David Naso Assistant Professor of Automatic Control Contact Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica (DEE) Politecnico di Bari Via Re David, 200 70125 Bari, Italy Phone: +39 080 5963 649 Fax: +39 080 5963 410 Email: naso@poliba.it
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David Naso received the Laurea degree with honours in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. During his Ph.D. studies, he was also a Guest Researcher with the Operation Research Institute, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, in 1997. Since 1999, he has been an assistant professor of automatic control at the Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari, where he currently serves as the technical head of the Robotics lab. Since 2010, he is a member of the Executive Committee (Consiglio di Amministrazione) of the Polytechnic of Bari. His research interests include the control of unconventional motion and force actuators based on smart materials, computational intelligence and its application to identification and control, distributed automation and robotic networks. He has published more than 100 scientific papers (31 on peer-reviewed international journals) on these topics. He also serves as coordinator of the Control System Design Team within the joint AVIO Spa -Polytechnic of Bari R&D laboratory (Energy Factory Bari).

Research interests

• control of innovative motion and force actuators based on smart materials
• adaptive and nonlinear control
• distributed automation and multi-agent systems
• numerical and combinatorial optimization, heuristics

5 Recent Journal Papers

· L. Riccardi L, D. Naso, B. Turchiano, H. Janocha, “Adaptive control of positioning systems with hysteresis based on magnetic shape memory alloys”, IEEE Transactions On Control Systems Technology, to appear, 2013.

· L. Riccardi, D. Naso, B. Turchiano, H. Janocha, "A Precise Positioning Actuator based on Feedback-Controlled Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys", Mechatronics, Vol. 22, March 2012.

· D. Naso, F. Cupertino, B. Turchiano, “NPID and Adaptive Approximation Control of Motion Systems with Friction”, IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, Vol.20, N.1, pp. 214-222, 2012.

· D. Naso, F. Cupertino, and B. Turchiano, “Precise position control of tubular linear motors with neural networks and composite learning”, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 18, N. 5, May 2010, pp. 515-522.

· F. Cupertino, D. Naso, E. Mininno, B. Turchiano, “Sliding Mode Control with Double Boundary Layer for Robust Compensation of Payload Mass and Friction in Linear Motors”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Volume 45, N. 5,Sept.-oct. 2009, pp. 1688 – 1696.

5 Recent conference papers

· G. Rizzello, D. Naso, A. York, S. Seelecke, “A Nonlinear Electro-Mechanical Model for an Annular Dielectric Elastomer Actuator with a Biasing Mass”, Mechatronik 2013, Aachen, March, 06-08, 2013.

· A. Gasparri, D. Di Paola, D. Naso, F. L. Lewis, Decentralized Discrete-Event Modeling and Control of Task Execution for Robotic Networks, Proc. of 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 10-13, 2012 (accepted).

· L. Riccardi, D. Naso, B. Turchiano, H. Janocha, Dian Kostadinov Palagachev, “On PID control of dynamic systems with hysteresis using a Prandtl-Ishlinskii model”, ACC2012, IEEE American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 27-29, 2012.

· E. Grasso, N. Totaro, H. Janocha, D. Naso, “Large Signal Piezoeletric Self Sensing Technique for Vibration Control”, Actuator 12, International Conference and Exhibition on New Actuators and Drive Systems, Bremen, June 18-20, 2012.

· L. Riccardi, D. Naso, B. Turchiano, H. Janocha, “Adaptive Approximation-Based Control of Hysteretic Unconventional Actuators”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, December 12-15, 2011, pp. 958-963.

5 Recently funded research projects/contracts

· 2012, Research contract. Funding company: AVIO S.p.A. Topic of the consulting activity: Development of control systems for electrical machines in aerospace applications (scientific coordinator, jointly with dr. Francesco Cupertino).

· 2011-2012, Research contract. Funding company: Adriatica Industriale, S.p.A. Topic: development and testing of a laser steel cutting machine with high positioning precision (scientific coordinator).

· 2010-2011, International Vigoni project, Ateneo Italo-Tedesco, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Bilateral Italy-Germany cooperation (Laboratory of Process Automation (LPA), Saarland University, Saarbrücken – Laboratory of Automation and Robotics, DEE, Politecnico di Bari). Project title: “New control techniques for unconventional actuators” (scientific coordinator).

· 2012-2013, German Research Foundation (DFG), Transfer Project: “Development of a Magnetic Shape Memory Based Mechatronic System”, scientific coordinator prof. Hartmut Janocha, Laboratory of Process Automation, University of Saarbrücken, funding period: 24 months (2012-2013) (co-operating scientist).

· PON 2007-2013 – Project Title: MALET (cod. 430272). Development and validation of new technologies for propulsion systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for extended missions at high altitudes. Main industrial partners: Distretto Tecnologico Aerospaziale, Avio, Alenia (member of the research team).

Updated March 2013