Professors
Alexandre Sanfelice Bazanella graduated in Electrical Engineering and received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees also in Electrical Engineering. He is a Professor with the School of Engineering of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and has held visiting professor appointments at Universidade Federal da Paraíba and at Université Catholique de Louvain, where he spent a sabbatical year in 2006. Dr. Bazanella is a Senior Member of the IEEE, has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and of “Controle e Automação” (the Journal of the Brazilian Automation Society), and has authored two books: an undergraduate textbook on classical control systems theory and “Data-Driven Controller Design: The H2 Approach”. Presently, his main research interests are in the theory of system identification and data-driven control design, but he is also the author of a number of papers in nonlinear systems theory, particularly its application to electric power systems and electrical machines.
Lucíola Campestrini was born in Erechim, Brazil. She graduated in Control and Automation Engineering from Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul and received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 2005 and 2010, respectively. She is now with the Department of Automation and Energy (DELAE) at UFRGS. Her main research subjects are data-driven control methods and process control.
Diego Eckhard was born in Lajeado, Brazil in 1984. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the same university in 2008 and 2012, respectively. He spent the year of 2011 with the Royal Institute of Technology – Sweden, under the supervision of Professor Hakan Hjalmarsson. He is now the Institute of Mathematics of UFRGS. He has authored the book “Data-Driven Controller Design: The H2 Approach”. His main research subjects are system identification, data-driven control and experiment design.
Graduate Students
Eduardo Varriale da Silva graduated in Control and Automation Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in 2018 and is now a MSc student at UFRGS under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Emerson Boeira worked as a research assistant in the Data-Driven Control group from 2013 to 2015. In 2016 he graduated in Control and Automation Engineering at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and obtained his Master’s degree in 2018. He is now a PhD student under supervision of Prof. Eckhard.
Chrystian Remes was raised in Borrazópolis – PR, Brazil. He has graduated in Electrical Engineering in 2014 at Santa Catarina State University (UDESC) and has received his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2016 at the same institution. Currently, he is a PhD student at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). His research focus on DD algorithms applied to DC-DC converters, under supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Róger Willian graduated in Computer Engineering in 2015 at Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (UERGS).
He obtained a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2017 at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and he is now pursuing a doctor’s degree at the same department under the supervision of professor Eckhard.
He obtained a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2017 at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and he is now pursuing a doctor’s degree at the same department under the supervision of professor Eckhard.
Cristiane Garcia is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella. She is developing embedded data management algorithms and DD algorithms for tuning PID controllers from smartphones and tablets through wireless networks.
Eduardo Mapurunga is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Rodrigo Binotto was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He graduated in Electrical Engineering in 2018 and is now a MSc student under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Ricardo Scheid Filho was a research assistant and undergraduate student in Control and Automation Engineering. Currently he is a master student under supervision of Prof. Campestrini
Undergraduate Students
Gian Vianna da Silva is an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Sul. He works as a research assistant in our group
Alejandro Gabriel Rolon Alonso is an undergraduate student in Control and Automation Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Sul. He works as a research assistant in our group
Pedro Rodrigues de Lima is an undergraduate student in Control and Automation Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio grande do Sul. He works as a research assistant in our group
Alumni
Virginia Bordignon graduated both in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and in General Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 2016. She was a MSc student at UFRGS under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Tamara Salvatori graduated in Physics in 2014 and she worked with system identification and black-box modeling of anaerobic bioreactors under supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Fábio Elnecave Xavier is a student of Control and Automation Engineering. He works as a research assistant in our group, under supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Gabriel Rechenmacher de Aguiar is an undergraduate student and he works as a research assistant. He works modelling anaerobic bioreactors and designing data-driven controller to quadcopters.
Matheus Augusto was born in Passo Fundo, Brazil, and is currently an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering. Works as a research assistant in data-driven systematic PID controller design.
Douglas Tesch graduated in Control and Automation Engineering in 2013 and he worked in motion control of multirotors using Data-Driven Control algorithms as part of his MSc project under the supervision of Profs. Eckhard and Bazanella.
Cássio Velho de Mesquita concluded his undergraduate final project under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Filipe Couto concluded his undergraduate final project under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Mauricio Richter concluded his undergraduate final project in motion control of multirotors under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Luiz Carlos Stevanatto Filho obtained his MSc in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
His work developed the use of relay experiments to identify square multivariable system frequency response and to design decentralized PID controllers.
His work developed the use of relay experiments to identify square multivariable system frequency response and to design decentralized PID controllers.
Lydia Andrea Gonzalez Chia obtained her MSc in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini and Eckhard. She has developed extensions to DD control methods for MIMO processes.
Manoel F. Flores da Cunha obtained his MSc in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella. His work investigates the suitability of the use of IFT in systems with non-differentiable non-linearities commonly found in mechanical systems.
Tassiano Neuhaus obtained his MSc in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Marcus Eduardo Bergel obtained his MSc in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Leonel Acunha Guimarães concluded his undergraduate final project in IFT method applied to embedded systems under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Gustavo R. Gonçalves da Silvas graduated in Control and Automation Engineering in 2013 and has obtained his Master’s degree in 2016, both at UFRGS. He developed DD methods for non-minimum phase multivariable systems, a DD state-feedback approach, and also a direct DD approach of the controller certification problem as part of his PhD project under the supervision of Profs. Bazanella and Campestrini.
Guilherme Araujo Pimentel was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil on June 7, 1982. He received the degree of Control and Automation Engineering and the Master degree of Electrical Engineering from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul-Brazil in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He received a joint PhD degree in Mathematics & Modeling and Science of Engineering in 2015. The former from the University of Montpellier-France at the Project Group INRA-INRIA MODEMIC and UMR INRA-SupAgro MISTEA, and the latter from the University of Mons-Belgium at the Automatic Control Laboratory. He had a postdoctoral position in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. His present research interests are in the areas of optimal control, nonlinear system, process identification, modeling and biological processes.
Rafael Rui holds a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Electrical Engineering and is was a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella. He developed new concepts and tools for the identifiability analysis and identification of nonlinear systems.
Marco Tochetto was a master student under the supervision of Prof. Bazanella.
Alex Treviso has worked as a research assistant in our group.
William Guarienti has worked as a research assistant in our group.
Daniel Denardi Huff was a MSc student at UFRGS under the supervision of Prof. Campestrini.
Guilherme Fermino has worked a research assistant in our group