Francesco Borrelli - University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Our research over the past years has focused on learning predictive control design for autonomous systems performing iterative tasks. In this talk I will first provide an overview of the theory and tools that we have developed for the systematic design of learning predictive controllers. Then, I will focus on recent results on sample-based Learning Model Predictive Controller (LMPC) for constrained uncertain linear systems. I will first introduce the design of the safe set and value function used to guarantee safety and performance improvement. Then, I will show how these quantities can be approximated using noisy historical data. Throughout the talk I will focus on autonomous cars and solar power plants to motivate our research and show the benefits of the proposed techniques. More info on: www.mpc.berkeley.edu BIO: Francesco Borrelli received the Laurea' degree in computer science engineering in 1998 from the University of Naples Federico II', Italy. In 2002 he received the PhD from the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH-Zurich, Switzerland. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He is the author of more than one hundred 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 2016 he was elected IEEE fellow. 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. He is the co-director of the Hyundai Center of Excellence in Integrated Vehicle Safety Systems and Control at UC Berkeley. His research interest are in the area of model predictive control and its application to automated driving and energy systems.