Davide Spinello

Journal Publications

  1. Abouheaf M., Gueaieb W., Spinello D., 2019: Online Multi-Objective Model-Independent Adaptive Tracking Mechanism for Dynamical Systems, Robotics, 8(4) 82-111. doi: 10.3390/robotics8040082
  2. Spinello D., Fattahi J., 2017: Peristaltic Wave Locomotion and Shape Morphing with a Millipede Inspired System., International Journal of Nonlinear Science, 27(4) 1093-1119. doi: 10.1007/s00332-017-9372-7
  3. Miah S., Fallah M. H., Panah A. Y., Spinello D., 2017: Generalized Non-autonomous Metric Optimization for Area Coverage Problems with Mobile Autonomous Agents, Automatica, 80 295-299. doi: 10.1016/j.automatica.2017.02.044
  4. Miah S., Fallah M. H., Spinello D., 2016: Non-Autonomous Coverage Control with Diffusive Evolving Density, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 62(10) 5262-5268 doi: 10.1109/TAC.2016.2633789
  5. Spinello D., 2016: Asymptotic Agreement in a Class of Networked Kalman Filters with Intermittent Stochastic Communications, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 61(4) 1093-1098. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2015.2461793
  6. Sheiki F., Spinello D., Gueaieb W., 2015: Rényi Entropy Filter for Anomaly Detection with Eddy Current Remote Field Sensors, IEEE Sensors Journal, 15(11) 6399-6408. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2450236
  7. Fattahi J., Spinello D., 2015: Path Following and Shape Morphing With a Continuous Slender Mechanism, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control - Transactions of the ASME, 137(10) Article number 101007. DOI: 10.1115/1.4030816
  8. Fattahi J., Spinello D., 2015: Sensing linear viscoelastic constitutive parameters with a Timoshenko beam on a multi-layer foundation: Modeling and simulation, Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, 4 78-89. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbsr.2015.04.003
  9. Miah S., Nguyen B., Burque A., Spinello D., 2015: Nonuniform Coverage Control with Stochastic Intermittent Communication, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 60(7) 1981-1986. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2014.2368233
  10. Srivastava V., Spinello D., 2015: A Two-Phase Combined Gradient-Tunneling Based Algorithm for Constrained Integer Programming Problems. Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, 36(4) 339-365
  11. Borazjani E., Spinello D., Necsulescu D. S., 2015: Determination of the modulation frequency for thermographic non-destructive testing, Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT & E International), 70 1-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2014.12.001
  12. Douadi L., Spinello D., Gueaieb W., 2015: Dynamics of a Multibody Mobile Robot for Confined Environment Inspection. Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics - Transactions of the ASME, 10(1) Article number 031022. DOI: 10.1115/1.4027303
  13. Miah S., Nguyen B., Burque A., Spinello D., 2014: Nonuniform Deployment of Autonomous Agents in Harbor-Like Environments, Unmanned Systems, 2(4) 1-13. DOI: 10.1142/S2301385014400111
  14. Butail S., Ladu F., Spinello D., Porfiri M., 2014: Information Flow in Animal-Robot Interactions. Entropy, 16(3) 1315-1330. DOI: 10.3390/e16031315 (Special Issue Information in Dynamical Systems and Complex Systems)
  15. Fattahi J., Spinello D., 2014: A Timoshenko Beam Reduced Order Model for Shape Tracking with a Slender Mechanism. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 33(20) 5165 - 5180. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2014.05.040
  16. Spinello D., Stilwell D. J., 2014: Distributed full-state observers with limited communication and application to cooperative target localization. Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control - Transactions of the ASME, 136(3) Article number 031022
  17. Douadi L., Spinello D., Gueaieb W., Sarfraz H., 2013: Planar Kinematics Analysis of a Snake-like Robot. Robotica, 32(5) 659-675. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S026357471300091X
  18. Spinello D., Stilwell, D.J., 2010: Nonlinear estimation with state-dependent Gaussian observation noise, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 55(6) 1358-1366. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2042006
  19. Batra R.C., Spinello D., 2008: Analysis of adiabatic shear bands in heat-conducting elastothermoviscoplastic materials by the meshless local Bubnov-Galerkin method, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 25, 1019-1040. Published online 10 July 2008. DOI: 10.1102/cnm.1139
  20. Batra R.C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2008: Reduced-order models for microelectromechanical rectangular and circular plates incorporating the Casimir force, International Journal of solids and Structures 45, 3558-3583
  21. Batra R.C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2008: Effects of van der Waals force and thermal stresses on pull-in instability of clamped rectangular microplates, Sensors 8, 1048-1069
  22. Batra R.C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2008: Vibrations and pull-in instabilities of microelectromechanical von Karman elliptic plates incorporating the Casimir force, Journal of Sound and Vibration 315, 939-960
  23. Batra R.C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2008: Vibrations of Narrow Microbeams Predeformed by an Electric Field, Journal of Sound and Vibration 309(3), 600-612
  24. Batra R.C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2007: Review of modeling electrostatically actuated microelectromechanical systems, Smart Materials and Structures 16, R23-R31
  25. Batra R.C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2007: Effects of Casimir force on pull-in instability in micromembranes, Europhysics Letters 7, 20010
  26. Batra R.C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2007: Capacitance estimate for electrostatically actuated narrow microbeams, Micro & Nano Letters 1(2), 71-73
  27. Batra R.C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2006: Electromechanical model of electrically actuated narrow microbeams, Journal of Microelectromechanical System 5(14), 1175-1189
  28. Batra R.C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2006: Analysis of electrostatic MEMS using meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method, International Journal of Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements (EABE) 30, 949-962
  29. Batra R.C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2006: Free and forced vibrations of a segmented bar by a meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) formulation, Computational Mechanics 41(4), 473-491
  30. Batra R.C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2004: Treatment of material discontinuity in two meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) formulations of axisymmetric transient heat conduction, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 61(14), 2461-2479

Technical Report

  • Spinello, D., Stilwell, D.J., 2008: Nonlinear estimation with state-dependent Gaussian observation noise , Technical Report No. VaCAS-2008-02, Available online

Book Chapter

  • Batra R.C., Porfiri M., Spinello D.: Pull-in instability in electrostatically actuated MEMS, Computational and experimental methods in structures - Vol. 2: Advances in multiphysics simulation and experimental testing of MEMS and NEMS (edited by N. Aluru, C. Cercignani, A. Frangi, and S. Mukherjee), Imperial College Press, London, UK, pp. 329-374, 2008

Book

  • dell'Isola F., Pollina P.M., Spinello D.: Problems in structural mechanics: a SAP2000 tutorial, Esculapio, Roma, 2004 (in italian)

Conferences and Presentations

  1. Miah S., Nguyen B., Bourque A., Spinello D., 2018: Non-Autonomous Area Coverage and Coordination of a Multi-Agent System for Harbor Protection Applications, Simultech 2018 - 8th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, May, Porto, Portugal
  2. Wu Y., Spinello D., 2018: Distributed Parameter Sensor Model for Estimating Constitutive Parameters of Viscoelastic Materials, US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM 2018), June, Chicago, IL, USA
  3. Spinello D., 2017: Dynamics of arrays of cilia and flagella driven by axonemal beating, SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS17), May, Snowbird, Utah, USA
  4. Miah S., Fallah M. H., Panah A. Y., Spinello D., 2016: Non-autonomous feedback control for area coverage problems with time-varying risk, Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC 2016), October 12-14, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  5. Miah S., Knoll J., Malinowski A., Spinello D., 2016: On the Implementation of Area Coverage Optimization using Mobile Robots, 42nd IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IEEE IECON2016), October 24-27, Florence, Italy
  6. Fattahi J. S., Spinello D., 2016: Peristaltic Wave Locomotion with a Millipede Inspired Mechanism, International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2016), August 21-16, Montréal, Canada
  7. Adepegba A. A., Miah S., Spinello D., 2016: Multi-Agent Area Coverage Control using Reinforcement Learning, The 29th International conference of the Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS 2016), May 16, Key Largo, FL, USA
  8. Spinello D., 2015: Synchronization of a nonlinear beam coupled with deformable substrates, SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS15), May 17-21, Snowbird, Utah, USA
  9. Miah S., Gueaieb W., Spinello D., 2015: Linear Time-invariant Feedback Operator for Mobile Robot Trajectory Tracking, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), May 11-13, Pisa, Italy; 8pp
  10. Miah S., Gueaieb W., Spinello D., Khan K., 2015: Optimal Control for Mobile Robot Neighboring Trajectory Tracking with Range-Limited Sensors, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), May 11-13, Pisa, Italy; 8pp
  11. Miah S., Nguyen B., Spinello D., Gueaieb. W., 2014: Maritime Air Defence Firing Tacticts, in Proceedings of 2014 Seventh IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA), December 14-17, Hanoi, Vietnam, Paper 14; 8pp. DOI: 10.1109/CISDA.2014.7035639
  12. Miah S., Spinello D., Nguyen B., Bourque A., 2014: Nonuniform Coverage with Time-Varying Diffusive Density, in Proceedings of 2014 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, October 22-24, San Antonio, TX, USA, 8pp
  13. Fattahi J., Spinello D., 2014: Distributed parameters Lagrangian formulation for locomotion and shape tracking with a bio-inspired slender mechanism, 17th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, June 15-20, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  14. Butail S., Ladu F., Spinello D., Porfiri M., 2014: Inferring information flow between interacting animals and robots, 17th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, June 15-20, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, 8pp
  15. Fattahi J., Spinello D., 2014: Locomotion of a Slender Floating Hyperredundant Mechanism with Shape Adaptation, in Proceedings of 2014 International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics (CDSR'14), May 15-16, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 8pp
  16. Fattahi J., Spinello D., 2013: Timoshenko Beam Model for Exploration and Sensing with a Continuum Centipede Inspired Robot, in Proceedings of 2013 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, October 21-23, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 8pp
  17. Sarfraz H., Spinello D., Gueaieb W., Douadi L., 2013: Optimal Kinematic Control of a Mobile Parallel Robot for critical maneuvers in a Confined Environment, International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics (ICMEM13), August 8-9 2013, Toronto, Canada. 8pp; paper 196
  18. Miah S., Nguyen B., Spinello D., Bourque A., 2013: Impact of Sonar Delay for Intercepting Underwater Threats in Harbour Defence System, in 26th European Conference on Operational Research, Rome, Italy, July 1-4, 8pp
  19. Spinello D., Douadi L., Gueaieb W., 2012: Kinematic Control of a Mobile Parallel Robot in a Confined Environment, International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics (ICMEM12), August 16-18 2012, Ottawa, Canada. (8pp)
  20. Borazjani E., Spinello D., Necsulescu, D., 2012: The design of infrared non-destructive testing for investigation multi-layer materials, 11th Quantitative InfraRed Thermography conference (QIRT 2012), June 11-14 2012, Naples, Italy. (8pp)
  21. Surabhi V., Spinello D., Necsulescu, D., 2012: Infrared Fever Body Identification using Shape and Temperature Filters, 2012 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2012), May 13-16 2012, Graz, Austria. (8pp)
  22. Spinello D., Stilwell D.J., 2011: Formation control of platoons of mobile sensors with intermittent communications, 2011 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (ASME-DSCC 2011), October 31-November 3 2011, Arlington, VA, USA. (8 pp)
  23. Spinello D., Gueaieb W., Lee R., 2011: Entropy Filter for Anomaly Detection with Eddy Current Remote Field Sensors, in IEEE International Symposium on RObotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE 2011), September 17-18 2011, Montreal, QC, Canada. pp 95-100. DOI: 10.1109/ROSE.2011.6058542
  24. Necsulescu D., Spinello D., Borazjani E., Bayat S., 2011: Analytical and simulation investigation of the experimental design for infrared non destructive testing, in 2011 IEEE 19th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation (IEEE MED), June 20-23 2011, Corfu, Greece. pp 946-951
  25. Spinello D., Stilwell D.J., 2010: Cooperative Kalman filtering with data fusion in time varying communication networks, 2010 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (ASME-DSCC 2010), September 13-15, 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA. Paper no. DSCC2010-4192, pp. 947-954. DOI: 10.1115/DSCC2010-4192
  26. Maczka, D.K., Spinello, D., Stilwell, D.J., Gadre, A.S., Neu, W.L., 2009: Coordinated tracking of an acoustic signal by a team of autonomous underwater vehicles, AUVSI's Unmanned Systems North America 2009, August 10-13, 2009, Washington, DC, USA
  27. Gadre A.S., Maczka D.K., Spinello D., McCarter B., Stilwell D.J., Neu W.L., Roan M., Hennage J.B., 2008: Cooperative localization of an acoustic target using a team of AUVs, IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Conference (AUV 2008), October 13-14, Woods Hole, MA, USA. pp 64-71
  28. Spinello, D., Stilwell, D.J., 2008: Cooperative target localization with full-state observers, Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, July 28-August 1, 2008, Blacksburg, VA, USA
  29. Batra, R. C., Spinello, D., 2006: Analysis of Adiabatic Shear Bands in Thermoviscoplastic Materials by a Meshless Method, WCCM 2006, 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 16-22, 2006, Los Angeles, LA, USA
  30. Batra, R. C., Porfiri, M., Spinello, D., 2006: Analysis of Pull-in Instability in MEMS, WCCM 2006, 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 16-22, 2006, Los Angeles, LA, USA
  31. Batra, R. C., Porfiri, M., Spinello, D., 2005: Analysis of MicroElectroMechanical Systems by the Meshless Local Petrov- Galerkin (MLPG) Method, ICCES'05, International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, December 1-6, Chennai, India
  32. Batra R. C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2005: Analysis of Nonlinear Solid Mechanics Problems by the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) Method, ICCES'05, International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, December 1-6, Chennai, India
  33. Batra R. C., Porfiri M., Spinello D., 2005: Analysis of Adiabatic Shear Bands in Elastothermoviscoplastic Materials by the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin Method (MLPG), USNCCM8, 8th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 24-26, Austin, TX, USA