Personale docente

Aurelio Piazzi received the Laurea degree magna cum laude in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Bologna in 1982. At this university, he pursued a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering and received his degree in 1987. From 1990 to 1992, he was a research associate in System Theory at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems (DEIS), University of Bologna. From November 1992 to September 2001, he was an associate professor of Automatic Control at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, and from October 2001 he has been a full professor of Systems and Control Engineering at the same university. In this department, in 1995, he established and promoted the Active Control Laboratory (ACtLab) for didactic and research activities. From 2007 to 2015, he was the director of the Polytechnic Library, and from July 2015 to December 2021 he was the coordinator of the Laurea Magistrale course in Informatics Engineering.

    From 2000 to 2006, he was the scientific head of research units for various national PRIN projects, partially funded by MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research), on topics in automation and control theory. Scientific coordinator of bilateral research programs in collaboration with CNR, ENEL, and Worgas Bruciatori, in 2002 and 2003 he directed the European Project COOKIES within the EU cluster Eutist-IMV (Integrated Machine Vision), in collaboration with Gruppo Colussi (Perugia), for the artificial vision-based control of food industrial ovens. In 2007 and 2008, in collaboration with RFI Ferrovie dello Stato, he served as the scientific coordinator of the research project PAVISYS (Pantograph Automatic Vision-based Inspection System) devoted to the diagnosis of pantographs for electric traction.

    He is an IEEE Life Senior Member and a member of SIAM. His main research interests are in control theory, autonomous robotics, and mechatronics systems. His recent research activities have focused on inversion-based and optimal feedforward control methods and on feedforward-feedback control systems. He has published over 100 scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings.