BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
In 1990 he graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering at the
University of Bologna
In 1994 he took his PhD in System Engineering from University of
Bologna, Padova and Firenze
In 1995 he became a Researcher.Since 1998 he has been a Confirmed
Researcher at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science, and
Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna. Since 2012 of the
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information
Engineering (DEI) of University of Bologna
In November 2020 he became Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science, and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna
Since 2001 he has been a member of the II Faculty of Engineering
(since 2012 School of Engineering and Archicture) of the
University of Bologna where he teachs the following courses:
•"Automatic Flight Control" for thesecond level degree of the
international course in Aerospace Engineering
•"Automatic Control" for the first level degree courses in
Bioengineering and Electronics Engineering for Energy and
Information .
Since 2001 he has also been a member of ARCES (Advanced Research
Center on Electronic Systems for Information and Communication
Technologies) an excellence research center of the University of
Bologna
Since 2004 he has been a member of the teaching staff of the
European Doctorate course in Information Technology ( ARCES) (since
2012 Electronics, Telecommunication and Information
Technologies)
Since 2008 he has been a member of the prestigious Technical
Committee on Aerospace of the International Federation of Automatic
Control (IFAC)
Since 2010 he has been a member of the Interdepartmental Center for
Industrial Research ICT (CIRI-ICT) and since 2013 also of CIRI
Aeronautica, of the University of Bologna.
In 2010 he has been assistant coordinator of the PRIN2008national
research project "Development of a CUAV (Civil Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle) for testing new guidance and FTC algorithm for mission and
patrolling in hostile environment ".
2011-12: NATIONAL COORDINATOR of the PRIN2008 national research
project above mentioned
Since 2011 he has been responsible and coordinator for the research
project T-RECS (Traffic Report with Enhaced Control of (Airport)
Surface), carried out at ARCES along with the industrial
partner VITROCISET s.p.a. (italian industry leader in the aerospace
field).
Since 2013 is coordinator of ENAC (National
Authority) Permit To Fly for the fliying laboratory
“ LAURA” based on Ultralight Aircraft Ultrapup Preceptor.
Since 2012 he is the tutor of the Ph.D. student Pietro Baldi (Ph.D.
in Information Technologies, ARCES) and co-tutor of the Ph.D.
student Nicola Mimmo (Ph.D. in Automatic Control and Operations
Research, at DEI, tutor Prof. Lorenzo Marconi).
Since 2013 is a member of the board of the European
Project SHERPA (http://www.sherpa-project.eu/sherpa/).
My collaboration regards the design of advanced control system for
quadrotors and the issuing of the related Permit To Fly.
PUBLICATIONS, PLENARY SESSIONS, ORGANIZATION OF CONGRESS
AND SESSIONS, REVIEWING ACTIVITY
Paolo Castaldi is author of about 80 articles published
on International Journals and on the proceedings of International
Congresses with referee.
He is also author of a research book edited by an international
publisher in 2010 (in English language)
He has been also:
-Program Chair and co-organizer of the 8th European Workshop on
Advanced Control and Diagnosis (ACD2010), organizer of several
invited sessions (SYSTOL2013, ACA2010)
-chair of several regular and invited sessions, for example at the
American Control Conference 2010 and IFAC Symposium Automatic
Control in Aerospace-10 and 13)
- Plenary speaker of International Conference on Software
Engineering (ICSE), 2009, and IFAC Congress "Aerospace, Guidance,
Navigation and Flight Control Systems", 2009, Samara, Russia.
- Reviewer of IEEE Transactions CST,TAC,IE;
Automatica;International Journal of Control and other high IF
journals
INTERNATIONAL AWARD ACHIEVED
Outstanding reviewer of Automatica Journal (the most important
theoretical journal together with IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control) for the years 2004 and 2005.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION COORDINATION
•2011 - 12 : Coordinator of the national research
project "Development of a CUAV (Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) for
testing new guidance and FTC algorithm for mission and patrolling
in hostile environment "within PRIN2008 project. Members of the
project are also teams from the universities of Ferrara, Napoli II
and Palermo. The final goal of this project is to carry out an
investigation and an experimentation of the guidance, navigation
and control systems necessary to the development of a CUAV
demonstrator to be employed in the civil protection sector. The
research related to the project objectives is necessarily
innovative with respect the state of the art.
•2011 - until now: Responsible and coordinator for the research
project T-RECS (Traffic Report with Enhaced Control of (Airport)
Surface) carried out at ARCES along with the industrial partner
VITROCISET s.p.a., italian industry leader in the aerospace field.
T-RECS deals with the reconstruction of the "true" position of the
monitored vehicles through the filtering of the common GNSS errors.
The goal is to improve the aircraft position estimation through the
use of signals from the following sources: GNSS receivers, ADS-B
(Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) receivers.
Thanks to a correct georeferentiation of the GNSS receivers, the
T-RECS station is able to quantify the errors due to ionospheric
and tropospheric effects and GNSS constellation geometries, which
affect the onboard receivers. With these data T-RECS is able to
correct the position information provided by the ADS-B sensor. This
information is entered in a data fusion unit which processes the
system tracks to be presented to the controller station.
•2013 - until now: coordinator ENAC (Civil
Authority) of a flight permission for the Laboratorio
Volante LAURA, based on a ULTRAPUP PRECEPTOR ultralight aircraft
equipped with a controller, sensors and actuators aiming to make it
suitable for automatic flight.
•2007: Development of new FDI methodologies for transponders of
civil aircrafts within SIGEVAMA (SIstema di GEstione Veicolare per
Applicazioni Multi-servizio Aeroportuali) Project for air traffic
management.
•2007: Organization and development of new signal processing
algorithms within SIPRO Project: the project solves the problem of
determining speed with respect to air and aerodynamic angles by
pressure measures detected directly on aircraft surfaces.
•2006: Development of FDI techniques for aircraft I/O sensors
within the MONET European project. MONET is an European excellence
network made up of universities and industrial partners.
•2006: Development of the sensing and filtering parts within the
FO-DIAS (Forlì Differential-GNSS Instrument Approach System)
project for the development of an airport approach system in
obedience to the imposed accuracy requirements.
•2005/06: Participation in PRIN research program "UAV vehicle
Autonomous and cooperative flight".
•2002/03: Participation in the 40% research program "Development of
a flight and mission management system for an autonomous and
multifunctional civil aircraft".
•2000/01: Participation in the 40% research program "Methods of
identification of systems with unknown inputs and geometrical
techniques for observation and control".
•1999/2000 responsible for the research project "Identification of
multivariable systems with unknown inputs", funded by M.U.R.S.T.
(60% funds).
•1998/2000: "Algebraic and geometric methodologies for
identification and control" (40% funds).
•1994/1997: "Model Identification, system control, signal
elaboration", funded by M.U.R.S.T. (40% funds).
•1997: SIMONET ( System Identification and MOdelling NETwork),
European research network funded by the European Community within
HCM Project.
•1995: Oriented project for transport II CNR (diagnostic and
maintenance area).
English teching Activities
Lecturer of SIDRA (Società Italiana Ricercatori in
Automatica) International Summer Ph.D. School,
2012.
- Lecture course on“Fault tolerant control in
Aerospace”
Lecturer of ISAEA (International School of Aerospace
Engineering Applications), 2010-2011.
Lecture course on
- Uncented Kalman filter and Particle
Filter
- Fault detection and Isolation in
Aerospace
- Multivariable control in Aerospace
Lecturer of European Doctorate Course “Information
Technology” , 2009-10,
established by the University of Bologna, K.U.
Leuven, INPG Grenoble,
as well as with the Research Institutes IMEC and
CEA-LETI
Lecture course on “Model based Fault
Detection”
Past teaching Activities
Attività Didattiche concluse
Corsi di Laurea
- A.A. 2001/02, 2002/03: Advanced
Control (Aerospace Engineering course)
- 1998/99 - 2001/02: Advenced Control
(Information Engineering).
- A.A. 1998/99 ``Modelling and Control
if Environmental Systems''
