Nicola ZAUPA

I am 3rd year PhD student in the MAC team at LAAS–CNRS under the supervision of Isabelle Queinnec and Luca Zaccarian.

My thesis topic is revolving around the control of resonant converters. You can find an under-construction website here. The experimental part of this work is done in collaboration with Carlos Olalla and Luis Martínez-Salamero at the Power Electronics laboratory of the GAEI group of Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona, Spain. During the thesis, I entered also in an ongoing work about the synchronization of identical linear multiagent systems in collaboration with Giulia Giordano and Sophie Tarbouriech.

I received the master’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2021, following the bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering in 2018 in the Department of Industrial Engineering. It was during my master thesis where I contact Luca and proposed to me to collaborate on a project on resonant converter in Spain. Before that, I was enrolled at I.T.I.S. Rossi (Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale in Italian) in Vicenza – a technical public high school – with the specialization in Electric-Electronics-Automation. I like to mention this since it is where all my passion for electronics and DIY burst out, and I had the possibility and time to submerge myself into it.

My main research interests include everything that is related to (industrial) engineering applications. To name a few: mechatronics, power electronics, electronics, robotics, … I like to tackle challenging problems from different point of views, test solutions on real prototype to go beyond simulation, and dive into implementation’s problems (which are always there to wait for us).

selected publications

Hybrid Control of Self-Oscillating Resonant Converters With Three-Level Input

Nicola Zaupa, Carlos Olalla , Isabelle Queinnec , Luis Martínez-Salamero , and Luca Zaccarian

IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2023

Bib

@article{zaupa2023resonantLCSS,
  title = {Hybrid {{Control}} of {{Self-Oscillating Resonant Converters With Three-Level Input}}},
  author = {Zaupa, Nicola and Olalla, Carlos and Queinnec, Isabelle and {Mart{\'i}nez-Salamero}, Luis and Zaccarian, Luca},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
  volume = {7},
  pages = {1375--1380},
  issn = {2475-1456},
  doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3240887},
}

Hybrid Control of Self-Oscillating Resonant Converters

Nicola Zaupa, Luis Martínez-Salamero , Carlos Olalla , and Luca Zaccarian

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Mar 2023

Bib

@article{zaupa2023resonantTCST,
  title = {Hybrid {{Control}} of {{Self-Oscillating Resonant Converters}}},
  author = {Zaupa, Nicola and {Mart{\'i}nez-Salamero}, Luis and Olalla, Carlos and Zaccarian, Luca},
  year = {2023},
  month = mar,
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
  volume = {31},
  number = {2},
  pages = {881--888},
  issn = {1558-0865},
  doi = {10.1109/TCST.2022.3179948},
}

arXiv

Equivalent Conditions for the Synchronization of Identical Linear Systems over Arbitrary Interconnections

Nicola Zaupa, Giulia Giordano , Isabelle Queinnec , Sophie Tarbouriech , and Luca Zaccarian

Dec 2023

arXiv:2303.17321 [cs, eess, math]

Abs arXiv

We propose necessary and sufficient conditions for the synchronization of \N identical single-input-single-output (SISO) systems, connected through a directed graph. We consider both the continuous-time and the discrete-time case, and we provide conditions that do not require any assumption on the graph and ensure the uniform global exponential stability of the closed attractor that corresponds to the synchronization set, with guaranteed convergence rate.