Preprints

  • L. Ballotta, Á. Vékássy, S. Gil, M. Yemini, “Confidence Boosts Trust-Based Resilience in Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems,” [arxiv]

  • L. Ballotta, N. Bastianello, R. M. G. Ferrari, K. H. Johansson, “Personalized and Resilient Distributed Learning Through Opinion Dynamics,” [arxiv]

Journal articles

  • O. E. Akgün, Á. Vékássy, L. Ballotta, M. Yemini, S. Gil, “Friedkin-Johnsen Is Distributed Gradient Descent,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2025 [online] [bibtex]

  • B. Wolleswinkel, I. van Straalen, L. Ballotta, A. J. Gallo, R. M. G. Ferrari, “Periodic Sparse Control to Prevent Undetectable Attacks on Over-Actuated Systems,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2025 [online] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, R. Talak, “Safe Distributed Control of Multi-Robot Systems With Communication Delays,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2025 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, N. Dal Fabbro, G. Perin, L. Schenato, M. Rossi, G. Piro, “VREM-FL: Mobility-Aware Computation-Scheduling Co-Design for Vehicular Federated Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2025 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, Á. Vékássy, S. Gil, M. Yemini, “Friedkin-Johnsen Model With Diminishing Competition,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2024 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, G. Joseph, I. R. Thete, “Pointwise-Sparse Actuator Scheduling for Linear Systems With Controllability Guarantee,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2024 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, G. Como, J. S. Shamma, L. Schenato, “Can Competition Outperform Collaboration? The Role of Misbehaving Agents,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, G. Peserico, F. Zanini, P. Dini, “To Compute or Not to Compute? Adaptive Smart Sensing in Resource-Constrained Edge Computing,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2024 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • Y. Chang, L. Ballotta, L. Carlone, “D-Lite: Navigation-Oriented Compression of 3D Scene Graphs for Multi-Robot Collaboration,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • E. Rossi, M. Tognon, L. Ballotta, R. Carli, J. Cortés, A. Franchi, L. Schenato, “Coordinated multi-robot trajectory tracking control over sampled communication,” Automatica, 2023 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, V. Gupta, “Faster Consensus via a Sparser Controller,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2023 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, M. R. Jovanović, L. Schenato, “Can Decentralized Control Outperform Centralized? The Role of Communication Latency,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2023 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, L. Schenato, L. Carlone, “Computation-Communication Trade-Offs and Sensor Selection in Real-Time Estimation for Processing Networks,” IEEE on Network Science and Engineering, 2020 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

Conference papers

  • L. Ballotta, A. Peruffo, R. M. G. Ferrari, M. Mazo, “Fault Detection via Output-Based Barrier Functions,” European Control Conference, 2025 [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, J. Arbelaiz, V. Gupta, L. Schenato, M. R. Jovanović, “Control of Reaction-Diffusion Processes Under Communication Delays,” European Control Conference, 2024 [online] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, M. Yemini, “The Role of Confidence for Trust-based Resilient Consensus,” American Control Conference, 2024 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, G. Peserico, F. Zanini, “A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Sensing Design in Resource-Constrained Wireless Networked Control Systems,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2022 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, G. Como, J. S. Shamma, L. Schenato, “Competition-Based Resilience in Distributed Quadratic Optimization,” IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2022 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • V. Tripathi, L. Ballotta, L. Carlone, E. Modiano, “Computation and Communication Co-Design for Real-Time Monitoring and Control in Multi-Agent Systems,” International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks, 2021 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, M. R. Jovanović, L. Schenato, “Optimal Network Topology of Multi-Agent Systems subject to Computation and Communication Latency,” Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2021 [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

  • L. Ballotta, L. Schenato, L. Carlone, From sensor to Processing Networks: Optimal Estimation with Computation and Communication Latency,” IFAC World Congress, 2020 [Young Author Prize at IFAC World Congress] [online] [arxiv] [bibtex]

Ph.D. thesis

L. Ballotta, “On Fundamental Tradeoffs and Architecture Design in Networked Control Systems,” Doctoral thesis, University of Padova, 2023, [online]