Associate Professor
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École Centrale de Lyon, bât. H9
36 avenue Guy de Collongue
69134 Écully CEDEX
Department : Automation for System Engineering of Laboratoire Ampère (CNRS UMR 5005), priority : Integrated Dynamic Systems Design.
Research topics
My research topics are focused on the development of the complex system design methods based on the Control Theory and ensuring system performance specifications. By “complex system” it is first meant the system, complex dynamic behavior of which makes the traditional design methods irrelevant. Secondly, the performance specifications and required performance/robustness levels imply several tradeoffs to meet requiring thus a fine optimization of system behavior.
I am interested specifically in the system design resulting from an interconnection of an important number of subsystems (large scale) subject to strong structural constraints (distributed and decentralized aspects), to important environmental variations and technological dispersion (uncertainties). The system under consideration embed intelligence, often implemented thanks to the feedback control. The synthesis of this control requires the integration of all multidisciplinary aspects into a unified (system approach), efficient (algorithmic complexity) and systematic design framework (CAD tools).
The main idea of the proposed research is based, on the one hand, on the principles that paved the way for the success of Robust Control, i.e. taking into account the complexity and the lack of information on the systems via the notion of uncertainty and the systematic approaches for the feedback loop design based on convex optimization (more particularly LMI) and, on the other hand, on the extensions of Robust Control to the Dissipativity Theory and to the Input-Output Approach, reinforcing thus the relevance and the efficiency of the developed design methods.
Current research