Francesco Borrelli
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Researcher
Francesco is a UC Berkeley Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is the author of more than 150 publications in the field of predictive control. He is author of the book Predictive Control published by Cambridge University Press, the winner of the 2009 NSF CAREER Award and the winner of the 2012 IEEE Control System Technology Award. In 2017 he was awarded the Industrial Achievement Award by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Council.
Since 2004, he has served as a consultant for major international corporations. He was the founder and CTO of BrightBox Technologies Inc, a company focused on cloud-computing optimization for autonomous systems, acquired by Flex, Inc. in 2016. He was the co-director of the Hyundai Center of Excellence in Integrated Vehicle Safety Systems and Control at UC Berkeley. He is the co-founder of WideSense, Inc. a UC Berkeley spinoff focused on Mobility Contextual Intelligence.
Project Involvement
AI-Enabled Models for Food Digestion and Nutrient Delivery
Open-Source Infrastructure to Accelerate Scaling of Agricultural AI Technologies
Towards Next-Generation Digital-Twin-Enabled Sustainable Large-Scale Indoor Pod Farming-Part B - Modeling, Digital Twin, PBFE and AI
AIFS Publications
Conference Article ⏐ American Control Conference 2023Conference Article ⏐ ACC 2023Safe Human-Robot Collaborative Transportation Via Trust-Driven Role Adaptation
DOI: 10.23919/ACC55779.2023.10156494