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A/PROF MICHAEL CANTONI



Contact Details

Organization: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/staff/mwcant/
Work: x46697
Room: 3.10
Level: 03
Building: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Control and signal processing Robust and optimal control, distributed-parameter and multidimensional systems, model approximation, numerical methods Australia
Irrigation network automation Water-level regulation, distributed feedback control, large-scale systems, load scheduling Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Sweden Royal Institute Of Technology Research
Taiwan National Sun Yat-Sen University Research
China Sun Yat-Sen University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Engineering The University of Western Australia 15-Mar-1995
Bachelor of Science The University of Western Australia 15-Mar-1995
Doctor of Philosophy University of Cambridge 15-Nov-1998

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (USA) Member 01-Dec-1994

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) The University of Melbourne Knowledge Transfer Award 21-Nov-2007

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Design of large-scale interconnected dynamical systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Control and safety monitoring systems for large scale irrigation networks Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
RUBICON SYSTEM AUST. PTY. LTD.		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2003
"Modelling, Analysis and Synthesis Tools for Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing Systems" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
Robustness Analysis and Control Design of Distributed and Networked Systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
Complexity-manageable methodologies and efficient computational tools for analysis and design of large-scale systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
Modelling and estimation methods for discrete multi-dimensional systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009
Managing Australia's water resources: Automated demand scheduling and supply control systems for large scale irrigation networks Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2009

Consultancies

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
ENGINEERING DESIGN AUTOMATION TOOLS FOR DISTRIBUTED CONTROL OF LARGE-SCALE IRRIGATION CHANNELS Chief Investigator UMEE LTD

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Computing the L2 gain for linear periodic continuous-time systems
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Automatica
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 783-789
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  • LQ optimal control for 2D Roesser models of finite extent
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Systems & Control Letters
    Volume: 58
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 482-490
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  • On the realization of 2-D linear systems with recursively computable latent variable models
    Year: 2009
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1 - Regular Papers
    Volume: 56
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 644-652
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A geometric theory for 2-D systems including notions of stabilisability
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing: an international journal
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 3-4
    Page numbers: 449-475
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A step-wise procedure for reduced order approximation in the ν-gap metric
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 4855-4860
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Distributed controller design for open water channels
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 17th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress
    Page numbers: 10033-10038
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • Disturbance decoupling with preview for two-dimensional systems
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 17th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress
    Page numbers: 11304-11309
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • On structured robustness analysis for feedback interconnections of unstable systems
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 351-356
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Anti-windup for marginally stable plants and its application to open water channel control systems
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Control Engineering Practice
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 261-272
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  • Control of Large-Scale Irrigation Networks
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Proceedings of the IEEE
    Volume: 95
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 75-91
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  • On the partial realization of noncausal 2-D linear systems
    Year: 2007
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1 - Regular Papers
    Volume: 54
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 1800-1808
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Conditioned Invariance and Unknown-Input Observation for Two-Dimensional Fornasini-Marchesini Models


    Year: 2007
    Event name: European Control Conference 2007
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2007
    Page numbers: 3891-3896
    Publisher: EUCA
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  • On the Sufficiency of Finite-Frame LQR Optimality Conditions for 2-D Roesser Models


    Year: 2007
    Event name: European Control Conference 2007
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2007
    Page numbers: 3897-3899
    Publisher: EUCA
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  • A geometric approach with stability for two-dimensional systems
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 4391-4396
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • On distributed anti-windup compensation for distributed linear control systems
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 1106-1111
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • On the realisation of 2-D linear systems with implicit latent variable models
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 488-493
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Reduced order approximation in the ν-gap metric
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 4367-4372
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • On the gap metric for finite-dimensional linear time-varying systems in continuous time
    Year: 2006
    Book: Control of uncertain systems: modelling, approximation, and design
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg(Berlin)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A characterisation of the gap metric for approximation problems
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Proceedings
    Page numbers: 5359-5364
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • New results and applications of the geometric approach to two-dimensional systems
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Proceedings
    Page numbers: 2771-2776
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • On the partial realisation of non-causal 2-D linear systems
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2006)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2006)
    Page numbers: 1518-1522
    Publisher: MTNS 2006(Kyoto)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A bound on closed-loop performance based on finite-frequency response samples
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Systems & Control Letters
    Volume: 54
    Page numbers: 447-454
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • On validating closed-loop behaviour from noisy frequency-response measurements
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Systems & Control Letters
    Volume: 54
    Page numbers: 607-612
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Systems engineering for irrigation systems: Successes and challenges
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Annual Reviews in Control
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 191-204
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • On quantifying tolerable uncertainty for a specified level of closed-loop performance.
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 16th IFAC World Congress 2005
    Conference Publication: 16th IFAC World Congress 2005
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Oxford)
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  • On water-level error propagation in controlled irrigation channels
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and European Control Conference ECC '05
    Conference Publication: 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and European Control Conference ECC '05 Proceedings
    Page numbers: 2101-2106
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Systems engineering for irrigation systems: Successes and challenges
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: 16th IFAC World Congress
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 191-204
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Controller discretization: a gap metric framework for analysis and synthesis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 2033-2039
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Anti-windup for marginally stable plants applied to open water channels
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The 5th Asian Control Conference 2004
    Conference Publication: The proceedings of the 5th Asian Control Conference
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: ACPA Asian Control Professors' Association(Seoul)
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  • Design of a centralized controller for an irrigation channel using H loop-shaping
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Control 2004
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Control 2004 Conference
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: The Organising Committee, Control 2004(Bath)
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  • Order reduction for circuit models obtained via modified nodal analysis
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 23rd IASTED international conference on modelling, identification, and control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 23rd IASTED (International Association of Science and Technology for Development) International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control
    Page numbers: 518-523
    Publisher: ACTA Press(California)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • On the formulation and solution of robust performance problems
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Automatica
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 1707-1720
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A lower bound on achieved closed-loop performance based on finite data
    Year: 2003
    Event name: European Control Conference ECC 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of European Control Conference ECC 2003
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: IEE - Institute of Electrical Engineering(Hertford)
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  • Validation of closed-loop behaviour from noisy frequency response measurements
    Year: 2003
    Event name: European Control Conference ECC 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of European Control Conference ECC 2003
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: IEE - Institute of Electrical Engineering(Hertford)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Linear feedback systems and the graph topology
    Year: 2002
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 710-719
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Algebraic characterisation of the H∞ and H2 norms for linear continuous-time periodic systems
    Year: 2002
    Event name: The 4th Asian Control Conference
    Conference Publication: The 4th Asian Control Conference
    Page numbers: 1945-1952
    Publisher: The 2002 Asian Control Conference
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • A robust control framework for linear, time-invariant, spatially distributed systems
    Year: 2001
    Journal: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 610-627
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Necessity of a sampled-data approximation result
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 310-315
    Publisher: IEEE Press(New Jersey)
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  • On model reduction in the v-gap metric
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings on the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 3665-3670
    Publisher: IEEE Press(New Jersey)
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