Research collaborators

Senior researchers:

• Daniele Astolfi, LAGEPP, Université de Lyon, Observer design and regulation.

• Luca Zaccarian, LAAS, Université de Toulouse, Observer design.

• Pascal Dufour, LAGEPP, Université de Lyon, Identification.

• Laurent Bako, AMPERE, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Identification.

• Gildas Besançon, GIPSA-Lab, Université de Grenoble, Observers theory.

• Jean-Claude Vivalda, INRIA Lorraine, Continuous discrete observer design.

• Ulysse Serres, LAGEP, Université de Lyon, Optimal control, Output feedback dans observers.

• Hassan Hammouri, LAGEPP, Université de Lyon, Nonlinear control design.

• Christophe Prieur, GIPSA-Lab, Université de Grenoble,  Nonlinear control design.

• Sophie Tarbouriech, LAAS, Université de Toulouse,  Nonlinear control design.

• Madiha Nadri, LAGEPP, Université de Lyon, Continuous discrete observer design, Nonlinear control design.

• Bayu Jayawardhana, Discrete Technology and Production Automation, University of Groningen,  Nonlinear analysis.

• Denis Arzelier, LAAS, Université de Toulouse,  Nonlinear control design.

• Alessandro Astolfi, CAP-EEE-Imperial College London,  Output feedback and observers.

• Laurent Praly, CAS-Ecoles des Mines de Paris,  Output feedback and observers.

• Héléne Piet Lahanier, DPRS-ONERA,  Aerospace control design.

Post-docs:

• 2020-2021 : Ludovic Sacchelli (ANR ODISSE Grant). Observer for infinite dimensional systems.

• 2012-2013 : Johann Perales (ANR LIMICOS). Event-Triggered output feedback.

PhD students:

Actual PhDs

• 2023-2026 : Mohand Ouidir Amirat (Bourse ED-Lyon). Control of PDEs. Co-supervised with Claire Valentin.

• 2021-2024 : Ling Ma (CSC Grant). Control of PDEs. Co-supervised with Daniele Astolfi and Cheng-Zhong Xu.

• 2020-2023 : Mathieu Marchand (ANR-DELICIO/Onera Grant). Learning when and what comunicating to achieve synchronization. Supervised with Sylvain Bertrand and Hélène Piet-Lahanier (Onera).

• 2020-2023 : Samuele Zoboli (ANR-DELICIO Grant). Learned policies/control laws with prescribed local behavior. Co-supervised with Jilles Steeve Dibangoye (CITI-Lab), Daniele Astolfi and Madiha Nadri.

Former students

• 2019-2022 : Mattia Giaccagli (Bourse ED-Lyon). Incremental Stabilization, output regulation and synchronization. Co-direction with Daniele Astolfi and Lorenzo Marconi. Now associate professor in CRAN Nancy.

• 2018-2021 : Lucas Brivadis (Bourse ED-Lyon). Observers for PDEs and output feedback stabilization of unobservable points. Co-direction with Ulysse Serres and Jean-Paul Gauthier.  Now CR-CNRS L2S. For this work, Lucas was awarded of the Prix des meilleurs thèses du GDR MACS.

• 2015-2018 : Alexandre Terrand-Jeanne (Bourse ED-Lyon). Regulation problems in PDE and application to drilling. Co-direction with Valérie Dos-Santos Martins and Mélaz Tayakout Fayolle. Working now in industry.

• 2014-2017 : Ngoc-Tu Trinh (Bourse ED-Lyon). Control of hyperbolic PDEs. Co-direction with Cheng-Zhong Xu. Now working in IFPEN (Paris).

• 2014-2017 : Swann Marx (Bourse Ec. Norm. Cachan). Hybrid output feedback, Control of nonlinear PDEs (KdV). Codirection with Christophe Prieur (Gipsa-Lab) and Eduardo Cerpa (Valpareiso, Chile). Now CR-CNRS (LS2N Nantes).

• 2014-2017 : Pauline Bernard (Bourse ENSMP). Observers for nonlinear systems. (codirection with Laurent Praly (ENSMP)). For this work, Pauline has been awarded of the Best PhD award delivered at the ECC 2018.  Now associate professor in ENSMP.

• 2013-2016 : Chouaib Afri (Bourse ED-Lyon). Identification for unknown linear systems employing nonlinear Luenberger observers (codirection with Pascal Dufour and Laurent Bako (Ampere). Now working in industry.

• 2011- 2014: Humberto Stein Shiromoto. Stabilization under local and global constraints (codirection with Christophe Prieur). For this work, Humberto was awarded of the Prix des meilleurs thèses du GDR MACS. Now working in industry.

Training:

• Timothée Basson, student in INSA Toulouse, Observer design, 2008

• Mariem Sahnoun, student M2R, Université de Lyon, locally optimal control law for the inverted pendulum, 2010.

• Humberto Stein Shiromoto, Escola Politenica da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Nonlinear control design, 2011.

• Dinh Ngoc Thach, student M2R, Université de Lyon, Continuous discrete observers, 2011.

• Marouane Ait El Fakir, student M2R, Université de Lyon, Continuous discrete observers, 2012.

• Trinh Ngoc Tu, student M2P, Université de Lyon, Optimal observer designs. 2014.