Research

Major interests

  • Switched systems;

  • Relay control ;

  • Nonlinear systems

  • Energy efficiency and control Applications in Modern Power systems

Publications

Thesis

  1. Z. Kader, "Control and observation of switched affine systems ", PhD Thesis, Université Lille 1- Sciences et Technologies, France, September, 2017, (Link);

  2. Z. Kader, ''Left inversion of nonlinear time-delays systems ", Master Thesis, Université Lille 1-Sciences et Technologies, France, September, 2014;

  3. Z. Kader, ”Observation et synthèse d’observateurs pour les systèmes à retards sur les mesures”, Master Thesis, Université Mouloud Mammeri, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, 2013.

Journals

  1. Zohra Kader, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, and Lotfi Belkoura, "Stabilization by a relay control using non-quadratic Lyapunov function". Automatica, 2018, vol. 97, p. 353-366, (Link);

  2. Zohra Kader, Gang Zheng, and Jean-Pierre Barbot, "Finite-time and asymptotic left inversion of nonlinear time-delay systems". Automatica, 2018, vol. 95, p. 283-292, (Link);

  3. Zohra Kader, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, and Lotfi Belkoura, "Stabilization of switched affine systems with disturbed state-dependent switching laws". International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2018, vol. 28, no 2, p. 582-595, (Link).

Conferences

  1. De Souza, R. P., Kader, Z., Caux, S. "Switched affine systems with hysteresis-based switching control: application to power converters". In 8th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies ,IEEE, 2022. Vol. 1, p. 212-217.

  2. De Souza, R. P., Kader, Z., & Caux, S. ''Switching control applied to interconnected Boost converters: A comparison with hysteresis current control''. In International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, IEEE, 2022. p. 541-546.

  3. Zohra Kader, Antoine Girard. " Reference tracking for Linear Time Invariant systems with a relay feedback ". In 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). IEEE, 2019. p. 2485-2490.

  4. Zohra Kader, Adnane Saoud, Antoine Girard. " Safety controller design for incrementally stable switched systems using event-based symbolic models ". In 18th European Control Conference (ECC), IEEE, 2019. p. 1269-1274.

  5. Zohra Kader and Antoine Girard. "Symbolic models for incrementally stable singularly perturbed hybrid affine systems ". In American Control Conference (ACC) . IEEE. 2019.p. 3002-3007.

  6. Zohra Kader, Antoine Girard, and Adnane Saoud. " Symbolic models for incrementally stable switched systems with aperiodic time sampling ". In 6th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, vol. 51, no 16, p. 253- 258, 2018, (Link, Preprint).

  7. Zohra Kader, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, and Lotfi Belkoura, " Non-quadratic stabilization of switched affine systems ". In IFAC World Congress, special issue with GDR-Macs, Toulouse, 2017.

  8. Zohra Kader, Gang Zheng, and Jean-Pierre Barbot."Impulsive Observer design for Linear Time Invariant systems with delayed outputs". In IFAC World Congress. 2017, vol. 50, no 1, p. 1263-1268.

  9. Zohra Kader, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, and Lotfi Belkoura, '' Stabilization of LTI systems by relay feedback controller with disturbed measurements''. In American Control Conference. IEEE, 2016. p. 5169-5174 (Link-Preprint).

  10. Zohra Kader, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, and Lotfi Belkoura. '' Observer-based relay feedback controller design for LTI systems''. In the 15th European Control Conference. IEEE, 2016. p. 1667-1672 (Link).

  11. Zohra Kader, Gang Zheng, and Jean-Pierre Barbot, ‘’Left inversion of nonlinear time delay systems’’. In Conference on Decision and Control. IEEE, 2014. p. 469-474 (Link).

Delivrables

  1. ANR projet ROCC-SYS, Task 1.2, ”Report on observer-based relay control”, 2016.

Internal reports

  1. Zohra Kader, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, and Lotfi Belkoura, ''An LMI approach for non-quadratic stabilization of switched affine systems'', CRIStAL 2016, Lille (Link-Preprint).

Communications without proceedings:

  1. Z. Kader, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, and Lotfi Belkoura. "Non-quadratic stabilization of switched systems ", In the Meeting of Groupe de Travail Systèmes Dynamiques Hybrides (GT SDH), CNAM, Paris, 14/06/2018.

  2. Z. Kader, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, and Lotfi Belkoura. ”Robust relay feedback controller design for LTI systems stabilization”. In ROCC-SYS Public Seminar at Centrale Lille (Villeneuve d’Ascq), June 30th, 2017.

  3. Z. Kader, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, and Lotfi Belkoura, ”Robust relay feedback control”. In the Meeting of Groupe de Travail Systèmes Dynamiques Hybrides (GT SDH), ISIR, UPMC, Paris, 16/06/2016.

  4. Z. Kader, Christophe Fiter, Laurentiu Hetel, and Lotfi Belkoura. ”Stabilization of switched affine systems with disturbed state- dependent switching law”. In ROCC-SYS Public Seminar at INRIA - Nord Europe (Villeneuve d’Ascq), November 19th, 2015.

Participation to research projects

  1. ANR JC-JC "Robust Control of Cyber-Physical Systems (ROCC-SYS)".

  2. ERC, Consolidator Grant. "Towards Programmable Cyber-physical Systems: a Symbolic Control Approach" (PROCSYS).

  3. I-Reve, "Ilots de recharge pour véhicules électriques intégrant l’utilisation d’énergie renouvelable et de batteries de stockage, au pilotage dédié" granted by ADEME.

PhD students

  1. Ryan Pitanga Cleto de Souza, thesis title: "Control of networked switched systems" - supervised together with S. Caux.

  2. Rashad Ghasani, thesis title: " Identification et Commande Unifiée Des Machines à Courant Alternatif" - supervised together with M. Fadel.

CO-authors