January 06, 2026
Talks and presentations
Notable talks, workshops, panel presentation and keynotes, with a focus on international eventsConference talk, Singularity-Avoidance Control of Robotic Systems with Model Mismatch and Actuator Constraints
Conference proceedings talk, European Control Conference 2025, Thessaloniki, Greece
I presented our paper forcused on avoiding singularities in the motion of Delta robots using control barrier functions. The interesting thing about it is that model mimatch in the control approach is considered and avoided using a deterministic RKHS bound on the Gaussian process model of the mismatch. The slides are avalable here.
Keynote, Entrepreneurship in Control
Plenary Keynote, European Control Conference 2025, Thessaloniki, Greece
I co-organized and chaired the tutorial session on Entrepreneurship in Control of the European Control Conference 2025 in Thessaloniki and gave a keynote about presenting research with entrepreneurship in mind - drawing examples from our research in control and optimization of 3D printing. Here is more info about this tutorial. The website contains many useful resourses - in particular, how to find applications and how to extend the scope of your research. My slides are available upon request.
Keynote, Flexible automation for manufacturing tasks
Plenary Keynote, Innovation Booster Robotics, AI in Robotics, Rotkreuz, Switzerland
I gave a keynote about flexible robotics ooperation on this event of the Innovation Booster Robotics. The slides are available upon request.
Workshop Control meets Practice in Advanced Manufacturing
Debate moderation, IEEE CASE 2024, Bari, Italy
IEEE Conference on Automation, Science, and Engineering, September 2024, Bari, Italy – Workshop Translating Manufacturing Control and Automation Research to Practice: Examples, Challenges, and Opportunities. More information here.
Panel, Automatic Control Horizon: Roadmap and Industrial Innovation
Panel, European Control Conference 2024, Stockholm, Sweden
Also during the 2024 edition of ECC I participated in a panel discussion, focused on bridging control research to industry applications, during a tutorial session – Automatic Control Horizon: Roadmap and Industrial Innovation.
Keynote, Bayesian optimization algorithms for optimization in manufacturing
Talk, European Control Conference, Workshop Bayesian optimization meets control, Stockholm, Sweden
During the this pre-ECC workshop I presented several Bayesian optimization algorithms, suitable for optimization in manufacturing, bacause they can handle unknown safety constraints, and they can ensure continuous optimization (thus taking into account process drifts).
Plenary, Data-driven optimization and control in advanced manufacturing
Plenary Keynote, Benelux meeting on Systems and Control, Blankenberge, Belgium
I gave the opening keynote about data-driven optimization and control in manufacturing applications. The slides are available here.
Keynote, Data-driven optimization for manufacturing applications
Plenary, Swiss Technology Days, 2024, Dubendorf, Switzerland
I one of the keynotes, on the topic of data-driven optimization and control in manufacturing applications.