (2001-2004). Dr. Chesi was the recipient of the Best Student Award of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Florence (1997). He was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2005-2009) and Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Positive Polynomials in Control of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2009). Since 2007 he is Associate Editor of Automatica. He is the Founder and Chair of the Technical Committee on Systems with Uncertainty of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is author of the book "Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Robustness Analysis of Uncertain Systems" (Springer, 2009) and editor of the book "Visual Servoing via Advanced Numerical Methods" (Springer, 2010). He is first author in more than 100 technical publications.

BOOKS:

• G. Chesi and K. Hashimoto (Eds), "Visual Servoing via Advanced Numerical Methods," Springer, 2010.
  
  
• G. Chesi, A. Garulli, A. Tesi, A. Vicino, “Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Robustness Analysis of Uncertain Systems," Springer, 2009.
  

 

SELECTED JOURNAL PAPERS:

• G. Chesi, "Visual servoing path-planning via homogeneous forms and LMI optimizations," IEEE Trans. on Robotics, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 281-291, 2009.
  
  
• G. Chesi, "Estimating the domain of attraction for non-polynomial systems via LMI optimizations," Automatica, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 1536-1541, 2009.
  
  
• G. Chesi and Y. S. Hung, "Stability analysis of uncertain genetic SUM regulatory networks," Automatica, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 2298-2305, 2008.
  
  
• G. Chesi and Y. S. Hung, "Global path-planning for constrained and optimal visual servoing," IEEE Trans. on Robotics, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 1050-1060, 2007.
  
  
• G. Chesi and Y. S. Hung, "Image noise induced errors in camera positioning," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 1476-1480, 2007.
  
  
• G. Chesi, "On the gap between positive polynomials and SOS of polynomials," IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 1066-1072, 2007.
  
  
• G. Chesi, A. Garulli, A. Tesi, and A. Vicino, "Robust stability of time-varying polytopic systems via parameter-dependent homogeneous Lyapunov functions," Automatica, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 309-316, 2007.
  
  
• G. Chesi, A. Garulli, A. Tesi, and A. Vicino, "Polynomially parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions for robust stability of polytopic systems: an LMI approach," IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 365–370, 2005.
  
  
• G. Chesi, "Estimating the domain of attraction for uncertain polynomial systems," Automatica, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 1981-1986, 2004.
  
  
• G. Chesi, "Computing output feedback controllers to enlarge the domain of attraction in polynomial systems," IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 1846-1850, 2004.
  
  
• G. Chesi and A. Vicino, "Visual servoing for large camera displacements," IEEE Trans. on Robotics, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 724–735, 2004.
  
  
• G. Chesi, A. Garulli, A. Tesi, and A. Vicino, "Homogeneous Lyapunov functions for systems with structured uncertainties," Automatica, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1027–1035, 2003.
  
  
• G. Chesi, A. Garulli, A. Tesi, and A. Vicino, "Solving quadratic distance problems: an LMI-based approach," IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 200–212, 2003.