March 2026. Tychique joins our team to start his postdoc project on Modeling and Control of PEM Fuel Cell Systems. Welcome aboard! 

March 2026. Arllem joins our team to start his PhD project on Hybrid LPV-Learning Framework for Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control of PEM Fuel Cell Systems. Welcome aboard! 

March 2026. Our paper “A Survey of Cross-Domain Robotics: Classification, Perception, Planning and Control” is accepted for publication in the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.

March 2026. Our paper “Proportional-Integral Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Observer for Vehicle Dynamics Estimation” is accepted for publication in the IFAC journal Mechatronics.

February 2026. Amanda joins our group as a postdoc fellow, working on Robust Control and Observer Design for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. Welcome aboard!

February 2026. Our joint project, Resilient Control of Electrified Vehicles for Decarbonized Mobility, has been approved for funding by the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) within the CNRS–USP International Research Center. Two PhD positions will be open soon as part of this project. Many thanks to my colleagues at LAMIH and USP!

January 2026. Artdhita and Gregorio join our team to start their PhD projects. Welcome aboard! 

January 2026. I join the editorial board of the IFAC journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence as an Associate Editor.

December 2025. I visit again The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong.

December 2025. I defend my HDR on “Contributions to Takagi-Sugeno Model-Based Techniques: From Methodologies to Applications” in front of a committee including Isabelle Fantoni (LS2N-CNRS, France), Olivier Sename (Grenoble INP, GIPSA-lab, France), Mara Tanelli (PoliMi, Italy), Brigitte d’Andréa-Novel (Mines Paris – PSL, France), Jimmy Lauber (INSA HdF, LAMIH, France), Rajesh Rajamani (University of Minnesota, USA), and Thierry-Marie Guerra (UPHF, LAMIH, France).

November 2025. WE ARE HIRING! We offer a double-degree PhD opportunity between Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (France) and Federal University of Amazonas (Brazil). The PhD project focuses on developing Hybrid LPV-Learning Framework for Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control of PEM Fuel Cell Systems. Feel free to share this announcement. More details can be found here. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in this PhD opportunity. 

November 2025. I join the editorial board of the journal IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering as an Associate Editor.

October 2025. Our paper “Diffusion-Driven Hybrid Unknown Input Observer for Vehicle Dynamics Estimation”, completed under our PROCORE France–Hong Kong joint project, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. Congratulations to the project team members!

October 2025. WE ARE HIRING! We offer a 13-month postdoctoral position focused on “Fuel Cell Control and Energy Management”. More details can be found here. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in this postdoc opportunity. 

October 2025. My Franco-British joint project LEARN-SAFE, with Prof. Jianglin Lan, University of Glasgow, UK, has been approved for funding.

September 2025. Our paper “Uncertainty-driven Active Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management Strategy in Electrified Vehicles”, completed under our PROCORE France–Hong Kong joint project, is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification. Congratulations to the project team members!

September 2025. I have been named on Stanford University's list of the top 2% of scientists in the world for the fourth year in a row.

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Robust control and estimation

Learning-based control and estimation

Cybernetics control systems

Human-machine shared control 

Applications: transport and mobility, mechatronics, persons with reduced mobility, intelligent vehicles, soft robotics, renewable power systems