About Me

I was born in Milan (Italy), in 1991. I received the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. degrees in Automatic and Control Engineering (in 2013 and 2015 respectively) from Politecnico di Milano. I concluded my Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (advisor: Prof. M. Lovera) in January 2020 in the Aerospace Science and Technology department of Politecnico di Milano. My research interests include: model identification, robust control, nonlinear control, adaptive control, UAV design.

Contact Details

Mattia Giurato
mattia.giurato@polimi.it mattia.giurato@gmail.com

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Education

Politecnico di Milano

Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering • January 2020

M.Sc. Automation and Control Engineering • December 2015

B.Sc. Automation and Control Engineering • October 2013

Work

Politecnico di Milano

Research Assistant • January 2016 - November 2016

My research fellowship was focused on the design, identification and control of multirotor UAVs. The main research activities ongoing were:

  • • The identification of the attitude model of a quadrotor helicopter;
  • • The design and implementation of on-board attitude estimators;
  • • The design of robust control laws with structured H-inf synthesis;
  • • Design of fast deployment systems for custom control law;
  • • Development of simulation environment using MATLAB and Simulink;
  • • UAVs design.
In addiction, I have been co-advisor of several thesis related to the design of the position control and the auto-landing control of multirotor UAV, and the design of a tilt-rotor multicopter. Furthermore I was part of the team involved to the design and development of the facilities related to the new “Flying Arena for Rotorcraft UAV Research (Fly-ART)”, including the integration of the optical tracking system (OptiTrack framework) with the actual Flight Control Units composed by the R2P modules.

Skyward Experimental Rocketry

Responsible of Rocket Control Team, Council Member • July 2013 - June 2014

During my Master’s Degree I worked with the first Italian Association with the purpose of the design, realization and launch of sounding rockets. As a first control engineer in Skyward I joined the council board with the task of organize a Control Team (under the Computational Rocket Dynamic department, CRD) in view of the design and implementation of attitude control systems (control wings and/or canards) and automatic landing system (using a controlled parachute) on the future rockets of the Rocksanne Program. The main activities were then related to:

  • • Coordination of human resources and team organization;
  • • Team education and training;
  • • Public relations and speaking;
  • • Development of attitude estimations algorithms;
  • • Development of simulators on MATLAB and Simulink.
In addition, as a preliminary phase of the attitude estimation algorithm design, I worked with other members of the CRD department on the design of an automated low cost IMU calibration procedure, published at the 1st Symposium on Space Educational Activities n Padova (on 11th December 2015).

Conference paper

1 - A. Rivolta, M. Giurato, F. Cuzzocrea, F. Rovere, and S. Farí. "Low Cost MEMS IMU Calibration For Aerospace Student Activities". 1st Symposium On Space Educational Activities, 2015.

2 - M. Giurato, M. Lovera. "Quadrotor attitude determination: A comparison study". 2016 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016.

3 - D. Del Cont Bernard, M. Giurato, F. Riccardi, M. Lovera, “Ground effect analysis for a quadrotor platform”. 4th CEAS Specialist Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control, Warsaw, Poland, 2017.

4 - F. Haydar, M. Giurato, M. Lovera, G. Sechi. ”Very high accuracy attitude determination for LOS steering”. 10th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems, Salzburg, Austria, 2017.

5 - A. Russo, D. Invernizzi, M. Giurato, M. Lovera. ”Adaptive augmentation of the attitude control system for a multirotor UAV”. 7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences, Milano, Italy, 2017.

6 - D. Di Bacco, M. Giurato, M. Lovera. "Accurate positioning of multirotor UAVs for civil infrastructure monitoring". 7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences, Milano, Italy, 2017.

7 - D. Del Cont Bernard, F. Riccardi, M. Giurato, M. Lovera. "A dynamic analysis of ground effect for a quadrotor platform". 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017.

8 - M. Giurato, S. Panza, M. Lovera. "Robust filtering for very high accuracy attitude determination". 58th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences, Tel Aviv and Haifa, Israel, (accepted), 2018.

9 - D. Invernizzi, M. Giurato, P. Gattazzo, M. Lovera. "Full pose tracking for a tilt-arm quadrotor UAV". IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018.

10 - P. Giuri, A. Marini Cossetti, M. Giurato, D. Invernizzi, M. Lovera. "Air-to-air automatic landing for multirotor UAVs". 5th CEAS Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control, Milano, Italy, 2019.

11 - G. Roggi, M. Giurato, M. Lovera. "A computer vision line-tracking algorithm for UAV GNSS-aided guidance". XXV AIDAA, International Congress, Roma, Italy, 2019.

12 - M. Giurato, P. Gattazzo, M. Lovera. "UAV Lab: a multidisciplinary UAV design course". 21st IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, Cranfield, UK, 2019.

13 - M. Giurato, D. Invernizzi, S. Panza, M. Lovera. "The role of laboratory activities in aerospace control education: two case studies". 21st IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 2020.

14 - S. Panza, D. Invernizzi, M. Giurato, M. Lovera. "Design and characterization of the 2DoF Drone: a multirotor platform for education and research". IFAC Workshop on Aerospace Control Education, 2020.

15 - D. Invernizzi, S. Panza, M. Giurato, M. Lovera. T. Parisini. "Integration of experimental activities into remote teaching using a quadrotor test-bed". IFAC Workshop on Aerospace Control Education, 2020.

Journal paper

1 - G. Bressan, A. Russo, D. Invernizzi, M. Giurato, S. Panza, M. Lovera. "Adaptive augmentation of the attitude control system for a multirotor UAV". Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2018.

2 - D. Invernizzi, M. Giurato, P. Gattazzo, M. Lovera. "Comparison of control methods for trajectory tracking in fully actuated Unmanned Aerial Vehicles". IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (accepted), 2020.

3 - G. Gozzini, D. Invernizzi, S. Panza, M. Giurato, M. Lovera. "Air-to-air automatic landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: a quasi time-optimal hybrid strategy". IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 4, N. 3, pp. 692-697.

4 - M. Ryll, D. Bicego, M. Giurato, M. Lovera, A. Franchi. "FAST-Hex – A morphing hexarotor: design, mechanical implementation, control and experimental validation". IEEE/ASME.

Book chapters

1 - D. Del Cont Bernard, F. Riccardi, M. Giurato, M. Lovera. "Ground Effect Analysis for a Quadrotor Platform". Advances in Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control, Springer, 2018.

Thesis co-advisor

1 - M. Ferronato. "Identificazione e controllo della dinamica verticale di un elicottero quadrirotore". Automation and Control Engineering, M.Sc., 2016. [link].

2 - C. Micheli. "Design, identification and control of a tiltrotor quadcopter UAV". Automation and Control Engineering, M.Sc., 2016. [link].

3 - D. Di Bacco. "Distance control from vertical surfaces of a multirotor UAV designed for Structural Health Monitoring of civil infrastructures". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2016. [link].

4 - D. Del Cont Bernard. "Ground effect analysis for a quadrotor platform". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2016. [link].

5 - A. De Angelis, A. Sorbelli. "Software architecture, estimators and control for multirotor UAVs". Computer Science and Engineering, M.Sc., 2016. [link].

6 - A. Russo. "Adaptive control of multirotor UAVs". Automation and Control Engineering, M.Sc., 2016. [link].

7 - T. Chupin. "Data-driven attitude control design for multirotor UAVs". Automation and Control Engineering, M.Sc., 2016. [link].

8 - P. Gattazzo. "Nonlinear control of a tilt-arm quadrotor UAV". Automation and Control Engineering, M.Sc., 2017. [link].

9 - D. Carelli. "Nonlinear attitude and position control for a quadrotor UAV". Automation and Control Engineering, M.Sc., 2017. [link].

10 - A. Delbono. "Consensus based control for a unmanned aerial vehicle formation". Computer Science and Engineering, M.Sc., 2017. [link].

11 - D. Chevallard. "Design, identification and control of a micro aerial vehicle". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2017. [link].

12 - R. Salbati. "Ground effect compensation for multicopter UAV". Exchange student from the Université de Liège (ULg), Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2017.

13 - S. Farì. "Guidance and control for a fixed-wing UAV". Automation and Control Engineering, M.Sc., 2017. [link].

14 - S. Musacchio. "Optimal and robust UAV state estimation based on Gps and optical flow". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2018. [link].

15 - P. Giuri, A. Cossetti. "Air-to-air automatic landing for multirotor UAVs". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2018. [link].

16 - M. Maccotta. "Multirotor UAVs for fugitive emissions detection: sizing, modelling and control system design". Automation and Control Engineering, M.Sc., 2018. [link].

17 - E. Balcioglu. "Development of a conceptual design tool for multirotors". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2018. [link].

18 - G. Bressan. "Hardware/software architecture, code generation and control for multirotor UAVs". Computer Science and Engineering, M.Sc., 2018. [link].

19 - A. Zangarini. "Data-driven multivariable attitude control design for multirotor UAV platforms". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2019. [link].

20 - U. Arshad. "Adaptive control implementation to include ground effect on UAV simulator". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2019. [link].

21 - G. Gozzini. "UAV autonomous landing on a moving aerial vehicle". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2019. [link].

22 - A. Gatti. "Modelling, identification and control of a fixed-wing UAV". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2019. [link].

23 - D. Migliore. "Structured model identification for multirotor UAVs". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2019. [link].

24 - G. Roggi. "Vision-based pilot support system for multirotor PV plant inspection". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2019. [link].

25 - N. Battaini. "Design and dynamic modeling of a VTOL UAV". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2020. [link].

26 - K. Bstaoros. "Kalman filtering for UAV navigation using optical flow". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2020. [link].

27 - L. Carcione. "Attitude and position estimation for a 2 DoF drone". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2020. [link].

28 - W. Nguemen Djonkoua. "Model-reference adaptive control of the vertical dynamics of a multirotor UAV". Aeronautics Engineering, M.Sc., 2020. [link].