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Dr Andrea Lecchini Visintini

Dr Andrea Lecchini-Visintini

 
Lecturer in Control Engineering

Control Group

T: +44 (0)116 252 3546

F: +44 (0)116 252 2619

E: alv1 'at' leicester.ac.uk

Location: Room 801, Engineering Tower
 

Brief Biography

Dr Lecchini Visintini has been a lecturer in Leicester since 2006. Prior to this, he was a research associate in the Control Group in Cambridge (2003- 2006) and a post doc researcher in CESAME, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (2001 - 2003).  He was also a visiting fellow in RSISE, ANU, Canberra, in November 2002 and in August 2005. Dr Lecchini Visintini obtained a PhD in Automatic Control (2001) and the Laurea (5-year degree) in Information Engineering (1997) respectively from the University of Brescia and the University of Pavia in Italy. His research interests are in Monte Carlo methods, and their application to the control of complex systems, and in system identification for control. Dr Lecchini Visintini is currently a subject editor (System Identification, Stochastic Optimization, Monte Carlo Methods) for the Int. J. of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. 

Teaching and admin

Coordinator of the MSc courses offered by the Department of Engineering in the area of Control and Dynamics.

Course modules lectured
  • Control Labs (supervised), 2nd year labs, in 2010/11.
  • Digital Control and Instrumentation, 3rd year course, in 2008/09, 2010/11.
  • Electromagnetism, 1st year course, in 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10.
  • Signals and Systems Part 3: Information Theory, 3rd year course in Cambridge, in 2005/06.

Funded research projects:

  • A. Lecchini Visintini (PI)
    Optimization with Monte Carlo methods for the control of complex systems 
    EPSRC First Grant (1/03/2010 - 30/11/2011)
  • J. Maciejowski (PI), A. Lecchini Visintini (co-PI)
    iFly: Safety, Complexity and Responsibility based design and validation of highly automated Air Traffic Management
    EU 6th Framework Programme Aeronautics and Space: innovative Air Traffic Management research
    (22/05/2007 - 21/08/2011)
  • J. Maciejowski (PI), A. Lecchini Visintini (Co-Investigator),
    Stochastic model predictive control: theory and application to air-traffic control 
    EPSRC (1/6/2005 - 30/05/2009) 
 Current Postdocs
  • Dr Fajin Wei (since December 2010)

Publications

Journal papers

  1. A. Lecchini-Visintini, J. Lygeros and J.  Maciejowski  
    Stochastic optimization on continuous domains with finite-time guarantees by Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 55(12):2858-2863, 2010.
    Extended version: arXiv:0906.1055v2
  2. N. Kantas, A. Lecchini-Visintini, J. Maciejowski 
    Simulation Based Optimal Design of Aircraft Trajectories for Air Traffic Management
    Int. Journal on Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 24(10):882-899, 2010. 
    Special Issue: Air Traffic Management: Challenges and opportunities for advanced Control.
    Editors: A. Lecchini-Visintini and J. Lygeros. See the Introduction to the special issue
  3. A. Dehghani, A. Lecchini-Visintini, A. Lanzon, B.D.O. Anderson
    Validating controllers for internal stability utilizing closed-loop data
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 54(11):2719-2725, 2009.
  4. E. Crisostomi, A. Lecchini-Visintini and J. Maciejowski
    Combining Monte Carlo and worst-case methods for trajectory prediction in air traffic control: A case study
    Automatic Control in Aerospace, 2(1), 2009.
  5. A. Lecchini, W. Glover,  J. Lygeros and J.  Maciejowski
    Monte Carlo Optimisation for Conflict Resolution in Air Traffic Control
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 7(4):470-482,  2006.
  6. A. Lecchini, A. Lanzon and B.D.O. Anderson
    A model reference approach to safe controller changes in iterative identification and control
    Automatica, 42(2):193-203, 2006.
  7. R. Hildebrand, A. Lecchini, G. Solari and M. Gevers
    Optimal prefiltering in Iterative Feedback Tuning
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 50(8):1196- 1200, 2005.
  8. R. Hildebrand, A. Lecchini, G. Solari and M. Gevers
    Asymptotic accuracy of Iterative Feedback Tuning
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 50(8):1182- 1185, 2005.
  9. R. Hildebrand, A. Lecchini, G. Solari and M. Gevers
    Prefiltering in Iterative Feedback Tuning: optimization of the prefilter for accuracy
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 49(10):1801-1805, 2004.
  10. A. Lecchini and M. Gevers
    Explicit expression of the parameter bias in identification of Laguerre models from step-responses
    Systems & Control Letters,  52(2):149-165, 2004.
  11. M.C. Campi, A. Lecchini and S.M. Savaresi
    An application of the Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning method to a benchmark problem
    European Journal of Control, 9(1):66-76, 2003.
    Special Issue: Design and optimization of restricted complexity controllers
  12. A. Lecchini, M.C. Campi and S.M. Savaresi
    Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning for two degrees of freedom controllers
     Int. Journal on Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 16(5):355-371, 2002.
     Special Issue: New ideas in recursive estimation and stochastic adaptive control
  13. M.C. Campi, A. Lecchini and S.M. Savaresi
    Virtual Reference Feedback Tuning: a direct method for the design of feedback controllers
    Automatica, 38(8):1337-1346, 2002.

Selected conference papers
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