Curriculum Vitae
Experience
CNRS Researcher at LAGEPP (Lyon, France): since 2018
Chargé de Recherche Classe NormalePost-doc Research at CRAN (Nancy, France): 2016-2018
Supervisor: Romain PostoyanEducation
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) at University of Lyon 1 (Lyon, France): 2023
Thesis: "Stabilization, regulation and observation of nonlinear systems". Jury: Alessandro Astolfi (reviewer), Jamal Daafouz (reviewer), Daniel Liberzon (reviewer), Bernhard Maschke (president), Lorenzo Marconi (member), Laurent Praly (member), Sophie Tarbouriech (member).PhD at Ecole des Mines ParisTech - CAS (Paris, France) : 2013-2016
PhD in Mathematics and Control EngineeringThesis: "Observer design and robust output regulation for nonlinear systems". Supervisors: Laurent Praly and Lorenzo Marconi Jury: Christophe Prieur (reviewer), Andrea Serrani (reviewer), Roberto Zanasi (president), Lorenzo Marconi (member), Laurent Praly (member)PhD at University of Bologna - DEI (Bologna, Italy) : 2013-2016
PhD in Automatic Control Systems and Operational Research Thesis: "Observer design and robust output regulation for nonlinear systems". Supervisors: Lorenzo Marconi and Laurent PralyMSc at University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) : 2009-2012
MSc in Automation Engineering - Final Mark: 110 out of 110 cum laude (with honors)Thesis: "Stabilization by output feedback for nonlinear systems".Supervisors: Lorenzo MarconiBSc at University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) : 2006-2009
BSc in Automation Engineering - Final Mark: 110 out of 110 cum laude (with honors)Thesis: "Interfacing and controlling of a drive-motor stepper" with IMA (Industria Macchine Automatiche).Supervisors: Andrea TilliFinalist NOLCOS 2019 Best Paper Award
D. Astolfi, L. Praly and L. Marconi, "Francis-Wonham nonlinear viewpoint in output regulation of minimum phase systems", 11th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems - NOLCOS 2019, Vienna, Austria, September 2019.Finalist ECC 2016 Best Student Paper Award
D. Astolfi, L. Marconi, A. Teel, “Low-power peaking-free high-gain observers for nonlinear systems”, 15th European Control Conference - ECC 2016, Aalborg, Denmark, July 2016.Best Italian PhD in Automatica delivered by SIDRA (2016)
D. Astolfi, “Observers and robust output regulation for nonlinear systems”, Ph.D. Thesis.Editorial Activities & Memberships
Associate Editor for Automatica (since 2018)
Associate Editor for European Journal of Control (since 2023)
Associate Editor for European Control Conference: ECC20, ECC21, ECC22, ECC2023
Editor for the forthcoming 4th IFAC MICNON 2024
Member of the IEEE CSS TCNSC Technical Committee on Nonlinear Systems and Control (since 2019)
Member of the IFAC TC 2.3 Technical Committee on Nonlinear Control Systems (since 2019)
IEEE CSS Member (since 2020)
Projects and Grants
ANR (French national grant): ALLIGATOR, 2023-2026 - Project Coordinator (~250k)
ANR (French national grant): DeLiCIO, 2020-2023 - Participant (~530k)
ANR (French national grant): ODISSE, 2020-2023 - Participant (~450k)
ANR (French national grant): HANDY, 2019-2022 - Participant (~500k)
Project MASHED (Spanish/EU grant) with UPC 2023-2024 - Participant (~250k)
Projet CIMI, (LAAS, LAGEPP, GIPSALab) 2021-2022 - Participant (~20k)
Project SticAmSud (GIPSALab, LAGEPP, UFSC, IMCUC) 2021-2023 - Participant (~20k)
Project Region Grand Est - 2017 (Jeunes chercheurs - Chercheurs de très haut niveau) (~25k)
Project Vinci 2013 (Université Franco-Italienne) (~3k)
Post-doc, Ph.D. students & M.Sc. students
Post-doc supervised
Salim Zekraoui, 2024.
Andreu Cecilia Piñol, 2022-2023, with Vincent Andrieu
Ph.D. supervised
Juan Qian, 2024-2026: ``Multi-agent sychronization of complex nonlinear systems'', with Xiaoling Wang.
Ling Ma, 2022 - 2024 : ``Control of gantry-crane systems'', with Vincent Andrieu and Xuyang Lou.
Elena Petri, 2020-2023: "Hybrid observer design for performances improvement", with Romain Postoyan and Dragan Nesic
Samuele Zoboli, 2020 - 2023 : "Learning and control in discrete-time nonlinear systems", with Vincent Andrieu and Jilles Steeve Dibangoye
Mattia Giaccagli, 2019 - 2022 : "Incremental stability in control design of nonlinear systems", with Vincent Andrieu
Ph.D. collaborations
Ismail Balogoun, 2021: "ISS, integral action and observer design for Korteweg-de Vries equation", with Swann Marx
Tanguy Simon, 2021: "Robust Output Set-Point Trackingfor a Power Flow Controller via Forwarding Design", with Jean-Francois Tregouet
Andreu Cecilia Piñol, 2021: "Filters and internal models for ISS nonlinear observers", with Ramon Costa
Joey Reinders, 2021: "Nonlinear repetitive control for mechanical ventilation systems", with Nathan van de Wouw and Tom Oomen
Lucas Brivadis, 2020 : "Forwarding stabilization for ODE-PDE coupled systems", with Swann Marx
Oktay Kocan, 2019: "Supervised Output Regulation via Iterative Learning Control for Rejecting Unknown Periodic Disturbances", with Charles Poussot-Vassal, and Augustin Manecy
Bertrand Zitte, 2019: "Robust Control of a Class of Bilinear Systems by Forwarding: Application to Counter Current Heat Exchanger", with Boussad Hamroun and Françoise Couenne
M.Sc. students supervised
Francesco Ripa, 2023: "Integral action by output feedback for bilinear systems"
Alexandre Cellier-Devaux, 2022: "Synchronization problems", with Vincent Andrieu and Giacomo Casadei
Antonin Donati, 2022: "K-contraction and its applications", with Vincent Andrieu
Ismail Balogoun, 2020: "Forwarding design for stabilization and Input-to-State Stability of Korteweg-de Vries equation", with Swann Marx
Lucie Ricart, 2020: "Observer design for permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM)", in collaboration with SAFRAN
Elise Morfin, 2019 : "Adaptive low-power high-gain observers", with Vincent Andrieu
Mattia Giaccagli, 2019 :"Incremental forwarding design", with Vincent Andrieu
Seminars & Invited Talks
Workshop EDP Cosy, Toulouse (10/2023)
UPC, Barcelona, Spain (10/2021)
GDR MACS, Paris, France (11/2019)
DECOD, Toulouse, France (11/2018)
LAAS, Toulouse, France (08/2018)
TUe, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (01/2018)
LSIS, Université de Toulon, France (04/2017)
GDR MACS, Lille, France (11/2016)
CRAN, Nancy, France (05/2016 and 10/2016)
Teaching
Université Lyon 1 - Master Automatique des Systèmes Intelligents (ASI): 2022-2023
Advanced Linear Control Methods (30h) and Nonlinear Observers Design (30h)EECI 2022 International Graduate School on Control
An overview on observer design methods for nonlinear systems
with Vincent Andrieu and Pauline Bernard
ENSEM (Nancy, France) : 2017-2018
Linear and nonlinear control and digital control (78h)University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) : 2014-2016
Advanced control and system theory (50h)Other responsabilities
Member of the scientific council of the LAGEPP
Correspondant Europe / international LAGEPP - INSIS