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Ricardo C. L. F. Oliveira
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Campinas - UNICAMP
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Research, Education and Interests

Education

Mar. 2006 - May 2009	Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Campinas (UNICAMP-FEEC), Campinas, Brazil Project: Parameter-dependent LMIs in uncertain linear systems
Mar. 2003 - Mar. 2006	Ph.D Electrical Engineering University of Campinas (UNICAMP-FEEC), Campinas, Brazil Thesis (in portuguese): Robustness of linear systems by means of linear matrix inequalities relaxations Supervisor: Prof. Pedro Luis Dias Peres
Mar. 2001 - Mar. 2003	M.Sc Electrical Engineering University of Campinas (UNICAMP-FEEC), Campinas, Brazil Thesis (in portuguese): Characterization of stable matrices sets via linear matrix inequalities Supervisor: Prof. Pedro Luis Dias Peres
Mar. 1996 - Dec. 2000	B.Sc Computer Engineering Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná - PUC-PR, Curitiba, Brazil Senior Project (in portuguese): Development of tools for analysis and control of thermal systems Humberto Xavier de Araújo and Prof. Nathan Mendes

Link to my Curriculum Vitae stored in Lattes - CNPq (the official brazilian database of researchers from sciences and technologies).

Interests

My main research interests are the development of numerical tools for:

analysis and synthesis of controllers and filters for dynamic systems subject to parametric uncertainties.
building simulation.

Keywords

Uncertain Linear Systems
Polytopic systems
Switched systems
Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems
Linear parameter-varying sytems (LPV)
Time-invariant and Time-varying uncertainties
Robust Stability Analysis
D-stability
Gain-Scheduling Design
Filtering
H-2 and H-infinity performance
Parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions
Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI)
Parameter-dependent LMIs
LMI Relaxations
Pólya's Theorem
Finsler's Lemma
Lur'e systems
Zames-Falb multipliers

Coauthors